if phasers are so horribel why are they so expensive on the exchange? why are they used as much as any other weapon in game? AP Dis and Pha are the top three. if ANY weapon needs lovin it's tetryon. y'all just want a push the button I win phaser.
If I weren't so tired I'd take exception to that...
All i wanted was to have a proc time extension added based on subspace decompiler as a counter to all the various sources of subsystem repair...
Tet does need some love, it needs a visual for the proc first though, then we can think about how to buff it given it already benefits from flow caps and is countered by insulators... Maybe... If tet consoles buffed the proc the same as they did the weapon damage? It wouldn't be much buffing but it might be enough to make it noticeable without skill table buffing...
if phasers are so horribel why are they so expensive on the exchange? why are they used as much as any other weapon in game? AP Dis and Pha are the top three. if ANY weapon needs lovin it's tetryon. y'all just want a push the button I win phaser.
There are times where I'll forego all the min/max and build a Fed ship as close as I can for "canon" purposes. I've done this at times also with other KDF & Rom ships.
There is something fundamentally wrong with seeing Starfleet vessels shooting stuff other than the orange phasers as done since TNG onwards.
Even when newer weapons being released in STO that were accessible to all, Phasers had always stayed very expensive on the exchange. I still remember how expensive Phaser Relays were before the Spire TAC Consoles came about.
I prefer using phaser myself. I use either elite fleet, advanced Andorian fleet, recently phased bio matter and biomolecular as well. Phaser is my damage type choice. More on this later
Let's start with the damage availability
Antiproton (only if you can make the critical system work. If you can't, won't be top)
True top: Plasma. Primarily because of the embassy console and the Romulan set.
Second: Polaron. Jem'hadar set
Third: disruptor
Fourth: antiproton
Fifth: phaser
Sixth: tetryon
Phaser teams for PvP are some of the strongest teams, so many shots going off, the phaser proc will take their toll, and are extremely effective. Though with the new research and development release, I'm pretty sure phaser will be made obsolete. I reference this primarily because of the engineering console that adds a +45 damage resistance rating, and with that, and other consoles of similar types, it'll make phaser useless for PvP.
What I'm not particularly understanding from the developers is the malice towards phaser, and being, perhaps the most canon of all weapons, the weapon which most people tend to avoid, just doesn't make sense.
Here's my suggestion: phasers are intended to be a tool, though more shown with hand weapons, on a larger scale, why are ship weapons all that different? Throughout the show, phasers are able to be re modulated and completely changed, yet still be considered a phaser, though on a different frequency. In these shows, the frequency was changed to provide different severities of damage, punching through Borg defenses, getting through enemy shields better and so on. Let's have phasers, while staying on a target longer, have increased shield penetration, up to a point. Let's say +5 shield pen per 5 seconds, stacks 7 times. It'll make phaser more deadly, more feared and let's be frank, effective.
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I did over 37k DPS using Acc x2 CrtD exchange phasers on a Fleet Avenger. I don't even have the Undine phaser boosting set yet.
Absolutely horrible? Not at all!!
And yes I've reached over 30k on multiple occasions in ISE and KASE.
i honestly don't know why you bring up DPS numbers on a topic that primarely concerns the proc of a weapon...the dmg numbers are equal on all weapon types, so they do about the same dmg overall anyway. Some obviously do more, due to buffs and proc mechanic. Due to the exponential crtH increase during the last few seasons, AP dmg grew unproportionaly.
The phaser proc is the worst proc, and borderline useless in PVP since it is unpredictable and has a rather long cooldown (immunity)
Should the phaser proc be an icrease for DPS like AP, disruptor or plasma? No, but atleast it should be useful for CC, which at this point it isn't, since the proc is too random and too easy to resist or counter...or simply procs at the wrong time and giving the target an immunity to the proc for too long. Polaron is more effective at what the phaser should be doing, just saying.
i honestly don't know why you bring up DPS numbers on a topic that primarely concerns the proc of a weapon...the dmg numbers are equal on all weapon types, so they do about the same dmg overall anyway. Some obviously do more, due to buffs and proc mechanic. Due to the exponential crtH increase during the last few seasons, AP dmg grew unproportionaly.
