I am curious about the Mines' new lock-on range. How does this stack with the Hot Pursuit Trait? Does the Trait double their new range or does it add the old range on top of the new one?
Weapon Specialization now gives 4% Weapon Critical Severity at 100 skill, from 6%
Weapon Amplification now gives 40% at 100 Critical Severity skill, from 20%
This is a net buff to Inspirational Leader, yes?
Previously each stack was giving a combined crit magnitude benefits of 2.6%. Each stack is now giving 4.4%, I think.
so i see they're now going with the whole 1|10 crit hit/severity ratio thing now
that means they can also change the max crit severity bit on the Temporal Disentanglement Suite console from 10% to 25%, since the crit chance on it maxes at 2.5%
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What I need is a bit more "oomph" to murder the enemies of the Federation/Klingon Empire/Romulan Republic.
Can't keep doing the same-o, same-o, now. You want "oomph" try cannons and torps.
You can't keep all the beams going without weapons power....you need an Eng to be effective with 8 beams draining it (I remember that from a long time ago, when I first started playing).
Play with Target Subsystems!!!! Especially, Shield and Engines. I have yet to learn what Aux shut down will do...but I will test that out, eventually, too. Did not try Sub Nuke BOFF clickie...but will try it on my Eng this weekend.
And I found Deflector Overload VERY helpful, though.
Got out of a tight spot when I aggro'ed a Fed Sci Vessel while trying to spin my cannons around to shoo some Peregrines/Shuttles/whatever-they-were away. Didn't see Sci Vessel "behind me" (camera angles and all that)...just saw the tractor on the screen (see this is why I don't PvP....no awareness). On a wild hair...I decided to hit that Deflector Overload button. Nice. Gotta think more on that, too.
All I can say is to remember: +Control Expertise also means you are able to RESIST control, too.....so with +50....escape is, now, possible along with a heal to shields right along with it. Come on, think people. Not just about getting your monster Sci clickies. I must go study what +Drain Expertise would do for me and what enemies use that stuff.
Someone said: Sci character HAVE to use Science ships. NO.
I had my Romulan Sci in her Phoenix box "Bug" ship (which has tons of tactical slots to play with) and had a grand time on Tribble last night. Shoot...I didn't even have BOFFs set up right on that character....I actually had to stop and go back and train them. Still had great fun.
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I realise I'm a bit too late for this since it was already discussed on the 6th page, but I would like to add that I don't really understand the nerf to DRB either.
Subspace Vortex is still very useful, yet this is a power that you just drop off and don't worry about it anymore. DRB requires continuous targeting and can be interrupted by fast moving enemies or, for example, teleporting Undine ships or 180 degree immune Vot.
Both powers are big damage dealers but it makes little sense to me to nerf the one that requires more skill (and luck against certain enemies) to use and - especially - maintain to maximise its usefulness.
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And, continuing on that, the buff to Tyken's rift seems unnecessary as well. Like Subspace Vortex, this is also something you just throw out and then it doesn't require the player to do anything anymore. It just keeps dealing damage, and is fully independent. TR's main function isn't dealing damage anyway so this seems a bit strange.
Imo, it would have made more sense to keep these powers as they were. If total damage output from Exotic builds needed to go down, then slightly correcting the stuff that requires little skill (GW, TR and SSV) makes more sense to me than correcting the one power that actually requires targeting and skill (and which has, additionally, a much higher cooldown too).
maybe because it also gives a stacking DR debuff? whereas SSV doesn't, unless you have control amp
True but it still does that. And they just gave us another damage resistance debuff too (structural analysis).
It seems they are trying to make non-Tac builds more accessible by making Sci ones easier to use. That's all fine with me, but I wish they wouldn't have decided to hit the most 'difficult' skill to use, the hardest. That seems unfair to those who are already using exotic builds, even if it makes those builds more accessible to the playerbase at large.
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True, I'm just saying that if it's a problem that there is a big damage dealer that also reduces damage resistance, it makes little sense to me to add another damage resistance reducer for Sci's. And an easily accessible one too.
Further, due to the targeting requirements I'd say that it is accepable that it has more benefits.
I realise I'm a bit too late for this since it was already discussed on the 6th page, but I would like to add that I don't really understand the nerf to DRB either.
