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Warp core, power levels and what that means for PvP
deokkent
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All in all, I'm a little concerned lol.
I fly a fleet patrol escort, committed all the good traits and I bought a warp core to boost my engines and shields from the dil store.
My current power levels are, after all the bonuses and warp core upgrades:
~125 weapons/~125shields/~90 engines/~50 auxpower
I don't even own a plasmonic leech yet.
I can keep these levels up pretty consistently cycling two diffent eptx, as long as I don't get sub nuked. Also, I'm not kidding myself, I know I'm a new kid on the PvP block so I'm sure someone will get even better power levels with careful minmaxing. I get worried thinking about how the l33t PvP gods will now become totally unkillable, more so than they were before.
edit: After reviewing the thread, it seems I might have confused a few folks. I get this much power after all bonuses and eptx powers activated (2), which I cycle with 3 purple damage control doffs.
I fly a fleet patrol escort, committed all the good traits and I bought a warp core to boost my engines and shields from the dil store.
My current power levels are, after all the bonuses and warp core upgrades:
~125 weapons/~125shields/~90 engines/~50 auxpower
I don't even own a plasmonic leech yet.
I can keep these levels up pretty consistently cycling two diffent eptx, as long as I don't get sub nuked. Also, I'm not kidding myself, I know I'm a new kid on the PvP block so I'm sure someone will get even better power levels with careful minmaxing. I get worried thinking about how the l33t PvP gods will now become totally unkillable, more so than they were before.
edit: After reviewing the thread, it seems I might have confused a few folks. I get this much power after all bonuses and eptx powers activated (2), which I cycle with 3 purple damage control doffs.
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I am curious how you are getting there without EPtW though.
9 in Warp Core Efficiency/Potential, Shield Performance, Weapon Performance
6 in Engine Performance
0 in Aux Performance
My power levels run at 125/74/52/40.
I'm curious to know what yours runs at without your EPtX abilities.
Don't forget to go custom for the x/15 instead of x/25.
Don't forget to add 2x BOFFs for 2x 7.5 to get the +30 for Efficiency rather than +15.
Etc, etc, etc...
Well without EPtX1, subtract 18, EPtX2 is 22 and EPtX3 is 30? I think those are the numbers but I cannot check at work as the firewall here thinks STO Wiki is a TRIBBLE site :P
Anyway, take 22 from shield power and 18 from engine and you're lookin at roughly the same numbers you got.
When I was running EPtW1 and EPtS3 on my eng pre-LoR, my power levels were set to 85 weapon and 75 (I think) shield.
Each of these builds are vulnerable to sub nukes though, but that's what you save EM for I suppose
You know how Weapon Subsystem Power affects your damage, right?
You know how Weapon Drain affects your Weapon Subsystem Power, right?
With OP's 9 points in EPS, it's quite a bit more, add about 50% to the numbers you substract.
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Don't make ARC mandatory! Keep it optional only!
Though, for some reason, the calculator says I should be getting 2 more Aux power than what I'm actually getting.
Yes yes. I should have said base numbers
I did say I couldn't check the wiki though :P
People already tried to have EPtS nerfed into oblivion - the backlash was significant enough that they rolled back the changes.
This was while the devs were "balancing" the EPtX abilities for this "upgrade."
And if you check live now and compare it to the patch notes you'll see that a very different system was implemented -
Now, it seems, all EPtX abilities get 30 second buffs on top of the power boost.
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BOFF Efficiency still only provides +7,5. Only Captain Efficiency was doubled (included in the Efficient Captain trait and in the Borg racial trait).
It's for the spreadsheet.
Efficient gives +15 on the spreadsheet.
BOFF Efficient gives +7.5 on the spreadsheet.
To get the +30 that the game gives now, you need to select Efficient and 2x BOFF Efficient to get the +15 & +7.5 x2 for +30...
edit: Unless the spreadsheet has been updated very recently.
I am sorry, I made a typo in my previous post (corrected now). Here is the clarification:
Captain Efficiency (+Borg racial trait for Liberated Borg captains) was updated in LoR as follows: +15 -> +30 pts
BOFF Efficiency was unchanged in LoR, it still gives +7,5.
Thanks for linking to my Calc, Virusdancer. You'll be happy to know that I just loaded an update this afternoon to cover the changes for Legacy of Romulus. I'd appreciate any feedback/comments you may have, in that thread. Thanks!
Shookyang, please download the latest version and see if you're still experiencing the excess +2 Aux. If you are, post a reply in my thread with what you're selecting and I'll debug the problem.
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Do you even Science Bro?
"Working as intended" has always translated to... "we have no idea where the code is" for Cryptic.
You have both Emergency Power to Shields and Emergency Power to Engines up in that picture. What is your base power levels without buffs?
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http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=653221
That was focused on the shield power aspect, and was before we learnt some more of what we have now, but it's there.
Won't it be fun when people really do start hitting higher tier Nukara rep and getting gear from that, including the Nukara space sets. The console gives a +5, then the engine (or one of the pieces) gets a flat bonus and then an extra efficiency bonus on top of that all for shields (similar to the Jem'hader set, one of it's pieces gives a bonus to weapon power).
Min-max it right, and you could easily see max weapons, nearly-max or max shields, and higher constant engines or aux.
To add a similar point to what Maicake said:
Remember, engineers are supposed to be some kind of master's of power by being able to get more power than the others, which seems to be totally pointless considering that everyone can get heaps of power anyways.
I dont know why those console are or should be in game.Its good to have many items to choose from ,but its not good to have many stuffs around just for the sake of it.
As for power levels ,warp cores and leech ...well ,my cruiser is cool now
Yes not its even more fun to dogfight in escorts .All ships feel more alive now.