So I got my defiant retrofit and on the suggestions of the fine folks on the forums, replaced the quad cannons with dual heavy cannons. Now while I'm happy with them, I am curious as to what it would be like using the quads, and how show accurate they are, but the wiki says they are bind on pickup and only available through the c-store purchase of the defiant. So my question is, to get them back, is my only choice to dismiss my defiant retro and then buy it again from the c-store? Would this get me the quads back, and would I not have to spend any money on it, since i have already bought it, or would i have to spend however many c-store points again to buy it back?


Obviously if I have to spend the points again, I'm not going to, but I want to ask for certain before I try it.


And sorry if this is in the wrong section, I wasn't sure where to put it.

if you deleted the quad cannons, you can simply delete the sao paulo (after removing any gear on it), and reclaim it from the C-store. the cannons will be on the new ship. Since you already purchased the refit, you can reclaim it as many times as you'd like, on any Federation character you have.

It wasn't the sao paulo version, it was the standard defiant version (though I guess that wouldn't affect anything).


Does that mean I could in theory have 3 quad cannons fitted if i dismissed and reclaimed it 3 times?


Thanks for the info.

claiming the sao paulo will get you more quad cannons, as many as you want in fact, unffortunately you can only equip one set of quads on a ship. but you could equip every single escort you own with them so that you wont have to keep pulling them out and putting them back in if you switch between several escorts.

lol 4 quad cannons loaded onto a defiant. Fires at target and just stops.

A weapon that draws its power from engines is not worth it imo.

awww. Would have been sweet. But as I only have the one escort (was a tanker on my other ships) I'll just do it the once. Unless Akira's can also load them. I know it can have cannons.


Doesn't matter if your ship stops, if the enemy is a pile of debris.

I sense it wont be though.

they can be loaded on any escort class i believe.. and also on the atrox (although with the turn rate only use if you plan on being a sitting target) basically anything you can load a dual cannon you can load a quad

The Dreadnought can use them, too. They fire from the edge of the saucer.

Has anyone mounted the Quad Cannons on a Fighter?

I know that compared to MK 12 they start losing out but on a Fighter they could be better than DHC's.

They don't mount on the peregrine fighter...