Allo, I just completed the Devidian episode plot tonight, and had a enjoyable time of it. However one question i have regarding two of the episode rewards, concerns the inclusion of the -400 'debuf' that my ship or away team begets on use of the respective items of note, the Subspace Field Modulator, and the Pattern Enhancers.
All I wana know is, what enemies do I need to watch out for, to avoid the proton damage. I presume that proton and Antiproton damage are separate, and hence, other than the Devidians I presume, (if not mistaken there at that,) who then do i watch out for.
Or do I not even have to worry about that. Answers thanked in advance.
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On the ground, the only thing that deals proton damage is the prototype rifle you get from the devidian missions. If you place the pattern enhancers and the enemy walks in there, the prototype rifle becomes extremely effective. Beside that, for you personally the minus to proton damage may only become important in PvP when somebody shoots you with the rifle while you are in the enhancers.
Are you certain about the rifle doing proton damage? Because I got antiproton accolades for using it! This could mean that the documentation on those two devices is wrong and should be antiproton instead.
Secondary fire shoots a Proton beam.
Ah, thx
Actually, if you are using the Proton Rifle while standing in the Pattern Enhancer, the Proton Rifle can then chain on you and your crew, which could cause you to damage yourself. That's really the primary disadvantage of using the Pattern Enhancer. It makes your own weapon dangerous to you.
And the devs have said that some other enemies may begin using Proton damage weapons in the future. When this will happen and which enemies might be using it is still a mystery.
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If its going to happen, Murphy's Law has it happening at the worst time. I was playing a Romulan mission with an alt toon I'm leaving up when I encountered Thalaron mines for the first time. Didn't know what it was, didn't even see it until it went off, so I ended up loosing all my BOffs. Facing the rest of the Romulans on my own I was getting a bit desparate so I switched on the pattern enhancers, and out pops a Devidian! Great!
Oh, yeah. I forgot about that. It doesn't happen to me often. I guess I've been lucky.
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Maybe it's just me.... but, um... really?
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Damage_type#Proton
Dyson Science Destroyers, the dual cannons are proton-damage, don't know any other space proton damage users.
Where do all those come from recently?
And 3 years none the less! i think thats a new record.....need one that llast posted from 2010 to complete the collection of necroed threads from every year of STO's life.
think a thread from beta still exists somewhere?