So at Lieutenant you get 6,000 hull points on this Delta Flyer which is about half what a Tier 1 starship offers. One thing to remember about shuttles and fighters, they have scaling hull. Reduced cooldown times can be enhanced with DOFFs assigned the space duty as well. All Hands on deck and Reciprocity kept the cooldowns short and buffs high. He has Pedal to the Metal, Reciprocity, All Hands on Deck and weapon System Synergy as starship traits slotted for this experiment. There are some fighters that turn sharper and are faster but most of them only have one BOFF chair and weaker shields. It is faster and harder turning than even the B’Rel Bird of Prey and significantly so. The Delta Flyer has a very fast speed and excellent maneuverability. So I kept my distance peppering the ship and letting the Romulan Republic T’Varo’s help me take it down. That is painful in a full size starship, in a shuttle craft it’s called something else dead. I stayed away from the big D’Deridex in the first wave because you know that bastard will tractor beam your ass and hit you with those four heavy plasma torpedoes. I have little I can do with just two BOFFs sitting in ensign chairs. This mission took a full half hour and the real pain in the ass was the tractor mines. Now when I flew into the Carraya System things got a little dicey. Well on the Japori mission it took me at least 20 minutes, but it was easy in the sense that I managed not to die and only had a few ‘brush with death’ moments. I bet that Omega Plasma Torpedo Launcher would be boss on this thing. We are talking about just one beam weapon here. Now don’t get me wrong, i took a while, it’s not like this thing is a prison date on damage. Now I could fly this with the Adapted MACO set and it would be even meaner, but I found that I could complete the Japori missions pretty easily with this setup. I have good consoles and a solid photon torpedo launcher. Just a Mk XII Positron Deflector that can be found cheap on the exchange but it gives good shield and hull boosts. I added the Omnidirectional Antiproton beam array and its mate the Obelisk Warp Core to get a powerful weapon and the set bonus 10% antiproton damage. The Metaphasic Shield unit I got with the Ferrengi Shuttle and the Tetryon-Plasma Impulse Engines that come with the Yellowstone Runabout are now installed on this craft. I took a few items from other ships/shuttles. It is not the only small craft that is pretty tough, The Vaadwuar Pyhtus Fighter and the Voth Heavy Fighter are very mean as well. No one gets pissed off in there that you only showed up in damn shuttle craft □ Although it would be hilarious if the Romulan Republic Commander made a quippy remark about it. No, not an elite or advanced queue, I am bold not stupid □ To test it though I went to my old standby the Romulan Patrol missions. OK anyway, I decided to build up my Delta Flyer to make it mean enough to enter a PVE queue. You really got to keep your eyes peeled for those giveaway deals! They had one just a few weeks ago to celebrate the announcement of Season 11. Over the years I have picked up a few items including some free shuttles that I have earned or received as part of a Cryptic giveaway. It was the Jem’Hadar Attack Ship of small craft! At the time, few if any small craft could touch it. Way back when I first decided to buy a shuttle craft, I thought it would be cool to have the legendary Delta Flyer. So why not have a bad-ass shuttle craft rather than the garden variety type? There are several missions in the game that are completed using a shuttle and there are some PVE queues as well. What! Shuttle craft seriously? Hell yeah! I own a lot of different shuttle craft and I have actually flown them about fairly often.
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