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aetam1
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This is just a little heads up, I already filed a bug report.
Unfortunately since the patch they no longer use beam fire at will or beam overload. I noticed it during a parse when neither showed up. So I created a private challenge with a friend to take a closer look:
The pets do try. They have the beam overload buff but it does not trigger. They shoot normal beams and after 30sec the buff disappeares. Since it does have a 30sec reuse they will recast it immediately. So they are flying around with a constant beam overload buff that never fires.
Now there is fire at will. They do try to use that too. So for 10sec they will have the faw and the overload buff on them. I suppose that should not be possible in the first place. But neither of them triggers. So basically romulan drone ships fly around firing normal beam arrays without any special abilities.
I might add that I saw it used once one a parse since the patch. So maybe there is some way that they still use it. But under controlled testing with a friend I was not able to make them use either ability. Maybe you can get them to use faw if you subnuc bo. Might be worth a try.
Unfortunately since the patch they no longer use beam fire at will or beam overload. I noticed it during a parse when neither showed up. So I created a private challenge with a friend to take a closer look:
The pets do try. They have the beam overload buff but it does not trigger. They shoot normal beams and after 30sec the buff disappeares. Since it does have a 30sec reuse they will recast it immediately. So they are flying around with a constant beam overload buff that never fires.
Now there is fire at will. They do try to use that too. So for 10sec they will have the faw and the overload buff on them. I suppose that should not be possible in the first place. But neither of them triggers. So basically romulan drone ships fly around firing normal beam arrays without any special abilities.
I might add that I saw it used once one a parse since the patch. So maybe there is some way that they still use it. But under controlled testing with a friend I was not able to make them use either ability. Maybe you can get them to use faw if you subnuc bo. Might be worth a try.
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These drones were great and they've even broke them thanks cryptic
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Since there are three versions of these drones, maybe the problem is limited to a single version? The elite drones had their cooldowns reduced in the last patch.
* Using Elite Romulan Drones, and they do no use FAW or BO at all.
* The Elite Drones also seem to be affected by the "known issues" from the patch list where active pets get replaced with the hangar launch button, making the whole experience thing useless for them.
I did a sample Infected: The Cure parse earlier, and the results back up this bug report:
http://i.imgur.com/HIOJ59c.jpg
Normally, the FAW3 of the elite drones get rolled into my own FAW3, so at a glance, it's not easy to see. I know that I get around 13-14k dps from the combined FAW's though, so it's a significant reduction. More importantly however, is the lack of Beam Overload anywhere on the parse.
So, I don't know if this bug exists on the regular and advanced drones, but it does for sure on the Elite ones.
Tip:
If you use the plugin STO_ACT on this page http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=584871 there are options for displaying damage from pets as a separate category.
http://imgur.com/n692byF
No faw, no bo
Edit: Another parse from a Klingon fleet alert, with a different char:
http://imgur.com/s1mHwhY
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Elite drones have the same problem as advanced drones:
http://imgur.com/QvBnWMz,OHjSziS#0
Normal drones have no problem and are working fine:
http://imgur.com/QvBnWMz,OHjSziS#1
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I haven't really noticed this problem. I'll point out though, that, as frigates, you'd never need to replace part of a wing of drones. Thus you should never need to hit the launch button until a drone is dead, whereupon it should replace the dead drone only.
That's how it's been working for me anyway. I get drones to level 4-5 easily in the maps with less flying around. There is a problem keeping them around in maps like Azure Nebula Rescue and The Vault: Ensnared. They just seem to get left behind and disappear from the UI window.
I could just manually launch them yes, but that would be a workaround, rather than have it be working as intended. If it was working as intended, then hitting the hangar button when I have two active frigates would just mean that no new frigate would be launched, if there were already two of them out.
maybe they can fix it fast if they know where the problem is.
I can see them activate the skill and it on it's timer, but none of the FAW or BO or EptS actually trigger.
Anyways I went back to the regular drone as a weaker ship that's easier to kill but with functioning skills is more effective than a drone that although tougher has no skills at all.
Because they have 3 beam arrays that means they can outaggro almost anyone except a beam boat.
I can't see how they can fix that unless they put a modifier that lowers the amount of aggro they achieve with each hit.
As said above Dil store for advanced , Elites require a tier 5 fleet and depending on your fleet it will require you to be a certain rank within the fleet to purchase fleet items.
that being said, i can't wait to get them!!
Is there any update on the situation? Do you need any additional information? And I probably should have said that sooner but: thanks for looking into it
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Cool, thanks!
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oh well ..something to be checked i guess .
edit: Just ran an STF and the Advanced Drone ship skills all work. Thanks archoncryptic!