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Increase damage for kentari missile launcher
vector22204
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Hi how do i increase the damage of the kentari missile launcher please
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Well, the wiki lists several abilities that can help:
Projectile Weapon Training: Torpedo weapon damage.
Targeting Expertise: Weapon accuracy.
Weapon Specialization: Torpedo weapon critical severity.
Weapon Amplification: Torpedo weapon critical hit chance.
> That is a good question. Is it upgraded as far as you can get it? I'm not sure what will boost its damage console or traitwise.
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> Well, the wiki lists several abilities that can help:
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> Projectile Weapon Training: Torpedo weapon damage.
> Targeting Expertise: Weapon accuracy.
> Weapon Specialization: Torpedo weapon critical severity.
> Weapon Amplification: Torpedo weapon critical hit chance.
Its mk xv very rare quality
@darkbladejk is an expert on Projectile Weapons, he may have some additional advice.
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1) It's fast firing which means you can use it to reset cool downs on longer cool down torpedos. Which means torpedo boat. Even so there are enough other fast firing 4s torpedos in the game now that the only ships that make sense with the KM are true 3 fore science ships. Anyway 2-3 Torpedo cool down doffs + basically any real torp and KM will keep your real torp firing.
2) it's radiation dmg. (I haven't tested in awhile but I'm pretty sure its radiation is buffed by +rad consoles like the undine rep)
So the only ships I believe it makes sense to run this weapon on are science ships running in torp boat mode. Suggestion for loadout would be.... Emission Plasma torpedo, Rep Dyson (gravity well) torpedo, and Kentari M. Both the emission and gravity torp are buffed by particle generators... I haven't tested it in a long time and can't remember I think the KM may also be buffed by EPG but its dmg is low to begin with even if it is. In any event use it as a doff proc device to keep your high dmg crafted and rep torpedos firing.
Other suggested consoles... the reputation console that gives you 0.5 second torpedo global cool down. The mission console that buffs radiation. The cat 2 particle buff consoles (assuming it is buffed by particle gen... in space put a cheap Pgen console on and see if the dmg is buffed) .... their are 3 of them. Constriction anchor, delphic tear, Auxiliary Ejection Assembly (which can be expensive if your a federation player as it comes on a ship... on the exchange if your KDF) If it is buffed by Pgen. Those 3 consoles will buff that torp more then Torpedo tac consoles. But that is the other option... the missle is buffed by general torpedo consoles. If you are playing science ship though... better to use your tac slots of the 3 consoles I just listed, the cat 2 dmg buffs on them are much better then standard dmg consoles.
KM actually isn't needed for fed characters if you have some spare EC lying around, because ceaseless momentum beats the TRIBBLE out of that combination of KM + PWO
hell, you don't even need 3 PWO with that trait - i had to actually unequip two of mine because my torps were recharging so fast some never got a chance to fire
and the auxiliary ejection assembly can be gotten off the legendary konnie...which still makes it expensive (and limited-time since the pack goes away next month), but it's account-wide at that stage (for fed characters at least) and infinitely reclaimable
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KM are also good in combination with the Super Charged Weapons Trait (like ant fast-firing Torp).
Then look at consoles and traits. While we have consoles upon consoles fr everything else. We have no consoles to help kinetic, outside of the just projectile damage ones. We aslo have few, if any, traits that help this damage type as well.
But to balance this out, torps themselves do a lot of damage. They also have a higher chance of their secondary effect happening. For example, most energy weapons special is a 2.5% to a 5% chance. Torps I believe start out at 20%. Add to this the Kentari Missiles have a standard out of the box recharge of 2 seconds, which puts their fire rate on par with every beam array out there.
The main question I have about the Missile packs is the damage itself. Is the listed damage overall, or per missile? If it's per missile, then you have to do the math. If memory serves, base fire is 6 missiles, the ones I have, I believe, do 247 damage.
247 x 6 = 1482. This is on par with most beam arrays.
Then you have to consider, since they're technically a torp, and I've used them to have a look at them, High Yield and Torp Spread work with them.
So this is one of those areas where you have to think about using them. By their-self, they're not that impressive. However do you use them as a fast fire weapons on a torp build, or a fast fire torp on a energy weapons build?
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I never fire a torp outside of High Yield or Spread, might be why I'm remembering such. Then, yes, with this being the case, missile packs need a damage increase. At least to bring them up to par with beam arrays. Not that big of a change, nor a game breaking one. Just enough to make them usable replacement for torps.
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Well it fires three projectiles but counts as only one damage source while spread and hy count as multiple torpedoes
That is true
Ahh, then the problem isn't so much the damage itself. It's that all three count as one damage source, totaling up to the minuscule damage that they do.
If all three did the base damage listed, say the 247 I mentioned. That would be 741 damage total, the DoT, pushing it closer to the damage of a beam array. Then add in High Yield and Spread, these would become a decent weapon.
Yeah, it really isn't good for much other than being a cheap alternative to the rapid fire missile for proccing PWEs. The RFML is slightly faster and it does a bunch more kinetic damage so I would think it would contribute more for things like kinetic sheering.
Yes. The KM are good good for triggering procs, such as, like you say, PWO's (the kind that give CrtH/CrtD, etc, on firing a torp). Or, like I said earlier, in combination with the Super Charged Weapons Trait. With Kemo, and that Neutronic torp, I was able to make a more or less viable radiation build with it, but it's really more of a support weapon.
Why, we call our ship a 'ship' too; might as well go all the way.
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"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Torpedoes, by their very nature of traveling thru water, should move slower too.