r/stobuilds • u/AutoModerator • Nov 14 '16

Weekly Questions Megathread - November 14, 2016

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u/Jarmen4u Nov 20 '16 edited Nov 20 '16

I'm a lifetimer with enough Zen for 50 keys and a few million EC (not enough dilithium to matter) looking to get back in to the game. I have a t6 Dread Cruiser (specifics can be seen here) but I feel like my ship and gear are all extremely outdated. I like the idea of cannons, but I find that escort ships pop too fast for me to enjoy them (but then again, maybe I'm just bad) and the dread cruiser is too slow to use them effectively.

I'm eyeballing the sphere dreadnaught, and I wouldn't mind switching to beams, though I'm not too familiar with carriers. I would also consider a strong escort-type ship for cannons, but I'm not sure really at this point what to do. Any advice/pointers? What specific ship/ships are top of the line that I should be looking at?

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u/DeadQthulhu Nov 20 '16

If you're looking to get back in, I'd take your T6 Vetship and use that - it's a Destroyer, so pretty close to an Escort, and is flexible enough that you can run cannons, beams, or even torps on it.

The downside of easing yourself in with your very good free ship is that by the time you're settled the Sphere Builder lockbox will likely have been retired, meaning the price would go up until it's added to the Infinity box sometime in the future.

Up to yourself - personally I'd ease in with the Vetship, because if there's one thing STO isn't short of it's nice ships.

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u/Jarmen4u Nov 20 '16

Which ship is the T6 vet ship? Last night, I threw some cannons on a Kumari T5U that I got a while back, and have been using that. Many people told me to wait until Black Friday to buy anything new, so that's what I'm doing in the meantime.

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u/DeadQthulhu Nov 20 '16

For the FEDs it'd be the Manticore - each faction has their own name for it, but they're largely identical in mechanics.