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kaeaja
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Okay in regards to these two Boff abilities I need to know, at Rank III which of these abilities actually has the greatest damage potential with torpedos like Quantum and Transphasics? Cause Ive seen Torp Spread II fire more torpedos then High Yield Torp III so I can only imagine the amount of hurt you would put out with Torp Spread III so could someone give me some clarification please?
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TS3 is a rare boff ability and cannot be trained.. you can get the boff that has it from one of the JH missions.
i know on quantums, HY3 shoots one more torp then HY2.. but TS3 does shoot a lot more then TS2.
[12:44] Vessel One of Two Unimatrix 01 deals 1019527 (1157678) Kinetic Damage to you with Plasma Energy Bolt Explosion.
What Torp spread is great at is launching a bunch of slightly weakened torps (but overall more powerful than a single, lone torp) at a bunch of targets. Combined with Area of Effect energy weapon attacks, it's pretty effective at shredding lots of enemies, especially weak ones like Borg probes, etc.
If you're flying an escort that's only carrying rapid-fire cannon skills and other single-target abilities, High Yield torpedo is what you wanna go with. Great way to capitalize on knocking down the enemy shields.
This character is going to be my first foray into PvP once she hit''s 50, so that can all change as I learn how to die less.
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How can I go about getting a Boff that has the Torp Spread 3 ability or can train one of my other Boffs with it?
JH missions as in Jem'Hadar?
High Yield does less damage per torpedo but overall more damage due to number of torpedos,
HY3 = 294% of normal single torpedo meaning 9,200 average damge per HY3 volley.
TS3 = 8 torpedos on upto 5 targets in firing arc total of upto 25,000 damage per target.
With this said the Spread skill doesn't actually impact on the hulls of targets, they detonate at a close range to provide splash damage instead of direct damage, this results in lower actual damage done per target but still more than a basic single torpedo.
Also take into consideration that shields and the targets defense/kinetic resistance reduces actual damage done.
[12:44] Vessel One of Two Unimatrix 01 deals 1019527 (1157678) Kinetic Damage to you with Plasma Energy Bolt Explosion.
Where does it say that the torps dont actually impact on the hull?
Watch the vfx on TS. Projectiles are very clearly proximity bursting, instead of directly impacting.
as others have said, except one guy >.>
TS is multi target, it's damage potential is higher than HY only because it spreads the damage out vs multiple, so you do more just not to a single target.
hy is a single target killer, it can be a single destructable torp, or multiple torps depending on torp type.
currently, the server is occasionally lazy and calcs crit for one torp and it applies to all. so a TS could crit with every torp vs every target. they're supposed to be rolled per torp.
also think that was one of the server stability patches...under heavy load dump off per torp calcs for simpler and less intensive group calc.
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Do the mission "Facility 4028" from the Cardassian Struggle for the Jem'Hadar Boff, get the Android boff or find someone who does and will train your officer for you.
HY = Each torp has it's own hit chance, you can end up with the whole mess missing.
TS = 100% hit rate, event he tiny shuttles and fighters get hit.
Damage
HY = 75% normal damage per torp. 2/3/4 per volley.
TS = 50% normal damage 2/3/4 hits per target, 3/4/5 targets.
High Yield with Tricobalt and Plasma = Heavy Torp. Slow moving and tracking but does the full stack in one. but this big thing can be shot down.
Torp Spread with Tricobalt is 1 hit per target.
Cool down is 30sec on both, slow firering torps like Chronoton, Transphasic, Plasma get their DPS doubled with both over normal shots. Faster firing torps like Photon only get a 25% DPS boost.
Transphasic is really nasty with Torp Spread, 40% damage done always goes to hull, so when shields up out of all even with being 50% base damage then Quantum does 150% more then Quantum to the hull.
Also, if you're Romulan, Tovan Khev has the TS3 skill (at least he does for me).
If the Romulans dont have any differences from their fed or Klingon counterparts, then they should have just scrapped the expansion and just brought out a load of Romulan ships at the C-store for fed characters.
Now if the devs want to create a new console......
Create a console that allows us to use both powers on a torp at the same time. Imagine that HYT3 on a Tricobalt Torpedo and it being TS3 so there are three... without FAW3 could you shoot them all down before they hit you?
What do you mean by FAW3?
This bug is really easy to get around. Fed officers can train any Romulan characters so long as there is already a Fed Boff in the roster for that category (Tactical, Science, Engineering).
For example :
Commander A has 6 boff, 5 of which are Romulan and 1 Fed Tactical boff in the candidates roster. Because there is only one Fed boff, he/she can't train any of the Rom boff.
However, if you add another Fed Tactical boff to the roster, it will allow you to select "Train Up" and the list will include the other Fed tactical boff and any Romulan tactical boff in the list.
Effectively, you need at least one Fed boff in all 3 category in order to train all your Rom boff.
Given that Fed Boff are much better suited for ground missions as most, if not all their traits are ground based, it makes sense to include them in the roster. My Rom toon received a team of 3 very rare boff from my Fed toon, a Vulcan Tactical (Superior Nerve pinch) and two Bajoran (Superior Soldier) and Betazoid Engineers (Superior Pacification) - they have since become the backbone of the Rom commander's ground team, aiding him and Tovan in ground missions. At the same time, their presence allow all Rom boff to be properly retrained.
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Figured, thanks
2.HY3 Omega Energy Bolt(or any other plasma torp)
3. ....
4.synchronized/chain-exploding ships.
Any other damage type.. you're probably better off just using Torpedo Spread.. unless you're a super-specialized single-target siege ship/want to avoid needless aggro.
It's getting increasingly difficult to impede and slow/hold NPCs and players in the game due to EPtE spam, APO and etc. Even Borg Spheres are moving so fast such that GW is almost obsolete. I have seen slow Fed Cruisers chaining EPtE one after the other that make the Romulan / Omega Torps unable to catch them before expiration.
Due to this trend swing, I think the balance is tipping back towards non-destructible projectiles. In my Fed toon, I use Romulan Hyper Plasma torp to complement the Transphasics. My Rom toon can't access the Hyper Plasma torp yet as it is much later on the Rep tree but am having second thoughts about deploying it due to the changes I am seeing in LoR. Torpedo Spread on non-destructible torps will ensure no matter how agile or evasive the target is, including those chaining EPtE, will be hit, even if they manage to skip some 30+KM away after being fired on or even if they subspace jump somewhere else, the torps will literarly do a 180 turn and catch them.
To my knowledge there is not a single npc that makes use of APO. Runners using EPtE are still quite easily corralled, so long as you don't naively expect a single science power to magically CC anything and everything.