Need some help with making an important decision about my build. I'm flying a Heavy Raptor with full JH set and Polaron weapons for pure max dps, survivability absolutely not taken into account. My only defences are a RSP ability, a pair of engineering resistance consoles, and a Photonic Displacement console. It's a real glass cannon: great dps but dies 2-3 times per ISE, for example, if there's no good tank around.

Antiproton Sweep, the JH set 3rd ability is great on it's own, but not that great in a larger picture. It does around 800 shield damage to up to 5 ships at once, but the 4 min cooldown is a real problem. I might want to swap one JH piece with something else, but I need help deciding. Which do you thing is best:

1) Don't change anything.

2) Get a Borg piece. Would give Autonomous Regeneration Sequencer together with the console. Better survivability but no real bonus to dps to replace the AP Sweep.

3) Get Omega Deflector. JH Deflector is absolutely useless. Omega has a nice bonus to accuracy along with a bonus to Starship Sensors which would buff Fire on My Mark as a small side bonus. Could give a nice dps increase if I actually need an accuracy buff. Didn't have the time to test how often I miss.

4) Get Honor Guard Shield. More survivability == more dps in the long run.

5) something else


Thanks.

I've been thinking would the AP sweep be that bit better with a 1 min cooldown?

Dead players don't DPS. The Dirt Nap ability does fairly weak damage.

I forgot to say my DPS increased by going from 3P Jem'Hadar to 3P Omega, and still running the Polaron Weapons. Both Mk XI

Omega deflector (for the targeting bonus) plus Omega shield (to combine for tet glider), then Borg module (for the weapon bonus) and Borg engine (for fast sector space, and combine for the hull regen). Obviously not what you wanted to hear, but the JH set just doesn't stand up once STF gear becomes available, even at Mk X.

Definitely get a borg console – the bonuses attached make it worth using a slot.

I've been experimenting with polarons for a while now.

For STFs I’ve found using the 2 part OMEGA preferable over anything else, as the passive tetryon glider is great for stripping NPC’s shields coupled with the borg 2 part set for extra staying power – for you to see a decent return on your investment you need to be specced into flow capacitors.

For PVP though I now only use the 2 part jem set with the KHG shield, as the extra damage granted by the dominion synergy really helps there and the shield has a way better cap. If you are thinking 3 part jem set for STFs, then you will need to use the shield also, which in my opinion, is awful and the extra 3 part ability AP sweep is not worth the trade-off.

Also how are you finding the displacement console? Kinda looks like a waste of a slot to me.

I've posted about consoles and other damage bonuses in another thread. The JH set is increasing my overall Polaron damage by 2%, which simply isn't worth it. The shield is really horrible. That's why I'm looking for a better combo. I'm fine with a good tank, but if I get attacked I die real quick.

Not bad when you have problems I mentioned above. If I get aggro from a tac cube, I hit Photonic Displacement and run. It creates a copy of me which fires some sort of beam and takes over my aggro. I can't attack and can't be attacked for some time, just long enough to go to stealth and wait for my hull to be repaired passively before I can decloak and attack again. Not much of a waste since it replaced a Flow Capacitor which I only used for my Tachyon Beam I.

what mark of polaron phase generator consoles are you using for tac consoles? I don't have access to my build whilst at work, but I'm fairly certain I'm getting more than a mere 2% increase.

It's 2% from the set, not the consoles. I have rare Mk XI consoles, giving me +8%/+8%/+7%/+6%.

I have posted some number crunching here: http://forums.startrekonline.com/sho....php?p=4246547

forgive me if I'm being stupid here, but I thought the set gives you +7.6% polaron damage.