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Things that are completely broken vs what needs tweaking [CRYPTIC, please respond]
skurf
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Totally Broken and Overpowered:
Needs to be Adjusted:
- Surgical Strikes 2 and 3 - does way too much damage (with too high of accuracy) when compared to players' shield and hull HP, even if the player has a massive amount of resistance. Additionaly, you are able to fire this energy weapon attack from enhanced battle cloak, which is clearly a bug and makes an already broken skill even more ridiculous.
- Nuetronic Torpedo Spread 3 - does way too much damage (especially to shields) with 100% accuracy across multiple targets. One fully buffed spread can kill an entire team with full shields and full hull.
Needs to be Adjusted:
- The Disable functionality in general - There needs to be immunity to disables for a set amount of time after you have been disabled the first time. Currently, with all the new disables available, it is possible to be chain disabled forever, and if you are fighting multiple ships with the disable torp ship trait combined with ionic turbulence, it is very likely that your tray will be disabled more often than it will be available.
- Disable Torpedo Benthan Starship Trait - Not the worst idea in the world but the implementation creates a scenario like I described above. The cooldown of only 20 seconds on this ability is way too short, especially when fighting multiple people with it. It needs to be increased to about 1 minute instead of 20 seconds to create any kind of semblance of balance.
- Console Swapping - The cooldown of 30 seconds is a joke. In an ideal environment, the cooldown of exact-same-type-consoles should just carry over if an identical copy is equpped, but it doesn't seem that Cryptic knows how to implement this. Since this appears to be the case, there should be a 2 minute cooldown on any new console equipped to completely make swapping a non-issue (1 minute and 30 seconds would probably be adequate, but 30 seconds is like putting a band-aide on a broken arm - it does nothing to fix the problem).
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first, address the above concerns, hard disables need a hardcore immunity period, im talking like 2 minute, or just remove them completely.
second, make pvp matches turn all your gear levelless, and reset your character level to 50
thx
Nutronic torp well eff that dumb thing i can get more damage outa a spread from that then i can a hy tricobalt i mean wtf mate lol...
Your Neutronic Torpedo - Spread III deals 64185 (124039) Kinetic Damage(Critical) to Miss Sa.Tan.
Your Neutronic Torpedo - Spread III deals 18758 (9387) Radiation Damage(Critical) to Miss Sa.Tan.
SS they are strong but are able to be delt with from something like a cruiser, science ship, or a normal escort. Counter with a evade target lock
I will admit the decloaking power of the new romy ships with SS is way to strong I can get upwards of 60k hits from them per shot.
I will not post what i really think of this ****** gameplay or they will ban me from the forum lol
Btw, like i said in this thread http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=21597461&postcount=214 they need to implement a new duality with these t6 abilities.
For the damage, I can't really say. Lol, well, obviously I've seen folks do heinous damage with it. Have even joked that it's almost a waste, cause targets can be obliterated before the cycle completes...but two things come to mind: Enhanced Armor Penetration and well, I can't remember the last time somebody used Surgical Strikes to vaporize me. Tends to be the Viral Torp, Faeht Lance buff strip/debuff, a BO3, CRF3, R-Tet Cascade, Isokinetic Cannon, and a good ol' Isometric. Perhaps they were doing more, but I've already blown up before more could happen. And with that second thing, it would still get back to the Enhanced Armor Penetration as the first thing I'd address.
Broken#2) Both TS2 and TS3 are buffed much more than other torps...that's before you work in the Rad damage and when that Rad damage tends to be applied as the damage is processed. As part of this, mind you, TS1 ends up with a lolboost compared to other torps. Same thing happens with HY2/HY3 and lolHY1...but you're going to miss out on the potential shield shredding the Rad can do. Not sure why I haven't done an actual bug report on it...I mentioned it in another thread that I guess it was my FU to Cryptic sort of thing, tired of all the TRIBBLE. But I keep mentioning it all over the place that I can...maybe Cryptic's metrics will start to show, eh? Cause I've had the TS3 along outDPS three folks in ISA and 7-8 folks in CCA. It's just a trip how powerful it is compared to other torps. But again, like the Surgical stuff above...I think they should address the Enhanced Armor Penetration stuff first.
Adjusted#1) Yeah, it's one thing to go for some play, counter-play, counter-counter-play, and what can be offered there with folks doing all their little dances. And that can be taken out a wee bit and still be an engaging experience. But it can also too quickly become the scenario of where it's just not fun. And perhaps I didn't really follow it far enough out in my post in the other thread, because there is room for some counter-play there. But it could get in to Ye Olde VM territory pretty quick there. I swear Cryptic knows this - I swear they acknowledged at one point (maybe multiple points) understanding folks dislike of the stunlock 100-0 deal.
Adjusted#2) For a moment, I got the Intel Debuff Immunity on the target confused - but as I was testing and remembered that it was the Intel Debuff and not the Viral Torp, I couldn't help but notice all sorts of things off with what Viral Torp was doing. So it was on a boat with 3 fore torps and 1 aft torp. The first test: each of the three fore torps reset the the duration to 5 and it counted down the full 5 after the third torp. The second test: only the first did the 5s. The third test: the first two did 5s and even after that expired, the aft torp upon hitting started another 5s. The fourth test: just the first two again, not the third nor aft. The fifth test: only the first did the 5s. The sixth test: the first and third. At which point I exited the game in disgust.
Adjusted#3) They should just apply the orbital/sector thing to it. If somebody's in orbital space or in sector space, let folks switch whatever whenever sort of thing. IMHO, in an instance map they should do as you say - apply the full CD of the same console - even in switching different consoles, as you said - cause there's still some clicky fun one could have flipping different consoles in that way with different things. It would be tough though, cause you've got space social zones..."instance" maps outside of orbital maps where you can switch traits and the like. Ker'rat for instance or the Voth Battlezone. But honestly, for Ker'rat...would that matter as much compared to implementing it for Arena/CnH? They're already doing that zone check to disable switching traits - have that include the CD on console swapping, eh?
cant wait for 3 weeks new spec tree (that u suck too bad to level) to shame the noobtards even further.
Do you even try to not sound like a 5-year old throwing a tantrum??!
Or is this the sum total of the bag of hot air we can come to expect from you? I would honestly like to know - because as alluring as it seems, the thrill of seeing your regurgitated malice and spite has abated.
U sir are one window licking r3tard have a great day
Yes I totally agree with the OP and the suggestions from Virusdancer or what Nando said.
And the list of broken/OP abilities, that need to be fixed is even longer.
You guys are all coming up with awesome suggestions but it does not matter at all.
You have to finally accept that this is no longer a PvP game!
It's a PvE/RP game now. If you like it or not.
All your suggestions won't do anything.
The only way to save PvP, is a complete rollback before they introduced Doffs, or a complete overhaul of ALL abilities. (seperate pvp and pve items/abilities)
And that is also never going to happen.
Cryptic needs to make money and only PvE or RP (outfits,pets and other TRIBBLE) is filling the cash box.
The next grind is already on the way, so is another dilithium sink and more lockbox ships.
Leave or accept it.
Your head is broken. Cryptic please respond!
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And the bug report thread was closed yes.
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