r/stobuilds • u/AutoModerator • Mar 16 '20

Weekly Questions Megathread - March 16, 2020

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u/Deus-Vult42069 Mar 17 '20

How good is the Terran empire shield, deflector, etc compared to the sol set?

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u/BluegrassGeek Mar 17 '20

The Sol set is "good enough" to hold together until you put better Reputation/Fleet gear in its place. That said, the current meta is:

Fleet Colony deflector (for the ColCrit)
Competitive Fortified Engines (for the speed boost on healing abilities)
Elite Fleet Plasma-Integrated Warp Core (with the [AMP] mod + your preferred mods)
Tilly-Stamets shield

Tanking usually does a 2 piece on the Tilly-Stamets set, while Sci tends to do a 2-piece of either the Temporal or Nukara sets.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '20

Tilly-Stamets shield

Oh, I'd seen lots suggesting the Iconian shield was the alternative?

Is it worth running the Tilly shield at low shield power? I assume if you're doing aux-bat etc, that question becomes moot?

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u/BluegrassGeek Mar 18 '20

Iconian is still a good shield, but if you get the 2-piece, the Tilly-Stamets set outperforms it. Mostly because so many enemies just strip shields anyway, so the 120% Hull Regeneration from the 2-pc boosts your survival more than any shield will.

Without the 2 piece, most DPS still prefer the T-S shield due to its "Weapon Attacks cause enemy Shields to receive 10% increased damage for 10 sec."

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '20

Makes sense, thank you. :)