Torpedo boat?

[Salami Tsunami]

I've taken it upon myself to build a functioning torpedo boat without spending any real money. I am currently captaining a Patrol Escort class, and am sorting out the details of stacking the right equipment and bonuses to make this work right. Its inefficient, I know, but I'm having so much more fun than spamming heavy cannons.

In any event, if anybody has any suggestions or expertiese in this area, I'd appreciate it. Or discussion. Or whatever. Otherwise I'll just keep documenting this idiotic endeavor in here.

[Ordinary Dark]

well if u have some lobi: Rule 62

def get the quantum phase torp from the mission sunrise + the console

maybe craft the particle emission seekign torp

[Ricco]

Originally posted by Macbeth:

I've taken it upon myself to build a functioning torpedo boat without spending any real money. I am currently captaining a Patrol Escort class, and am sorting out the details of stacking the right equipment and bonuses to make this work right. Its inefficient, I know, but I'm having so much more fun than spamming heavy cannons.

In any event, if anybody has any suggestions or expertiese in this area, I'd appreciate it. Or discussion. Or whatever. Otherwise I'll just keep documenting this idiotic endeavor in here.

Just make sure your' equipment is all Mk XIV and ultra violet. Just before epic. That way you can get the full benefits of all the possible damage points.

[Salami Tsunami]

I'm presently playing around with the crafting options. Ultra rare MK IIs for the time being because I'd rather not commit all my resources until I've decided what I do and don't like.

At the moment, I'm playing with a forward battery of 4 photon torpedo tubes, 3 antiproton turrets in the rear. My DPS is around 5K (not counting bridge officer abilities).

[ImperatorPavel]

Yeah, you really shouldn't be taking advice from a guy who blow up every time an enemy looks badly at him...

Upgrading stuff is useful, not necessary though.

[Salami Tsunami]

Originally posted by =pG=™ Pavel:

Yeah, you really shouldn't be taking advice from a guy who blow up every time an enemy looks badly at him...

Upgrading stuff is useful, not necessary though.

Yeah, I'm surprised at how well this is going, even with MK II equipment. I can hold my own in most advanced PVEs.

[ImperatorPavel]

PVE isn't difficult tbh. It's Ricco's build that's the issue.

[Salami Tsunami]

This sounds like a conversation best had between you and Ricco. Does anyone actually have anything to say about torpedo boats?

[ImperatorPavel]

Probs not. The STO Steam forums are pretty small after all. You're probably better off going to the stobuilds subreddit or the offical Arc forums.

[Firewalk]

I happen to enjoy transphasic torpedo bomber builds.

Some ingredients I remember (you don't need all of them to have fun, I just list them for the sake of completion):

- 1x cluster torpedo fore, 1 aft, use nothing but regular torpedoes otherwise (cluster torpedo can get be gotten from a Breen mission as a reward)

- 3x purple projectile duty officers (this will increase your rate of fire immensly)

- Ferrofluid Hydrolic Assembly from Terran Reputation, will allow you bypass shared torpedo cooldowns

- Torpedo High Yield III / Spread III BOFF powers

- Torpedo trait unlock from Projectile R&D rank 15 for another 10% shield penetration on top of the 50% the transphasics already have

- Omega Kinetic Shearing trait from Omega Reputation, this stacks very fast with the above setup

- anything that raises torpedo damage as well as shield/armor penetration

- Kemocite Laced Weaponry BOFF power (from exchange/lockbox)

and finally

- Concentrate Firepower BOFF power (requires a ship with command spec seating.



I use this build on a Warbird and its great fun, especially on ships with enhanced battlecloak. It confuses the hell out of people lol

[Salami Tsunami]

Originally posted by Sub-Zero:

I happen to enjoy transphasic torpedo bomber builds.

Some ingredients I remember (you don't need all of them to have fun, I just list them for the sake of completion):

- 1x cluster torpedo fore, 1 aft, use nothing but regular torpedoes otherwise (cluster torpedo can get be gotten from a Breen mission as a reward)

- 3x purple projectile duty officers (this will increase your rate of fire immensly)

- Ferrofluid Hydrolic Assembly from Terran Reputation, will allow you bypass shared torpedo cooldowns

- Torpedo High Yield III / Spread III BOFF powers

- Torpedo trait unlock from Projectile R&D rank 15 for another 10% shield penetration on top of the 50% the transphasics already have

- Omega Kinetic Shearing trait from Omega Reputation, this stacks very fast with the above setup

- anything that raises torpedo damage as well as shield/armor penetration

- Kemocite Laced Weaponry BOFF power (from exchange/lockbox)

and finally

- Concentrate Firepower BOFF power (requires a ship with command spec seating.



I use this build on a Warbird and its great fun, especially on ships with enhanced battlecloak. It confuses the hell out of people lol

Much appreciated. I can't view most of the reputation equipment yet, and I haven't been sure where to focus my efforts. I'll have to grind out some Terran marks.

[Ricco]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1115915359
You gave me the urge to try a torp boat. Are you going to have all mixed, or all the same kind?

[Firewalk]

Originally posted by n3mes1s:

Originally posted by Sub-Zero:

- Kemocite Laced Weaponry BOFF power (from exchange/lockbox)

and finally

Kemocity affects torps as well?? oh look at that, never thought of that before.

Oh yes, it procs at 100% chance on torpedoes, hence why I figured its worth adding. This is unlike energy weapons where the chance is much lower (but because they fire much faster, that compensates for that).

[Salami Tsunami]

Thanks for all the input everyone. I'm running an array of 4 photon torpedoes right now for the forward battery, three tetryon turrets aft. I stacked photon detonation tactical consoles for a neat 50 percent damage boost (working on getting better consoles, but I'm just playing with the mechanics for now)

I'm working on the Terran and Omega reputation points at the moment, trying to get the cooldown buff and the kinetic shearing respectively. Today I plan to respec my skill tree to focus on torpedo stuff, and re-arrange my bridge officer skills for the max level torpedo abilities and as many shield/energy drains as I can manage.

An unexpected benefit of this arrangement is that I can run my shields at maximum power all the time, since I don't need to put anything into weapon power anymore.

[Wisecasper]

There's a few Doffs in the current Ba'ku duty officer pack that adds stacking critical chances to the torpedoes.

And don't forget to stick a weapon on for shooting down hangar pets. My torpedo build when I first started I faced a carrier that kept shooting down my torpedoes and not enough hit to do consistent damange. Made an extremely long mission

[Lt.Colonel Johnny Frost]

A guy on you tube called odin knight makes nice torp builds