Re: Nimble Negh'Var by Quadrofonic

[Darthjef (Cpt. J. C. Cutter)]

Quadrofonic wrote:

For those Klingon Engineers looking for an effective build, this setup uses Engineering abilities on the Neghvar frame to take best advantage of both. Nimble Negh'Var Skill Planner link: http://www.stoacademy.com/tools/skillplanner/index.php?build=KEN3c_0 ( The captain's skills are a general-purpose Engineering build, not minmaxed for this ship. ) Equipment: Borg engine and deflector, Honor Guard shield Weapons: 4x dual heavy cannons and 4x turrets of your favorite damage type Consoles: - Eng: 4x Ablative Hull Armor - Sci: Field generator, Borg console - Tac: 3x damage boost to match your cannons Devices: - Red Matter Capacitor - Subspace Field Modulator - Deuterium Surplus Useful DOFFs: (I could use some advice here) - Maintenance Engineer - Damage Control Engineer - Shield Distribution Officer Strategy: The suprisingly nimble Dual Cannon Neghvar brings the firepower of an Escort backed by the tanking of a Cruiser. Tactics: Devices: - SFM and Deuterium provide defense boosts with long cooldowns - RMC keeps weapon power up for sustained cannon barrages Tanking Skills: - Chain 2x EPtS to keep shields up, Rotate Shield Frequencies as needed - Chain 2x Aux2Damp for kinetic damage resistance (hence ablative hull armor) - EngTeam to repair your hull, Miracle Worker in emergencies - Engineering Fleet and Nadion Inversion can provide additional damage resistance - Extend shields or EngTeam can strengthen an ally - - You could substitute Reverse Shield Polarity for Extend Shields to tradeoff team support for another self-heal Offensive Skills: - Chain 2x TacTeam 1 for bonus damage and shield distribution - Chain 2x Directed Energy Modulation for shield penetration - Cannon: Rapid Fire boosts damage from all cannons and turrets while active - Tractor beams are handy for decloaking targets and/or holding them while you bring cannon to bear. TB1 is active for 10 seconds, TB2 is 14 seconds. Their shared cooldown is only 20 seconds, which means you can hold a target 60% of the time. Skating Skills: The core feature of this build is chaining 2x Auxiliary to Dampeners. Each is active for 15 seconds, with a shared cooldown of 20 seconds. This means 15 of every 20 seconds, the Neghvar turns like a Qin heavy raptor. If you need to pivot during the 5 second downtime, Evasive Maneuvers can fill that gap. While it is a fearsome sight to see a Heavy Battlecruiser swing all its cannons on target so fast, I quickly learned that boosting the speed and turn rate of the Neghvar does not reduce its inertia. She handles like a rhino on ice skates: Dangerous on the charge, but any course change means a long slide in the wrong direction. I had to learn how to lead moving targets while slewing past, and how early to reverse thrust to avoid skidding out of range. I’ve seen people try this with a Bortas, trading half their turn rate for 10% more hull, but it just looked like an elephant on ice without the skates. Since I learned how to skate like a rhino, this ship has been a ton of fun. In STFs it has the firepower to tear down structures, tanking to survive sphere packs and a bit of crowd control with tractors. In PvP it can lay down fair DPS, tank focused fire and snare glob flies to swat them down.