Dear Devs: Request for new (Boff) ability: Weapons Power to...

gerwalk0769

Can we get a Weapons Power to ability?

As in Weapons power is utilized to increase Engines/Shields/Aux power levels, or charge the Main Deflector for a special affect, or dumped into the Core for bonuses, or dumped to boost mines (or you could "Charge torpedoes!"), or etc.

It would help build game play variety.

Thanks for reading and considering this.

warmaker001b

gerwalk0769 wrote: »

Can we get a Weapons Power to ability?

As in Weapons power is utilized to increase Engines/Shields/Aux power levels, or charge the Main Deflector for a special affect, or dumped into the Core for bonuses, or dumped to boost mines (or you could "Charge torpedoes!"), or etc.

It would help build game play variety.

Thanks for reading and considering this.

Completely disagree with having "One Subsystem To Rule Them All." It's already enough there are equipment mods with something like W->S and such.

gerwalk0769

warmaker001b wrote: »

gerwalk0769 wrote: »

Can we get a Weapons Power to ability?

As in Weapons power is utilized to increase Engines/Shields/Aux power levels, or charge the Main Deflector for a special affect, or dumped into the Core for bonuses, or dumped to boost mines (or you could "Charge torpedoes!"), or etc.

It would help build game play variety.

Thanks for reading and considering this.

Completely disagree with having "One Subsystem To Rule Them All." It's already enough there are equipment mods with something like W->S and such.

@warmaker001b

I appreciate the note.

I would not want such a unbalanced system either, and that is not what I'm asking for. There are Aux to boff abilities, and as you know, some deplete Aux, having at least one weapon power ability (or however the devs would choice to address it) would help address the lack.

autumnturning

Except that Aux Power is explicitly designed to be power not specifically dedicated to other systems (Weapons, Shields or Engines). Aux Power is the "spare" power not budgeted for offense/defense/movement, hence why it's the catch all go to source for powering "other stuff" on Abilities (oh and SCIENCE!!!!).

tarran61

Have you looked at the Specialization: Warp Core Engineer? <--if you might give it a shot, they are good.
sto.gamepedia.com/Specialization:_Warp_Core_Engineer
Ship Duty: Space
Game Description: [SP] Chance of temporarily improving your ship power on use of any Emergency Power ability
Chance of temporarily improving your ship's Weapons, Shields, Engines and Auxiliary power on use of any Emergency Power ability. Buff lasts 8 seconds.

gerwalk0769

tarran61 wrote: »

Have you looked at the Specialization: Warp Core Engineer? <--if you might give it a shot, they are good.
sto.gamepedia.com/Specialization:_Warp_Core_Engineer
Ship Duty: Space
Game Description: [SP] Chance of temporarily improving your ship power on use of any Emergency Power ability
Chance of temporarily improving your ship's Weapons, Shields, Engines and Auxiliary power on use of any Emergency Power ability. Buff lasts 8 seconds.

Thanks, I have that doff. The request is for weapon's power to be directed/moved/shunted elsewhere via ability. The how's and where's are decisions that the Dev's would make.

dareau

Just wondering:

Could you not gain the same effect by using those little presets over the power window - the ones labelled "weapons, shields, engines, balanced"?

Granted, the transfer times as the power shunts from, say, weapons to engines is not instantaneous, and you would have to re-direct back to weapons upon arrival at target zone, and you would have to improve your EPS skill to shorten the transfer durations - but the effect can be had with existing tools...

And anyway, why are you asking to have a BOff skill that neuters your DPS? 125 power in weapons "triples" base damage, 25 quarters it. And you would use this in the heat of combat when?

darkknightucf

I think he's asking for something akin to an Aux2Bat combined w/ a Reroute Reserves to Weapons, but use WPow to power some other subsystem for increased shields/engines/aux.

IMHO, "Aux" isn't "auxiliary" power (something sitting as a reserve or a support), but power for your Science abilities. Are there any Engineering abilities that directly/indirectly scale w/ Aux?

autumnturning

Aux to Structural Integrity Field
Aux to Dampeners
Aux to Battery (kinda sorta)

If the STO Wiki was available right now, I could provide links. I'd imagine that Destabilizing Resonance Beam, Endothermic Inhibtor Beam and Aceton Beam, as well as a few others, are also modulated in strength by Aux Power. So it does happen and it is relevant, although not as tightly as with Science.

lucho80

Science stat boost doffs (Vulcans with +5 offensive science skills). I'd fill my crew with them. We don't need any more power level creep. Running a ship with all the power levels maxed is easy as heck right now. No need for the OP's doff suggestion.

dareau

darkknightucf wrote: »

I think he's asking for something akin to an Aux2Bat combined w/ a Reroute Reserves to Weapons, but use WPow to power some other subsystem for increased shields/engines/aux.

IMHO, "Aux" isn't "auxiliary" power (something sitting as a reserve or a support), but power for your Science abilities. Are there any Engineering abilities that directly/indirectly scale w/ Aux?

That's exactly the way I read it. Instead of Aux2Batt, he's wanting Weaps2blank.

And that's why I fired off my question: Besides taking up a BOff seat and being "nigh instantaneous", what benefit would be gained from this hypothetical power that's not already attainable via the use of the subsystem preset system?

Albeit knowing that the subsystem presets require time to make said power transfers, which can be mitigated via the use of EPS Stat, and memory to shunt the power to desired settings and back to weapons for combat...

gerwalk0769

dareau wrote: »

Just wondering:

Could you not gain the same effect by using those little presets over the power window - the ones labelled "weapons, shields, engines, balanced"?

Granted, the transfer times as the power shunts from, say, weapons to engines is not instantaneous, and you would have to re-direct back to weapons upon arrival at target zone, and you would have to improve your EPS skill to shorten the transfer durations - but the effect can be had with existing tools...

And anyway, why are you asking to have a BOff skill that neuters your DPS? 125 power in weapons "triples" base damage, 25 quarters it. And you would use this in the heat of combat when?

I appreciate everyone's response and interest.

No, I could not. Even when customizing settings.

For some weapons power is a secondary concern or not used at all.

I'm not necessarily asking Aux2 Batt equivalent. I'll defer to the Devs for specifics that maintain balance and integrity.

When asking for something in STO I'll try to outline potential ideas that Devs can work work to maintain balance; my sensibilities tell me that it is easier for a Dev to disregard a very specific and defined ask. Devs might want and have the right to creative control.

I'm more interested in seeing the concept come to fruition. In my opinion, the more specific or more parameters are included in the request or ask (Has to be a Boff ability/Doff/Core/etc.) the easier it is to deny that request.