Hi xgorillapx

im a member of stoacademy, sorry we dont but I will ask around.

Hey there, I'm the creator of the skill planner. Someone actually suggested to me about adding weapon setup as well. Unfortunately that isn't something I can add over night but it is a good idea. As far as I know there are no other skill planners out there but maybe someone else knows of one.

Hey thanks for the reply,

I've been running your build as a Klingon Engineer using a bird-of-prey variety. The PC Eng. shield buff skills help with survivability, although I sacrifice APA as a result of not being a Tac. Right now, I'm working on adapting the build to the Lifetime Subscriber Chimera ship, but I'm not quite there yet on my Fed Eng.

I guess I didn't consider the use of it in a BoP, especially by an engineer. I tried the B'Rel as an engineer, and it just felt strange. I always thought of BoP's as the ultimate escort ship, but something just felt off. I talked to other people who had been playing KDF for a while,and apparently it's heavily used by Sci characters because of it's universal slots and maneuvarability. There are plenty of dirty little tricks you can use in a B'Rel with it's advanced battle cloak. Staying cloaked while dropping Tricobalt mines, grav wells, warp plasma, etc. All of those things can be used while cloaked as long as it's not firing energy weapons.

I'll put together a BoP build too, that might be kind fun. On my tac, I've settled into my Guramba siege destroyer nicely, and have moved into the Chel'Grett on my engineer. I just keveled up a KDF Sci and am looking forward to using my Kar'Fi with it. The Kar'Fi worked fairly well with my engineer as well.

Indeed, the bird-of-prey and its successor classes are quite fun to play. They have a bunch of little tricks that make some otherwise semi-worthless items and skills very practical across a variety of classes.

Would you share your B'Rel build?

It's pretty worthless I would imagine, as I bought the Guramba shortly after getting the BoP and fell in love with it. However I'm now curious to take it out and play with it a bit. I've seen some people with some cool BoP setups.

Some punk in a Mirror Universe Assault Cruiser just challenge my Armitage-class to a 1v1. I was running your build. He had no idea what he got himself into. It was quite fun!

Not much more, add in 2 copies of tac team, and 2 attack patterns, and you have reached the about the limit of what you can add.

Yeah, (while i don't want this thread to take a fork down the way of PvP because there's so many variables.) With an escort, the main difference will be a shift towards Rapid-Fire3 and HY3 rather than Scatter Volley 3 and TS3. This is because you have to do heavy spike damage to take someone out. If you spread that damage with Scatter volley and torp spread, a person will heal that damage where as a NPC will not.

I would still like to find some controlled comparisons of DHC's vs. DC's.
DHC's
+ 2x damage (Same DPS due to lower rate of fire)
+ Bonus CritD
- Additional power drain
- 50% rate of fire vs DC's. (lower chance to proc)

I was hoping there might be atleast SOME small modification to the mirror universe ships. Possible an extra console slot somewhere, or an extra boff ability, a console...something... What sucks is I can't really use either now. I like the patrol escort and I like the way it looks. I don't like the advanced escort, and don't like the way it looks. So with those ships, I can either use the advanced escort which I dont like, but like the way the mirror one looks (because it looks like a patrol escort) or use the patrol escort which I like, (but don't like the way it looks because it looks like the advanced escort)...It's hell...