Quick guide that shows what energy type each enemy uses, and what type to use against them?

doubleohnine

As a veteran casual, Im ashamed to admit I dont have it all memorized. I went to the Wiki but surprisingly this info isnt there. Id like a quick guide that shows all the energy types each enemy uses, and the best energy types to use against them. I use to just carry 6 guns per crew, 2 for the Captain, and 4 for the crew, but now that my inventory is piling up, Id like to keep sets of energy types together in my inventory so I know when Im about to fight X villain, the Y set of gear is their kryptonite. If someone knows where this info is kept, and if someone is keeping it updated, link here please. If it doesnt already exist, someone please make it for the Wiki, so we know how to best use all the energy types available in game.

tempus64

If you scroll down to the Ground combat table it shows which energy types the NPCs use. I've never heard or seen anything about what is best to use against any particular NPC in terms of energy types as it's usually the tactics and other skills they use that you have to counter. What I've found is that once you've max'd out your commando spec tree, put rep ground sets on your BOFFs and have something like the Omega set upgraded to MK XIV on yourself, it just becomes mostly about tactics.

http://sto.gamepedia.com/Damage_type

noroblad

its probably something you'd have to piece together from other sources (doable, but you could look at wiki page for each enemy for example).

This isnt viable anyway. You would need a lot of storage space (at least 7 or 8 times the damage types, which there are at least 5 of, so talking 40+ inventory slots not counting mines and torps). And, a *quality* set of weapons is very expensive to upgrade. And, you at least want a set of arrays and dbbs for each type if you have more than one type of ship. And you might also want cannons. You could be talking 150 inventory slots if you got really into this idea. And each of those 150 slots holding a 2M value item... is 300M in weaponry. Thats not including all the tac consoles you need, another 4-5 times the types again... and not even mentioning other stuff like crit gear for ap beams vs dot gear for plasma vs flowcaps for tet vs ....

its a good idea, just not worth the hassle, expense, and space.

gilion

noroblad wrote: »

its probably something you'd have to piece together from other sources (doable, but you could look at wiki page for each enemy for example).

This isnt viable anyway. You would need a lot of storage space (at least 7 or 8 times the damage types, which there are at least 5 of, so talking 40+ inventory slots not counting mines and torps). And, a *quality* set of weapons is very expensive to upgrade. And, you at least want a set of arrays and dbbs for each type if you have more than one type of ship. And you might also want cannons. You could be talking 150 inventory slots if you got really into this idea. And each of those 150 slots holding a 2M value item... is 300M in weaponry. Thats not including all the tac consoles you need, another 4-5 times the types again... and not even mentioning other stuff like crit gear for ap beams vs dot gear for plasma vs flowcaps for tet vs ....

its a good idea, just not worth the hassle, expense, and space.

I thought OP meant space weapons at first too, but reading it a second time looks like he's talking about ground weapons.

So for ground or space trying to use equipment based on the damage you receive just isnt worth it. Most of the best equipment, especially for ground, are set to resist all energy types equally. As for energy types that enemies are weak against, theres only a few cases where this is true: you can say the Borg are weak against kinetic attacks since they cant adapt do it. So the TR-116B rifle is very useful against them. Since the Elachi have high shield and low health the TR-116B is also great against them since it has 100% shield penetration, but the rifle is TRIBBLE against anything that already dont have shields, like many animals. The Devidians (which you only see in a few missions) are weak to Proton damage when they phase shift (appear more transparent than normal.) So the Proton rifle from the Dyson rep, or the secondary fire from the weapon you get from the Devidian arc are good for them.

Other than that there are no weaknesses, and enemy weapon types arent important. But if you really want to know that, off the top of my head I know that KDF enemies and Romulan Tal'Shiar use Disruptors, Borg use plasma, True Way Cardies and Terran Empire use Phasers, Jem'Hadar and Vaadwuar use Polaron, Undine, Voth and Heralds use Antiproton, Hiirogen use Tetryon, and thats all I remember.

doubleohnine

I wasnt planning on some master collection of every gun type. Im too casual for that. Just meant if I had 2 or 3 guns of X type, Id have it noted to beam down with those guns if I knew what enemy I was about to face. And thats where I got the idea EVERY enemy had a weakness, since Borg are weak to kinetic, Devidians weak to photon, etc. We shield ourselves against certain energy types, I assumed all the enemies did too, or were weak to something specific. Its really just about what tyoe of proc you like, weapon feature, and beam color you prefer. I thought maybe if an enemy used a certain weapon type, they may also be weakest against that type being used on them.

noroblad

no, there isnt much. You can get some rep anti-faction guns, like the sonic anti tholian rifles, or the anti-borg rifles, but all in all its a lot of trouble for small gains with the exception of overcoming borg adaptation because you do see a lot of borg AND the adaptation is annoying.

what I find most useful on the ground are explosives and dots like plasma or better yet, plasma+[dot3]. Damage over time prevents normal healing (but not boss/bosslet cheezy insta healing). Melee weapons are brutal and I usually have one of my 2 weapons as a melee item.

at least ground does not use much space... most folks have enough extra BO's to store alternate guns on the guys that are not on your normal ground team, along with extra environ suits and armor and all that other junk.

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ajalen

noroblad wrote: »

Melee weapons are brutal and I usually have one of my 2 weapons as a melee item.

i have usually all my boffs with meele weapons , only 2 misions in storyline with changelings are problem , but ....
borg misions with meele party = walk in the park