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STO: are starship phasers worth a darn?

Tribble puncher said:
Ive been a casual player of sto for awhile, never really got hardcore into the game. so alot of the acronyms and such on various message boards, I have no Idea what they mean. So, with that said, I see alot of people talking about cannon weapons and how much "dps" they do, but what about us cruiser lovers? I have a level 22 engineer flying an excelsior, right now I have 4 mk 6 phaser arrays and 2 mk 5 photorp launchers equipped, I'm wanting to maximize this ships offensive capabilities and still be able to last in a fight. I like the turning radius of this ship but do not want to give up my 360 degree coverage. I want it all I guess, haha. Also, I'm at a loss as how to pick consoles that best complement each other...any help would be appreciated...
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IMHO, phasers are good until endgame. Their ability to shutdown systems seems to work most of the time for my characters. A simple setup with phasers and photon or quantum torps will work well in PvE.

Having said that though, I give my characters other weapons based on their profession as they advance: Engineers get plasma beams/plasma torps, Science offficers get Tetryon beams/transphasic torps and Tactical get phaser or Antiproton cannons/quantum torps.

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I've just setup the London (my Excelsior) to be a dedicated STF/Borg ship and moved all my anti-proton weapons from the Argus (my Sovereign) to there. I then setup the Argus with all retrofit phasers and I'm currently working on getting some purple quantums on it. I also gave it my Ageis set and move the Borg set to the London too.
 
Where did you get enough retrofit phasers? I've got the set from the TOS Connie and the one from Everything Old is New Again. Just curious.
 
Rocketeer said:
Aux power is used for many of the Sci officer abilities. However, it is also used in starship turns. So if you're dodging in and around enemy ships, you may want to increase it a little.
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Actually Aux hasn't been relevant for turning for a long time. It's purely an Engine thing now.
 
Random side question: I bought the Sao Paulo, and it gave me an icon (trek combadge) that went in my inventory in addtion to the ship being in my ship pool. No harm in deleting that, seeing as it's wasting room in my bank, right? Hell, I can even delete the ship itself and reclaim, since i bought it, right? Just the in-game free ships you can't reclaim, anything bought with C-points you can get again.

Right?

Just don't want to delete this token and not be able to get the ship back. Not deleting the ship itself right now, jsut don't want to waste valuabe space in the bank (only on one toon, oddly) for a token that doesn't do anything...
 
Trek said:
I've just setup the London (my Excelsior) to be a dedicated STF/Borg ship and moved all my anti-proton weapons from the Argus (my Sovereign) to there. I then setup the Argus with all retrofit phasers and I'm currently working on getting some purple quantums on it. I also gave it my Ageis set and move the Borg set to the London too.
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See, I used anti-proton beams all of the time at end level, but I've done more damage with a Phaser/Polaron & Quantum configuration on my cruiser. I don't know if it's my particular build, or if it's in my head, but I do some deadly DPS with my current setup, and I take them right into the STFs and blast away.
 
J. Allen said:
Trek said:
I've just setup the London (my Excelsior) to be a dedicated STF/Borg ship and moved all my anti-proton weapons from the Argus (my Sovereign) to there. I then setup the Argus with all retrofit phasers and I'm currently working on getting some purple quantums on it. I also gave it my Ageis set and move the Borg set to the London too.
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See, I used anti-proton beams all of the time at end level, but I've done more damage with a Phaser/Polaron & Quantum configuration on my cruiser. I don't know if it's my particular build, or if it's in my head, but I do some deadly DPS with my current setup, and I take them right into the STFs and blast away.
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I've updated my ship's power ratios to 124% weapons, 76% shields, 45% engines and 37% auxiliary. I've lowered both engines and auxiliary to their absolute minimum since these days my ship's acting more like an overpowered Anti-Proton satellite turret. When I attack, I just stay at one spot and rotate the ship as all 6 weapons fire at will.

