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Bloodly posted:In the descriptions in the pets for the ships, it keeps using R5, R6, and R9. I have no clue what those are meant to mean. Any ideas? Those powers only work if you slot the appropriate astromech, or a more advanced model. So R9 powers require an R9 astromech, but R5 can use an R5, R6, or R9. Alternatively, it could be referencing an old skill point system, where you put points into a specific ability to make it better, from 0 to 9, and that it represents having 5, 6, or 9 points in that ability, or it could reference a different old system where you put points into an officer's ability to reduce the cooldown rate of that ability, or it could be some other noodle in the spaghetti-code. Pagetopper query: has anyone seen any ridiculously-good DPS shuttle builds as of late? I'm relatively certain there are some very optimized ones, and I mostly just want to set myself up for the next shuttle event, whenever that is. Lorak fucked around with this message at 12:46 on Mar 9, 2017 |
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Acer Pilot posted:
Nope. Best I got was a purple. At least I'm set for the next upgrade weekend.
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Coq au Nandos posted:Buy a Vonph. It's an objectively better ship, around the same size and around a billion EC cheaper. * Not that you actually need a good ship to do most PVE content in this game.
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Kitchner posted:If I've learnt anything from MMOs it's that it's always better to specialise. So like I've got a fairly fast and manoeuvrable Romulan warbird with plasma cannons and phaser banks, with consoles that boost plasma damage, and tac abilities that boost cannon and beam damage. This hurts to read.
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Technical Analysis posted:This hurts to read. I skimmed over it before but now I've read it I have to agree.
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Mar 9, 2017 16:44
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Technical Analysis posted:This hurts to read. Whats wrong with it?
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Mar 9, 2017 16:44
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You talk about specialisation but then state you are a) mixing damage types (plasma & phaser) and b) mixing weapon types & skills (cannons & beams). This is A Bad Thing.
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Aleth posted:You talk about specialisation but then state you are a) mixing damage types (plasma & phaser) and b) mixing weapon types & skills (cannons & beams). This is A Bad Thing. I haven't actually mixed plasma and phaser, that's me not using words properly, I only have plasma stuff but some of it is cannons and some of it is beams. The beams are all on the rear slots though as I figured having rear cannons doesn't help much.
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Mar 9, 2017 17:08
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That's a little less bad I suppose, but still, mixing beams and cannons is basically a thing you only do on "canon" builds or gimmick builds.
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Technical Analysis posted:That's a little less bad I suppose, but still, mixing beams and cannons is basically a thing you only do on "canon" builds or gimmick builds. What would I do with cannons in the rear weapon slots though? They would never do anything unless I'm pretty much directly flying away from my opponent? Unless you can have all the rear slots as those 360 degree cannons?
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Lorak posted:Pagetopper query: has anyone seen any ridiculously-good DPS shuttle builds as of late? I'm relatively certain there are some very optimized ones, and I mostly just want to set myself up for the next shuttle event, whenever that is. I've gotten decent mileage out of running the dyson rep weapons/console on the peregrine/to'dug. The experimental has a good arc for shuttle stuff and benefits from the built in CRF. I also tend to run the assimilated engine/deflector with the Dyson on it for some built in hull/shield healing so I can use the boff slot for torp spread without dying constantly (you'll probably still die, just not as quickly). There's probably higher DPS builds but this will tear up a shuttle alert just fine. If you have the overwhelming force ship trait that's also still hilarious with torp spread+Romulan hyper-torp. Kitchner posted:What would I do with cannons in the rear weapon slots though? They would never do anything unless I'm pretty much directly flying away from my opponent? Unless you can have all the rear slots as those 360 degree cannons? Cannons in the front and turrets in the back or just run all beam arrays*. Turrets are classified as cannons and are boosted by abilities that buff cannons. *Once you can afford some 360 omni beams you can also go DBBs in front and omni's in back.
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Sounds like I will have to buy some plasma turrets when I get home.
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Cryptic likes testing things in the production environment, so Breach is broken for the moment. Current workaround is to kill yourself. 
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^^ Games > The MMO HMO > Star Trek Online Season 11: Current workaround is to kill yourselfKitchner posted:Sounds like I will have to buy some plasma turrets when I get home.
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g0del posted:^^ Games > The MMO HMO > Star Trek Online Season 11: Current workaround is to kill yourself Oh really? I thought cannons did the best DPS? I actually think beams are way cooler but I was using cannons as I thought they were better for a race officer dealing damage
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Mar 9, 2017 19:53
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Also isn't it season 12?
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fakemirage posted:It should be gensendmessage queuepve_cooldowns toggle unless they've recently changed it. Indeed it is. I thank you good sir.
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So, did Inaji ever figure out if any of the piezo weapons do the same bug? Sounded like he was unsure even after testing last night.
