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Disruptors Vs Phasers

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edited March 2010 in The Academy
What are the differences between phasers and disruptors in space combat. Disruptors tend to do a lot more damge, but I am wondering if it's worth the 45 degree arc or not.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    LimoDriver wrote:
    What are the differences between phasers and disruptors in space combat. Disruptors tend to do a lot more damge, but I am wondering if it's worth the 45 degree arc or not.
    I think you may be confusing energy type (phaser, disruptor, etc) with weapon type (beam array, dual cannon, etc).

    You might find the Starship Weapons Overview link in my sig to be helpful.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Excellent read ! Thank you for clearing up a lot of the questions I have been struggling with :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    gwyniveth wrote:
    Excellent read ! Thank you for clearing up a lot of the questions I have been struggling with :)

    phasers are orangeish in color,
    disruptors are greenish with a hint of yellow.

    phaser beams and disruptors have same arc for range.
    the Dual beams phasers are narrower,
    the phaser cannos even narrower.
    Disruptor cannons are similar to phaser cannons.

    just look at the stats when you have them in your inventory you can easily compare
    type and arc.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    * Phaser: 2.5% chance to disable a random subsystem
    * Disruptor: 2.5% chance to lower the targets damage resistance by 10% for 15 sec
    * Plasma: 2.5% chance to apply a non-stacking damage-over-time debuff
    * Polaron: 2.5% chance to reduce all enemy subsystem power levels by 25
    * Tetryon: 2.5% chance to deal additional shield damage
    * Antiproton: Unknown (believed to be a proc to go through shields)

    The arcs depend on Array (single beam), Banks (dual beam), etc
    Read: http://stowiki.org/wiki/Starship_weapons
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