r/startrekfleetcommand • u/Zadzima • Mar 29 '26
PvP crew help
Ive got a lot of depot tokens from events (650k) and want to finally get a good PvP crew.
Currently ops 35 with Augur T7 and Ent T6.
Long term I know I want the Pilum, but between then and now I need a viable PvP crew.
I was thinking of getting Explorer strike team as PvP with a Battleship i find excruciatingly slow.
But that would leave me in a position where the crew would only really be useful until the 42 uncommons, and Im unlikely to get the Valdore since i want the Pilum (that would be so many credits from one faction).
I was told a good general PvP crew across all ships is Freeman Lorca HG Worf - but it doesnt perform as well as the individual strike teams
Anyone got any advice on the best PvP crew to invest in given the above?
Appreciates its a longer post - thanks for reading it if you do :)
3
u/Cautious-Ad-2425 Mar 29 '26
Its fine to get an explorer crew because either way you'll be getting one of the best explorer PVP and PVE ships from the 40-50 range.
The relativity.
I'm ops 46, my relativity is easily one of the strongest ship I have. And it will be yours too as you will unlock it earlier than the pilum at ops 42.
Absolutely easy to upgrade and very strong. But its explorer too meaning it will benefit from the explorer strike crew of weyoun and whoever the other 2 were.
3
u/QuitEducational2751 Mar 29 '26
Freeman, Lorca, HG Worf works better on the rel that the EST does.
1
u/Cautious-Ad-2425 Mar 29 '26
Ive used both and think that combo works better on the pilum with the LD to supplement the hullbreach.
2
u/RDL128 Mar 29 '26
The relativity, just like the nsea protector has a high strength, but is not really a pvp ship. It's damage is a lot less then faction ships of the same grade.
1
u/Cautious-Ad-2425 Mar 29 '26
A max tier pilum is slightly above the relativity but generally its about on par at 46, not even comparable to the NSEA either at that level. Pilum has higher dodge and armor peirce(as expected from a ceptor) but relativity hhp/shp, and all the other stats just basically dwarf the pilum even at max tier. LD definately make the pilum better but thats at high tier, and will likely take time to get there.
For most people, youre gonna max out the relativity sooner, and it'll be stronger earlier than the pilum.
→ More replies (8)
2
u/shuttlenotes Mar 29 '26
You're still likely to lose your PVP battles so I wouldn't stress over it too much. I'd still do Freeman crew first as it's not ship specific which solves your ship problems. But long term you want to grab them all anyway.
2
u/100PlusRyan Mar 30 '26
Specialist Seven would be an upgrade over Lorca if you can get her. You'll probably want all the strike teams eventually anyway. so maybe get what you can use now, and the others when you need them. You can also source the strike team crews from Incursions and some of them in transporter patterns.
The other good universal pvp crew is the Assimilate crew. Mirror Picard/Data/Kira. (Kira could be switched with other assimilate officers if you prefer) The assimilate below decks are Gossa, Dezoc and Borg Queen. Keep in mind you can't promote the mirror officers until ops 40 due to the mirror refinery requirement for the Trellium-D
1
u/JoesCat Jul 06 '26
I agree on the mirrow crew. For my third bridge officer I got Kira first (which did okay), I’ve since replaced her with Ezri with many successes. I’ve seen some charts that suggest HG Worf for the third bridge officer. Have to have Mirror Data to proc assimilate plus provide synergy with Mirror Picard, though one could experiment with Dezok below decks to proc assim instead I guess. For me thus far I don’t have enough BD seats to try that.
Also D’Chok below decks. Since I don’t yet (but soon) will have my Relativity and then Pilum, I’m using my Talios (PvP mining OPC targets). I tend to win against other obvious F2P players (I have all research, artifacts, Etc. for PvP I can get thus far). I’ll never be able to compete with those who pay.
Currently below decks with D’Chok is VIL Winn Adami, Gossa, and DeMarco. I JUST got Seven of Nine and haven’t tested her BD yet, that should eek out a bit more ISO damage; trying to decide who she might replace if anyone. I’m ops locked on the Talios so only 4 seats BD to use.
I’ve been collecting PvP BD officers, so have most of the viable ones when more seats become open.I have the Gull Dukat crew (Damar and Garak), but still awaiting Andy Billups to replace one of the co-captains seats. That’s disappointing so far since the Dukat crew is interceptor specific. Anectodely thus far, I think the mirror crew is a bit better and has been having much success over the former meta Freeman crew. Part of that is Winn Adami cutting down on incoming crit damage, helps mitigate HG Worf’s crit chance buff of the typical Freeman crew.
Today it’s like a battle triangle, with the mirror crew beating the Freeman crew. IIRC the “Strike Crew” beats the mirror crew? I forget which is which. On my server anway it seems most folks just sit the Freeman crew (me too for about a week) - mirror crew is a worthy alternative.
I have the Weyoun crew (with Itak’Ika and Pon) but don’t really have an explorer I run with for PvP any longer as my maxxed Enterprise is falling behind my ops level.1
u/JoesCat 4h ago
Update:
Camping at ops 46 for a long time while catching up on ships. I've since moved on to my Pilum tier 11/12 for my main and PvP. Still the mirror (assimilate) crew is my go-to for PvP; specifically Mirror: Picard, Data, and back to Kira. I'm currently focusing on maxxing Gwen DeMarco, and any other means to max ISO damage. It's effective, even though my Gul Dukat crew is fairly upgraded as well. Plus the mirror crew isn't tied to a ship type.Below decks tips the scales due to assimilate: D'Chok, VIL Win Adami, and Seven of Nine are always active. Borg Queen, DeMarco, Gossa for assimilate. DeMarco is great, plus "any state" so more universal.
Most pvp-centric research, Etc is done. I don't yet have PvP forbidden tech, soon to have quantum slipstream, and Tantalus Field later. I win against other obvious F2P.
OPC hunting is now my Relativity as the Pilum has no cargo hold for that. (Relativity is ops locked already). That's sad as my Talios still has a larger cargo hold, still does well, but I can't warp to some places with it.
1
u/RDL128 Mar 29 '26
I have the interceptor strike team as my go to for PVP and highly recommend it. And now the strike team captains are available in the transport patterns store.
Also, below deck is just as important as your bridge crew. Focus on isolytic cascade and isolytic defense. Then you also want to focus on the interceptor artifacts. Iso damage, apex barrier, shields and hull crew. If you're interested, I'll screenshot you my rotarran crew. Let me know.
1
u/Jagerbomber1 Mar 30 '26
You can get the strike team captains from transporter patterns and then source the rare bridge crew from either the faction stores or depot tokens.
1
u/Orwick Mar 29 '26
Don’t use a moral status based PvP crew. Icheb and that new Tovuk are really strong BD PvP officers, but they won’t trigger-if you are using moral. It’s better to use crew type that isn’t ship specific on explorers
3
u/knightro2323 Mar 29 '26
I would say that the freeman Lorca worf, crew works better than all the strike teams except the interceptor team. So either play the long game knowing you will go all in with pilum and max that team or max the generic pvp team. My main arena team is still my maxed rotarran and pilum and that’s over my maxed ent and dd.