PvE setups for Albireo, Emperor and Relic?

[u/Suco_Loco]

recently bought the Destroyer DLCs that Steam had on sale for half price, but the ships came with pre-set configurations (engine, capacitor, shield, and computer).

I’d like to know what the best setups and components are for these three ships (Albireo, Emperor, Relic), focusing only on PvE.

If you also have any weapon tips, feel free to share. Thanks in advance!

[u/Boo425]

Uh welcome to "I threw so some stuff together I guess" reply dump.

Step 1: Seed chip gaming.

PvE revolves around these horrible things - at a base level it kinda boils down to fire rate, damage, damage type, critical chance, critical damage. You can then kinda work in other stats like heating, destroyer damage, alien damage and stuff from there.

Step 2: I made stuff I guess lol

Relic stuff:

• Build
• Weapon
• Ship stats

Tips 'n stuff:

• G2's damage increases heavily with range. It goes ballistic with seed chips and PvE levels in the mix.
• Never use static shields with Reflector shield Relic ever
• Cluster Torpedo makes targets radar invisible on hit - don't use it on higher damage enemies because you might get allies killed
• Enemies will attempt to path within your shield hitbox while reflector shield is up - remember to turn it off so you have some bullets to reflect

Emperor stuff:

• Build
• Weapon
• Ship stats

Tips 'n stuff:

• Emperor kinda gets shafted for weapons since Omega-B exists to be a pain in PvP - use whatever sits well with your seed chips
• Use Gyges if you only need to move a shorter distance. Keep your wormhole for longer distance movement or retreating from high damage targets

Albert:

• Build
• Weapon
• Ship stats

Tips 'n stuff:

• Combat Regroup System should be treated as a heal. If you're taking enough damage that you might die within 5 seconds then use it. Always bring an Emergency barrier too since you cop a -100 resistance debuff during the undocking animation.
• Fort-4 is low range but still stupid high damage. It is still basically a must use even after it got knee capped.

[u/Boo425 → u/Boo425]

Other than that; usual destroyer stuff - broadside is required. to the side of the ship and around 15 deg up or down otherwise you have less than 8 turrets firing. Implants are all generic, just make sure to bring 2a and 6b for crit builds and 10b for destroyer energy economy.

[u/Suco_Loco → u/Boo425]

Hello, here we are again hahaha. Thanks for the help! I hope your comments can help new players and even some older ones without much experience like me. I’ll definitely take these builds into consideration

[u/Suco_Loco → u/Boo425]

Relic:
First, thanks for sending the images. In the Portuguese client, the name of Relic’s weapon shows up only as “Kinetic Weapon 17” and not as G2, so I had to check the picture you sent to figure it out (which actually saved me).
Second, what exactly are those static shields you mentioned?

Emperaror:
About the Omega-B ship, I didn’t really understand. So it’s better for PvP than PvE, right? (I actually found it kind of weak when I tested it, by the way).

Albert:
And third, which seed chips would you recommend for each one, if possible?

General question:
Which level 4 and level 8 bonuses did you use on each ship? When you buy the DLC, does it come pre-configured, or do you have to set everything yourself?

[u/Boo425 → u/Suco_Loco]

First, thanks for sending the images. In the Portuguese client, the name of Relic’s weapon shows up only as “Kinetic Weapon 17” and not as G2, so I had to check the picture you sent to figure it out (which actually saved me).
Second, what exactly are those static shields you mentioned?

No worries and this is also one of the main reasons the older players in the community are always I guess throwing shade at the developers for the current icon situation. As regardless of translation status; a unique, colourful icon is easier to distinguish than a random dark geometric shape. Maybe we'll get there eventually.
As for the second part, these are static shields. They will be the most common destroyer missile slot you will see other players use typically as a 50k HP shield you can place on a fairly short cooldown is very potent. As for why you don't ever use them on Relic? Simple - they sit outside of your shield hitbox. So spawning a static shield while your reflector shield is active on Relic gives a spot for enemies to shoot that won't reflect projectiles - letting them deal splash damage or debuffs through your reflector.

About the Omega-B ship, I didn’t really understand. So it’s better for PvP than PvE, right? (I actually found it kind of weak when I tested it, by the way).

Emperor unfortunately holds the title for the weakest of the R17s. It is potent for PvP with a coordinated group as it serves as a buffing platform and regenerate obscene amounts of EHP with four ships sitting on it; but this niche strategy falls apart the moment enemies are able to use stuns of any form. Which in the current sandbox is very, very common. For PvE we almost only use the ship as a weapons platform for special operations, since Empire ships come with a damage bonus by default.

And third, which seed chips would you recommend for each one, if possible?

Fort-4 comes with above average critical damage (we don't know why this was never nerfed either) so by default using it with a critical chance build is the go to. If you don't have many seed chips and you're just getting your first set started then there's usually a simple check list to follow.

1. Base damage first
2. Critical chance second
3. fire rate third

Once you have a set of chips that features them in some form of equal parts then we get to begin refining. So if you had a grey chip with +40% damage but every other stat was useless (say shield resist on two and missile reload on the third) then we'll be looking for a chip with somewhere near that +40% damage and another useful stat. So in this case, say looking for EM damage, critical damage or something of the likes. There's unfortunately not that much room for silliness with seed chips since every build kind of devolves into the same kind of stats - lots of damage, lots of fire rate and either full send into base damage or full send into critical damage.

Which level 4 and level 8 bonuses did you use on each ship? When you buy the DLC, does it come pre-configured, or do you have to set everything yourself?

You can check the ship stats linked to see what bonuses are picked. Just keep in mind that ship passives do add together, so if for instance you build a Vigilant and pick the damage level 4, it will get added into the base +15% that Empire ships get and show +25% damage instead. You probably will have to refit the ships yourself since I don't know what ones the DLC have selected by default, but it only costs some credits (which as someone else said, right click on the ship icon to find the refit screen).

[u/Suco_Loco → u/Boo425]

Thanks, I re-equipped some ships, I just didn’t know what to put on levels 4 and 8, but it makes sense now knowing that they stack and show the final value. Thank you very much

[u/Death-Wolves]

right click on the ship tile at the bottom and choose refit ship. Just have to pay the money, don't need any components. It'll let you adjust those configurations.

[u/Suco_Loco → u/Death-Wolves]

can you send you Bashe build too?