T6 dreadnaught vs t6 battle cruiser

so, the t6 dreadnaught galaxy x / yamato thing vs the t6 avenger / arbiter?

i have both and i cant really settle on over the other so can anyone give me pointers, pros and cons, err i dont know really, i dont think i know enough to know what questions to be asking you guys.

oh, toon is 60 engineer.

err yeah i dont know what else to add thats relevent, thoughts please if you have any.

I have thoughts but its 7am and I am on the bus to work. I'll come back to this tonight when I am awake :)

bumpity, to make a change from hitting F5

Both are very good ship

what it comes down to is what is more important to you the utility and tankiness that comes with the dreadnaught cruiser as it has the hanger and more hull.

The arbiter is more focussed on deeps with the 5 forward facing weapons more tac consoles and the cruiser command that lower weapon power drain, it also has a lt cmdr universal station making it a bit more flexible in that regard.


So it is mostly trying to work out what kind of character you want to be, like most ships in the game one isnt better than another they are just aimed at different things.

thanks for your thoughts on it

Gravity's right: neither is better in an objective sense, it just depends on what you want to do with it.

I personally prefer the arbiter because:

*Intel seating = OSS + other goodies that I like more than command
*50% higher base turn rate
*less engineering seating (1 cmdr seat is enough for me, cmdr + lc is overkill)
*lc universal instead of ensign universal means more flexibility
*mastery gives resistance to kinetic damage, and in pve that's usually what'll kill you

5/3 weapons isn't that important to me since I'd run beam arrays on both.

The yamato get a hangar, an extra device slot, and slightly more base hull, but I don't think that outweighs anything above.

yeah i guess i feel that my eng should fly a propper cruiser but that stupid yamato i cant not put on a cannon becaues it has those cannon stickyout bits. however its waaaaaaaaay too slow turning for cannons.

sigh.

mayba ineed to make a toon specifically to fly a beam oil tanker