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How DEF put a bullet in STO, and ACC buried it.
thissler
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The original design concept was actually brilliant. Right off the bat, I'm going to say most of you didn't get it then, don't get it now, and won't get it after reading this. And I'm going to give you samples of game mechanics and samples of player behavior in contradiction of those mechanics and you STILL won't get it.
Here's a tip. If you EVER used the terms "bleed, pressure, or per second as modifiers of the word 'damage' you don't get it. So if you find that statement offensive, assuming you're reading this after the first paragraph, this post really isn't for you.
Here's a second and final tip. If you're still here. Dual Heavy Cannons aren't poorly designed. They are superbly designed. They are not the problem. Thinking that they ARE the problem really just means you don't know. Dual Heavy Cannons are fine. If you disagree with that in any degree, well you're wrong.
So. At launch it was actually very difficult if not impossible to kill someone one on one. Assuming both players were awake. And equally practiced and geared. Under that set of circumstances there would be no quick kills. If you're unsure of that and I'm sure you are just go check out the acc and def table, bring a pen and some paper and do a bit of quick math. What you will find is that there was no way to LAND enough damage fast enough to solo kill another ship within a cooldown cycle.
Oftentimes that is mistaken for ships healing being OP. Thats not the case. Or that resistances are too high. Also not the case. What was and is the case is that under normal circumstances DEF was higher than ACC and therefore hit rates and crit rates were comfortably low. That's just a fact. Go check it. Or don't. Your call.
So. The only ways to reliably rob a ship of DEF was to use the abilities that due to the initial bridge officer layouts were restricted to Cruisers or Science ships. There is still to this day one glaring exception. By some strange ****ed up move, TSS abilities were moved to tactical (along with mines) giving them a seriously unintended ability. But whatever. Small potatoes. Most people took the target shields route as no one knew exactly how good it was to **** someones engines. So it was intended that all the good CC went to the non tacs who would then play the part of setting others up for the kill. It wasn't so much rock paper scissors as it was two beats one. Bring a friend, you win.
So this took a bit of teamwork that no one really wanted or understood. Every once in awhile you'll hear someone talking about the "trinity" of 'dps, tank, healing". Yah whatever. Never in the history of STO was that part of the design. Every ship is perfectly capable of dealing with the damage that it could be expected to take by itself. They just have different methods of doing this. This doesn't make certains ships healers or tanks.
It was always damage and CC.
Anyway. If an unpracticed Federation player sat still on a point in Cap and Hold and got SPLATTERED well that's because they robbed themselves of defense. So that doesn't count. And that's what happened. Over and over again. Or cruisers just inching along. Or escorts stopped dead in space so they wouldn't overshoot the target. No one really understood ACC/DEF that well at the time so who can really blame them?
So ONE KDF BOP could take out 2 or 3 federation players on decloak. Just a fact. Because they would just be sitting still. Fedscorts would be blown out of space because they backed up, or simply stopped dead for a shot.
So there was much unhappy! Game is bwoke! Fix pwease! Well no it wasn't broken, it worked fine. Great even. Just no one was told what the underlying mechanic was. It's a game of movement. Keep moving, keep your defense up where it normally should be, and have a wingman. Life will be good. Yah well that was about to change. Someone fixed what wasn't broken.
Someone added 30% ACC into the game. And that's when **** went really bad. Things go downhill FAST when you make a change like that. They took something that actually was balanced, and the MORE players that were involved the MORE balanced it became, and just kicked it in the nuts. They could NEVER balance it again.
They tried. They tried to balance an avoidance stat with resistances. If you don't know how pathetic it is to even try something like that well now you do. NEVERMIND the fact that the avoidance stat was also tied into crit rate AND crit severity. Sort of like tossing gasoline on a fire. Just not smart.
Just for information, these placates play as avoidance stats as well. Do you like and enjoy placates? Those are avoidance mechanics. Nom Nom Nom! How tasty is that?
Anyway of course there was ONE way to balance it. Take ACC back OUT or give DEF out equally to all players.
For some reason the choice taken was a choice I admit I didn't see coming. Give out huge chunks of crit hit, crit d, and defense to one faction. Oh my. That can't be good. Oh well.
So. Moving on. Where's my beer?
The time it takes to kill a ship in STO is seconds. And that is perfectly acceptable. It is seconds or it is "never". And that's great. The game is designed that for the most part if you are on top of your CD's you're ok. And if you're not you're toast. Sure there's some wiggle room where a ship could take some crazy hits and come back, or could hand out some crazy hits and kill someone else in a freakish manner. That's not the norm but it is the design. That's the function of criticals. But not important now.
