For my first build I am working on an 8 Disruptor Turret Build. I am using a Fleet Cardenas Command Dreadnought Cruiser [T6]. What should I be looking at for Engines, Warp Core, Shield, and Consoles. I currently have:
From the Fleet:
2 Advanced Fleet Disruptor Turret Mk XII [CritH] [Dmg]x3
2 Advanced Fleet Disruptor Turret Mk XII [CritD] [Dmg]x3
2 Advanced Fleet Disruptor Turret Mk XII [Acc]x2 [Dmg]x2
2 Advanced Fleet Disruptor Turret Mk XII [Acc] [Dmg]x3
1 Elite Fleet Intervention Protomatter Deflector Array Mk XII [ColCrit] [DrainX]x2 [EPS]
Elite Devices:
Phased-Waveform Beacon (Pets)
Delta Alliance Reinforcements (Pets)
Nimbus Pirate Distress Call (Pets)
Kobayashi Maru Transponder (Buffing Pet)
Elite Universal Consoles:
Cascading Gravametric Disruptions
Ion Storm Generator
Mycelial Spore Burst
Voth Power Subcore
Aligned Antiproton Shielding
Very Rare (VR) Other Consoles:
1 Eng. Diburnium Hull Plating Mk XII
2 Eng. Bellum Triburnium Alloy Mk XII
1 Eng. Monotanium Alloy Mk XII
1 Tac. Bellum Prefire Chamber Mk XII
1 Tac. Pax Prefire Chamber Mk XII
VR Impulse: Quantum Phase Combat Impulse Engines Mk XII
VR Warp Core: Obelisk Subspace Rift Warp Core
VR Shield Preeminent Covariant Shields Mk XII [Ap] [Cap] [Rad]
Rare Hangar Bay: Class C Shuttlecraft
Many things. Key items are making sure you have Reverse Shield Polarity on your bar, you need some GTFO buttons, e.g. the temporal primary specialisation will give you continuity, you can get the DPRM console, you can get the invincible trait. There are other traits and space rep traits that can give bonus defense (bonus = cat 2 defense, ie it scales on top of all other buffs). Basically learn the game, study everything, and as i keep saying, study the builds on the site, you will start to see a pattern, what item/s do all ship builds share, these will be critical for survival or damage, e.g. DPRM console (but it's pricey for a Fed).