Changing up the meta

wardcalis

FAW spam has become so tedious and boring. It's been meta for so long because Cryptic dumps tons of paper thin ships at a time. Would anyone else like to see fewer beefier ships so BO, RF, HY:T and CF have some purpose again?

rattler2

Its not as much the number of ships as its easier to support beam builds in general.
Lets take Disruptors for example. There's the FULL Nausicaan set, that comes with a beam array and no cannons, you've got the rep gear from Terran rep, you've got gear from T6 Romulan like the Experimental Disruptor Beam Array, there's the House Martok 360 array...

If you want a cannon build you can't mount as much stuff that feeds off each other as you can with beams.

On top of that, Beam abilities can be slotted at a lower BOff rank than Cannon, allowing for higher end abilities like AP Beta. You can slot FAW 1 in an ensign slot whereas Scatter Volley 1 needs at least a Lt. slot. Also I believe Beams have a bit less damage falloff at range than Cannons.

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