I'm still in the process of swapping out my Tetryons with a full set of Anti-Proton cannons and turrets. I'm still missing 2 Anti-Proton Aft Turrets and one or two Anti-Proton Mag Regulators (trying to save up enough ec to buy them from the exchange). Once I have those Mag Regulators, we can have a Nanite Probe shoot out and see if beams or cannons deal the most damage.
 
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intrinsical said:
J. Allen said:
Trek said:
I've just setup the London (my Excelsior) to be a dedicated STF/Borg ship and moved all my anti-proton weapons from the Argus (my Sovereign) to there. I then setup the Argus with all retrofit phasers and I'm currently working on getting some purple quantums on it. I also gave it my Ageis set and move the Borg set to the London too.
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See, I used anti-proton beams all of the time at end level, but I've done more damage with a Phaser/Polaron & Quantum configuration on my cruiser. I don't know if it's my particular build, or if it's in my head, but I do some deadly DPS with my current setup, and I take them right into the STFs and blast away.
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I've updated my ship's power ratios to 124% weapons, 76% shields, 45% engines and 37% auxiliary. I've lowered both engines and auxiliary to their absolute minimum since these days my ship's acting more like an overpowered Anti-Proton satellite turret. When I attack, I just stay at one spot and rotate the ship as all 6 weapons fire at will.

I'm still in the process of swapping out my Tetryons with a full set of Anti-Proton cannons and turrets. I'm still missing 2 Anti-Proton Aft Turrets and one or two Anti-Proton Mag Regulators (trying to save up enough ec to buy them from the exchange). Once I have those Mag Regulators, we can have a Nanite Probe shoot out and see if beams or cannons deal the most damage.
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Gah! Why didn't you say something? I had 3 Mk XII Mag regulators two days ago before I put them on the exchange! I only sold them for 25,000 credits a piece! I'd have given them to you! :lol:

Still, I searched through my bank, and if you'd be happy with 2 MK X Greens, they're yours. You can mail me in game at Akarian@Sarek2165.
 
Trek said:
I've just setup the London (my Excelsior) to be a dedicated STF/Borg ship and moved all my anti-proton weapons from the Argus (my Sovereign) to there. I then setup the Argus with all retrofit phasers and I'm currently working on getting some purple quantums on it. I also gave it my Ageis set and move the Borg set to the London too.
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I wound up putting 4X retro phasers on my excelsior as well, seeing as they level up as you do...plus I get people asking me where I got em in pve
 
J. Allen said:
Gah! Why didn't you say something? I had 3 Mk XII Mag regulators two days ago before I put them on the exchange! I only sold them for 25,000 credits a piece! I'd have given them to you! :lol:
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Why would you do that? They're woth at least 10 times that, if not more. plain Mk X go for 150k and up, a MK XII has gotta be worth at least 300k.

When I get bored, I hunt through the exchange for things way underpriced like that, and flip them for more money...
 
Scout101 said:
J. Allen said:
Gah! Why didn't you say something? I had 3 Mk XII Mag regulators two days ago before I put them on the exchange! I only sold them for 25,000 credits a piece! I'd have given them to you! :lol:
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Why would you do that? They're woth at least 10 times that, if not more. plain Mk X go for 150k and up, a MK XII has gotta be worth at least 300k.

When I get bored, I hunt through the exchange for things way underpriced like that, and flip them for more money...
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Inflation. The last time I checked, a Mk XII was 1 mil.
 
didn't inflate that much either way, he just sold them at a substantial loss (compared to what he could have asked and easily gotten).
 
I tend to undersell on purpose. I don't believe in gouging. So when other sell things for a million, I might sell for 150,000. In this case, it didn't matter and I just sold them for 25,000 each.
 
I intentionally just undersell items at TROLOLO prices, like 9999, 6668, 49998, and my favorite, 76542.
 
J. Allen said:
I tend to undersell on purpose. I don't believe in gouging. So when other sell things for a million, I might sell for 150,000. In this case, it didn't matter and I just sold them for 25,000 each.
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Problem is, i bought them and resold for the million you didn't want ;)
 
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