The phaser proc is the worst proc, and borderline useless in PVP since it is unpredictable and has a rather long cooldown (immunity)
Should the phaser proc be an icrease for DPS like AP, disruptor or plasma? No, but atleast it should be useful for CC, which at this point it isn't, since the proc is too random and too easy to resist or counter...or simply procs at the wrong time and giving the target an immunity to the proc for too long. Polaron is more effective at what the phaser should be doing, just saying.
The proc is such a issue. its a RNG on top of a RNG.
Giving maybe phasers a +acc maybe better. Showing they are more accurate going with the shows phasers easily taking out sub systems... what you do not see in the shows is random system going off line willy nilly.
Or that you can select what sub system you want it to proc on. This would at least cut the rng on it.
I'd honestly just like some tweaking to make all of the damage types equivalant as they were meant to be. And for the inevadible "they all have pros and cons" argument, I used to run a tettryon ship because I liked the look of the beams and no they are not equal by a long shot.
I've got a fleet tempest running a full phaser build in the CCE event and I'm getting 1st place most of the time. Maybe phasers have a secret power against space snow flakes.
I get a shield proc on a Tac cube and it's hull drops from 80 to 50 in the short time it's shields are down. Much faster than had its shields been up and had to power through them. Not useless
I get a weapons proc on a gate and now I or teammates survive instead of being 1 shotted. Not useless.
And THIS is exactly why I can't use anything else but phasers. As unpredictable as it is, the proc is actually useful and you can "see" it's effects. Honestly, 2.55 fires often enough to make that difference.
It's unpredictable and extremely difficult if not impossible to calculate.
But useless? No
I get a shield proc on a Tac cube and it's hull drops from 80 to 50 in the short time it's shields are down. Much faster than had its shields been up and had to power through them. Not useless
I get a weapons proc on a gate and now I or teammates survive instead of being 1 shotted. Not useless.
Both of these scenerios lead to higher DPS but still unappreciated. Why?
Do these procs count in the parser logs?? No. Neither do many Science debuffs.
So because it doesn't show in the logs. Because we can't see numerical value. Does that mean it's useless????
ok, so what does the phaser proc do for you when the shield facing is down already on a tac cube?
Here is what really happens...you engage the cube...it loses 1 shield facing in about 3 seconds after the fight started...you get a shield proc, wow, now all facings are gone for the next 5 seconds. Does it matter, no because you already breached the shields. Now the cube is immune to any other phaser proc until it explodes...
and thx for completely ignoring the last 3rd of what i wrote...
FYI, your science skill/debuffs are predictable atleast and much more powerfull at what they do
...fact is, that if phasers had no proc at all you wouldn't see or feel a difference in 99% of all the combat you do.
And i'm not talking about measurable stuff anyway...a shield proc on an unshielded or already stripped target. A weapon proc on the probe that flew next to the cube, instead of the cube, an engine proc on a (near) immovable NPC ship and finaly a aux proc on NPCs that don't use aux based abilities...that is what the phaser proc does.
useless? oh yes!
in PVP, there are simply far better option available, since phasers are too unpredictable AND it is too easy to counter + the immunity period is too long. Sure, in a PUG you might find a few people that have their shields or engines offline for the full duration, but even average premades will counter phaser procs too fast to give any window of opportunity (and the window already is very small to begin with anyway)
Phasers aren't useless IMO. every time the proc goes off you have a 75% chance of something useful happening in PvE, and all of the effects are useful in PvP.
Engines go offline = No chance to evade. You do more damage with each shot while they're stationary, and your crit chance goes through the roof.
Aux goes offline = less healing opportunities in PvP (most escorts/cruisers jockeys have some sort of combination of Hazard Emitters, Transfer Shield Strength or Science team) and/or cripples a science ships main source of DPS. This effect is probably the weakest in PvE however.
