Veldryne's FPE Build - Pointers Welcome!

[veldryne]

Well ive been 50 for a couple weeks, ive got some rep to grind out for romulan and omega obiously, I know where im going for some stuff. But i figured it couldnt hurt to put up my build and see if anyone has anything else to suggest.

As the title states, im running a Fleet Patrol Escort, but i was using a virtually identical build for my armitage.

Disruptor Dual Heavy cannons mk XI CrtDx2 Dmg
Disruptor Dual Heavy cannons mk XI CrtDx2 Dmg
Disruptor Dual Heavy cannons mk XI CrtDx2 Dmg

Polarized Disruptor Turret Mk XI CrtD CrtH
Disruptor Turret Mk XI Acc CrtD CrtH
Kinetic Cutting Beam Mk XII Dmgx3

Console - Tactical - Disruptor Induction Coil MK XI (g)
Console - Tactical - Disruptor Induction Coil MK XI (g)
Console - Tactical - Disruptor Induction Coil MK XI (b)
Console - Tactical - Disruptor Induction Coil MK XI (b)

Console - Science - Field Generator MK XI (b)
Console - Science - Emitter Array MK XI (p)

Console - Engineering - Neutronium Alloy MK X (p)
Console - Engineering - RCS Accelerator MK XI (g)
Console - Engineering - RCS Accelerator MK XI (b)
Console - Engineering - EMPTY (Getting borg assimilated console tonight)

Aegis Covariant Shield Array
Aegis Deflector Array
Aegis Hyper-Impulse Engines

Commander Tactical Station:
Torpedo Spread 1
Attack Pattern Beta 1
Cannon-Rapid Fire 2
Cannon-Rapid Fire 3

Lt Commander Tactical Station:
Tactical Team 1
Tactical Team 2
High Yield 3

Lt Engineering Station:
Emergency Power to Shields 1
Reverse Shield Polarity 1

Lt Science Station:
Hazard Emitters 1
Transfer Shield Strength 2

Ensign Universal Station:
Engineering Team 1



Im not completely set on disruptors yet, but i have tried phasers, and tetryon before.

I was thinking of trying antiproton next.

Let me know what you guys think, or if you have any suggestions

[tony]

Ok, overall it's a good looking build. I do have a couple of tips though.

Drop Tac team II and use Torp Spread II

Change Torp Spread I with Tac team I

Tac team is one of the strongest abilities in the game, mainly because of the shield distribution. BUT it's also completely worthless to use anything higher than rank 1 of that ability. Using 2 TTI is the ideal layout, and this frees up that Lt slot for Torp Spread II.

Change your universal slot to either another EptS or change it to a science officer and run Hazard emitters. HE is a much better heal than ET if you really want a hull heal. Running 2 EptS is amazing for tanking damage though so it's up to you. With 2 EptS you can have it up 100% of the time.

Disruptors are amazing, they rival AP for damage, but they also buff the damage for everyone else. If you really want to change for a min/max damage build, then run Anti Proton or the new Romulan Plasma weapons as they have 2 procs ( The plasma fire AND disruptor breach ).

For PvE the best dps energy types are always AP, DIS, ROM PLAS. All other energy types are fine, they just do not provide any real dps benefit.


Pretty solid build.

[veldryne]

Ill swap out the torps and tac team tonight and get a sic officer set up with hazard emitters to try it out.

I plan to pvp as well so I wanted to stay away from plasma as everything I have read says it is no good for pvp

Thanks for the advice.

[skywolf23]

just a reminder of the empts and emergency powers changes in general coming with the romulan update. there will be 10 second gaps in your coverage of shield resits and weapons power.

i assume you are working toward borg/cardassian gear. try and get some borg engines on there, and maybe cutting beam, dunno put together defiant retro last night and not tried it not really sure about giving up a turret for a cb, but alot of the escort builds i look at seem to use the cb. but the 3 set bonus is what people gofor on the borg set if you run that.

stuck the jem hadar set on my escort tho since i am too lazy to swap borg sets all the time and liking that the set skill is kinda nice w the shield damage to up to 5 targets. and purple nacelles are cool.

if you want to pvp work toward maco or fleet adaptive shields. they the two people hate on the most, resists in general are so off the charts in pvp anymore its pretty pointless imho, they need to fix the run away tankage and the gaps in powers changes coming just means that super spike nukes will rule pvp when your cycles go down.

also might suggest some more cannons with acc, i know my turrets lacking acc wiff on small targets, but my front cannons with one acc mod hit most everything. and pets being what they are in game killing them faster is always better.

[veldryne]

I'll be buying fleet weapons with accuracy on them when we have provisions.

As for the Borg and Mack gear that's the plan but I only want to buy them once so I'm waiting till I have tier 5 rep. The aegis is just a stopgap for now.

I already have my cutting beam and assimilated console. I had three turrets in the back and found the cutting beam let me drop targets much faster.

I made the changes to my bridge officers last night. Looks like I've got a bit more overall survivability so that's good.

Thanks for the help guys much appreciated.

[skywolf23]

get ready to farm nukera faction with the romulan expansion, whole new sets of gear and a must have console for any boat.

have to try it on my escort one night when i want to put borg on it.

[veldryne]

oh yay for farming rep lol

oh well at least i seem to be hitting pretty decent now, and have that extra bit of survivability i needed

[skywolf23]

yea i dropped the jem set for borg and got alot more "tank" with the borg set or at lest i blew up less compared to the jem now the long wait to make maco t5 stuff, 2 days to t4 rep.

and just a thought, with the nukera rep universal console that gives +10% accuracy coming soon. it might be best to rethink how much if any +acc we want on weapons at that point since all weapons on your ship will be boosted +10% already.

to my pondering without looking numbers being more like 1 acc mod with ctrd or ctrh, or skip acc altogether and go full ctrd/ctrh.

something to think about in the next few weeks, atm your still relying on weapons for your accuracy boost, but if you plan to make a heavy investment in upgrading something to ponder hard imo.

[veldryne]

this might have all been for naught lol, ive been finding myself sucked into neverwinter the last few days and havent touched trek

cryptic why you make such good games....?

sigh, watch end of the month i get sucked into the romulan expac and find it even harder to decide which game to log into at night

[veldryne]

Sorry i havent been on lately guys, ive been sucked into neverwinter pretty hardcore, ill be playing trek still once the newness of neverwinter wears off. Shouldnt be too long, but cryptic did a really good job with it lol