Romulan Elite Fleet space Weapons

szponixx

Hi,

If my information is correct, there are only two types of Elite Fleet space Weapons - phasers for FED side and disruptors for KDFs. Well it's OK with me - phaser weapons are icons of Federation ships and Klingons were always recognised by their disruptors (I'm talking about lore, not players builds).

But now we also have Romulans. While we can argue if plasma is really a Romulan icon (in films they were using disroptors), it's a fact that the plasma weapons are used by Romulans in STO (again, I'm talking about NPCs, not player's builds). Romulan sets have bonus to plasma dmg and so on. There's no doubt that in STO plasma weapons are Romulan icon.

Let's get to the point - I think that it would be logical to add Elite Fleet plasma Weapons to both FED and KDF fleet stores. If we have Romulans now, we should be able to play them as Romulans.

shpoks

I wholeheartedly support this suggestion! The Romulans need their own variant of the elite fleet weapons. I'd even go a step further and make them Romulan exclusive that require playing as a member of the Romulan Republic to obtain them, similar to the blue Andorian phasers that require having the Kumari to unlock them.

zdfx19

I agree OP. But I also wonder if some reworking of set resists might be needed to ensure they are of equal value for PVP activities too and thus worth the expense in comparison to phasers and disruptors?

szponixx

shpoks wrote: »

I wholeheartedly support this suggestion! The Romulans need their own variant of the elite fleet weapons. I'd even go a step further and make them Romulan exclusive that require playing as a member of the Romulan Republic to obtain them, similar to the blue Andorian phasers that require having the Kumari to unlock them.

Just make them only usable by Warbirds, like Singularity Cores. That would also prevent them from being used by Romulans flying KDF/FED ships.

silverashes1

we have caustic plas weaps from a story mission maybe they could beef them up

psychickitty

They get them from the reputation store that's how they get them.

You don't get them easily and just right off like the federation and Klingon weapons.

In other words they I guess wanted players to actually have access to the items themselves.....and not just simply have them with zero effort.

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szponixx

psychickitty wrote: »

They get them from the reputation store that's how they get them.

As the guy above wrote - space weapons from romulan rep have only two mods, while Elite Fleet weapons have three mods. You can't compare them.

EDIT: Also everyone can get those from rep. You don't even have to be Romulan, so theres nothing elite about them.

naevius

But conversely, FED/KDF fleet weapons are available to everyone in the fleet, not just Romulans. So there is no provision for 'Romulan only' fleet weapons.

redricky

I'm one for min/max'ing and the fleet weapons are really better than anything else right now, but there's still enough RP in me to be really bothered that the best option for my FRom is going to be orange pews.

If a Rom elite fleet weapon meant that the Fed/KDF version was unavailable to the Rom I'd be happy for my FRom but probably ticked for my KRom. So... IDK.

tharon3

szponixx wrote: »

Hi,

If my information is correct, there are only two types of Elite Fleet space Weapons - phasers for FED side and disruptors for KDFs. Well it's OK with me - phaser weapons are icons of Federation ships and Klingons were always recognised by their disruptors (I'm talking about lore, not players builds).

But now we also have Romulans. While we can argue if plasma is really a Romulan icon (in films they were using disroptors), it's a fact that the plasma weapons are used by Romulans in STO (again, I'm talking about NPCs, not player's builds). Romulan sets have bonus to plasma dmg and so on. There's no doubt that in STO plasma weapons are Romulan icon.

Let's get to the point - I think that it would be logical to add Elite Fleet plasma Weapons to both FED and KDF fleet stores. If we have Romulans now, we should be able to play them as Romulans.

Don't we have the romulan plasma beams from the romulan reputation

reximuz

tharon3 wrote: »

Don't we have the romulan plasma beams from the romulan reputation

They don't have 3 affixes, just two, but I don't think that the Fleet Elite weapons have a dual proc, so seems six of one to me.

I plan on using the Rom Rep ones, of course I don't have a lot of choice as the fleet I'm in is still probably a couple months away from Elite space weapons anyhow, but I'm too much of a lore guy, I try to stick to appropriate weapons for the ship I'm flying.