Weapons go offline = weapons offline. No damage coming at you or your team team for the duration. It's a few extra seconds of free damage on the affected target, and a few extra seconds breathing room on your healing abilities.
Shields go offline = Shields offline. Not much more that can be said... Their SHIELDS ARE OFFLINE!!! During the time that they are down, both you and your team mates (plus any NPCs, pets, slow moving torps etc, all of which can be out of the shield arc that you're currently firing on) have free hits on the effected targets hull.
So yes, Phasers definitely aren't useless... Now if you want to argue that the phaser Proc is too unpredictable, then sure, I can somewhat agree there. The chance of getting the exact Proc effect that you want to happen when you want it is minuscule... So personally, I prefer to choose a weapon that has a set effect, even if that effect is far less devastating than the phaser Proc when the right effect happens at just the right time. However, I would also argue that all of the procs across all of the weapons (apart from the built in crit bonuses to AP) are too unpredictable to rely on in the first place. They are just nice little bonuses that happen once in a while and are there to give flavour to each of the weapons beyond raw dps figures (though the plasma proc certainly adds to those figures)
Plus theyve gotten a bit better lately, thanks to the new counter command set: not only does it have a very nice phaser turret, but the 2pc gives +7.5 bonus phaser damage.
I just wish the Bio-Molecular phasers were orange (or blue). Then there'd be no question of their awesomeness.
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I've seen when it was Godmode in PvP and it was worse than a doffed VM3 attack. The lockout on a 2nd phaser proc is there for a reason.
All of which confirms that the current proc cannot work as originally intended / designed / balanced and so the proc should be replaced. All we have now is a broken proc that is broken a second way to keep the first way from working.
All of which confirms that the current proc cannot work as originally intended / designed / balanced and so the proc should be replaced. All we have now is a broken proc that is broken a second way to keep the first way from working.
Exactly, even in pvp, a phaser proc is nothing more than an annoyance at best.
At the risk of sounding unpopular, I love my phasers. In PVE, is the proc useful against unshielded, non healing, non moving targets? No. But neither are tetryon shield drains or polaron power drains. But does that mean they do any less raw damage? NO! Let the PVE DPS heroes have their plasma / anti-proton / disruptor procs, in the end PvE is easy mode anyway and it makes not one shred of difference if we kill the target now or 3 seconds from now.
In PvP however, I find that all 4 phaser procs can be useful even if it is just 1 second that a subsystem goes down. that one second difference can mean the difference of killing a target or not being killed by said target. Proc shields or engines and your target is vulnerable a full volley of weapon fire. Proc weapons for a brief reprieve of taking damage. Proc Aux and stop a cloaker from getting away.
The truth of the matter is, if you are relying on a 2.5% chance to get your kills for you, you are doing it wrong. knocking out a targets engines or shields on an alpha strike are just icing on the cake.
When the biomatter phasers came out, I switched out my andorian phasers for a full set of the blue goo, and do you know what I found? They didn't perform nearly as well. The Extra DPS is nice but not nearly as effective as the chance to cause some random havoc to the enemy. Do I know what my weapons are going to do to you? no, but I know you wont like it when it happens.
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I've used the same phaser set for over a year now, as an engineer, in a cruiser...and I am always literally shocked when I don't get first place in Starbase 24.
Leave my phasers just the way they are I'm not going to complain any time soon.
I am having a big problem with not only weapons but defenses.
My ship is an odyssey operations cruiser. I have a whole bunch of tier 5 omega traits active, i have a load of hull and shield consoles, weapon consoles and i use antiproton beams, quantum torpedos and the borg omega torps.
I also have the borg assimilate shields, console, engines, deflector and tractor beam.
All of the consoles and weapons are all very rare items as well.
However, even with all of this, my ship is still able to be destroyed pretty easily by a voth battleship, and it still takes forever to destroy a voth battleship.
