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assimilatedktar
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Areh the warp cores on this screenshot all that are available? My Aventine build pretty much depends on a [W->A] core now, and grinding up to elite all by myself is not an option. Also a shame that they don't give speeds past warp 10, that would have made a bunch of endgame sets more worthwhile.
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Sometimes, if you want to bury the hatchet with a Klingon, it has to be in his skull. - Captain K'Tar of the USS Danu about J'mpok.
Sometimes, if you want to bury the hatchet with a Klingon, it has to be in his skull. - Captain K'Tar of the USS Danu about J'mpok.
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I'm not looking for aux to anything, I'm looking for weapons to aux. My Aventine runs with full weapons power, gets the synergy bonus to Aux and adds that again to damage with the T4 Tholian rep ability. It also gives pretty decent TSS, HE, FBP and Heavy Graviton Beam, and as I said: Solo grinding to elite is not an option.:D Even though I've seen a screenshot of at least on that has [W->A]
Ah, so you have the upgrade project already running.:) I hope the guy who made the screenshot just missed it.
Sometimes, if you want to bury the hatchet with a Klingon, it has to be in his skull. - Captain K'Tar of the USS Danu about J'mpok.
I too run weapon power + aux for the tholian t4 rep bonus. It has the added bonus of improving my healing. As a hybrid tank, this works wonders.
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useless sci consoles? here, have some bonus negative threat
useless engi consoles? here have some defense bonus
noone uses anything but weapon power at max? here have some warp cores benefiting from not weapon power
it wouldabeen more straight forward to just fix the balance in its core, but atleast they are trying, right?!
10k DPS Vesta threads: 1; 2
Sometimes, if you want to bury the hatchet with a Klingon, it has to be in his skull. - Captain K'Tar of the USS Danu about J'mpok.
Right, if you don't have completed Mine I you can't access the store, thats pretty... idiotic (sorry)... you have to unlock Vendors & Requisitions, and THEN you have to pay 5k+ Fleetmarks + several millions in commoditys to unlock access to said vendors.
"If you refuse to use the fleet system the way it is intended and choose to form a fleet entirely by yourself, you have no right to complain about the fleet rewards system"
Seriously people, either buy into fleets or don't.
Thanks, I guess I get me a few Romulan science consoles first and wait with the mine until I know if there are any [W->A] warp cores on the advanced level.
Well excuse me for most other fleet members leaving for bigger fleets and the only remaining one for having a life.:rolleyes: I have no problem with only unlocking low-end fleet stuff, however unlocking stores and then having to build them after that is a new tier of stupid that wasn't there in earlier holdings.
Sometimes, if you want to bury the hatchet with a Klingon, it has to be in his skull. - Captain K'Tar of the USS Danu about J'mpok.
I used to, i was a long time top contributor until i was deeply disappointed by decisions made, i considered it "unworthy" for further contributions from my side.
And i dont have a problem with the reward system, everything including tier 4 (starbase) and Tier II (Embassy/Mine) IS easily doeable with some efforts (that's enough for me, really!), it's just unlogical, i have unlocked development I a few hours ago and will unlock trade i in 4 days ~20h, so i have unlocked the trader, and will provide my first 5 fleet cores in ~17h but i have to wait ~10 days to access them? (not to mention the daily DOFF jobs and horta DOFFs) ... why? it is not mentioned in the explanation Text of neither the Mine, nor the projects.
Suggestions for Cryptic: Add "-provide access to store NPC's" to the "Unlocks:Mine Interior" Text in the Dilithium Mine "Status" Tab for Tier I.
imo it is just simply due to the nukara passive bonus, because then w->a would be a nobrainer
altho I am fairly confident, that there will be an even better option with another reputation along the way, that will grant a probably way stronger-higher bonus than the w->a would with the aux nukara rep bonus, and then if we asked for w->a, we would not get it anyway
10k DPS Vesta threads: 1; 2
Thanks for the info. Guess I can write off the resources I put into development so far.
Funny, so do the Elite Fleet warp cores, yet they have [W->A] variants.:rolleyes:
http://i.imgur.com/yg9CVV5h.jpg
Sometimes, if you want to bury the hatchet with a Klingon, it has to be in his skull. - Captain K'Tar of the USS Danu about J'mpok.
I doubt this was done for balance. There are two elite fleet warp cores with [W->A] and warp cores on the Exchange with [W->A]. If the devs thought [W->A] was too strong, then there wouldn't be other warp cores with [W->A]. I think they just chose the modifiers arbitrarily, just as they did with the traits for the embassy boffs. See the following posts on how the traits for the embassy boffs were chosen:
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=8233721&postcount=75
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=8239551&postcount=79
I think they should just create an interface that allows us to specify which modifiers we want.
of the 15 or so only 2 have [eff] and 2 that have [W->A]
my build relies on eff and [W->A], so i feel your pain
if they dont add more variety, i might suck it up and buy a purple mk11 off the exchange
Amusing posts, especially this:
Boy, it would have been too hard to give the Federation and KDF Romulan BOs that they could customize.:rolleyes:
That sounds like what crafting should be like.:o
Sometimes, if you want to bury the hatchet with a Klingon, it has to be in his skull. - Captain K'Tar of the USS Danu about J'mpok.
