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Attack Pattern DOFFs

freedumb4evafreedumb4eva Member Posts: 269
edited September 2012 in PvP Gameplay
ATM, I feel as if the most game breaking DOFF is by far the Attack Pattern DOFF.

This DOFF allows Escort pilots, and possibly other vessels, to have a virtually infinite duration on Attack Pattern Omega.

The ridiculous speed and defense boost, damage increase, and tractor immunity allowed to players with three of these DOFFs, imo, is game breaking. (For PvP.)

Players without these DOFFs simply CANNOT compete against those with (opinion)... If this is intended then so be it.

As a player without them, I find it almost impossible to kill those with the DOFFs. It is about as bad as not being able to break through stacked mitigation.

If there is a strategy that I am missing, please enlighten me.
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  • fakehilbertfakehilbert Member Posts: 252 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    The pattern doffs don't reduce APO below its global of 30s. This means that the uptime is limited to 50% which you can also get on every escort by simply equipping two copies of APO.
  • freedumb4evafreedumb4eva Member Posts: 269
    edited September 2012
    Thanks for pointing that out for me.
  • husanakxhusanakx Member Posts: 1,608 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    Well that isn't completely true .... the real way to go...

    Is one Omega one Delta... this means you can have a perfect rotation of omega delta omega delta. Yes with out the doffs you can run 2 omegas with a delta in between.. however it won't be a perfect rotation and you do gain a boff slot.

    Are they game breaking... in light of BFI doffs and new Extend doffs... and the ability to have 2 EPTx abilites act like 4.... na there not game breaking.
  • trueprom3theustrueprom3theus Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    I'd also like to point that w doffs, you have few more secs of cool down than without doffs (in case of only apo). With doffs you have about 17-20 cooldown in between omegas, versus 2 apo when you have 15. But you get the benefit of running apo3. So IMO its a fair trade. Anyways those doffs are not as bad as the subnuc and bfi. Even with 2 bfi (and 3 attack patterns) I still get a full shield heal most of the time.
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  • bitemepwebitemepwe Member Posts: 6,760 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    husanakx wrote: »
    Well that isn't completely true .... the real way to go...

    Is one Omega one Delta... this means you can have a perfect rotation of omega delta omega delta. Yes with out the doffs you can run 2 omegas with a delta in between.. however it won't be a perfect rotation and you do gain a boff slot.

    Are they game breaking... in light of BFI doffs and new Extend doffs... and the ability to have 2 EPTx abilites act like 4.... na there not game breaking.

    Thanks for pointing that out to me.

    Whats the AP DOff called? STOwiki is broken for me and I'm having an issue finding more info for my records. Can you link it?
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  • freedumb4evafreedumb4eva Member Posts: 269
    edited September 2012
    Conn Officer - Zemok Jenro
  • bitemepwebitemepwe Member Posts: 6,760 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    Conn Officer - Zemok Jenro

    tHANKS, MNAY TAHNKS
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  • trueprom3theustrueprom3theus Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    bitemepwe wrote: »
    tHANKS, MNAY TAHNKS

    The way I "shop" exchange is look for purple (very rare) duty officer <whatever the branch is>, many times there are good alternatives, like before the flux of subnuc doffs, I paid 40 mil for one, when most were 100+. Also, just got an efficient tac lethean for less than 10k. Lol. It's worth looking on exchange every now and then.
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  • thishorizonthishorizon Member Posts: 1,158
    edited September 2012
    hey, someone give me 300 million creds, i need to try this thing out.
  • shookyangshookyang Member Posts: 1,122
    edited September 2012
    i saw the Conn Officer with the AP reduction for 18mil last night.

    Several of them, in fact. For Feds, of course.

    But, it's only a 15% reduction, no?
  • ussultimatumussultimatum Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    hey, someone give me 300 million creds, i need to try this thing out.

    Zemok is currently about 17-20 mill on the exchange, and as the supply of Elite Gamma packs begins to dwindle the price will rise. (gone with the Cardassian box)
  • ussultimatumussultimatum Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    shookyang wrote: »

    But, it's only a 15% reduction, no?

    Per DOFF.

    You can slot 3 Conn DOFFs total.
  • shookyangshookyang Member Posts: 1,122
    edited September 2012
    husanakx wrote: »
    Are they game breaking... in light of BFI doffs and new Extend doffs... and the ability to have 2 EPTx abilites act like 4.... na there not game breaking.
    Which DOFFs are these?
  • shookyangshookyang Member Posts: 1,122
    edited September 2012
    Per DOFF.

    You can slot 3 Conn DOFFs total.
    True, but I think I find the Shield Distro doffs more useful.
  • syboksybok Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    Conn Officer - Zemok Jenro


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  • beary666stobeary666sto Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    Or instead, you could run 3 technicians with Aux2Batt, get the same cooldown on your Attack Patterns and also reduce all of you science heals to System Cooldown and all that jazz
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  • dant158#3249 dant158 Member Posts: 11 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    Per DOFF.

    You can slot 3 Conn DOFFs total.

    But you only need 2, at the low, low cost of carrying a beta/delta in the gap ;)
  • marctraiderzmarctraiderz Member Posts: 539 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    SNB are way better, use 3 stacked man whoohoo :O
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