Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? Beams fire - No DMG intermittently

lickenspoof

I was wondering if someone could help me with this. Not sure if it's a bug, something conflicting in my setup, or a debuff or something.

Since last week's updates I've been having a problem with my klingon aligned science reman. Several times in a "match" against NPCs (badlands, ques, patrols) my damage will just disappear even though my beams are firing. I have 1 other romulan (fed) toon with the same ship and a similar loadout (plasma beams, etc.) that has no problem. I've noticed in the last week a clunky feeling to my ship and what seems like a drop in strength. Enemies seemingly are taking longer to kill. It's subtle and I can't seem to figure out what's causing it - like a drop in power or something.

I recently slotted Self-Modulating Fire, Point Blank Shot, and Inspirational leader and thought something was bugged with those, but I cleared all traits and changed to unused specializations, but the problem persists. I've also switched to another Romulan Ship and then a Non-Faction ship both with a different energy type, but it didn't seem to fix it. I have an epic (AMP) warp engine and the Aegis set and two speed increase traits - it feels like it's either after using evasive maneuvers, pattern omega, FAW, or singularity powers - is it a penalty I don't know about?

I uploaded a video for some examples - at the end I scroll through loadout, skills, traits, space doffs, etc.
You can see it happen at...
(1:09) and (2:03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWuYnAG_FPk&t=123s

Thanks for your input...

graysock

I have the exact same problem, are you using corrosive plasma weapons by any chance?

Edit: Yes you do, so I guess its a problem with the proc the weapons cause. I have a full setup of them and once the proc goes it instantly disables all energy damage for energy weapons, even for other types.

geekguy79

Had exact same problem on one of my toons, using all corrosive plasma weapons. Switched em out to something else, problem gone.

In fact, once the proc goes, I noticed it disabled all energy weapon damage from everyone else on the team too until the proc on the enemy expired.

erei1

I confirm the issue. Corrosive plasma beams arrays seems to give immunity to weapon fire for the enemy. Nobody in the team is able to harm the targets affected.

carcosa

I hope this is not the case I spent a lot of money on those corrosive beams and upgrading them and this is the only weapon my reman has on his ships. Will test this when i get home

Edit: just tested these with mark xiv corrosive beam arrays, I think I should be doing something like 35k dps but I only pulled off 10k in ISA... hard to say since I haven't tested my Reman much before this bug report, and it was only 1 run. 16% crit chance 64% crit severity 241 epg in a fleet D'khellra

graysock

Ok I guess I know whats going on, the corrosive proc is inverted. Instead of slowly going up to -20% damage resistance (-1% per second) in nearly instantaneous jumps to 20 and counts as +20% resistance.
When multiple procs get triggered it the mob gets immune to energy damage, thats also the reason why my kinetic cutting beam still does damage.

hope this gets fixed, beause this basically brakes my build, also it gives people the opportunity to grief other people in missions.

erei1

Devs barely check this forums, if at all. I strongly advise to report this bug through the ingame bug report feature (the ? right of the minimap, with enough report it may get escalated), and also on reddit if you have an account (they are on reddit almost on a daily basis, and I've seen bug getting fixed in less than a week after being posted on Reddit, with Devs praising the poster for the report, while the same bug was left for more than a month with 10+post page on this very forum).

carcosa

Looks like this is bugged still, I might have to go buy some new weapons for my ships with upgrade weekend coming up;

can anyone recommend a good plasma weapon?

I was thinking maybe the fleet plasma arrays, also is the overcharge proc any good on beam weapons? I picked up some regular mk II plasma arrays [dmgx2] [over] but am thinking of getting the fleet advanced plasma arrays [dmgx3] [critD] instead.

Still I would much rather have my corrosives back!!!