I agree that we should be able to choose modifiers for crafted items too. I think all stores where we purchase gear for dilithium (or an equivalent) should work this way.
Fleet stuff has always been better then say purple XI/XII gear but not in this kase
-V
That does not make any sense for DPS or Science ship builds, maybe for tanking cruisers but thats about it. On a DPS ship your weapons power should always be set to 125. Yes firing weapons drops it, but depending on your setup you should be bottoming out at 80-100 weapons power. Your shields on the other hand will be steady yes, but maybe in the 60s, same for engines. So therefor I am left with the choice of having 7.5% of weapons power which will be between 80 and 125 depending on the circumstance or I can have 7.5% of a power level that is a constant about 65. That's not exactly a hard choice.
Likewise on a sci ship depending on your build you should have your aux levels at 100-125, and there isn't much that will cause a significant or long term drop to that.
My weapons power level only drops a few points lower than shields for a few seconds if I use Beam Overload. Otherwise it's always a lot higher than shields, unless I use EPtS. (For the record I have shields at 74, weapons at 125 and while I broadside with FaW in a fleet alert my power level never drops below 90.)
Sometimes, if you want to bury the hatchet with a Klingon, it has to be in his skull. - Captain K'Tar of the USS Danu about J'mpok.
Not sure if you understand how things work. I personally use W->S because I love running around in my escort with 125/101 weapon/shield power and with the lack of W->S that fleet cores offer I personally don't see myself buying any because not one is the spec I need. I can not believe all combinations are not available. Guess that's better for me; still means I can make money off warp core making.
Judging from the screen shots I'd be looking for a fleet reinforced core [eff] [W>A] [AMP]
No such thing (yet?) exists though
Thou shalt read what is written before posting. I wrote that when I use Beam Overload it drops my weapon power only a few points below the unbuffed shield power. (And that's even possibly moot now since I am experimenting with Attack Patterns in its stead.)
Yeah, I prefer a bonus that scales of 90-125 unbuffed weapon power to one that scales of 74 shield power that can be buffed with EPtS.
Funny, first you write that it depends on skills and presets, then you write that W-> is bad. It's not. It's bad for some builds and best for others. For my Aventine and my play style it's the best option. Period.
Sometimes, if you want to bury the hatchet with a Klingon, it has to be in his skull. - Captain K'Tar of the USS Danu about J'mpok.
3 base types
6 options for the first mod
12 possible power-transfer combinations
4 types of battery
4 options for slipstream/transwarp boost
Multiply those up for a total of 3,456 different combinations for a purple mk 11-12. Is it any wonder the store doesn't have every single one?
Going to disagree with you. Like others have said here...W>A is not a good idea. What you need for a max wep power build on that vesta is ??>W. I run a fleet warp core with A>W and before installing warp core I preset my wep power to 125, installed that new core, and unlocked the wep and aux power tabs, and began dragging my wep down as the aux filled up. It stayed at 125 wep power for awhile, and eventually got my aux to raise to 90. So now I run with 125 weps, 75 shields, 65 engines and 90 aux. I also specced 6 into flow cap and run the leech. In combat my power levels hover in the 90's-100 range.
No problems whatsoever. Forget W>A, go with A>W. Try it at least before you say it doesnt work. And if you need to use an aux battery to bump you all the way if your not there already from the leech, then use one.
Funny, I have all the energy skills maxed out, two efficient BOs and a Captain who's a Warp Theorist, the Assimilated Module and the Zero-Point Energy Conduit. (Absolutely no interest in using Leech or Battery, sorry. The MACO shield bonus is enough for me.) With an Overcharged Warp Core with [Eff] and [W->A] I have 125 weapon power, 73 shields, 54 engines and 78 auxiliary. Using the same warp core just with [A->W] and lowering the weapon power as you said leaves me with 125 weapons, 73 shields, 54 engines and 72 Auxiliary.
With the W->A 125 weapon power gives me a boost of 9,375 points to my aux. In the extremely rare case that my weapon power drops to 90 due to drain the bonus is still 6,75. Meaning the Aux power drops by 3 (rounded up). 78-3 is still better than 72. So I am sorry but you are wrong. For my build a W->A warp core is better. Proving it just cost me 450,000 EC.
Sometimes, if you want to bury the hatchet with a Klingon, it has to be in his skull. - Captain K'Tar of the USS Danu about J'mpok.