Valkis Pet Based Damage Build Help.

[verbal turtle]

My builds based around my romulan droneships and summons being my main damage source and my ship just providing different procs off weapons. This is my bridge trait and gear setup. Id appreciate any recommendations for stuff to change to make my build overall stronger while staying to its theme of amping up my pets

[signal basalt]

Recapping some major points from the other channels:
-> remove conflicting firing mode
-> downrank epte
-> add uncon

[ionic stream]

Do you have the Eleos Intel Scout Vessel?
Would help cooldowns

[signal basalt]

Also, you can remove your 4 beacon devices from their slots, they can be used from inventory. Deuterium surplus and reactive armor catalysts will be good devices to use the slots for

[verbal turtle]

I dont mind getting any ships for traits

[ionic stream]

Eleos is an event ship, so currently not available

[signal basalt]

On a similar note, do you have the vovin?

[verbal turtle]

I want the vovin but not atm

I want the obelisk 4 piece

even if my ship cant use it

[signal basalt]

Possibly controversial idea, but i'd consider swapping the LtC uni from tac to sci. At least once you have slotted Uncon. covers the important part of your tac seating, and a LtC sci would grant you a gravwell plus extra uncon triggers

[verbal turtle]

what about the other officer abilities

are they fine or no

[signal basalt]

Definitely some tweaks possible but without uncon your most important points are covered

[verbal turtle]

if you're open to telling me them im down to hear it

[signal basalt]

Might be worth using some temp stuff. Chrono inversion field has a nice damage reduction

Remove duplicate eng team

What's your 2nd eng ability on the commander? Looks somewhat like let it go but not an exact match 🤔

[ionic stream]

Dploy construction shuttle wing probably

[verbal turtle]

its shuttle yeah

[verbal turtle]

Im getting chrono inversion field now I assume II?

[ionic stream]

That would be my first take, assuming you set Unconventional Systems personal space trait high up on your "to buy" list.

[verbal turtle]

im willing to get it

i dont mind

the goal for me is to just make my build as good as possible honestl and anything that helps it works for me

[signal basalt]

Uncon definitely is the one most impactful addition here

[verbal turtle]

I have uncon what would you recommend I change out for it @signal basalt

[signal basalt]

Symbiotic ice

[verbal turtle]

perfect i figured that was the slot

and removed it

ill reconfigure my bridge to match the above screenshot

[signal basalt]

Yes - with the slight variation of using epte1 instead of a duplicate eptw

On further thought, i'd maybe shift abilities on the two eng seats towards


(ie to uprank rsp and downrank eptw and tcl)

[verbal turtle]

ok the seats are at least

fully done now

Ill send screenshots 1 sec

I know the devices to inventory and what to change them for as well

[ionic stream]

The 2 seat Eng should have been EPtE 1 anyways. Thx for noticing

[ionic stream]

Now that the bridge is up to speed, do you have Redirecting Arrays and/or Precision Multi-Targeting ship trait(s)?

[verbal turtle]

No but.i can get both

What should I replace with them

[ionic stream]

Don't do anything rash.

I'm just assessing options rn

How about Superior Area Denial ship trait? Works great with the drone ships usually

[verbal turtle]

I was told not to get SAD with drone ships

Since they have their own firing mode no?

[ionic stream]

Ah, right. They do. Forget SAD then

[verbal turtle]

I think the faw firing extender seems really good

[ionic stream]

Question would be if you want both, but I think one is enough tbh

[verbal turtle]

I think the first one is easier to just plug and play

I have about 2-3 traits

That may be worthless atm for me

Or less than ideal

I have scramble so the regen one is useless

[signal basalt]

in terms of your ship's seating, RA may be the more fitting extender, as ETM needs you to slot both FAW and TS - which would either mean dropping ap beta, or swapping the LtC uni back to tac (in turn sacrificing your gravwell and some uncon)

[verbal turtle]

I think RA also makes sense as well

It’s just a lot easier for me to essentially get the value from it like you said

Outside of that I have the 4 basic pet ones but super charged weapons works with romulans right

Since they have torpedos

[signal basalt]

in terms of general build inspiration, i do however recommend to have a look at the other valkis builds in #carrier-builds . as far as i have seen, most do use the LtC uni as tac, usually increasing their pet damage via CF3

[signal basalt]

SCW would fit here, yes

[verbal turtle]

What would you recommend I drop

For scw and ra

Also I’ll check it but

I have really come to enjoy the science officer setup you gave me

[signal basalt]

regen cycle is the first to go. repair mode and unconv tactics are next

[signal basalt]

again, only planning no getting at this point

at least, in case you don't own the corresponding ships yet

bc before you'd purchase RA, buying an Ahwahnee (for FPNA) would be significantly higher priority

[verbal turtle]

I have the ahwahnee so this is an immediate change I can do

[signal basalt]

and there may very well be some other considerations in terms of spending. any recommendations currently are for if you already own said thing

[signal basalt]

do it. have a closer look at the console description: the haste does actually affect both you and your pets

HIR would be the weakest console to swap out

[verbal turtle]

That’s what I was thinking of replacing also

I have the 2 piece from Tilly’s and I’ll have the engine from competitive today

[verbal turtle]

If I can ask @signal basalt @ionic stream what about my personal space traits ?

[signal basalt]

decent, but one major trait is missing: intel agent attaché (i'd cut innocuous or [if it's not the enhanced fleet version] beam training)

[verbal turtle]

Thank you

[verbal turtle]

Obtained intel agent

and i have both the ships

im just grinding them right now and then ill send the photo

[verbal turtle]

ok so I obtained FPNA got supercharged weapons and RA

im just going to slot the last trait which will be Terran goodbye for the uncon

other than these everything else seems to be fine?

[signal basalt]

Minor tweak but your 4 summoning beacon devices can be used from inventory, so you don't actually need to slot them. Which would give you the space to go for the usual array of Deuterium, Reactive Armor Cats, and Large Aux Batts. 4th could be crafted batts (if you have room for the batt cd doff) or Temporal Negotiator or Subspace Field Mod

On another note, what are your active duty officers?

[verbal turtle]

just to update you guys after everything I did here the ship feels really strong now so thank you

I got the 6th duty officer slot

ill post the final build in a bit

[verbal turtle]

(you can kill me about the devices i didnt get to getting the suggested parts just yet)

the temporal abilities and uncon feel so good

especially getting hydra fpna and my drones and swarm gemini console off cd repeatedly

[ionic stream]

This definitely looks more like tearing trough space-time than where you started.

Yeah, Uncon with a few good cycled procs is an absolute game changer. I can't even remember anymore how it has been without ^^

[signal basalt]

i do suggest to at least equip some aux batteries. ideally large ones but even the regulars are well worth slotting. just to juice up FPNA