Subspace Vortex is still very useful, yet this is a power that you just drop off and don't worry about it anymore. DRB requires continuous targeting and can be interrupted by fast moving enemies or, for example, teleporting Undine ships or 180 degree immune Vot.
Both powers are big damage dealers but it makes little sense to me to nerf the one that requires more skill (and luck against certain enemies) to use and - especially - maintain to maximise its usefulness.
It seems a few powers have ended up accidentally better than they were intended due to a bugfix in another area. So Gravity Well and Subspace Vortex are supposed to be weaker than they are now on Tribble, and since they were probably intended to be weaker than they are on Holodeck, it will probably be notable. That might change the position of DRB relative to Subspace Vortex (and Gravity Well). Logically, DRB should end up dealing more damage than SV in the end IMO.
But Subspace Vortex is really a weird outlier. I mean, compare it to the Intel Power like Subspace Beacon. The only thing that SB does is teleport you to its location, then it's gone, and if you go too far away, it disappears. It doesn't deal damage, it doesn't give you any bonuses, the only thing ti does is teleport you from A to B. Subspace Vortex is a serious damage power that also teleports you if you don't like dealing damage anymore or something. Seriously, it makes no sense to me.
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Can't keep doing the same-o, same-o, now. You want "oomph" try cannons and torps.
You read the part where I was in a Resolute, right?
3 tac consoles, 2 science, 5 eng. 1 ltc Tac (no universal) and you want me to experiment with Target Subsystems?
I need my tac slots to do work. The job of actually completing the objectives, which is murdering everyone.
All I can say is to remember: +Control Expertise also means you are able to RESIST control, too.....so with +50....escape is, now, possible along with a heal to shields right along with it. Come on, think people. Not just about getting your monster Sci clickies. I must go study what +Drain Expertise would do for me and what enemies use that stuff.
I don't get monster Sci anything. I am lucky to get medicocre Sci. Even with DO.
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I had my Romulan Sci in her Phoenix box "Bug" ship (which has tons of tactical slots to play with) and had a grand time on Tribble last night. Shoot...I didn't even have BOFFs set up right on that character....I actually had to stop and go back and train them. Still had great fun.
Good for you. I'm glad you are not flying the wrong ship.
that's intentional - see where it says JUST gave +Kinetic Resist? that console already had +Physical Resist too, so they're not going to double-dip its Physical Resist
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that's intentional - see where it says JUST gave +Kinetic Resist? that console already had +Physical Resist too, so they're not going to double-dip its Physical Resist
I didn't say it contradicted the patch note. I said the console's getting the short end of the turbolift shaft. If it had that 45 physical resistance item budget allocated to anything else it would have gotten 30 physical resistance "for free".
Given that it was initially offered as the premier temporal shenanigans resistance item and considering the way resistance diminishing returns start to sting quite noticeably around 50, it could have just been given 75 physical resistance and call it a day. Not saying it should be, but that wouldn't have been an awful choice IMO. Personally, I'd rather see the now lost item budget reapportioned as 50 or 60 physical resistance and a very small increase to the EPG and control components. No matter how the 'correction' points are divvied up, leaving as is seems pretty mean.
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...OR the trait could be changed to bypass the new lock out and continue to offer utility for its current use case: letting you cast Go Down Fighting during cakewalks.
See above. If it's already so easy, then why do you need more damage? If you're running through content you so thoroughly outmatch that you never need Continuity or Invincible, why not forego them and use GDtD? The only real reason to use one or both of the failsafes alongside GDF is to get around the limitation of it being useful in situations of imminent danger, and to scale it reliably to nearly it's maximum value.
This change says that you can pick one or the other route...slot Continuity/Invincible and go for the high-risk/high-reward gamble on GDF, or forego them and take the lesser but guaranteed benefit. Face it...people were abusing what was meant to be a last resort and turning it into a reliable buff, and that needed to be curtailed.
Edit: Consider the case where Continuity and something else like Ablative Shell trigger. Or, Continuity triggers and you follow it up with, say, Hazard Emitters. You end up at, say, 75%. Continuity's not there to save you again, and GDF is inherently locked out above 50%. GDtD comes into play and allows a second wind against whatever was trying to kill you. Same general idea for the healing buff fron Invincible, that you're just outside the 50% range, and want to have the choice to use up GDF or try for a better activation of it. That's the kind of choice these changes introduce, rather than having GDF available all the time, even in 'cakewalks'. My contention is that GDF should not be available as part of preparation for an alpha-strike, it should be something you're only able to use if the situation warrants it.