What am i actually doing wrong here? As far as i can see, my ship is quite powerful and has some great defense...but it makes no difference? The ship has also had the skills tweaked to be good for engineering and i use a lot of engineering abilities to protect the ship.
voth battleships and voth in general have a reflective shield...anything you shoot at them comes back at you.
but i guess you are at the beginning of learning curve still, don't worry, google a few builds and tactics for your ship and eventually you will succeed.
I am having a big problem with not only weapons but defenses.
My ship is an odyssey operations cruiser. I have a whole bunch of tier 5 omega traits active, i have a load of hull and shield consoles, weapon consoles and i use antiproton beams, quantum torpedos and the borg omega torps.
I also have the borg assimilate shields, console, engines, deflector and tractor beam.
All of the consoles and weapons are all very rare items as well.
However, even with all of this, my ship is still able to be destroyed pretty easily by a voth battleship, and it still takes forever to destroy a voth battleship.
What am i actually doing wrong here? As far as i can see, my ship is quite powerful and has some great defense...but it makes no difference? The ship has also had the skills tweaked to be good for engineering and i use a lot of engineering abilities to protect the ship.
But still...against a voth battleship...boom!
General tip time...
Make sure your armor consoles are at least generic ones (+x to energy resist, +x to kinetic resist), or specific to the enemy - Voth are what, protonic? There's not many consoles outside of Dyson rep that helps defend directly against that.
Having the engie-heavy Operations model means your DPS will be lacking to begin with, as one of the most efficient damage boosters are tactical consoles. Speaking of which, make sure they're all antiproton consoles, highest mark & rarity available to you. Do note, that lack of offense means that you'll take "more forever" to blast that Voth Battleship than an equivalent escort would...
Power settings, are they optimized into weapons? Are you running 6x arrays and broadsiding most of the time? Constant motion, high turn rate, etc. for more mobile defense? Hull goes real quick if shields are down, and those borg shields don't have the highest "HPs" to stay up forever, are most of your heals types that can keep shields up? Tac team helps keep your shields up in 10 second bursts...
You aiming for the stock A2B build? Many say that the higher uptime of what few offensive skills you have (and extra shield heals, etc.) can save a cruiser better...
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I like Phasers too because of the Gallaxy Dreadnought Phaser Lance, the Quad Phaser Cannon and the Elite Fleet Phasers but 2nd is Antiproton for my fed Cpts
normally my cpts will only get 4-5 Tac Fleet Konsoles of 1 type only my best Fed Cpt has Antiproton and Phaser Consoles
all other Pha
but my Fed Sci uses Phasers sometimes but at the moment Polaron and Pol Konsoles because he is a litte Vampire that likes to get all energy from his enemys till their shileds fail
for my Romulans i like the Romulan Plasma and for my Klingons too or Disruptor and normal Plasma
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I really, really hate this smarmy, snarky hashtag nonsense.
Of course it is a first-world problem. We are discussing a video game about a fictional universe on an Internet forum, which requires an expensive piece of electronics to even play. Furthermore, we are discussing a single weapon in that game and how it relates to other weapons in that game, where the difference between them is on something that happens 2.5% of the time.
Obviously, compared to genocide, war, starvation, ISIS, ebola, AIDS, poverty, and malaria, this entire thread is trivial. But compared to those things, so is something like TRIBBLE marriage or a capital gains tax, or an oil pipeline. So are concerns about road construction, interest rates, and immigration reform.
I don't think anyone here believes the phaser proc is a more important issue than any of those, and that everyone should stop paying attention to them so that we can all come together and decide what needs to be done about phasers.
Make sure your armor consoles are at least generic ones (+x to energy resist, +x to kinetic resist), or specific to the enemy - Voth are what, protonic? There's not many consoles outside of Dyson rep that helps defend directly against that.
The Voth uses Anti-Proton weapons.
My Fed science toon uses one of two shields depending on the which queued mission I play.
