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Well, I can only think of two abilites that that don't work or can't apply properly.
1) Self Destruct
Youn can't ever get to use it because you are destroyed before it goes off. Why can't the Devs just make it instant?
2) Raming Speed.
Its mostly useless because when fighting opponants, you are hardly facing eachother so you using Raming Speed throws you in the opposite direction.
Can't Cryptic replace these or figure out a way to make them better?
1) Self Destruct
Youn can't ever get to use it because you are destroyed before it goes off. Why can't the Devs just make it instant?
2) Raming Speed.
Its mostly useless because when fighting opponants, you are hardly facing eachother so you using Raming Speed throws you in the opposite direction.
Can't Cryptic replace these or figure out a way to make them better?
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Perhaps it detonates bigger, I don't know. Weird I actually agree with you on something. Perhaps it's just there for the Role players to blow their ship up before they get a new one.
2). Originally Ramming Speed could be used at any time, this led to some fantastic abuses such as coordinated team ramming in PVP when somebody used RSP or FBP. Ramming a ship completely ignores shields and chances are you'll die too thus meaning your Warp core breach will be at point blank too. It makes a far better last resort than Self Destruct. Now that Ramming speed is only available when your hull is 50% or lower it's a good speed boost that can sometimes save you.
There are also DOFFs that make you more resilient when using Ramming speed. Oh and for the record Escorts, some Sci Vessel builds, and Cannon Cruisers are usually head on to their opponents.
2) This should probably be renamed 'running speed.' It is useful to try to put some distance in if you are in a bad situation. It is occasionally useful in that manner, so although misnamed, it is useful.
Edit: There tends to be an assumption that a limited use or nigh useless ability is replacing something useful. That is often not the case. Sometimes it is there just as a limited use ability.
even if it was instant, it would still be a worthless ability...not even funny. delete that and give everybody a free polarize hull 1 or a tractor beam.
Ramming speed can save you actually, i have to agree here with others, but it is just a divert power to engines button that activates collisions and frees you from snares like tractor beam. They could just leave the colission part away and make it allways activateable, or whenever you're snared (gravity well, tractor beam etc.)
ramming speed is nothing more than a back up evasive maneuvers........
Though, as somebody once said "Self destruct? Ramming speed? do they not expect us to live?"
Nadion inversion? That's useless.
Self destruct? TRIBBLE no! I'm going down with the ship.
Ramming speed? Yeah, backup Evasive Maneuvers, so, it is sometimes useful.
Self destruct? Hmm, never used that...
Ramming speed can be useful for escaping almost more than attacking.
Yeah nah. It does work. 6 beams @125 power for me normally drains weapons power down into the 80's, with that active it stays above 110.
It does work.
Ramming speed is truly a backup evasive manoeuvres and it saved my butt a lot of times.
Not if you a Dread like me, they don't dare stay in my front so my Ramming Speed don't get to hit anybody. I tried those duty officers before, and it don't help much.
It has never saved me because I attract escort attacks and they generally outrun me. I have to use my Deuterium reserves to escape and overcome there speed. With that combined with evasive manuver, I would be half way acrosse the map. I use anti-matter spread to get out of tractor beams.
I use it often to escape Tractors and the like. But I rememember I used it recently to ram something to death. May have been the STF Carrier or Donatra's ship to avoid going through the torture of the low DPS team any longer.
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True is very effective at blowing other ships ups (the size of explosion could really do with a boost), but for me, it does have enough use to sit on my toolbar.
i think it is meant to save you mostly in stf's.
and i think deuterium +evasive maneuvers is a waste since they don't stack up. or they even share a CD. But to be honest i'm not sure about the CD sharing.
i have yet to see a dreadnaught in PVP with dual cannons that didn' t lose 15-0. Doing too little dmg to bring down an average cruiser, and being too slow to bring an escort or sci vessel into the fireing arc.
But maybe if somebody is dumb enough to confront you head on with no tactical team rdy...well they deserved it anyway.
But i guess it's cool in PVE. My kar'fi has dual cannons, and when i tried it in PVP i wasn't able to bring the cannons in place for more than one burst or two. Even with APO3.
Nadion inversion works just fine on my oddy and kar'fi.
I always found Photonic Officer (the sci boff ability) to be really useless.
Yeah, the HP of the enemies by the time you have self destruct is so much higher than your own vessel that a fixed 5K damage won't mean anything.
On a few of the Romulan missions we were having difficulty with Romulans, especially the D'Deridex Warbird which on higher difficulties had shields impossible to bring down with Commander level weaponry. Since we were playing on a team the number of enemies on screen at once was quite large.
Suddenly, someone abandoned ship near it and wow! 15k damage! Never seen that before.
However, as the levels go up enemy hitpoints become huge, warp core breaches don't do any much more damage than they did at the lower player levels, thus are a bit useless.
Though I did hear last month that if you set full auxiliary power before abandoning ship, you do much more damage.
I also suicide rammed an Assimilated Raptor last night when the PUGs left a hole in the defence line, and did little effective damage.
And to the OP - who said a Dreadnaught can't ram? You just have to find something slower to run into... like an Assimilated Negh'Var. Or a Borg Cube
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