Ships Builds for thargoids?

[Miguelgg1396]

Hi there!
I've been out of the game during some time. I've seen this thargoid war and I would like to take part in it. However, I've seen that a lot of things have changed, since now Guardian tech can not be used because glaives and mailstorms.
So, my question is where can I find builds to fight thargs and to explore mailstorms (I suppose these are different roles). I've seen several builds but they are some months old, and as far as I know during this "tharg war" event new modules are being released almost every month, so I'm afraid these builds are already outdated. I don't really know which are the "must-have" modules right now.

Thanks!

 

[AlSki]

Must-have modules?
There are none... at least not for fighting the war.

So the wrinkle is? Glaives AKA Thargoid hunters

Glaives emit a Guardian module/weapon damage field, so the best weapons melt away and fail in a few minutes. So, the Max DPS builds, like the ShardaConda, can fairly rapidly become Zero DPS builds.

The best unaffected weapons are the Enhanced AX multicannons. You won't be soloing a hydra with these, but they are great for the lower health Glaives and scouts (even interceptors if you can fit enough mullti-cannons and use the Xeno scanner to target the hearts. The Enhanced Xeno scanner lets you scan from 2km not just 500m).

But...
if you have been away a while you probably want to tackle this in order of difficulty, so go to a Planetary port under Attack. You can dock and rearm/repair here, so losing your weapons is not insurmountable. I've even taken out Glaives with just my Long Range Thermal Vent Gimballed Beam that was mainly for cooling, then got my shards back. If this is what you want to do then all the AXI builds are perfectly valid, not outdated at all.


However...
..if you want to visit a maelstrom. You need

• TG Pulse neutralizer
• Caustic Sink launcher (Like a heat sink but for caustic damage)
• Heat Sink Launcher (unless you can tank the heat damage on the way in)

And if you plan on avoiding the patrolling interceptors and hunters (stay under 20% heat)

• Thermally engineered Power plant and drives and/or
• Thermal vent beam laser

And if you are not just sightseeing but want to contribute to the CG

• Pulse wave xeno scanner
• Research limpet controller / Xeno Multi Limpet Controller