I will not use Repurrsive Shearing on the new Valdore, because - as you pointed out - it's become quite useless on enemies that die too quickly. So, instead, I will run a Scatter Volley / Torpedo Spread "classic escort" style, without Uncon either. The Valdore has always had a special place in my heart, because I fell in love with Donatra back in 2002 (Nemesis release) and her starship, the Valdore. So, I don't care too much about DPS or single-target-focused builds for this ship (even though it was intended like that).
Very late reply but wanted to make the point bout 11 months when I started the game the very first ship pack I bought because i needed a decent ship plus good trait all around for everything was the pack with the morrigu and arbiter and kusak. I never regretted the purchase especially since at the time i did one each of a fed, romulan and klingon and without the leveled klingon at the time getting the trait on all 3 plus a useable ship for each was great... But the one i liked best the Morrigu was the least of the three and i really wished for a better version. I personally loved its look and the Klingon ship's look too. Still despise how the Arbiter looks, like Aunt Jamima' s Spatula, but meh... Was a good starting point. I got a few better ships now like the Hydra or my event pick from last year the Mirror Warship or the D7 legendary... But i just LIKE the Morrigu, so i liked this bundle for it, and the torp and Akira were just icing on the cake. Very EXPENSIVE icing .... But It was basically this or ida got the T'liss legendary and I'm not disappointed in the Legendary Valdore though Ida liked it to be intel. It gives me that GOOD Morrigu I wanted, and yet another C store Romulan Legendary that ends up a really good ship (how about some more good Klingon Cstore Legendaries now). Just wish the Legendary Akira didn't feel like such a dud. Far as 12000 zen Legendaries go the Romulan Legendary pack still feels like the best overall.
What STO needs more than anything else is a raising of the map entity limit. Because as low as it is now, very pet and mine spam heavy builds can simply break the game and larger fleet battles are just not viable. But for that, it'll take a serious engine and net code overhaul.
My biggest peeve is that the whole combat model looks and worse feels nothing like the shows, the ships are more often than not ugly and factions mean absolutely nothing. Larger fleet battles would be the last think i would want since even small battles are just a spam fest.
That's an easy one to answer and it won't be to your satisfaction. The 3 piece Akira Set are all from Escorts. One is from a tier 3 c-store ship, another a tier 5 c-store ship. Long ago there was the tier 6 Alita. That came with the 3rd piece. The 3 piece bonus were good for the Old Tier 6 Akira / Alita because it buffed the recharge of Tactical and Pilot, which is what the T6 Alita specialized in. But if you use it on the Legendary Akira, you only get to use the Tatical ability buff and not Pilot because the Lego doesn't have Pilot seating. Just LOL I thought that the set would be updated to take into account the Legendary Akira being Command & Miracle Worker, but that's too much to ask for how randomly put together this new bundle is. The whole thing looked like it was assembled by throwing darts at a board blindfolded.
I actually prefer the BOFF seating of the older T6 version than the upcoming Lego Mogai. You could have EPTW3 + OSS3 at the same time. Most everything else the Legendary version has is an improvement. I'm also not keen on the Temporal stuff on an Escort-style platform. The trait is pointless for me as a result. The rest of the bundle outside the ships is also terrible for me since I already have most of it. Real bad value for me overall.
I'm wondering with the nickeling (5%) changes on a couple of prices so far this year if -35% might become more rare. One thing with the Ablative Hazard Shielding console (I'm not 100% but from 1 of those 3 ships) for a potential 2-piece perk the consoles may have to be the same faction so not 1 from the Arbiter & 1 from the Kurak or Morrigu. Doesn't everyone luv dorsal fins? I would've gave this bundle more consideration if this Melponar would've included account-wide Plasma-Quads.
Hey stu the legendary valdor skin is already on console I have a picture of it on my ps5 you can look at it at the ship purchase place it's just like the monitor was last month
Thanks dude. Not buying. STRONG maybe as a future purchase. I'm mostly interested in the new torpedos. I already use mine (MOSTLY) as a select fire, not auto fire so if I can get a bigger pop out of them when I hit them... I could find reasons to like that.
Hi Spencer, please let cryptic know that there seems to be a bug with the Valdore shield and the ablative hazard shield from the arbiter. It's not triggering the two pieces set on console.. xbox. Can you test to see if it works on pc?
That's working as intended. If you want that 2pc, you need to use the version of the ablative hazard shield console from the morrigu Each version of that console from each faction is associated to a different set. So you need the one corresponding to the romulan set.
35% is usually the best we get for Legendary bundles. There have been two instances of 40% off in the past few years, typically timed around the end of the summer event.
Thank you, that was a ton of info ... mostly far over my head, as I'm coming back to the game from a rather long absence. I came away with this bundle as having cool stuff, but not game-changing - so not a must get for me. Perhaps one day.
Perfect timing! I was just rewatching the Battle of the Bassen Rift. Goodness, this is the sleekest warbird ever.
Thx for the breakdown, as informative as always, like the comparison part!
I will not use Repurrsive Shearing on the new Valdore, because - as you pointed out - it's become quite useless on enemies that die too quickly. So, instead, I will run a Scatter Volley / Torpedo Spread "classic escort" style, without Uncon either. The Valdore has always had a special place in my heart, because I fell in love with Donatra back in 2002 (Nemesis release) and her starship, the Valdore. So, I don't care too much about DPS or single-target-focused builds for this ship (even though it was intended like that).
Great JOB! Very informative
Very late reply but wanted to make the point bout 11 months when I started the game the very first ship pack I bought because i needed a decent ship plus good trait all around for everything was the pack with the morrigu and arbiter and kusak.