Shield #1 - Regenerative Shield Array MK XII [Cap]x2 [Pla] = This is generally the default shield I use for almost everything.
Shield #2 - Regenerative Shield Array MK XII [AP] [Cap]x2 = This is the shield I use when playing Storming the Spire Elite because [AP] reduces anti-proton damage by 20%.
Sometime I forget to switch back to Shield #1 after doing a Voth mission though so I have going up against the Borg from time to time with the wrong shield.
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OMG +1 (+9001!!!!) I would love the phasers I use on 1 of my 10 chars to be useful...
If I weren't so tired I'd take exception to that...
All i wanted was to have a proc time extension added based on subspace decompiler as a counter to all the various sources of subsystem repair...
Tet does need some love, it needs a visual for the proc first though, then we can think about how to buff it given it already benefits from flow caps and is countered by insulators... Maybe... If tet consoles buffed the proc the same as they did the weapon damage? It wouldn't be much buffing but it might be enough to make it noticeable without skill table buffing...
Fed canon nerds will pay extra for phasers.
This.
There are times where I'll forego all the min/max and build a Fed ship as close as I can for "canon" purposes. I've done this at times also with other KDF & Rom ships.
There is something fundamentally wrong with seeing Starfleet vessels shooting stuff other than the orange phasers as done since TNG onwards.
Even when newer weapons being released in STO that were accessible to all, Phasers had always stayed very expensive on the exchange. I still remember how expensive Phaser Relays were before the Spire TAC Consoles came about.
Let's start with the damage availability
Antiproton (only if you can make the critical system work. If you can't, won't be top)
True top: Plasma. Primarily because of the embassy console and the Romulan set.
Second: Polaron. Jem'hadar set
Third: disruptor
Fourth: antiproton
Fifth: phaser
Sixth: tetryon
Phaser teams for PvP are some of the strongest teams, so many shots going off, the phaser proc will take their toll, and are extremely effective. Though with the new research and development release, I'm pretty sure phaser will be made obsolete. I reference this primarily because of the engineering console that adds a +45 damage resistance rating, and with that, and other consoles of similar types, it'll make phaser useless for PvP.
What I'm not particularly understanding from the developers is the malice towards phaser, and being, perhaps the most canon of all weapons, the weapon which most people tend to avoid, just doesn't make sense.
Here's my suggestion: phasers are intended to be a tool, though more shown with hand weapons, on a larger scale, why are ship weapons all that different? Throughout the show, phasers are able to be re modulated and completely changed, yet still be considered a phaser, though on a different frequency. In these shows, the frequency was changed to provide different severities of damage, punching through Borg defenses, getting through enemy shields better and so on. Let's have phasers, while staying on a target longer, have increased shield penetration, up to a point. Let's say +5 shield pen per 5 seconds, stacks 7 times. It'll make phaser more deadly, more feared and let's be frank, effective.
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i honestly don't know why you bring up DPS numbers on a topic that primarely concerns the proc of a weapon...the dmg numbers are equal on all weapon types, so they do about the same dmg overall anyway. Some obviously do more, due to buffs and proc mechanic. Due to the exponential crtH increase during the last few seasons, AP dmg grew unproportionaly.
The phaser proc is the worst proc, and borderline useless in PVP since it is unpredictable and has a rather long cooldown (immunity)
Should the phaser proc be an icrease for DPS like AP, disruptor or plasma? No, but atleast it should be useful for CC, which at this point it isn't, since the proc is too random and too easy to resist or counter...or simply procs at the wrong time and giving the target an immunity to the proc for too long. Polaron is more effective at what the phaser should be doing, just saying.
The proc is such a issue. its a RNG on top of a RNG.
Giving maybe phasers a +acc maybe better. Showing they are more accurate going with the shows phasers easily taking out sub systems... what you do not see in the shows is random system going off line willy nilly.
Or that you can select what sub system you want it to proc on. This would at least cut the rng on it.
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And THIS is exactly why I can't use anything else but phasers. As unpredictable as it is, the proc is actually useful and you can "see" it's effects. Honestly, 2.55 fires often enough to make that difference.
