Romulan Plasma vs Spiral Waves

tcostik

Hi everyone. The title pretty much sums it up. I've got my main character ship and gear where I want it, so now I'm working on upgrading my main alt. I've put him in a new ship (FACR,) and got him an elite fleet shield, and XII Borg deflector and engines. I've also got two new mine armor consoles on his ship. Now I'm thinking about upgrading his weapons. At the moment I'm using 6 Spiral Waves, plus the WAL and the KCB. Some things to consider:

1. I've already sunk a considerable dil investment into the Spirals, around 300k for the six of them.
2. I already have blue XII disruptor consoles.
3. I don't use any embassy consoles. I don't really have room, so the bous damage is a moot point.
4. I use the Romulan console, but not any other piece of the set (currently,) so the bonus from that is moot as well.

Is it worth it to upgrade to the RomPlasma? If I did, I'd have to grind a lot of dil and rommy marks, since I'd want to get the experimental beam. Or should I save my dil, and put it to use on my other alts?

reginamala78

Since you already have the Spiral Waves, you'd be spending a huge amount for an incredibly small difference. Plus your extra [dmg]x2 mods are probably worth more than the plasma burns anyways. Not worth the changeover.

bpharma

Stick with the spiral waves imo. I'm still using the extremely easy to get pre season 7 borg salvage mk XII stuff.

There's very little reason to change energy types unless going for something like a full drain build (use polarons) or you're using a ship that benefits from tactical consoles of a specific energy type, like the 1000 day ships.

dahminus

Agreed, stick with the spirals.

meimeitoo

I'd go with what bpharma said: stick with the Spirals.

lucho80

If you REALLY must have that plasma proc added you could use a single embassy sci console with the [Pla] modifier.

dahminus

lucho80 wrote: »

If you REALLY must have that plasma proc added you could use a single embassy sci console with the [Pla] modifier.

He would be using rom plasmas to take advantage of the +8% bonus damage from the consoles. Not specifically the proc

tcostik

Thanks everyone. You've confirmed pretty much exactly what I was thinking.

lordkundo

I'm my opinion the romulan plasma weapons are the best weapons in the game. Made even more so with the addition of a few plasma infusers and some embassy science consoles. I have never personally used the spirals so I couldn't compare...but I'll give u a few things I DO know.

1. Disruptor and plasma proc...the disruptor proc increases the damage dealt from the plasma proc.

2. Use the whole romulan weapon set...the hyper flux is totally awesome.

3. Romulan beams+ plasma torps+ hyper flux= more plasma fire than a person can heal...especially if u have some elite scorpions thrown in as well.