[Edarta]

Season 11.5 came and Piper's skill tree is essentially a rebuild of his old energy and survival friendly setup:

Before the new skill tree, the patch work build never passed beyond it's ISA Personal Best Run at 49.6 K dps.

I started with the general purpose loadout (3 pieces Iconian and a Terran Task Force Warp Core), with just universal consoles at epic. Most stuff was very rare, some ultra rare. The "gold plating" was done during the upgrade weekend last thursday.

The STANISLAUS rocketed beyond 64K, and to a whopping High of 70.2 K dps.

With more widespread adaption to the skill tree you enocunter many heavy hitters in ISA nowadays. All are in a rush for quick kills and the STANISLAUS runs between 55 and 68 K dps. She outguns 40+ K ships showing high results and gets pushed to lower results by the 50+ K players. Such is the game and I love and mostly play the general purpose build that shines well in ISA, Cure found, Khitomer Vortex and Hive Onslaught (where ship survial is an optional target)

U.S.S. STANISLAUS - survival/damage setup

For moar damage I had to go away from my beloved drake build and hopped to a half-dragon. The Engineering/Science consoles where set for more offense. The BOffs crew got some more prominent members. After some experiments I came to the loadout below:

U.S.S. STANISLAUS - damage setup

First battle: SCM - Infected [LR] (S) - [03:04] DMG(DPS) - @edarta: 13.77M(76.08K) @alterran04: 10.78M(59.17K) @Fewzz: 9.77M(54.27K) @kick_nemesis: 2.12M(13.30K) @versvesh: 1.70M(9.23K)

The 76 K are owed to playing [i]with the team. Play maverick and going solo for the right cube quite reliably spoils the Nanite Heal Optional. I ran around 70K, but at ~50% Transformator health, the healers arrive. [/i]

Best battle: SCM - Infected [LR] (S) - [03:37] DMG(DPS) - @edarta: 16.67M(77.67K) @e30ernest: 11.72M(54.58K) @CryptonicZed: 5.55M(26.98K) @weckelmann: 1.98M(10.73K) @sallym#8027: 2.23M(10.34K)

I think I know now how that ship works - time for a change