Phasers are not useless.
ok, so what does the phaser proc do for you when the shield facing is down already on a tac cube?
Here is what really happens...you engage the cube...it loses 1 shield facing in about 3 seconds after the fight started...you get a shield proc, wow, now all facings are gone for the next 5 seconds. Does it matter, no because you already breached the shields. Now the cube is immune to any other phaser proc until it explodes...
and thx for completely ignoring the last 3rd of what i wrote...
FYI, your science skill/debuffs are predictable atleast and much more powerfull at what they do
...fact is, that if phasers had no proc at all you wouldn't see or feel a difference in 99% of all the combat you do.
And i'm not talking about measurable stuff anyway...a shield proc on an unshielded or already stripped target. A weapon proc on the probe that flew next to the cube, instead of the cube, an engine proc on a (near) immovable NPC ship and finaly a aux proc on NPCs that don't use aux based abilities...that is what the phaser proc does.
useless? oh yes!
in PVP, there are simply far better option available, since phasers are too unpredictable AND it is too easy to counter + the immunity period is too long. Sure, in a PUG you might find a few people that have their shields or engines offline for the full duration, but even average premades will counter phaser procs too fast to give any window of opportunity (and the window already is very small to begin with anyway)
Engines go offline = No chance to evade. You do more damage with each shot while they're stationary, and your crit chance goes through the roof.
Aux goes offline = less healing opportunities in PvP (most escorts/cruisers jockeys have some sort of combination of Hazard Emitters, Transfer Shield Strength or Science team) and/or cripples a science ships main source of DPS. This effect is probably the weakest in PvE however.
Weapons go offline = weapons offline. No damage coming at you or your team team for the duration. It's a few extra seconds of free damage on the affected target, and a few extra seconds breathing room on your healing abilities.
Shields go offline = Shields offline. Not much more that can be said... Their SHIELDS ARE OFFLINE!!! During the time that they are down, both you and your team mates (plus any NPCs, pets, slow moving torps etc, all of which can be out of the shield arc that you're currently firing on) have free hits on the effected targets hull.
So yes, Phasers definitely aren't useless... Now if you want to argue that the phaser Proc is too unpredictable, then sure, I can somewhat agree there. The chance of getting the exact Proc effect that you want to happen when you want it is minuscule... So personally, I prefer to choose a weapon that has a set effect, even if that effect is far less devastating than the phaser Proc when the right effect happens at just the right time. However, I would also argue that all of the procs across all of the weapons (apart from the built in crit bonuses to AP) are too unpredictable to rely on in the first place. They are just nice little bonuses that happen once in a while and are there to give flavour to each of the weapons beyond raw dps figures (though the plasma proc certainly adds to those figures)
I just wish the Bio-Molecular phasers were orange (or blue). Then there'd be no question of their awesomeness.
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All of which confirms that the current proc cannot work as originally intended / designed / balanced and so the proc should be replaced. All we have now is a broken proc that is broken a second way to keep the first way from working.
Exactly, even in pvp, a phaser proc is nothing more than an annoyance at best.
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In PvP however, I find that all 4 phaser procs can be useful even if it is just 1 second that a subsystem goes down. that one second difference can mean the difference of killing a target or not being killed by said target. Proc shields or engines and your target is vulnerable a full volley of weapon fire. Proc weapons for a brief reprieve of taking damage. Proc Aux and stop a cloaker from getting away.
The truth of the matter is, if you are relying on a 2.5% chance to get your kills for you, you are doing it wrong. knocking out a targets engines or shields on an alpha strike are just icing on the cake.
When the biomatter phasers came out, I switched out my andorian phasers for a full set of the blue goo, and do you know what I found? They didn't perform nearly as well. The Extra DPS is nice but not nearly as effective as the chance to cause some random havoc to the enemy. Do I know what my weapons are going to do to you? no, but I know you wont like it when it happens.
