One's Science Fleet Tactical Escort Retrofit
Posted: October 22nd, 2012, 9:21 pm
This ship is quick and maneuverable, but the tactical Ensign slot is its greatest weakness.
GEAR
Pay the most attention to my console setup. There are no "Pay-to-Win" consoles, and the only Universal console is the Assimilated Console. I also took off the cloak since the additional 15% damage for x amount of seconds would not get much use in the average battle. Instead, I opted for a second Neutronium armor. Both science consoles are Field Generators. All the tactical consoles improve my weapon damage type.
ABILITIES
The greatest deficiency of this ship is the lack of a Tractor Beam. Unfortunately, adding one requires me to remove a valuable science heal, or slot the Assimilated Shield, which is bad for escorts. You might think it odd that I have two Attack Pattern Omegas and an Attack Pattern Delta. However, the way the cooldowns work, I can use the Attack Pattern Delta in between the two Attack Pattern Omegas. Attack Pattern Omegas are my primary anti-Tractor Beam and damage improvement abilities. With these abilities, you are not gimping your ship by taking a lower level Cannon: Rapid Fire.
DUTY OFFICERS
My Duty Officers provide benefits with the use of three of my abilities. The first two are Shield Distribution Officers, which give me a shield heal every time I use Brace for Impact. The other three are Damage Control Engineers, which make it very likely that I can use my Emergency Power to X abilities every 30 seconds, which is as close as you can get to continuous coverage.
KEYBINDS
In order to take advantage of all my abilities in a timely manner, I put most of them on keybinds that activate abilities at specific places in the ability tray. This makes it easier than if I tried to click each of them with the mouse.
Keybind File (This is only the portion for the abilities):
GEAR
Pay the most attention to my console setup. There are no "Pay-to-Win" consoles, and the only Universal console is the Assimilated Console. I also took off the cloak since the additional 15% damage for x amount of seconds would not get much use in the average battle. Instead, I opted for a second Neutronium armor. Both science consoles are Field Generators. All the tactical consoles improve my weapon damage type.
- Sci_FleetDefiantR_01_Gear.png (230.88 KiB) Viewed 4341 times
The greatest deficiency of this ship is the lack of a Tractor Beam. Unfortunately, adding one requires me to remove a valuable science heal, or slot the Assimilated Shield, which is bad for escorts. You might think it odd that I have two Attack Pattern Omegas and an Attack Pattern Delta. However, the way the cooldowns work, I can use the Attack Pattern Delta in between the two Attack Pattern Omegas. Attack Pattern Omegas are my primary anti-Tractor Beam and damage improvement abilities. With these abilities, you are not gimping your ship by taking a lower level Cannon: Rapid Fire.
- Sci_FleetDefiantR_01_Abilities.png (218.45 KiB) Viewed 4341 times
My Duty Officers provide benefits with the use of three of my abilities. The first two are Shield Distribution Officers, which give me a shield heal every time I use Brace for Impact. The other three are Damage Control Engineers, which make it very likely that I can use my Emergency Power to X abilities every 30 seconds, which is as close as you can get to continuous coverage.
- Sci_FleetDefiantR_01_Doffs.png (255.49 KiB) Viewed 4341 times
In order to take advantage of all my abilities in a timely manner, I put most of them on keybinds that activate abilities at specific places in the ability tray. This makes it easier than if I tried to click each of them with the mouse.
- Sci_FleetDefiantR_01_Keybind.png (39.5 KiB) Viewed 4341 times
Cannons
y "+trayexec 4 0 $$ +trayexec 4 1 $$ +power_exec Distribute_Shields"
Tactical Team
t "trayexecbytraywithbackup 1 4 2 4 3 $$ +power_exec Distribute_Shields"
Attack Pattern Omega
g "trayexecbytraywithbackup 1 4 4 4 5 $$ +power_exec Distribute_Shields"
EPtX
h "trayexecbytraywithbackup 1 4 6 4 7 $$ +power_exec Distribute_Shields"
Extras
c "trayexecbytraywithbackup 1 4 8 4 9 $$ +power_exec Distribute_Shields"