I am looking at a couple of buildout options, and have some MACO set pieces that I want to do something with. One option is to put a full set on a cloaked escort/BOP, and use the graviton beam as an alpha disable strike against sci ship. From the Wiki:
Set 3: Heavy Graviton Beam
Targets Foe
65' Targeting Arc
10 kilometer range
2 sec charge
0.5 sec activate
2 min recharge
to target: 3,003.2 Kinetic Damage (50% Shield Penetration)
to target: +1,015.6 Repel
to target: Auxiliary Systems Offline for 5 sec
to target: Impulse Systems Offline for 5 sec
to target: Weapons Systems Offline for 5 sec
to self: -40.2 Current Auxiliary Power
Damage and repel effect are affected by Starship Particle Generators, Starship Power Insulators, Starship Graviton Generators and Starship Subspace Decompiler
The only part of that I am looking at is "[...] Systems Offline for 5 sec" part. Is it enough of a benefit to let cloaking escort take out a sci ship?
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Hence the idea of using the graviton beam to turn off your aux power
I dont know to what extent
EDIT: That being said, in Arena's I will not waste an SNB to save my hide, those go for our alpha strikes so the only defensive option I might have available will be the jump console.
There's always the chance that a particular ability wasn't flagged properly to respect this behavior, but that's the designed intent.
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Does that mean the Aux Cannons from the Vesta don't work if the Aux or Weapon Power is offline or only if Aux is offline.
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PSW and VM would be deadlier, since most Scis aren't carrying EngTeam.
Having played around with this beam it really fails to impress. It generally knocks things back a tiny bit and stuns them for less time than a Tricobalt explosion. Basically it is nearly useless. The only time it can be worthwhile is if someone is hitting you with something like the Quantum Focus Beam and you can hit them with this and disrupt the continued flow of it. Besides that there are not many attacks in the game this will save you from and due to its cooldown once blown it will not be there to help you when they come back around.