Interesting results of a FBP build going from 214k to around 80k. Looks like they went way overboard on the embassy console nerf. Given the other results he was highlighting I was expecting them to end up at 10% of previous but it's more like 2%.
It seems a few powers have ended up accidentally better than they were intended due to a bugfix in another area. So Gravity Well and Subspace Vortex are supposed to be weaker than they are now on Tribble, and since they were probably intended to be weaker than they are on Holodeck, it will probably be notable. That might change the position of DRB relative to Subspace Vortex (and Gravity Well). Logically, DRB should end up dealing more damage than SV in the end IMO.
Yeah I was just talking about this in TSC a while ago. I'm expecting DRB, TBR, SSV and GW to be roughly 40% as effective as they were in Holodeck once the Tribble fixes are in place.
The problem is Deflector Overload got the short end of the stick because he arbitrarily decided drain and control wouldn't get the same treatment as part gens and shield heals. Seems he decided to slap down the two ones I posted minmax forums posts, so I decided to post a part gens one today to demonstrate the ridiculous amount of part gens % damage boosts available on top of skill maxing.
Is the below description wrong? If it isn't, then it also boosts Control and Drain:
Deflector Overcharge: This new power boosts provides Bonus Exotic Damage and Shield Healing while active, and additionally boosts Control Expertise and Drain Expertise.
It seems a few powers have ended up accidentally better than they were intended due to a bugfix in another area. So Gravity Well and Subspace Vortex are supposed to be weaker than they are now on Tribble, and since they were probably intended to be weaker than they are on Holodeck, it will probably be notable. That might change the position of DRB relative to Subspace Vortex (and Gravity Well). Logically, DRB should end up dealing more damage than SV in the end IMO.
Yeah I was just talking about this in TSC a while ago. I'm expecting DRB, TBR, SSV and GW to be roughly 40% as effective as they were in Holodeck once the Tribble fixes are in place.
The problem is Deflector Overload got the short end of the stick because he arbitrarily decided drain and control wouldn't get the same treatment as part gens and shield heals. Seems he decided to slap down the two ones I posted minmax forums posts, so I decided to post a part gens one today to demonstrate the ridiculous amount of part gens % damage boosts available on top of skill maxing.
Is the below description wrong? If it isn't, then it also boosts Control and Drain:
Deflector Overcharge: This new power boosts provides Bonus Exotic Damage and Shield Healing while active, and additionally boosts Control Expertise and Drain Expertise.
I think the issue is about the magnitude of the buff. The damage/healing buff is 50 %, CE and DE is +50 to the skill, which is in effect only 25 %.
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I think the issue is about the magnitude of the buff. The damage/healing buff is 50 %, CE and DE is +50 to the skill, which is in effect only 25 %.
I thought Control only had any noticeable effect up to 450? If you are a dedicated Sci vessel, isn't it possible to get much less than 25% performance depending on how heavily you invested in Control?
A tad "irritated" that Plasmonic Leech has been nerfed given I spent real money to purchase the Vandal. Frankly I don't see how it was any problem given people have been using it for years, far before the current run away DPS issue that's occurred within the last year or so with all the new stuff that's come out. But whatever.
Can someone explain this to me "Resolved an issue where multiple players could cause a target to obtain more than 5 stacks of the Coalition Disruptor Proc". Does that basically nerf into oblivion the current meta of people running Coalition Disruptors? i.e. going back to AntiProton.
And this one "Resolved an issue that caused Fire at Will to trigger weapon procs excessively". Was this one of the many causes of BFAW being so OP?
It makes clear in all blogs with all ships they release that stats are subject to change. If something is always the right answer no matter what you do, or is a "must have or you're bad" as I saw some folks say, then that ability will get changed. that's the nature of mmos regardless of if you paid cash for it or not. I myself have paid real cash for the Vandal as well but I understand sometimes things change in mmos. It sucks when it happens but sometimes is a necessity. Simply because something has been used for years doesn't mean it hasn't been broken since implementation. Pretty much for all builds you had to have a leech. if you didn't have a leech you were at a severe disadvantage.
Coalitions also were stacking beyond their original intent by the words of the patches. Again it's not really a nerf if it was never working correctly to start with.
