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WarLocke posted:Is the talk about torpedo boats on the STO forums as dumb as it sounds? Torps share a cooldown so having more than 2 is pretty pointless.
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Burning_Monk posted:Torps share a cooldown so having more than 2 is pretty pointless. According to the 'guide' I read quantums only have a 1.5 second shared cooldown. So theoretically, if you mount 4 with a bunch of 'chance to reduce all torp cooldowns by 5 seconds' doffs you could potentially fire them indefinitely as long as you got enough procs. Seems like a really gimmicky setup to me.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 01:50 |
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Tunicate posted:Might make DBB omniAP gimmick builds a little less gimmicky, maybe. Yeah, I'm looking at that and it's perfect for my AP DBB build. But I'll have to give up my grav well torpedo spam.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 01:57 |
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WarLocke posted:Is the talk about torpedo boats on the STO forums as dumb as it sounds? There's a handful of people who've made it "work", but it requires a big sacrifice in skills, will only work with that specific selection of equipment and ships, and is usually done on parses in ISA or CCA or other queues with lots of unshielded hard targets. Don't ever try it unless you're drat sure you know what you're doing, and even single torpedoes are usually a trap in PVE (outside of the occasional broken thing like pre-nerf neutronic spread).
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 02:04 |
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Asimo posted:and even single torpedoes are usually a trap in PVE So what, do people go literally all beams then?
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 02:20 |
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Or DHCs/Turrets, or DBBs/Omnibeams
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 02:21 |
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WarLocke posted:Is the talk about torpedo boats on the STO forums as dumb as it sounds? It's kinda like how everyone on reddit is constantly talking about their "tank builds" which I guess means they all love to sit around and uselessly get shot up. It sounds dumb but this explains the 90% pug ISA failure rate I see.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 02:30 |
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WarLocke posted:So what, do people go literally all beams then? Science Vessels/Carriers can, Cruisers and Escorts often have too many slots and not enough energy to keep up with the kind of energy loss of 7/8 weapons, so they throw one on. At least, that was the thinking a while back. Hard to say whether it's still current thinking.
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Bloodly posted:Science Vessels/Carriers can, Cruisers and Escorts often have too many slots and not enough energy to keep up with the kind of energy loss of 7/8 weapons, so they throw one on.
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Cyberball 2072 posted:It's kinda like how everyone on reddit is constantly talking about their "tank builds" which I guess means they all love to sit around and uselessly get shot up. It sounds dumb but this explains the 90% pug ISA failure rate I see. *There's some queues like Korfez where pulling aggro off NPCs is important, but that's different from traditional tanking and still requires good damage anyway. Bloodly posted:Science Vessels/Carriers can, Cruisers and Escorts often have too many slots and not enough energy to keep up with the kind of energy loss of 7/8 weapons, so they throw one on. Unrelated, regarding the antiproton torpedo... Borticus posted:- Does not benefit from Weapon Power EDIT: g0del posted:You can run DHCs/turrets if you really want to be The Sisko, but that build hasn't been competitive in quite awhile. Asimo fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Mar 3, 2015 |
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Tunicate posted:Might make DBB omniAP gimmick builds a little less gimmicky, maybe. A high yield might be something comparable in damage to a beam overload.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 03:29 |
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I'm getting differing opinions online - do partigens boost proton damage?
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 04:40 |
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Nope. They boost exotic damage from stuff like gravity well or other science powers and a few weird consoles, proton damage is basically an energy type like phaser or disruptor and only boosted by things that explicitly boost proton damage. Which at the moment are the dyson console set bonuses and the crapass dyson tac consoles. The proton DHCs on the dyson destroyers are buffed by generic cannon consoles, but the rep proton weapon isn't counted as a beam or a cannon so it doesn't get that option.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 05:02 |
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Game dead.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 05:04 |
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Asimo posted:Nope. They boost exotic damage from stuff like gravity well or other science powers and a few weird consoles, proton damage is basically an energy type like phaser or disruptor and only boosted by things that explicitly boost proton damage. Which at the moment are the dyson console set bonuses and the crapass dyson tac consoles. The proton DHCs on the dyson destroyers are buffed by generic cannon consoles, but the rep proton weapon isn't counted as a beam or a cannon so it doesn't get that option. drat.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 05:05 |
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A pubbie posted his entire complaint to Cryptic Customer service, their answer, and his response. He especially mad at Dreelix for suggesting that Dentals would be the custodians of the memorial. quote:From the detailed complaint filed the day of Leonard Nimoy's passing: I posted it here, because there's no doubt the thread will be closed or removed very soon. Here's the link anyway: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1390701&page=2
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 06:02 |
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WarLocke posted:So I'm still in GoonTrek, the old chat channel. Apparently we're using a new one? You're in.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 06:08 |
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Hey, what happened to the Westley Crusher Wiki ? Did the access reset for inactive users ? Wanted to check what's the FOTM build now going into season 10.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 06:58 |
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I sort of accidentally removed the channel from my alt. If @lioneltrane could be added again it would be appreciated.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 07:47 |
