Energy Weapons Officers - Critical Chance and Critical Severity

sohtoh

I haven't been able to find any information on them, other than that they are out there and that a player would want the Critical Severity version over the Critical Chance version. I am looking for information on their functionality.

Some examples:
1. Let's say I put three on my active duty roster and each one is of a different rarity. Would they behave like other DOffs, where if one procs, they all proc; or does each rarity have to proc separately to activate?
2. How useful have you found them to be?
3. And just to clarify, the Critical Chance and the Critical Severity DOffs do require separate a proc roll or can they both activate on the same roll?

postinggum

They proc with differing percentage chance based on rarity and can only have 3 stacks running at once, if they are working as intended each would roll based on their percentage chance. The blues aren't that expensive so why not try them and see? That said even with parser logs a 1% increase in crit hits would be difficult to see as the crits achieved in any period of play is fairly variable.

sohtoh

I tried out the Critical Severity version. I used three of them and they proc'd enough to be noticeable. Comparing previous parses without them and parses with them, I saw an increases from 5% to 10%.

postinggum

Is that 5-10% of outgoing damage? Thats a lot for three 3m EC doffs.

sohtoh

It was an increase in final DPS. My Critical Chance is about 25%, and can get higher with flanking. I used my Fed Eng Trill in the testing.

postinggum

With a max of 3 stacks it might be better to have 2 CD and one CD. With All Hands and reciprocity reducing cooldowns and leech providing power, I could see these becoming standard end game choices. The purple severity are already very pricey.