FAW has performed vastly superior for awhile now compared to the cannon abilities and such. it also probably was one of the reasons.
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It makes clear in all blogs with all ships they release that stats are subject to change. If something is always the right answer no matter what you do, or is a "must have or you're bad" as I saw some folks say, then that ability will get changed. that's the nature of mmos regardless of if you paid cash for it or not.
The "subject to change" part usually refers to "before release" not to "6-7 years later when everybody gave us their money", no ? The point is moot anyway since we all signed the Eula and as such have agreed to them changing whatever they want.
While I wholeheartedly agree that must-have items and no-brainer items are bad design and unbalanced, all of this isn't a few weeks after release, it's years and years. That at least makes me understand people who are upset about the nerf.
that's intentional - see where it says JUST gave +Kinetic Resist? that console already had +Physical Resist too, so they're not going to double-dip its Physical Resist
with that said
would the 2pc Sol set gave plus 35% to Physical since that is only 35% Kinetic and 25% energy ?
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I am curious about the Mines' new lock-on range. How does this stack with the Hot Pursuit Trait? Does the Trait double their new range or does it add the old range on top of the new one?
This is a net buff to Inspirational Leader, yes?
Previously each stack was giving a combined crit magnitude benefits of 2.6%. Each stack is now giving 4.4%, I think.
that means they can also change the max crit severity bit on the Temporal Disentanglement Suite console from 10% to 25%, since the crit chance on it maxes at 2.5%
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Can't keep doing the same-o, same-o, now. You want "oomph" try cannons and torps.
You can't keep all the beams going without weapons power....you need an Eng to be effective with 8 beams draining it (I remember that from a long time ago, when I first started playing).
Play with Target Subsystems!!!! Especially, Shield and Engines. I have yet to learn what Aux shut down will do...but I will test that out, eventually, too. Did not try Sub Nuke BOFF clickie...but will try it on my Eng this weekend.
And I found Deflector Overload VERY helpful, though.
Got out of a tight spot when I aggro'ed a Fed Sci Vessel while trying to spin my cannons around to shoo some Peregrines/Shuttles/whatever-they-were away. Didn't see Sci Vessel "behind me" (camera angles and all that)...just saw the tractor on the screen (see this is why I don't PvP....no awareness). On a wild hair...I decided to hit that Deflector Overload button. Nice. Gotta think more on that, too.
All I can say is to remember: +Control Expertise also means you are able to RESIST control, too.....so with +50....escape is, now, possible along with a heal to shields right along with it. Come on, think people. Not just about getting your monster Sci clickies. I must go study what +Drain Expertise would do for me and what enemies use that stuff.
Someone said: Sci character HAVE to use Science ships. NO.
I had my Romulan Sci in her Phoenix box "Bug" ship (which has tons of tactical slots to play with) and had a grand time on Tribble last night. Shoot...I didn't even have BOFFs set up right on that character....I actually had to stop and go back and train them. Still had great fun.
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I lol'd. More than once, actually. Well played.
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Subspace Vortex is still very useful, yet this is a power that you just drop off and don't worry about it anymore. DRB requires continuous targeting and can be interrupted by fast moving enemies or, for example, teleporting Undine ships or 180 degree immune Vot.
Both powers are big damage dealers but it makes little sense to me to nerf the one that requires more skill (and luck against certain enemies) to use and - especially - maintain to maximise its usefulness.
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Imo, it would have made more sense to keep these powers as they were. If total damage output from Exotic builds needed to go down, then slightly correcting the stuff that requires little skill (GW, TR and SSV) makes more sense to me than correcting the one power that actually requires targeting and skill (and which has, additionally, a much higher cooldown too).
True but it still does that. And they just gave us another damage resistance debuff too (structural analysis).
It seems they are trying to make non-Tac builds more accessible by making Sci ones easier to use. That's all fine with me, but I wish they wouldn't have decided to hit the most 'difficult' skill to use, the hardest. That seems unfair to those who are already using exotic builds, even if it makes those builds more accessible to the playerbase at large.
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Further, due to the targeting requirements I'd say that it is accepable that it has more benefits.
It seems a few powers have ended up accidentally better than they were intended due to a bugfix in another area. So Gravity Well and Subspace Vortex are supposed to be weaker than they are now on Tribble, and since they were probably intended to be weaker than they are on Holodeck, it will probably be notable. That might change the position of DRB relative to Subspace Vortex (and Gravity Well). Logically, DRB should end up dealing more damage than SV in the end IMO.
