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Plasmonic Leech - Where do I get it?

rickdankorickdanko Member Posts: 470 Arc User
edited May 2014 in The Academy
It's over 10million+ on the exchange. Too rich for my blood. What mission do you complete to get it?
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  • drkfrontiersdrkfrontiers Member Posts: 2,477 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Its a KDF console fron the Vandal. You can also try your luck at the Tal Shiar Lockboxes.

    Send me a friend request in-game and lets see what I can do your you :)

    You might just need to wait a day or two as I'm reinstalling :(

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  • firehawk4firehawk4 Member Posts: 38 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    It doesn't come from any mission. If you are KDF you have to buy the c-store ship it comes on. For feds it was one on the cross faction consoles from a lock box(can't remember which one off the top of my head).
  • ovinspaceovinspace Member Posts: 310
    edited February 2014
    In the foundry there are loot missions that give an average 500k EC for 10 mins blasting sitting duck targets. Occasionally they drop a high value item - some mk 11 blue or better and some mk 10 blue-purple.

    Leech and maco shield both grab you extra power, maco shield is much easier to get in the borg rep.
  • shockwave85shockwave85 Member Posts: 1,040 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    MACO shield grants power on incoming damage, where the Leech grants you power on outgoing damage. Since you would prefer not to be taking fire, but always putting it out, the Leech is generally preferred. With 9 points in Flow Capacitors (it's a cheap skill, just max it out) you can get I believe around +20 to each subsystem with the Leech. You're also draining your target's power, which never hurts.

    DO NOT use the Leech and MACO together, they used to stack, but this was way OP, so it was changed that the MACO shield will actually cancel out any Leech procs. Pick one or the other, not both.

    But anyway, if your are KDF or KDF Rom, you get it by buying the Vandal from the C-Store. For Fed and Fed Rom, you can only get it in the cross faction console pack.
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  • chrisbrown12009chrisbrown12009 Member Posts: 790 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    bottomline:

    if FED: buy keys, buy talshiar lockboxes and hope to get lucky...plus, lots of lobi.

    if kdf: buy the ship it comes with.

    neither of those options good?

    sell your soul of enough ec to buy on exchange...

    no other way....




    next question.....how much do you value that soul?
  • sonnikkusonnikku Member Posts: 77 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    In a game like STO if you have to choose between the leech or your soul, GET THE LEECH. :eek: Feds pay 15 mil on the exchange for each, but it's worth it. KDF get all the leech consoles all their alts and future alts could ever want for 1000 zen and KDF are up to armpits in zen anyway.

    Either way, the investment is worth it. 15-20 extra power to every system is a bigger value to cost ratio than any piece of equipment you'll most likely ever find.
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  • razar2380razar2380 Member Posts: 1,187 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    To be honest, with a good skill build, in PVE, the leech is not needed. It is a good console, but once it went over 1million EC on the exchange, I stopped fooling with it.

    The extra power levels are only useful in PVE if you die all the time. A good skill build, and BOFF setup can help. But, even having the higher power levels will not make up for a skill build that is not spec'd to support your captains strengths, and help cover their weaknesses. Also, good gear is helpful. Till I reach Tier 5, I usually use the J'Hem engines and shield, but a good positron deflector.

    Then, you also have tactics. For example: If you are a tactical captain, and have no points in skills that will help you survive, then when a cube targets you, turn and run out of it's range till another player will agro it. By juggling the enemy like this, they cannot focus on one person too long.

    As long as you have a decent overall setup, the leech will not give a big enough power boost to shave more than a second or 2 off a STF, if anything. I say save the EC, unless you are going to do a lot of PVP. That is where it has it's best use. But still, I can't see paying more than 1million EC at the most for it.
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  • somebobsomebob Member Posts: 556 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    The Leech is an extremely useful console. Almost to the point where everyone should have one. *shakes fist at KDF who can get it so easily*

    What other console in the game can give you between 10 to 15 power level in all FOUR systems by just shooting at a target?

    That's more damage, that's better shield regeneration and shield hardening, that's a faster moving and turning ship, that's higher defense values (and dodging), and that's better shield healing and overall Science based powers.

    Again, all in one console (assuming you're shooting at something, which, well, you're pretty much always doing in STO).

    I remember when those things were so dirt cheap on the Fed AH. Heck - my main has one in their shuttlecraft for crying out loud. Now...wow are they expensive (20 million as of last check).

    But still so amazingly worth it.
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  • schloopdooschloopdoo Member Posts: 373 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    That the Leech feels mandatory is probably a good argument for just removing it and scaling down the power drain from weapons fire, but that may be a topic for another thread.
  • stoutesstoutes Member Posts: 4,219 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    rickdanko wrote: »
    It's over 10million+ on the exchange. Too rich for my blood. What mission do you complete to get it?

    *Hint; when you're going to sell keys... DO NOT FORGET to remove your EC cap as well.
    maxvitor wrote: »
    Nerf is OP, plz nerf
    That's quite the paradox, how could you nerf nerf when the nerf is nerfed. But how would the nerf be nerfed when the nerf is nerfed? This allows the nerf not to be nerfed since the nerf is nerfed? But if the nerf isn't nerfed, it could still nerf nerfs. But as soon as the nerf is nerfed, the nerf power is lost. So paradoxally it the nerf nerf lost its nerf, while it's still nerfed, which cannot be because the nerf was unable to nerf.

