[Edarta]

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Destroyers rising...

Two years in game, the Veteran Destroyers - always good ships - get extra teeth as they now sport a Heavy Weapon socket. STO Academy needs to catch up, read more than  the build here.

The Heavy Weapon
I use a Heavy Escort Flak Shot Artillery [CrtX], Mk XIV, XR from the Competitive Wargames Reputation store. Its AoE is applied to a 45° Cone. I prefer that to the straight line applied by the free Hyper-Excited Ion Stream baby from the Dilithium store.

This ship makes my Ferasan Engineering Captain very happy. Me too. In some aspects the ship is not my usual all-beams/coolest items build. It's all fun and cool pew-pew:

A "weak" Torpedo as front weapon
The "meh DPS" Kentari Mass-Produced Missile Launcher comes with a 180° Firing Arc and fires once every 2.5 seconds.
Its Radiation DoT impacts shields as well as hull. For that I prefer it to the Lobi store Ferengi weapon.
Kemocite Explosions fire everywhere as the torpedo fires up to 3 times during the 10 second buff window.
The Super Charged Weapon Trait (Martok, Endeavour, Khopesh) buff runs at 3 stacks (Energy Weapons get up to 30% Damage, 4.5% Crit Chance, 19.8% Crit Severity) quite early and rather contineous.

Beam/Turret mix
The 2 aft turrets do nasty things when rapid fire kicks im. The ship loves chewing shields away. And this Messy Mix™ gives me focus damage even while I fly Circles, Infinity Signs or go to stop some Borg Probes at the Kithomer Vortex.

Gung Ho Power Settings
I go for nice results from the Temporal Disentanglement Suite:

I use the Shield Overload and Layered Shielding traits at this moment just to be sure not to explode more often than I am used to. May be I drop them later.

No Super Charged Weapon Trait?
If you do not have the flag ships' trait, move the great Nausicaan Torpedo into the front socket. Use the Terran Task Force Torpedo, or a Kinetic Cutting Beam, or an Omega Torpedo as 3rd aft weapon.

Beams Only or Cannons Only rulez?
Pick your Favorite Weapons. Master a Breen Chel Boalg and a Nandi. Then rotate Bridge Officer seating:

Ed's Messy Mix:	Change To (beamish here):

No Front Torpedo?
Pick your Favorite Weapons. Master a Breen Chel Boalg and a Nandi. My beam boat Bridge would be this:

But I want it not!

Them Numberz
ISA 40K dps, KSA above 30K dps, CSA above 20K dps.