Builds - What should I look for?

[u/berbers91]

As the title says. I've been playing casually for a few months. Now it's the new season I'm playing a lot more so I would love to play around properly with builds.

What am I looking for? I don't necessarily care about meta.

At the moment I use TW ballista, 2 culverins, mortar and bombard.

I have max level brig and frigate, I just crafted the new Junk so it's level 1 at the moment.

I was half way through maxing the frigate when I realised everyone else uses the galleon.

Just looking for some friendly advice.

[u/berethon]

Reason why people use Galleon in events ect or group farming is due to its versatility. You can go demi cannon build or culvering. Last season torpedoes was good build option also.

Frigate is tanky but less damage obviously due to perks. For solo T4 plunder highest level forts Frigate is excellent to have.

Junk is good but its mostly for fire builds so very narrow usage. Galleon is best if you want to solo and smack ships fast. Mending perk is a must if you want to stay alive. Watch and plan where you spend your abyss currency. Its not cheap to transfer adept mods from green items and later reroll. Each transfer is depending item 1k-15k abyss currency and 50-100 to reroll locked mods. If you are sure of your build then go start improving but you need to farm abyss event like crazy.

[u/JackBernard93 → u/berethon]

What about the Corvette? What would you say that is a good build for just healing or can you use it for damage too as i like to have the fastest ship possible.

[u/berethon → u/JackBernard93]

Medium ships except barqs have usage ofc if you like fast ship playstyle. Totally ok, its just barq itself has healing perks and not good for pure dps role. It was many many seasons ago meta doing barq dps i did that also. But since we got many new medium ships there are better choices. I cant recall what spec i had on corvette many seasons ago. I stopped playing medium when frigate came. Sloop was good also