I never regretted the purchase especially since at the time i did one each of a fed, romulan and klingon and without the leveled klingon at the time getting the trait on all 3 plus a useable ship for each was great...
But the one i liked best the Morrigu was the least of the three and i really wished for a better version. I personally loved its look and the Klingon ship's look too. Still despise how the Arbiter looks, like Aunt Jamima' s Spatula, but meh... Was a good starting point.
I got a few better ships now like the Hydra or my event pick from last year the Mirror Warship or the D7 legendary... But i just LIKE the Morrigu, so i liked this bundle for it, and the torp and Akira were just icing on the cake. Very EXPENSIVE icing ....
But It was basically this or ida got the T'liss legendary and I'm not disappointed in the Legendary Valdore though Ida liked it to be intel. It gives me that GOOD Morrigu I wanted, and yet another C store Romulan Legendary that ends up a really good ship (how about some more good Klingon Cstore Legendaries now).
Just wish the Legendary Akira didn't feel like such a dud. Far as 12000 zen Legendaries go the Romulan Legendary pack still feels like the best overall.
What STO needs more than anything else is a raising of the map entity limit. Because as low as it is now, very pet and mine spam heavy builds can simply break the game and larger fleet battles are just not viable. But for that, it'll take a serious engine and net code overhaul.
My biggest peeve is that the whole combat model looks and worse feels nothing like the shows, the ships are more often than not ugly and factions mean absolutely nothing. Larger fleet battles would be the last think i would want since even small battles are just a spam fest.
I just looking at the akira 3 part set. It coolsdown pilot but there is no pilot on the ship.
That's an easy one to answer and it won't be to your satisfaction.
The 3 piece Akira Set are all from Escorts. One is from a tier 3 c-store ship, another a tier 5 c-store ship. Long ago there was the tier 6 Alita. That came with the 3rd piece. The 3 piece bonus were good for the Old Tier 6 Akira / Alita because it buffed the recharge of Tactical and Pilot, which is what the T6 Alita specialized in. But if you use it on the Legendary Akira, you only get to use the Tatical ability buff and not Pilot because the Lego doesn't have Pilot seating.
Just LOL
I thought that the set would be updated to take into account the Legendary Akira being Command & Miracle Worker, but that's too much to ask for how randomly put together this new bundle is. The whole thing looked like it was assembled by throwing darts at a board blindfolded.
thx for video, actually I waiting for some interesting builds for Acheron with Valdore's pets
I actually prefer the BOFF seating of the older T6 version than the upcoming Lego Mogai. You could have EPTW3 + OSS3 at the same time. Most everything else the Legendary version has is an improvement. I'm also not keen on the Temporal stuff on an Escort-style platform. The trait is pointless for me as a result.
The rest of the bundle outside the ships is also terrible for me since I already have most of it. Real bad value for me overall.
I'm wondering with the nickeling (5%) changes on a couple of prices so far this year if -35% might become more rare. One thing with the Ablative Hazard Shielding console (I'm not 100% but from 1 of those 3 ships) for a potential 2-piece perk the consoles may have to be the same faction so not 1 from the Arbiter & 1 from the Kurak or Morrigu. Doesn't everyone luv dorsal fins? I would've gave this bundle more consideration if this Melponar would've included account-wide Plasma-Quads.
Hey stu the legendary valdor skin is already on console I have a picture of it on my ps5 you can look at it at the ship purchase place it's just like the monitor was last month
@6:30 Wait, don't be fooled. She's just a regular Malibu Stacy with a stupid cheap hat. The remastered skin is nice, tho.
They should retrofit the temporal ops integration into the epoch (31st bundle) fighters
Can't wait til it comes out on console!
Surprisingly this is the crown jewel of the bundle while the Akira turns out to be a letdown. Great review.👍
Now to wait for a 35-40% bundle sale...
Thanks dude. Not buying. STRONG maybe as a future purchase. I'm mostly interested in the new torpedos. I already use mine (MOSTLY) as a select fire, not auto fire so if I can get a bigger pop out of them when I hit them... I could find reasons to like that.
Yeah I'm not paying that much for the maelstrom torps
SUPPORT SHIPS!!!!!
I'll be getting this just to have a 5 foreword mogi. It was so wrong that they made the fed/kdf vers 5/3s but not the mogi.
Hi Spencer, please let cryptic know that there seems to be a bug with the Valdore shield and the ablative hazard shield from the arbiter. It's not triggering the two pieces set on console.. xbox. Can you test to see if it works on pc?
That's working as intended. If you want that 2pc, you need to use the version of the ablative hazard shield console from the morrigu
Each version of that console from each faction is associated to a different set. So you need the one corresponding to the romulan set.
@@CasualSAB I see. Thanks for the response.
wont this be on 50 % off somtime this year?
35% is usually the best we get for Legendary bundles. There have been two instances of 40% off in the past few years, typically timed around the end of the summer event.
Thank you, that was a ton of info ... mostly far over my head, as I'm coming back to the game from a rather long absence.
I came away with this bundle as having cool stuff, but not game-changing - so not a must get for me. Perhaps one day.
There’s a high likelihood that I throw a torp on there anyway! Lol.
On your build for beams you have TB is that tachyon or tractor?
Tractor beam
@@CasualSAB thank you, just wish that i have bought kemocite one back in the day.
@@CasualSAB Wow this is the first time that i have done a performance build, the difference is night and day.
If you're on PC, drop your handle here and I'll mail you a Kemo 1
@@CasualSAB not necessary, I got one, just more than I wanted to spend.
Does this ship work as cannon scatter volley?
Yes
Review on a decades old ship? This is all about the sale. Who you trying to fool?
what are you talking about lol
@@thestokes91 clearly you can't fix stupid.