Should get to commander in the morning. I really want an akira too. But i have been concentrating on ranking up cruiser skills and nothing else. Should i stick with them ?
Not necessarily but if you do stick with cruisers make sure you beef up your turn rate by loading up on the engineering consoles that boost this as the cruisers turn like a half dead beetle....in molasses....in the winter.
Now you can go escort if you want but you will need to stack your BOff and train them appropriately. To get the most out of the escort you need to go with dual heavy cannons, preferably cannons that have stats like +20 Crit Severity or on chance reduce shields by 80% ect. You will also want to stick with photon torpedoes as they have a higher DPS than any other torpedo type.
To give you an example of training your BOff appropriately, I commissioned my rare BOffs that I got through Starfleet then went to the BOff vendor on Sol Station and purchased the ones that I wanted that had abilities that my current BOff did not have then used them to train my rare BOffs. I ended up stacking cannon abilities and torpedo abilities on my tactical BOffs. A few post earlier I showed what I had for my BOffs for my Akira.
Tactical (LtCdr Slot):Torpedo: Spread
Cannon: Scatter Volley
Cannon: Rapid Fire
Tactical (Ens Slot):Torpedo: High Yield
Basically you can switch to what ever you want if you train and stack your BOff abilities to match the class of ship you are flying. The only hindrance you will come across in doing this is that the points you spent on your character, say, on tier 2 cruisers will be of no use to you if you switch to the tier 2 escort. You will have to spend future points on the tier 2 escort ability to max out the effectiveness of your use in tier 2 escors. Of course this will change once Cryptic implements the ability to respec.
Hope this helps.
~Spade
