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please stop putting command slots on new ships cryptic
captaintroika
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At least until you make, like, 99% of the command space powers not terrible. The only good ones are the torp skill and the shield drain one.
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And it's about the only spec tree that would make sense for a dreadnought carrier too.
Most of Intel is also pretty meh, it's just that it has the stand-outs of Override Subsystem Safeties and Surgical Strikes.
Pilot seems far more situational than either of the other two, mostly Tac-Like abilities on Tac-heavy boats.
Just because it doesn't suit your play style doesn't mean it's bad.
In fact, command suits a dreadnought/carrier.
Suppression Barrage is a decent power if you're not flying with players who think DPS is the be-all, end-all of gameplay, and Rally Point Marker is good for brick tanking. I'll agree that a lot of the other powers could use some help, but people really need to stop looking at Command as a subpar specialization because it doesn't feature more pew pew. That's not what it's for. If anything, the other specializations are too good because DPS has become the God of gameplay, and should be scaled back.
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Though will say I wish they would have made one full spec, or two a space an ground specific specs for us to have, which could than be used to keep some verity.
Which unfortunately means that for most players who only consider doing a million DPS acceptable and think the only way to go is by soloing stfs these abilities are pointless.
If there was better teamwork and communication in general pug matches maybe they'd be of use but outside of premade matches with decent communication using things like phalanx maneuver etc are completely pointless.
Command is amazing in a team, at least on ground, people who insist that one should never take command obviously are deluded into thinking they can solo everything.
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And sorry, folks, your special snowflake "support" build is not, in fact, particularly useful to a team, not compared to adding another 15k-20k DPS or so.
The best way to REALLY support your team, other than holding up your end via sufficient DPS, is applying plenty of Attack Pattern Beta debuffs to everything, so they deal more damage.
the fact that we can do this and use command skills doesn't enter your thought processes does it?
sorry but even for a lazy TRIBBLE. like myself getting the dps needed to do content easy as hell.
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An that will always be the issue is that solely since you can by-pass many things, other than time-gates an such, you will have dps being king in the eyes of many. While also being seen as the only true way of measuring the usefulness of an ability is by if it can produce more of a benefit, than just using an ability that boost your dps that might bypass that potential issue the support ability was being used to minimize. Once the game has more an varied ways of making it that just having more dps is not always going to make things easier or quicker, not merely just more time-gates, dps will be seen by many as the measuring tool for the worth of abilities. When they added the specialties i wished they would have not just reworked the stfs (buffed the hp, and such), but also reworked the systems making it that there is more inter-connected play off each other an that there is other ways of doing something vastly better than groups just dumping more dps into the fights.
Honestly i would love if they added more specialty mechanics to the spec ships, or atleast more verity in them allowing them to mix and match them, like with the command ships having more than three of the inspiration abilities that could be on them would allow more verity in the roles of the ships even in supporting.
The command tree is very good that and the pilot work well together the rest are just bleh
Most of Pilot BOFF abilities are so clearly PVP oriented that so little of it has use in PVE. What's interesting was this PVP oriented Spec but Cryptic had taken pains to kill PVP over the years.
Intel has strong uses for both PVP and PVE. OSS, SS, Ionic Turbulence stand out in PVE use, even after IT's nerf.
Command is just... Well... It's there!
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which an epic fail on their part cause command both the spec and it's abilities work very well on canon ships because the good command abilities it doesn't matter what your using and in the spec it you get boost for torps which just about every ship uses em.
oh and for people who hate flashy effects command has very few.
but luckly for cryptic dps elitist are easy to manipulate.
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