The Fleet Escort is competitive.

I prefer it compared directly to the basic Advanced Escort, specifically the BOFF & console layout.

The MVAE is a great ship with interesting capabilities, but you don't need it to be competitive on STFs.

Yes, the Fleet Escort, and even the Advanced escort to a degree, are equal to the MVAE and the Defiant Refit.

The MVAE and Defiant have the benefit of extra console abilities, and the MVAE has the higher science skill at the expensive of a higher tactical skill, but all in all all 4 currently purchasable Escorts are even enough to where one doesn't dominate over the other in PVE situations.

In PVP however, the Defiants cloak is invaluable.

The Jem'hadar Attack Ship is the only other Escort option for feds, and its not really an option unless you already have one from the winter event... Its pretty darn good, but I've yet to be able to try one to confirm.

to OP: thank you for this thread, it helped me immensely. So much has changed since launch, and I was frankly bewildered.

Question though: what are your thoughts about Plasma-Disruptor dual heavy cannons? As a legacy from my launch tac/escort, I'm still running disruptors (thanks to the consoles), and Mk XI plasma-disruptor DHC are about 20% more DPS than Borg Mk XI disruptor DHCs.

So I lose the 7.5% proc of 1k radiation damage to Borg, but gain a plasma proc and roughly 20% dps on my cannons.

Thoughts?

I don't have a Jemmy, but with the recent console changes, I have to wonder if it is now nerfed a bit. Big advantage it had was the extra engineering console slots. Now that some of the shield buff consoles are science, I wonder if the ship is still as good as it was when first released.

I'm testing the Plasma-Disruptor dual heavies right now. They seem pretty good, although I'm not nothing a huge difference between them and the MK XII anti-Borg phaser DHC's I was running.

I think against non-borg they do make more of a difference though, so its worth replaying Past Imperfect 3 times to get them anyway.

I switched to using the Plasma-Disruptor dual heavies on my KDF GARUMBA (vs Mark XI EDC purchased Disruptor dual heavies) with the OP Fleet escort build and they work so well that I'm about to do 3 runs of Past Imperfect so my FED toon can have a set to use.

I did exactly that myself. I've only at Mk XI for my weapons so far, so the P-D DHC seem to be quite the upgrade, especially in non-STF content.

And Kosta, thanks to you and this thread I literally have not done a Fleet Action yet where I wasn't in first place. Heck, joined one halfway through last night and still took top honors.

Yes BUT those are XII Very Rares and you had to save up and pay for those vs. XI rares that you get for free. That is why they are better imho.

They the time you run one STF, you could get a Plasma-Disruptor item.

My advice to people is park outside the mission for the Plasma-Disruptor, run an STF, run the mission, run an STF, run a mission... Till you get your sets of Cannons and Beams. In two hours of game time, you can run 3 stfs and get 3 Plasma-Disruptors.

I can confirm it.

It's got more hull than, I think all of the Escorts available to Feds, and can have the same BOFF layout due to universal stations (I run Lt Eng & Sci Eng in each).

It has a better turn rate then even the defiant, and better inertia IIRC (70).

I havent maxxed out all the possible Hull HP bonuses, but I currently have nearly 44K hull and in the area of 9.5 shields (MACO shield, Borg Deflector) but I only have 6 Ranks in Shield Performance and Shield Systems.


I run the Field Gen in the 1 Sci slot, the Borg Console & 3x Hull Resistance Consoles in Engineering.

I rely on EPS skill for my powerflow need.

Even if it had 2 Sci Slots like the Fleet Escort, the only thing that would happen is moving the Borg Console out of Eng and back into Sci.

When the 3-piece Jem'hadar set finally is complete, I'm curious how effective that buff stripping skill will be for the bug...