The Ferengi D’Vor

The Ferengi D’Vor is an ugly, ugly ship, but it’s one that does one thing very, very well. It mines Latinum. And Latinum makes the galaxy go round, or at least it allows you to purchase speed ups, common materials, resources, and ship parts that you don’t otherwise have. And mining Latinum will help you win on Ferengi Monday.

What the Ferengi D’Vor Good At

The D’Vor’s Ship Ability is Latinum Mining – it gives you a bonus in mining Raw Latinum. This starts out at 12,000% at Level 1 and maxes out at 17,500% when you get the ship to level 45. This gives the ship a tremendous advantage in this one area.

Keep in mind that not all Latinum nodes are created equal. Those that require a higher warp range will be higher than the lower systems. Suliban and the Borg space Latinum systems will be even higher. And some nodes are fast nodes, that produce Raw Latinum twice as fast as the other nodes in the system. You’ll be able to spot them by their brightness, and they “twinkle” a little.

Attack Piggy

If you’ve powered up your D’Vor enough, you can turn from a simple Piggy into it’s alter ego … ATTACK PIGGY. It’s really handy in sneaking up on other D’Vors, who won’t tend to see you as a threat. Generally, it takes a ship strength of 100,000+ or more to really do damage. And just about everybody agrees that “Attack Piggy” is fun to say.

It’s only got one weapon, but it’s a kinetic weapon. And to boot, it only fires every other turn. So you’re really only going to be attacking other D’Vors with this.

Crewing the Ferengi D’Vor

The Ferengi D’Vor has one obvious weakness that you discover soon after you launch it. It’s protected cargo is terrible. It gets better as you tier up the ship, but it’s never great, and since there is no dedicated officer who gives you a bonus for mining Latinum, you’ll want to use some of your crew members to increase the protected cargo.

My recommendation for the best D’Vor crew is Joaquin as captain, and T’Pring as one of your officers.

For the third officer, you’ve got a few options. If you’ve got Ten of Ten (the Borg Tribble), then he’s your best bet. His mining speed option is going to make a huge difference in your mining rate.

If not, then you’ll want to either go with an Augment officer to increase Joaquin‘s synergy or add One of Ten to further increase the ship’s protected cargo.