What is important is that when you have an imbalance of the availability of stats like acc and def that function at such a basic level, you can never balance by adding abilities to the top. That's not how balance works. Not in systems anyway. You won't balance this by adding Doffs, Boffs, or Gear. The underlying mechanic or the lowest active methods of gaining these abilities must be made equal. High level passives must be abandoned. Seriously that is junk. Make it go away.
Have a cheery day!!!
Here's a tip. If you EVER used the terms "bleed, pressure, or per second as modifiers of the word 'damage' you don't get it. So if you find that statement offensive, assuming you're reading this after the first paragraph, this post really isn't for you.
Here's a second and final tip. If you're still here. Dual Heavy Cannons aren't poorly designed. They are superbly designed. They are not the problem. Thinking that they ARE the problem really just means you don't know. Dual Heavy Cannons are fine. If you disagree with that in any degree, well you're wrong.
So. At launch it was actually very difficult if not impossible to kill someone one on one. Assuming both players were awake. And equally practiced and geared. Under that set of circumstances there would be no quick kills. If you're unsure of that and I'm sure you are just go check out the acc and def table, bring a pen and some paper and do a bit of quick math. What you will find is that there was no way to LAND enough damage fast enough to solo kill another ship within a cooldown cycle.
Oftentimes that is mistaken for ships healing being OP. Thats not the case. Or that resistances are too high. Also not the case. What was and is the case is that under normal circumstances DEF was higher than ACC and therefore hit rates and crit rates were comfortably low. That's just a fact. Go check it. Or don't. Your call.
So. The only ways to reliably rob a ship of DEF was to use the abilities that due to the initial bridge officer layouts were restricted to Cruisers or Science ships. There is still to this day one glaring exception. By some strange ****ed up move, TSS abilities were moved to tactical (along with mines) giving them a seriously unintended ability. But whatever. Small potatoes. Most people took the target shields route as no one knew exactly how good it was to **** someones engines. So it was intended that all the good CC went to the non tacs who would then play the part of setting others up for the kill. It wasn't so much rock paper scissors as it was two beats one. Bring a friend, you win.
So this took a bit of teamwork that no one really wanted or understood. Every once in awhile you'll hear someone talking about the "trinity" of 'dps, tank, healing". Yah whatever. Never in the history of STO was that part of the design. Every ship is perfectly capable of dealing with the damage that it could be expected to take by itself. They just have different methods of doing this. This doesn't make certains ships healers or tanks.
It was always damage and CC.
Anyway. If an unpracticed Federation player sat still on a point in Cap and Hold and got SPLATTERED well that's because they robbed themselves of defense. So that doesn't count. And that's what happened. Over and over again. Or cruisers just inching along. Or escorts stopped dead in space so they wouldn't overshoot the target. No one really understood ACC/DEF that well at the time so who can really blame them?
So ONE KDF BOP could take out 2 or 3 federation players on decloak. Just a fact. Because they would just be sitting still. Fedscorts would be blown out of space because they backed up, or simply stopped dead for a shot.
So there was much unhappy! Game is bwoke! Fix pwease! Well no it wasn't broken, it worked fine. Great even. Just no one was told what the underlying mechanic was. It's a game of movement. Keep moving, keep your defense up where it normally should be, and have a wingman. Life will be good. Yah well that was about to change. Someone fixed what wasn't broken.
Someone added 30% ACC into the game. And that's when **** went really bad. Things go downhill FAST when you make a change like that. They took something that actually was balanced, and the MORE players that were involved the MORE balanced it became, and just kicked it in the nuts. They could NEVER balance it again.
They tried. They tried to balance an avoidance stat with resistances. If you don't know how pathetic it is to even try something like that well now you do. NEVERMIND the fact that the avoidance stat was also tied into crit rate AND crit severity. Sort of like tossing gasoline on a fire. Just not smart.
Just for information, these placates play as avoidance stats as well. Do you like and enjoy placates? Those are avoidance mechanics. Nom Nom Nom! How tasty is that?
Anyway of course there was ONE way to balance it. Take ACC back OUT or give DEF out equally to all players.
For some reason the choice taken was a choice I admit I didn't see coming. Give out huge chunks of crit hit, crit d, and defense to one faction. Oh my. That can't be good. Oh well.
So. Moving on. Where's my beer?
The time it takes to kill a ship in STO is seconds. And that is perfectly acceptable. It is seconds or it is "never". And that's great. The game is designed that for the most part if you are on top of your CD's you're ok. And if you're not you're toast. Sure there's some wiggle room where a ship could take some crazy hits and come back, or could hand out some crazy hits and kill someone else in a freakish manner. That's not the norm but it is the design. That's the function of criticals. But not important now.
