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I am curious if these have been fixed lately. Saturday I ran into several t5 fed groups who had people using these weapons and they seemed to really shred my BOP's hull. Especially one escort who I saw rip my hull without even doing any shield damage and RSP doesn't seem to help either. I had heard that they were useless since they seemed to be bugged.
K'rapok General KDF
K'rapok General KDF
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Yer. if you get a half decent team with a couple of tactical types using target subsystem shields followed by a HW3 volley then you'll get dropped quickly. You need shields about 75ish to withstand it. One of my worst enemies!
I made a thread about this a week ago and got called crazy too. Gettinig killed over and over with full shields, yet people are still convinced that by T5 we don't know when our shields are up or down.
2. my shields never dropped while I took damage.
3. He did less than 150K damage despite killing many of us.
As a note I fought him several times that day and he did not always do this but it did happen many times. In fact we were beaten badly by everyteam that had antiprotons, and no one on the other team did any substantial amount of damage to account for the wholesale slaughter.
K'rapok General KDF
I know I've died with shields up just from the shear amount of dps that a t5 tactical escort can whip out in a single spike, though it hasto do with some of their self buffs as its often only once every so many minutes.
But I've been in a carrier maxed out on defense and had an escort go through shields and hull in 5 seconds or less with rsp running before...no idea how they did it as the combat log was spammed so heavilly by the fight that was going on I couldn't go back through it to read it.
There's also that one engineer BOFF skill that increases shield penetration against your target. I wasn't too impressed with it but maybe combined with antiproton (or whatever) it's actually good.
You should look at your combat log next time it happens and try and figure out where it's coming from.
K'rapok General KDF
As this guy said tho they stack DEM and dont even worry about shields your dead in less than 20's I wasnt running FBP the first fight and it was the only way to slow them down my team was a pug half the players didnt have FBP so they kept feeding them kills till we lost.
K'rapok General KDF
ya the tool tip is wrong for one , it doesnt help enegry weps get by shields JUST beams,it is also like the disruptor buff alone its not that great you get a full team of 5 running it is when it shines.
This is apparently not the case. Again, just bad description in the vendor menu. The daily reward shields have normal bleedthrough values for their type (10% for Covariant and Regenerative, 5% for Resilient).
K'rapok General KDF
I am still very confused, I am working towards outfitting my T5 Advanced Escort to be efficient against the Borg. I have been running a mix of DH cannons, one Antiproton, one plasma and one polaron.
Would it suit me better to go with 3 Dual Heavy Antiproton cannons? Are the effects of damage bypassing shields not working? Is Antiproton best against Borg?
I would like to know as I don't want to waste my badges on the stuff if I can get better results with something else.
K'rapok General KDF
I have gotten some wierd combat readout that makes no sense, but I have been destroyed by a single player far to quickly as in two shoted..
Granted my ship skills are not that great because I was more concentrated on ground but still two kill me in two shots while in a carrier with the shields off the pvp vendor all upgraded to admiral level makes little sense.
I have no clue what is causing it and not being one to get bothered about stuff I kinda of ignored it.. and blame it on me, but its possible its not me.. and only twice did i try to figure out what weapons it was and it was tricobalt torpedos one one occassion and on another occassion someone had used all his slots of mines same type (i never saw so many mines come out of one ship) but that is what did me in..
I simply kinda ignore these things.. but I thought I would add my info to the pile..
it may not even be that.. again i ignored it and just kept moving on ..
aww I was saving up for this dream shield.. I guess i wont worry about it then
You will out put more damage(DPS) if you use all the same energy type: plasma, polaron or antiproton, not a mix. See the tool tip -10 power when firing other energy types. Or something like that..
Err, no. It's -10 Weapon Energy power for each weapon fired beyond the first. And that's just for the weapons that give -10 energy. Turrets do -8, Dual Heavy Cannons do -12, and I think everything else that's an energy weapon does -10. Here's a short explanation.
I have 5 beam arrays and 100 Weapon power. 1 beam array is firing, it's firing at 100 weapon power. (Power drain as I said only kicks in after the first weapon fired, so that weapon is free). 2 beam arrays firing, firing at 90 Weapon power. 3 fire at 80 weapon power. 4 fire at 70 weapon power. 5 fire at 60 weapon power. Now because not all weapons fire at exactly the same time and weapon cycle on and off and energy is almost always returning back to it's normal set value (100 in this case), this is not exactly true. But it's close enough to understand the concept.
Again, let's say I am firing 3 Dual Heavy Cannons at 100 Weapon power. 1 fires at 100 weapon power, 2 fire at 88 weapon power, and 3 fire at 76 weapon power. Make sense? This doesn't matter which energy type you're using. You can have a 6 Turret ship with one of each of the six energy types, it still will have the same energy drain as if it was 6 phaser turrets.
However from an economy of skill points and console bonuses, it is usually advisable to stick to one energy type to increase DPS.
Sticking to one energy type, disruptors, for example would let you run disruptor coil tactical consoles to benefit all of your energy weapons. When spending your skill points, having only one energy type will take fewer skill points than having to buff multiple.
really, then why do another half of the posters tell users to search for it? When they do who cares what the age is.
For instance, AP has changed from having a Shield Bypass proc to just high criticals. And since summer, weapon power has changed a couple of times with weapon systems.