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Speaking of using slash commands, is there anything that resets the position of the interaction window to default? I mean the window that pops up when you fly close to DS9, etc. edit: or even just close it? Blacula fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Mar 9, 2017 |
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Kitchner posted:Oh really? I thought cannons did the best DPS? I actually think beams are way cooler but I was using cannons as I thought they were better for a race officer dealing damage Cannons do more single target damage in most situations but that doesn't matter because beams do enough that the functional difference is targets die a half second slower. Couple this with the fact that the beam AoE skill is a sphere of gently caress you instead of a cone of mild annoyance like the cannon variant and you can see why beams are better. Yes, a cannon boat will kill that one ship extremely dead, but your buddy with beams will have cleared the instance in the same time span.
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fakemirage posted:Cryptic likes testing things in the production environment, so Breach is broken for the moment. What is that Pac-man ship?
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i'm the scimitar
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Aleph Null posted:What is that Pac-man ship? Looks like one of the wacky t5/6 warbirds. I thought about coming back to this game for the first time since Legacy of Romulus was new, then made the mistake of glancing through the wiki for all the new ships. Man this game's gotten weird and added eleventy bilion ships since I last played.
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Cythereal posted:Looks like one of the wacky t5/6 warbirds. And about 7 end-game development systems (ie time-gated "currency" poo poo). Edit: I quit for a year or two, but since I have a lifetime membership, I came back with 20,000 Zen burning a hole in my pocket. Bought the temporal agent pack and been leveling my toons from 50 to 60.
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Aleph Null posted:What is that Pac-man ship? Kitchner posted:Also isn't it season 12?
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Kitchner posted:Also isn't it season 12? we're still in the prime timeline.
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Psycho Landlord posted:Cannons do more single target damage in most situations but that doesn't matter because beams do enough that the functional difference is targets die a half second slower. Couple this with the fact that the beam AoE skill is a sphere of gently caress you instead of a cone of mild annoyance like the cannon variant and you can see why beams are better. Yes, a cannon boat will kill that one ship extremely dead, but your buddy with beams will have cleared the instance in the same time span. Sorry, when you say the beam AoE skill, is that a Tac officer ability that lets you shoot at a whole group of enemies at once like the torpedo skill?
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Kitchner posted:Sorry, when you say the beam AoE skill, is that a Tac officer ability that lets you shoot at a whole group of enemies at once like the torpedo skill?
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As someone who runs different ships, most with BFAW and a hand full with CRF, stick with BFAW, it's by far the more efficient option.
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Technical Analysis posted:As someone who runs different ships, most with BFAW and a hand full with CRF, stick with BFAW, it's by far the more efficient option. If you really want, you can get beam weapons with the [over] mod which can proc a free beam overload. Supposedly it works with FAW as well so you can get decent damage still.
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Can I get an invite? Marcos@chocolatedonuts.
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Fridurmus posted:Can I get an invite? Marcos@chocolatedonuts.  Check so you don't have some #numbers after your username. I assume you're playing on PC, I don't know how things look on the console side.
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FuturePastNow posted:i'm the scimitar What end of the Valkis is the front? Or does it truly matter?
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OGS-Remix posted:If you really want, you can get beam weapons with the [over] mod which can proc a free beam overload. Supposedly it works with FAW as well so you can get decent damage still. Last I checked you can trigger the proc during bfaw, but it doesn't actually execute until after the buff expires. I don't know if this screws you over re:successive BO's & weapon system power though or even if that's still how it works.
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Technical Analysis posted:As someone who runs different ships, most with BFAW and a hand full with CRF, stick with BFAW, it's by far the more efficient option.  It's also due to the nature of the content. Back when everyone ran DHC builds (not only just because of the old FAW bugs) the nature of endgame content at the time was one where high single target DPS was overwhelmingly what you wanted. Now everything is "whittle down this large pack of enemies" where single target DPS is basically not what you want. Also FAW works equally well on single target as multiple while cannon scatter volley is garbage for single target. I think beams are generally fine but cannon skills need an update.
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Beam Overload desperately needs a revamp too. A single burst shot is so pointless against the current damage soak PVE targets, and even back in the day it was still more of a PVP skill. Something like the original Surgical Strikes is probably where a single-target beam skill needed to be, but then that was nerfed so... 
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fakemirage posted:
Ah poo poo, I think the website name isn't the ingame username, huh? Assuming I'm right about this, it should(?) be @CDonuts. Probably.
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What's the escort meta these days? Antiproton DBBs still good?
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Fridurmus posted:Ah poo poo, I think the website name isn't the ingame username, huh? super sweet best pal posted:What's the escort meta these days? Antiproton DBBs still good?
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