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Photonic Officer BOFF space ability horribly broken

rykkknightrykkknight Member Posts: 3 Arc User
I saw in the forums that this has been reported before, but it appeared to be ignored. There is a DOFF that states it reduces the recharge for Photonic Officer and Photonic Shockwave by 20%. However, I tested and timed it and the DOFF only affects Photonic Shockwave by 20% and 0% for Photonic Officer. I also checked and tested that putting 3 points in the skill tree to Scientific Readiness has 0% effect on the recharge time for Photonic Officer. These 2 methods should work or their descriptions should be updated. Maybe just remove Photonic Officer if it is going to be that horribly broken. But seriously, since this was reported as far back as 2017, why the heck hasn't it been addressed in over a years time period?
My suspicion is that the coding is broken after they had done an update to Photonic Officer quite some time ago. The reduction in recharge needs to take place after the 60 seconds that it is active, not during the activity period. My guess is that is exactly what they did with the coding and as a result, the DOFF is useless and so is Scientific Readiness.

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  • feliseanfelisean Member Posts: 688 Arc User
    edited January 2019
    the cd reduction is not broken at all.

    the ability got 1 minute duration and 2 minute shared cooldown with itself. so you could run photonic officer for 50% of the time (1 out of 2 minutes). thats what you're seeing there, because you might be able to reduce the cooldown from the ability itself to less than the 2 minutes (which should be normaly the case) but you can not avoid the 2 minute shared cooldown.

    we could argue that its a bad decision to have the 2 minutes shared cooldown with itself but beyond that, nothing bugged there.
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  • feliseanfelisean Member Posts: 688 Arc User
    its a decent possibility of cooldown reduction management. you just need a second thing for the time between the photonic officers. for a tac cpt it would be tactical initiative as example. or one of the consoles from the 31st cent ship bundle work well for such things too ;)
  • rykkknightrykkknight Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    Wouldn't it have made more sense for the coding (for Photonic Officer) to have it reduce everything except the ability Photonic Officer, because as it stands, with it having a 2 minute shared cool down, it makes the DOFF pointless and the Scientific Readiness ineffective.
  • rykkknightrykkknight Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    I don't find A2B to be a very effective method to use for an EPG build, hence the reason I was trying to use the Photonic Officer ability. Besides, I tend to use Aux to Structural Integrity.
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