Build Challenge

So I would like to challenge the fleet to create and post up A Viable All Turret Build

Arc and Cutting Beams allowed as they are can be seen as turrets.

Weapon type, Consoles, Ship Gear, And what ship you think would be best able to utilize a pure 360 degree firing range. And please give reason why the ship, and build idea.

I think this would be a very good creative challenge for people and I do hope the idea takes off.

I looked at this and honestly an all turret build simply is not viable damage wise i mean you can probably get one to scrape by in STFs etc because they are fairly easy these days.

Historically turret builds could work and cryptic decided they didnt like it and nerfed turret damage to the point they couldnt be used on their on in a build to pump out reasonable damage.

I agree with Milmar there is not a viable all turret build out there, your damage would be too low and CRF III and EPW III Would not be enough to make the deficit. An All turret build is pretty much the same as a Rainbow Beam build...

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MOAR POWARRRRRR!!!!!!!

IT'S OVER 9000!

Put a little thought into this and ended up coming up with maybe two possible ways this could ever work. Thats a slim maybe. The ship would have to be almost a complete support ship tanking hits or healing best it could.

Two weapons strike me as being the only options. Elachi, or Photonic Polaron. Comes down to luck or crits I guess with those. The most dmg that could be pumped into it would be on the polaron side using the Jem set, and crit bonus tac cons.

My mind wouldn't leave me alone on this.

Not entirely true - they are nerfed, but they can be powerful if set right. This is clearly dependent on the abilities associated with the build. It also depends on what you actually want to do. Why do u want a turret build? What ship are you flying? The ship itself can be the decider with said load out.

Also Elachi weaps are pretty kick ass. It could work, but the damage wouldn't be as great - although not non-existent.

Ok ill admit I did lolz when I saw this build challenge..... but then I gave it a bit more thought and you know what challenge accepted.

So here we go....

**** Warning this build is not for the faint of heart (it costs :( ) ****

So without further ado here is the Asami's Lulzboat

http://www.stoacademy.com/tools/skillplanner/?build=au5513lolzbuild_0

So using just what I had in inventory I built the above. Now I know what your thinking but can this really work in PVE. Well surprisingly yes.

So I took the Lulzboat out into a pug and here is the results

CLR—Infected Space[10:29]— Dmg(DPS) —
Asami 11,904,356(19,047)
Zaturius 6,757,694(10,744)
Kib 5,271,720(8,475)
Ssar'saa 2,384,544(3,821)
Pheezle 2,283,656(3,636)

Log file if anyone wants to have a look (warning its 6.7MB)


So the answer to the question is yes but it does require 2xZemoks and 3x VR DCEs (you could get away with 2x VR + R or just 2x VR for a 1/2 Drake build)

Could I tweak the above build? yes I could and I think I could reliably get close to 30K doing it to there a quite a few thing you could do to increase this builds DPS (ie weapons upgrade, AP 4x[CRTD] or AP 3x[CRTD] [PEN] just to name a few)

Ill admit flying it was FUN my God the amount of pew pew going everywhere was just amazing and it was like flying a cross between a FAW boat and a cannon build.

Special notes: Ok full disclosure which i forgot to put on the academy link I fly with 3x SRO + Mr Potatoe Head (Hierarchy BOFF) and a nausican (T4 Diplomacy). Also if you are going to fly this build you need to get close due to the weapons drop off on cannons and turrets. and dont forget to chain EPW3 + EPS1 + TT on constant rotation. Also fire the attack patterns in the following order APA + APO + DEM + CSV2 then next cycle APB + CSV1

BTW, I don't endorse you using this build day to day but if you have the bits it can be fun

Enjoy!!