I honestly don't understand the design philosophy behind this. The damage is nerfed to trade off for the extra firing arc, but it flies against the concept of a beam bank build. The extra firing arc is redundant, because if you use DBB's, the target has to be in your forward firing arc for the otehrs to work anyway. Plus, the visuals suck. The proc is meh. It offers nothing.
You use it with a wide-arc torpedo boat, beam boat hybrid. Both your torpedo and beam will fire in the 135 forward arc. Which is useful on big slow ships who don't want to broadside which is how I play. It also effectively has +55 Severity built in with a higher base damage combined with Beam Overload and you will do harder hits then other DBB's. The set bonus boosts your other weapons and its working really well on my ship right now as a secondary weapon. I use it with beam overload and to produce mines via a trait on my mine boat with a few torpedoes.
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