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Hal_2005 posted:Hey, what happened to the Westley Crusher Wiki ? Did the access reset for inactive users ? Wanted to check what's the FOTM build now going into season 10. Your account is still showing as active to me, check your pms. LordCo posted:I sort of accidentally removed the channel from my alt. If @lioneltrane could be added again it would be appreciated. Nope, you get one add and that's it.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 07:57 |
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Hal_2005 posted:Hey, what happened to the Westley Crusher Wiki ? Did the access reset for inactive users ? Wanted to check what's the FOTM build now going into season 10. It was rehosted a few weeks back so everyone needs to log back in, shouldn't have hosed up anything more than that though.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 08:03 |
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Can someone explain to me our strategy as outlined here? Magnificent! I find the thought of some guy joining us and writing daily reports because those are his orders deeply fascinating and demand to see evidence. I do find the way we are trolled on the forums shocking, considering our kindness as demonstrated here.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 08:45 |
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http://pastebin.com/uRpbeEYAsome good things posted:[3/2 11:45] [Zone] Angel@mynameissirmiste: respect is earned and this mofo just dis earned my respect
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 09:10 |
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I'm very interlecual.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 10:23 |
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I really had hopes for this crowd. Strong hopes.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 19:05 |
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I've pulled down around 180m EC last night from omega sales and have about another 250m worth up in the exchange, hopefully that'll be enough to get the upcoming completely balanced and not P2W ship when it hits. I have another 105 fragments that I could stick on the exchange if need be, but I'd rather make them into upgrades.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 20:10 |
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BombermanX posted:I really had hopes for this crowd. It is so good
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 20:19 |
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Valatar posted:I've pulled down around 180m EC last night from omega sales and have about another 250m worth up in the exchange, hopefully that'll be enough to get the upcoming completely balanced and not P2W ship when it hits. I have another 105 fragments that I could stick on the exchange if need be, but I'd rather make them into upgrades. The longer you hoard it the more it will be worth.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 20:32 |
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This is true, however the rumored ship is supposedly arriving in the not-distant future, putting a bit of a crimp on my ability to sit on the omega stuff for months. But in the meanwhile I've been using my current cash to buy up the cheapest omegas on the market and relist for higher, so hopefully that will help on the revenue front while maintaining my stock of omegas to sell down the road for more.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 21:29 |
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http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9079533 Queue the rage.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 21:49 |
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Celoth posted:http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9079533 http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1391521
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 22:30 |
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The rage is beautiful.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 22:33 |
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Yeah on the one hand the whole thing is a super lovely dick move. On the other hand making you buy all of your overpriced poo poo again is the whole point of raising the level cap so anyone with any sense has seen this coming for months. Lots of pubbies didn't see it coming apparently.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 22:38 |
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Yeah. I'm not pissed or anything since it's not like I'm going to spend money on that bullshit, but this is a pretty huge mistake for Cryptic in the long run and really shows how desperate they've gotten after Delta Rising failed. It's one thing to sell upgrades to c-store ships, since those are "guaranteed" and there's no pressure for gambling addict types to dump lots of money. But the special reward ships are another matter, and Cryptic's always been smart about upgrading existing ones (to fleet, then to T5u) whenever the baseline got raised. Having one be outright replaced like this is a horrible idea since it means the special ships are no longer a safe "investment", and subtle things like that are a huge discouragement in the long run. It's frittering away player confidence for a short term budget injection. There's been a lot of hosed up decision making from Cryptic, but this really does put the writing on the wall to how bad things are there right now.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 22:49 |
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SKY COQ posted:The rage is beautiful. They are up to almost half a dozen rage threads already.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 23:28 |
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Well, as noted, it's pretty inevitable. Cryptic made the biggest mistake they could possibly do: loving over the insane whales who dump thousands into their dumb game. It'd be more fun to watch it all if the current devteam weren't busy running the game into the ground meanwhile.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 23:36 |
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Asimo posted:Well, as noted, it's pretty inevitable. Cryptic made the biggest mistake they could possibly do: loving over the insane whales who dump thousands into their dumb game. There's an explanation on the leaks page.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 23:44 |
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Yeah, I know. I can totally see why Cryptic's so desperate, but they made their own bed with Delta Rising, and the more they pull blatant cash grabs like this the more they're bleeding away their long term revenue. And all it would take to fix it would be unfucking the PVE content, but... whelp. Anyone who's still giving money to this game post-Delta-Rising deserves what they get I guess. They've driven away the casual players and spenders, and now they're screwing the whales, game's dying RIP.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 23:47 |
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Preechr posted:There's an explanation on the leaks page. Jeeeeeeeeeesus
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 23:59 |
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Preechr posted:There's an explanation on the leaks page. Fuuuuuuuuuck.
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