    I call it, the Stoutes paradox.
  • razar2380razar2380 Member Posts: 1,187 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    As I mentioned before, it is a good console. However, if it feels mandatory, then there is not something wrong with it, but the way players have their setup.

    The power boost is good, but I run with escorts that I turn into gunships. They are not fast, but they can hit hard, and tank really good. On the two characters that I have the Leech on, I can take it off, and my build will last me just as long in a fight.

    The overall power is beneficial, don't get me wrong. However, till they make the Borg, and the other enemies where they are harder to kill, there is no NEED for them.

    I have 3 other characters without it, and they can keep up in any end game content with someone that does have one. If someone feels that it is "mandatory", then they are relying too much on that one console. A person's build can be set up where any one console can be removed, and not replaced, and they are fine.

    That is why I believe that the 20 million EC cost is too high. In fact, if there was a way to unbind mine, I would sell them. Not because they are not good, but because I am not using them on the characters I have them on. I just don't need them.

    I am not saying that I am GOD powerful in the game. In fact, most people can out DPS my tactical captain, and out maneuver him. My build is designed to hit hard, and tank. And I can use it on any ship class, and captain class.

    But, any calss can have a build that works just as good as someone else, and not need the Leech.
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  • samurai576samurai576 Member Posts: 12 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    shockwave85 wrote: »
    MACO shield grants power on incoming damage, where the Leech grants you power on outgoing damage. Since you would prefer not to be taking fire, but always putting it out, the Leech is generally preferred. With 9 points in Flow Capacitors (it's a cheap skill, just max it out) you can get I believe around +20 to each subsystem with the Leech. You're also draining your target's power, which never hurts.

    DO NOT use the Leech and MACO together, they used to stack, but this was way OP, so it was changed that the MACO shield will actually cancel out any Leech procs. Pick one or the other, not both.

    But anyway, if your are KDF or KDF Rom, you get it by buying the Vandal from the C-Store. For Fed and Fed Rom, you can only get it in the cross faction console pack.

    Is this also the case for the Adapted MACO shield???
  • dahminusdahminus Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    samurai576 wrote: »
    Is this also the case for the Adapted MACO shield???

    No, the adapted maco is the Honour guard set. Adapted Honour guard with plasmonic leech would be the no go
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  • samurai576samurai576 Member Posts: 12 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    dahminus wrote: »
    No, the adapted maco is the Honour guard set. Adapted Honour guard with plasmonic leech would be the no go

    ????

    The Adapted MACO (Starfleet) is not part of the Honor Guard set (KDF) and doesn't have any 'leeching' properties, so how can this shield conflict with the plasmonic leech?

    Yeah they are very similar in specs but they all have there own abilities. Adapted MACO's being the 'Placated' (which I might add I haven't got a clue what it means).
  • nccmarknccmark Member Posts: 1,084 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    samurai576 wrote: »
    Is this also the case for the Adapted MACO shield???

    No, the Adapted MACO Shield does not conflict with Plasmonic Leech console.
  • dahminusdahminus Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    samurai576 wrote: »
    ????

    The Adapted MACO (Starfleet) is not part of the Honor Guard set (KDF) and doesn't have any 'leeching' properties, so how can this shield conflict with the plasmonic leech?

    Yeah they are very similar in specs but they all have there own abilities. Adapted MACO's being the 'Placated' (which I might add I haven't got a clue what it means).

    The adapted maco is the Honour guard set...just for starfleet.

    The plasmonic leech effect is not on the adapted maco. So no conflict will take place.

    I hope that's a tad more clarifying
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  • bendalekbendalek Member Posts: 1,781 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Has anyone tested the Leech with the Solonae Set Bonus Hull Leech and the Valdore Console?

    I know they buff/steal 3 different things, but if you have a Power Leech, Hull Leech and Shield Leech, isn't THAT kinda ... OP ...
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  • sirokksirokk Member Posts: 990 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Look on the exchange. It's expensive now though.

    I got mine before it was popular. You don't really see it working, but you know you are not having to use batteries anyone or using abilities to boost power as much.

    If you can afford one, GET IT!
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  • ridddickxxxridddickxxx Member Posts: 479 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    bendalek wrote: »
    Has anyone tested the Leech with the Solonae Set Bonus Hull Leech and the Valdore Console?

    I know they buff/steal 3 different things, but if you have a Power Leech, Hull Leech and Shield Leech, isn't THAT kinda ... OP ...

    No conflict with valdore console, dont know about solanae set, by looking at tooltip i would say there is no reason for any conflict.
    The only conflict i know of is with maco shields (kdf hg adapted), because both are stacking power levels per time duration, so there is the conflict.

    OP? no..... :)
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  • bendalekbendalek Member Posts: 1,781 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    ridddickxxx wrote: »
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    OP? no..... :)
    I totally agree ... not Op at all ... :D
    Mind you you, it does make my AP running Fleet Mogai ... erm ... very 'tanky' :cool:
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