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kingstonalan
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Is it a bad idea? with power drain issues and all? 
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Even with my op energy set up i can't sustain that kind of brute fire power i can barely keep six above 100 and dip constantly into 95 before pushing back up if i had seven or 8 i'd be red lining all day. .
Go six at most seven if you're daring but never 8 give your ship a break lol... yeah six and a torp or a mine or something.
Would not the DEM energy drain buffing DOffs be better?
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I run the full maco mk 12 set with eptw 1 and 2 and the oddy set fed side aswell as the bort set kdf side and run the red matter capacitor. Through out all my testing I have better over all sustained dps with this broadside setup vs with a torp aft and fore.
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MACO Shields should be a big help for such a build, particularly if you're taking fire to trigger Power Conduit Link stacking.
If you use the Borg console plus the Kinetic Cutting Beam the two-piece proc would make it even easier to maintain power levels.
Interesting, not heard of those. What type/profession of DOff has that?
I'm trying to remember, but I think the main point of using the EpT cooldown DOff was to run EPtW and EPtS at the same time, so you don't compromise tanking for more firepower.
The DEM DOFF is nice. I tested those way back when the Temporal lockbox first came out. Equipping even one can hugely reduce your drain. Heck, I did some tests where using 3 of these DOFFs (they're System Engineers btw), and Nadeon Inversion, firing 3 DHCs, 4 turrets, and a BO 3 from a DBB all at once did NOT drain any power, or if it did, it was such a little amount so as to not matter.
All that said, it does take up 1-3 DOFF slots, you HAVE to use DEM, and it only lasts for 8 seconds of DEM.
What i think i disagree with and i know many ppl do it is using 1 or 2 copies of EPtW.I consider them a waste of boff slots assuming you have your weapon setting at 125 by other means,which i believe should be the case when someone uses beam builds..The only case i would chain 2 emptw would be if my effective weapon setting was around 85-100.In that case emptw has a real purpose in my build.Ofcourse this argument is based on each person's perspective of the matter.
Its also very viable and perharps more effective dmg wise using 5 beams + kinetic + 2 torpedo launchers fore,aft.This build however is more difficult to master for an engineer in a cruiser than a pure beam boat due to the specific conditions that should exist at a specific moment for the torpedos to be really effective.Also its more expensive skill wise,though in the future with the increase in skill cap this shouldn't be an issue anymore.
A pure beam cruiser (7beams) is viable\effective IMHO but only for engineers & with omega weapon amplifier.Personal style might also has to do with build composition.I'm finding hard even after all this time to decide if pure beam cruiser or 5beam + 2torp is more appropriate for my style,i like both so still experimenting.Omega weapon amplifier is simply a standard, i don't remove it for any reason.
An alternative path is using Marion Francis Dulmur who gives a tremendous power drain resistance upon using DEM. You can stack 3 of him, and use 2 copies of DEM, perhaps with the 2 slots you saved using DCEs,
I run 2 purple DCE, and it's still only about 50% of the time that they proc. It's not a stacking 35%, it's 35/100 applied twice. But this is the best way to go. However I would still run two copies just to be safe (provided you are stuck with an engi heavy cruiser).
Which, mathematically, comes to a 57.75% chance of at least one procing. Which agrees nicely with your 50% estimate.
Heh... not quite what I meant. It does the same thing as projectile weapons officers. It does 35/100 from base chance, then 35/100 from base chance again. There is no stacking of any kind from what I can tell. But we would need actual stats from a coder/dev in order to confirm or deny this.
There's no reason not to just grab two EPtW1 and two EPtS3, keeping both active 100% of the time. Slot in three Shield Distribution DOffs instead and never have your shields go down.
I agree with the others that 8 Beam Arrays is kind of silly now though, what with the Kinetic Cutting Beam. 7 BAs + 1 KCB is the way to go.
Haven't blown a cruiser/beam boat in a very very long time though.
TMI, my good man, TMI.
And how is that physically poss......nevermind I don't want to know.
j/k man, ain't typos grand?