Leave my phasers just the way they are I'm not going to complain any time soon.
Why can't this thread just die?
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My ship is an odyssey operations cruiser. I have a whole bunch of tier 5 omega traits active, i have a load of hull and shield consoles, weapon consoles and i use antiproton beams, quantum torpedos and the borg omega torps.
I also have the borg assimilate shields, console, engines, deflector and tractor beam.
All of the consoles and weapons are all very rare items as well.
However, even with all of this, my ship is still able to be destroyed pretty easily by a voth battleship, and it still takes forever to destroy a voth battleship.
What am i actually doing wrong here? As far as i can see, my ship is quite powerful and has some great defense...but it makes no difference? The ship has also had the skills tweaked to be good for engineering and i use a lot of engineering abilities to protect the ship.
But still...against a voth battleship...boom!
but i guess you are at the beginning of learning curve still, don't worry, google a few builds and tactics for your ship and eventually you will succeed.
General tip time...
Make sure your armor consoles are at least generic ones (+x to energy resist, +x to kinetic resist), or specific to the enemy - Voth are what, protonic? There's not many consoles outside of Dyson rep that helps defend directly against that.
Having the engie-heavy Operations model means your DPS will be lacking to begin with, as one of the most efficient damage boosters are tactical consoles. Speaking of which, make sure they're all antiproton consoles, highest mark & rarity available to you. Do note, that lack of offense means that you'll take "more forever" to blast that Voth Battleship than an equivalent escort would...
Power settings, are they optimized into weapons? Are you running 6x arrays and broadsiding most of the time? Constant motion, high turn rate, etc. for more mobile defense? Hull goes real quick if shields are down, and those borg shields don't have the highest "HPs" to stay up forever, are most of your heals types that can keep shields up? Tac team helps keep your shields up in 10 second bursts...
You aiming for the stock A2B build? Many say that the higher uptime of what few offensive skills you have (and extra shield heals, etc.) can save a cruiser better...
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normally my cpts will only get 4-5 Tac Fleet Konsoles of 1 type only my best Fed Cpt has Antiproton and Phaser Consoles
all other Pha
but my Fed Sci uses Phasers sometimes but at the moment Polaron and Pol Konsoles because he is a litte Vampire that likes to get all energy from his enemys till their shileds fail
for my Romulans i like the Romulan Plasma and for my Klingons too or Disruptor and normal Plasma
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GG cryptic. Nice balance.
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It is a peculiar phenomenon that we can imagine events that defy the laws of the universe.
I really, really hate this smarmy, snarky hashtag nonsense.
Of course it is a first-world problem. We are discussing a video game about a fictional universe on an Internet forum, which requires an expensive piece of electronics to even play. Furthermore, we are discussing a single weapon in that game and how it relates to other weapons in that game, where the difference between them is on something that happens 2.5% of the time.
Obviously, compared to genocide, war, starvation, ISIS, ebola, AIDS, poverty, and malaria, this entire thread is trivial. But compared to those things, so is something like TRIBBLE marriage or a capital gains tax, or an oil pipeline. So are concerns about road construction, interest rates, and immigration reform.
I don't think anyone here believes the phaser proc is a more important issue than any of those, and that everyone should stop paying attention to them so that we can all come together and decide what needs to be done about phasers.
If you don't like this discussion, don't participate. There's a rainbow of other problems to pick from. http://www.amnestyusa.org/get-involved
The Voth uses Anti-Proton weapons.
My Fed science toon uses one of two shields depending on the which queued mission I play.
Shield #1 - Regenerative Shield Array MK XII [Cap]x2 [Pla] = This is generally the default shield I use for almost everything.
Shield #2 - Regenerative Shield Array MK XII [AP] [Cap]x2 = This is the shield I use when playing Storming the Spire Elite because [AP] reduces anti-proton damage by 20%.
Sometime I forget to switch back to Shield #1 after doing a Voth mission though so I have going up against the Borg from time to time with the wrong shield.