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Breen Absolute Zero set bonuses.

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The Breen set is woefully underperforming compared to the borg and STF sets. It also makes no sense since its bonuses are extremely weak and incompatible with the breen themselves AND the boff powers/consoles found in the game.

I suggest:

Changes to kit items:

Breen Shield:

Just like the borg and STF sets have one kit item that gives a direct bonus without needing the whole set, this shield would be the breen's 'single bonus' module.

Upon receiving kinetic damage to shields : 50% chance to activate Bioneural Pulse

Bioneural Pulse:

The Breen use biological technology on their ships. They are living vessels. The Breen shields emitters may react to kinetic damage with a bioneural pulse that overloads the sensors of the attackers, causing them to temporarily lose weapons lock.

(its like a jam targeting sensors but only lasts for 5 seconds).

Set Bonuses:

Set 2: Enhanced Transphasic Warheads

Passive
+60% Transphasic Projectile Damage bonus
(or, if the devs ever FIX the fact that transphasics do not penetrate 20% of their damage past shields to hit the hull , they could instead put a +20% further bonus damage penetration stat instead of a flat 60% bonus)

Set 3: Superconducting Phase Channels

Passive
+50 Starship Flow Capacitor skill bonus
+50 Subspace Decompiler skill bonus


These changes make the Breen set very potent for ships specializing in power drain and subsystem targetting attacks (due to both power drain and disable duration bonus of the 3-set kit) and it makes the transphasic torpedos worth using.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    I found it decent for a Science ship. Note, the devs kinda setup the endgame sets as follows:

    1) Breen set
    2) Aegis
    3) Borg
    4) MACO/Omega/KHG.

    Now, that said, you can mix and match. But if you are looking at set as a whole, you also need to take into account what class ship you are using. For non-sci ships, I found that set kinda worthless overall. You would have really hated the transphasics tho prior to the respec of that kit. For the longest time, TP was worthless. It was photon & quantum that everyone used due to their setup as being superior. Now the balance allows for plasma, transphasics, and chroniton to be very useful. Tri-cobalts I got into pretty late, so I cannot say from personal experience, but according to the peeps I run with often, they always were pretty nice too.

    HTH.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    I thought it had a +30% Kinetic damage bonus instead of straight Transphasics? Did this change?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    Yes it was changed to kinetic. Thing is, the whole point of the breen set was to enhance the breen-themed transphasic torpedoes. It doesnt do that anymore.

    The klingon STF kit gives a direct bonus to torpedo damage that should be its unique benefit...let the breen set give a high transphasic bonus.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    Breen Set is the easiest to get, so the weakest.

    Originally you could get it at very low levels (being a old FE) When leveling 2 toons I'd hit those 3 missions just after ranking up.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    OtakuboyT wrote: »
    Breen Set is the easiest to get, so the weakest.

    Originally you could get it at very low levels (being a old FE) When leveling 2 toons I'd hit those 3 missions just after ranking up.

    easiest to get? its absolutly worthless since the rescaling of the episodes, cause by the time you hit that level, you're already equiped with better stuff (like a purple combat engine/positron deflector/reman shield/etc).
    and transphasics in this game right now, are like shooting paintballs.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    Breen set takes longer to get than the borg set which is significantly better in its bonuses. Simply because the breen missions are of higher rank than when you can start doing STF's.

    Also, the transphasic torpedo bonus was not broken pre-space skill revamp. I had the used transphasic torps back then and it was glorious to see torpedoes hitting a fully shielded target and dropping their hulls 10% per hit (as opposed to 2-3% which all torps normally do when hitting fully shielded targets)...with the breen set the hull damage was increased to 12-14% per hit (14% if it was a crit hit).

    It needs to be fixed and brought back.
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