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  • dontdrunkimshootdontdrunkimshoot Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    maybe this has something to do with FOMM and all the other hull debuffs being nerfed on tribble. FOMM does a -29 debuff now, pretty sure it used to do about -40

    as if those insta cleanable by TT debuffs needed a fricking nerf too.
  • snoge00fsnoge00f Member Posts: 1,812 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Yeah that change is about a week old now. Dalnar did some tests and found out about that a while back.

    I don't know why they would decide to just nerf debuffs like that.
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  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    snoge00f wrote: »
    I don't know why they would decide to just nerf debuffs like that.

    Incentive to grind the new reputation...er...perhaps they consider it balancing the new buffs/debuffs by nerfing old buffs/debuffs... but incentive to grind the new reputation. Which in its own quirky way also means an incentive to buy more Zen with the changes to Dil farming and the increased requirements for Dil in the game from grinding the new rep while doing the fleet stuff...

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  • praxi5praxi5 Member Posts: 1,562 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    those tac skills can take a long time to cool down, and its really the only way a tac/sci can deal damage. it may be a bit strong maxed out though

    GW is pretty potent with a Tac.

    FBP is downright killer. On my MVAE, with low Aux, I can get 1.1 damage return with FBP 2 and a 100% GDF.
  • bitemepwebitemepwe Member Posts: 6,760 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    maybe this has something to do with FOMM and all the other hull debuffs being nerfed on tribble. FOMM does a -29 debuff now, pretty sure it used to do about -40

    as if those insta cleanable by TT debuffs needed a fricking nerf too.

    29? I see -64 on holodeck. A nerf to -29 hurts.
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  • ulfasulfas Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Please fix this TBR fast... or pvp dies
  • reichwald12reichwald12 Member Posts: 95 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    not tac buffed its about ~1900. those consoles seem to make a HUUUUUUUGE difference. wish they made as big a difference on EWP3's damage. fully tac buffed and with 3 partical consoles i can get 1200 dot though, cant recall what it was without all the consoles


    i wish torps were a viable weapon in game :rolleyes:

    if tbr can deal that much damage, i really want to try out a 2 AtB nebula build now with TBR3. just... DAMN

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  • reichwald12reichwald12 Member Posts: 95 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    ulfas wrote: »
    Please fix this TBR fast... or pvp dies

    Dramatic statement is dramatic.

    There are plenty of other game breaking problems right now, TBR3 is hardly more of a problem than some of the glaring P2W abilities.

    If anything it could get toned down a bit, but yeah, lets nerf more science abilities to the ground, great idea.
  • fakehilbertfakehilbert Member Posts: 252 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    There are plenty of other game breaking problems right now, TBR3 is hardly more of a problem than some of the glaring P2W abilities.
    You haven't seen the current TBR in action, have you?
  • corsair114corsair114 Member Posts: 276
    edited November 2012
    You haven't seen the current TBR in action, have you?

    I have. Both as Tac/RSV and Tac/BoP. Spent most of the night playing with it.

    It needs nerfing. Tac buffed is 3-6 pulses, target dies without PH. Double TBR can be rolled with 10 seconds of downtime between them. PH can't keep up with that as far as I understand it.

    There's every likelihood that, at this point, it would/will/can cause the game to turn into "Do I PH and TBR, or TBR and wait for PH, or, oh, I got TBR'd and died now. Dang." It sticks so far out that it really, really is wacky overpowered, especially in light of the way hull healing works. A lot of things still need attention, but you can add this power to list.

    I don't really want it nerfed into the ground for damage, but it's waaay to strong at the moment.
  • jaeger6jaeger6 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Hi there. Kinda new on the forum but I'd like to give my 2c on the TBR.

    Yesterday, I tried my brel with TBR3. I put 3x XII particle gens on the ship with Aux to Batt to lower my aux for low repulse. With the consoles, Brel cloak, Alpha, GDF and Tactical Fleet, I sat at about 12k per pulse. Fire on My Mark and the Grav. Anchor on the 3pc Omega both give a decent debuff. I've blown up ships in 2 pulses. This thing is op.

    Obviously, the cooldowns on the abilities is high, but still, unbuffed it sits at about 6k per pulse. Still quite potent.
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  • jaeger6jaeger6 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    [Combat (Self)] Your Tractor Beam Repulsor III deals 32869 (18049) Kinetic Damage(Critical) to drail.
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  • shimmerlessshimmerless Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    jaeger6 wrote: »
    [Combat (Self)] Your Tractor Beam Repulsor III deals 32869 (18049) Kinetic Damage(Critical) to drail.

