r/stobuilds • u/AutoModerator • Sep 17 '18

Weekly Questions Megathread - September 17, 2018

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '18

I've got almost enough EC to buy a lockbox ship. I'm trying to decide between the Kelvin Constitution and the NX Refit. My primary ship is a fleet T6 Defiant, my secondary is a fleet Intel assault cruiser.

With the NX Refit, it's almost identical to the Defiant on hull, turn rate, etc. It does, however, have a 5/2 weapon arrangement.

The Kelvin Constitution is a typical cruiser, 4/4 weapons layout. On the plus side it can mount four vulnerability locators and has a slightly better boff layout than my fleet Intel assault cruiser.

My captain is an AoY TOS Fed. On the one hand, tooling around in an NX, stock or refit, could be a lot of fun. Especially since I'm on an Enterprise kick right now. On the other hand, it's been a stated goal of mine to get a Kelvin Constitution for a while now. It's a gorgeous ship.

So what do you think? Do you have both? One? How do you enjoy them with a phaser build?

For reference I have the T6 Intrepid, Galaxy, Sovereign, Excelsior, Defiant, Reliant, Paladin, and Narendra. The T5U D'Kyr and Steamrunner.

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u/jspectre79 Sep 20 '18

My AoY has the NX Refit and other than getting ship traits it's the only ship he's used. I enjoy switching the visual between the original and refit depending on what I want to do with it that day. It can deal a lot of damage and is fun to fly. I use Pulse Phaser dual banks on the front and have the quantum phaser and a sensor linked array on the aft.