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    salazarrazesalazarraze Member Posts: 3,794 Arc User
    because for some dumb reason, cryptic decided to give polaron a drain proc while the game was being developed, despite it not doing any such thing in the actual show​​
    IIRC the dominion's weapons were capable of bypassing shields and damaging the hull directly. That would have been a nice alternative to the drain effect of polaron weapons.
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    markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,231 Arc User
    because for some dumb reason, cryptic decided to give polaron a drain proc while the game was being developed, despite it not doing any such thing in the actual show​​
    IIRC the dominion's weapons were capable of bypassing shields and damaging the hull directly. That would have been a nice alternative to the drain effect of polaron weapons.
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    jkwrangler2010jkwrangler2010 Member Posts: 263 Arc User
    IIRC the dominion's weapons were capable of bypassing shields and damaging the hull directly. That would have been a nice alternative to the drain effect of polaron weapons.

    It was actually a Breen energy dissipating weapon, separate from the energy beam weapons. The Dominion did retrofit the weapons to Jem'Hadar ships.
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    borg0vermindborg0vermind Member Posts: 498 Arc User
    I'd give Rom plasma a 2.5% change to power off all subsystems for X seconds.

    I'd make a variant of the Tetryon ones have a chance to overload your shield emitters: 2.5% to overload shields (+100 SP for 5 sec) and then shutdown shields for the same amount and cause bonus electrical damage (and call them reactive Tetryon).

    I'd make a variant of the Tetryon called suppression Tetryon that has a 2.5% chance to stack debuff lowering shield regeneration.

    And these are only 3 examples.
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    spiritbornspiritborn Member Posts: 4,263 Arc User
    IIRC the dominion's weapons were capable of bypassing shields and damaging the hull directly. That would have been a nice alternative to the drain effect of polaron weapons.

    It was actually a Breen energy dissipating weapon, separate from the energy beam weapons. The Dominion did retrofit the weapons to Jem'Hadar ships.

    Actually Dominion ships were able to shoot thru starfleet shields, USS Odyssey (NCC-71832) a Galaxy class was having difficulties dealing with the dominion bug ships due to this, though that issue was dealt with rather quickly.
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    rattler2rattler2 Member Posts: 58,020 Community Moderator
    I believe the actual Dominion Polaron weapons in game are hybrid Polaron/Tetryon.
    Elachi weapons have the chance for full shield pen.
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    ichaerus1ichaerus1 Member Posts: 986 Arc User
    I'm a bit late to this dance, but there are energy weapons that aren't limited to once per firing cycle for their procs. They have a proc on a proc sort of mechanic built in.

    I'd like to see a Tetryon primary/Plasma secondary hybrid weapon type. Not counting the Destabilizing Tetryon weapons.
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    jkwrangler2010jkwrangler2010 Member Posts: 263 Arc User
    How about just increasing either the chance rate to 10% instead of 2.5% or increasing the damage from the plasma burn.
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    ichaerus1ichaerus1 Member Posts: 986 Arc User
    How about just increasing either the chance rate to 10% instead of 2.5% or increasing the damage from the plasma burn.

    The Resonating Tetryon proc chance used to be 10%. But it got dropped down to 5% long ago.
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