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  • upyournacelles2upyournacelles2 Member Posts: 197 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    you guys are saying they "broke" this ability recently. Do these "breaks" happen often? Seems like having to shift your build on a regular basis to deal with things like this instead of maximizing your build is something cryptic would jump on top of right away. Doesn't seem "fun" to have to put PH on every build due to one broken ability
  • p2wsucksp2wsucks Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    you guys are saying they "broke" this ability recently. Do these "breaks" happen often? Seems like having to shift your build on a regular basis to deal with things like this instead of maximizing your build is something cryptic would jump on top of right away. Doesn't seem "fun" to have to put PH on every build due to one broken ability

    In the short run BFI, Aux2Damp, Kinetic resist consoles may help as well as PH. Not sure about the Jem set BFI attribute. Also, you can try and outrun them.

    Edit: There's a max number of objects TBR effects. I hate to say it, but spam may also help.
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  • devorasxdevorasx Member Posts: 693
    edited November 2012
    Me, Trinity and Pax from TRH did a recording regarding this. My poor carrier went through some hull stress. YES, TBR in its current state needs a fix, and quick!
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  • dalnar83dalnar83 Member Posts: 2,420 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    you guys are saying they "broke" this ability recently. Do these "breaks" happen often? Seems like having to shift your build on a regular basis to deal with things like this instead of maximizing your build is something cryptic would jump on top of right away. Doesn't seem "fun" to have to put PH on every build due to one broken ability

    Happens often. Mostly because Cryptic undervalues the value of feedback / bug reporting that they can get from pvp community.

    If Cryptic did listen to some folks here instead giving them forum bans, stuff like this would rarely happen.
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  • drkfrontiersdrkfrontiers Member Posts: 2,477 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Yip last night I was also in the receiving end of this + FBP 3.

    My hull was chewed through faster than I was even able to switch targets.

    Definitely, not working as intended....
  • dalnar83dalnar83 Member Posts: 2,420 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    I would like to bump this thread for Borticus...
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  • pcshccpcshcc Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    This needs a fix, sooner rather than later.
  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    It's kind of funny - because I've talked about using TBR to push a target away from a healer or push the healer away from the group. I would 3 or rarely 6 it, never run Part consoles, and it worked pretty well in that regard - subnuking the PH/APO, etc, etc. TBR+EM+Eng Battery - and you could drive a person away from their support pretty well.

    Well, 9 it - add the Part consoles - then do the TBR+EM+Eng Battery... and well, you just kill them... meh.

    I hope that when they address this - they address it from the latter and not the former (so it's not a case that you need to 9 it and run the consoles just to get what was at the 3-6) - the 99+ is where it's broken.
  • dalnar83dalnar83 Member Posts: 2,420 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    I would give it the same treatment as phaser point console. I would bring the dmg back to the original values (fix the particle scaling) but improve the dmg against small targets x10 and frigates x3. Thus It can be used as counter to danoobes and such except for it usual control role.
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  • pcshccpcshcc Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    It should not be possible to destroy a ship using armor consoles and brace for impact through shields in a single salvo.
  • dalnar83dalnar83 Member Posts: 2,420 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    pcshcc wrote: »
    It should not be possible to destroy a ship using armor consoles and brace for impact through shields in a single salvo.

    Do not seek logic in STO, you will fail. By same logic it should not be possible by small dunooobe shuttle to tractor a cruiser of such mass like Galaxy.
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  • pcshccpcshcc Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    dalnar83 wrote: »
    Do not seek logic in STO, you will fail. By same logic it should not be possible by small dunooobe shuttle to tractor a cruiser of such mass like Galaxy.

    I'm looking at this from the perspective of a player in an online game. From that perspective, this "bug" or "glitch" or "exploit" has ruined PvP balance. Arenas are full of teams running tractor beam repulsors as their main source of damage. Shields are useless. Even with polarize hull and brace for impact, there's not much chance of surviving more than one person using this ability at once.
  • snoge00fsnoge00f Member Posts: 1,812 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Meh, so much for my TBR build. If people are cheesing it that badly, then I guess I'll hold onto it until they fix the scaling.
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  • carl103carl103 Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    I'd me quite happy to see the damage component tottally removed, would stop PVE idiot's using it as cruise control for cool on non-science.
  • szimszim Member Posts: 2,503 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    TBR? So many who have them. So few who know WHEN and WHERE to use them. Most certainly not to push the Negvars towards the Kang in Cure space elite!
  • dontdrunkimshootdontdrunkimshoot Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    lol TBR+ no win = got to wave 9 first try with orions in a couple of temporal ships and MVAMs.


    with the right ships we could have TBR'ed even harder and no doubt won the thing.
  • dalnar83dalnar83 Member Posts: 2,420 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    lol TBR+ no win = got to wave 9 first try with orions in a couple of temporal ships and MVAMs.


    with the right ships we could have TBR'ed even harder and no doubt won the thing.

    Good strategy! Bringing PVE to it to get devs attention. How cunning !
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