But Subspace Vortex is really a weird outlier. I mean, compare it to the Intel Power like Subspace Beacon. The only thing that SB does is teleport you to its location, then it's gone, and if you go too far away, it disappears. It doesn't deal damage, it doesn't give you any bonuses, the only thing ti does is teleport you from A to B. Subspace Vortex is a serious damage power that also teleports you if you don't like dealing damage anymore or something. Seriously, it makes no sense to me.
3 tac consoles, 2 science, 5 eng. 1 ltc Tac (no universal) and you want me to experiment with Target Subsystems?
I need my tac slots to do work. The job of actually completing the objectives, which is murdering everyone.
I don't get monster Sci anything. I am lucky to get medicocre Sci. Even with DO.
Good for you. I'm glad you are not flying the wrong ship.
Holodeck and Tribble. Still ill-treated by the new valuation scheme.
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I didn't say it contradicted the patch note. I said the console's getting the short end of the turbolift shaft. If it had that 45 physical resistance item budget allocated to anything else it would have gotten 30 physical resistance "for free".
Given that it was initially offered as the premier temporal shenanigans resistance item and considering the way resistance diminishing returns start to sting quite noticeably around 50, it could have just been given 75 physical resistance and call it a day. Not saying it should be, but that wouldn't have been an awful choice IMO. Personally, I'd rather see the now lost item budget reapportioned as 50 or 60 physical resistance and a very small increase to the EPG and control components. No matter how the 'correction' points are divvied up, leaving as is seems pretty mean.
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See above. If it's already so easy, then why do you need more damage? If you're running through content you so thoroughly outmatch that you never need Continuity or Invincible, why not forego them and use GDtD? The only real reason to use one or both of the failsafes alongside GDF is to get around the limitation of it being useful in situations of imminent danger, and to scale it reliably to nearly it's maximum value.
This change says that you can pick one or the other route...slot Continuity/Invincible and go for the high-risk/high-reward gamble on GDF, or forego them and take the lesser but guaranteed benefit. Face it...people were abusing what was meant to be a last resort and turning it into a reliable buff, and that needed to be curtailed.
Edit: Consider the case where Continuity and something else like Ablative Shell trigger. Or, Continuity triggers and you follow it up with, say, Hazard Emitters. You end up at, say, 75%. Continuity's not there to save you again, and GDF is inherently locked out above 50%. GDtD comes into play and allows a second wind against whatever was trying to kill you. Same general idea for the healing buff fron Invincible, that you're just outside the 50% range, and want to have the choice to use up GDF or try for a better activation of it. That's the kind of choice these changes introduce, rather than having GDF available all the time, even in 'cakewalks'. My contention is that GDF should not be available as part of preparation for an alpha-strike, it should be something you're only able to use if the situation warrants it.
Yeah I was just talking about this in TSC a while ago. I'm expecting DRB, TBR, SSV and GW to be roughly 40% as effective as they were in Holodeck once the Tribble fixes are in place.
Is the below description wrong? If it isn't, then it also boosts Control and Drain:
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It makes clear in all blogs with all ships they release that stats are subject to change. If something is always the right answer no matter what you do, or is a "must have or you're bad" as I saw some folks say, then that ability will get changed. that's the nature of mmos regardless of if you paid cash for it or not. I myself have paid real cash for the Vandal as well but I understand sometimes things change in mmos. It sucks when it happens but sometimes is a necessity. Simply because something has been used for years doesn't mean it hasn't been broken since implementation. Pretty much for all builds you had to have a leech. if you didn't have a leech you were at a severe disadvantage.
Coalitions also were stacking beyond their original intent by the words of the patches. Again it's not really a nerf if it was never working correctly to start with.
FAW has performed vastly superior for awhile now compared to the cannon abilities and such. it also probably was one of the reasons.
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The "subject to change" part usually refers to "before release" not to "6-7 years later when everybody gave us their money", no ?
While I wholeheartedly agree that must-have items and no-brainer items are bad design and unbalanced, all of this isn't a few weeks after release, it's years and years. That at least makes me understand people who are upset about the nerf.
with that said
would the 2pc Sol set gave plus 35% to Physical since that is only 35% Kinetic and 25% energy ?
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