What is important is that when you have an imbalance of the availability of stats like acc and def that function at such a basic level, you can never balance by adding abilities to the top. That's not how balance works. Not in systems anyway. You won't balance this by adding Doffs, Boffs, or Gear. The underlying mechanic or the lowest active methods of gaining these abilities must be made equal. High level passives must be abandoned. Seriously that is junk. Make it go away.
Have a cheery day!!!
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I guess I won't bother reading it, then.
That's actually a good call on your part. My intention isn't to frustrate people that aren't capable of grasping concepts. That would be unkind. So I did put some effort into the first three paragraphs, hoping most of those folks would "weed" themselves out.
You sir, made it up to the first hurdle and gave it a good long blank stare. Props.
But you're HAPPY! And therefore I'm happy too!:)
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You realize, the claim that you understand player behavior implied in your opening paragraph is not evinced in your approach, yes?
In my opinion, so much is wrong with the game that I have a hard time seeing where they first cuts and edits need to be made. You seem to lay out a pretty straight forward plan that may fix things and may not, but it's certainly more likely to leave us in a better state than we are at present.
It's terrible but easy, and these Borg are way cooler than the mess STO and Voyager left us.
What you're essentially saying is the system itself, the combat mechanics are busted and no amount of extra bling is going to offset that problem. Right? Or am I way off base here?
I think the only solution is for some dev to go through every console, weapon and ship type and balance it. Probably call on the PVP community to advise and test perhaps. Only problem its never going to happen.
"You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon, taH pagh, taH be"
I don't get that from reading what Thissler said. Sure, I disagreed with some of it - feeling that it is subjective, but a difference of opinions on certain things is a far cry from calling somebody arrogant or condescending.
Seriously?
"Right off the bat, I'm going to say most of you didn't get it then, don't get it now, and won't get it after reading this."
"If you disagree with that in any degree, well you're wrong."
"If you don't know how pathetic it is to even try something like that well now you do."
This is how a smug, contemptible snot expresses himself. Distracts from any dubious merits of the message.
Most folks didn't get it, don't get it, and won't get it. That's just the way it is. That's not arrogance...that's just the way it is.
I had no problem disagreeing with Thissler on that point... /shrug
And? I asked for clarification...
Hrmmm, maybe I've been online for too long - had to deal with people before there was an internet for too long...but uh, hrmm...
...I tend to get in trouble (pesky messages from mods) when somebody's showing a bit too much arrogance. I don't like it - rubs me the wrong way. I mean, seriously - I flip out, it's weird...expletives, farm animals, dead relatives, acts that some folks complain aren't physically possible...yeah, hrmm...
...I didn't do that with Thissler's post.
But hey, again - that's just subjective on my part. Didn't really bother me, but that doesn't mean it can't bother somebody else.
It's terrible but easy, and these Borg are way cooler than the mess STO and Voyager left us.
Yeah, I can see getting upset if it was read in an already defensive manner...but otherwise, it's just what it is, eh?
No I think that award goes to engscorts that use FAW with a single DBB and no attack patterns then argue with everyone trying to tell him his build doesn't work.:rolleyes:
The OP has some interesting insights, I need to read it again.
Maybe it doesn't work for you, but that's your limitation, and you're not flying it.
:P
I think it's best this is settled via PVP as it is obvious words are not enough, we tried to be nice and tell you your build wasn't up to scratch.
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add me and challenge me, beware I pack a rainbow build, 4 biofunction monitors and Mk IX shields
- Gohan (House of Beautiful /Sad Pandas)
Two of my guys run rainbow builds.
1x Elachi Disruptor Beam Array
2x Polarized Disruptor Beam Array
2x Nanite Disruptor Beam Array
1x Plasma-Disruptor Hybrid Beam Array
I'm preparing them for their Voth Carriers and Foundry farming.
Thats not a true rainbow build per say, in a sense they are all the same damage type, rainbow in terms of colour yes but just as lethal
- Gohan (House of Beautiful /Sad Pandas)
First off, Thissler is a chick, not a dude. Secondly, her TRIBBLE does not smell. It's usually odorless, sometimes with a light hint of Daffodils.
Virus,
BAs and DHCs are apples and oranges.
A closer comparison would be 4 DCHs, 3 turrets vs 4 DBB and 3 turrets for pure energy builds, or at least 7-8 BA (w/optional weapon) aux2batt battle cruiser build (dem et al) vs escort build. Or, a single cannon vs BA Battle Cruiser build.
Off topic, I'd be interested in what is benefited more from the Rommy Overdrive Singularity ability a 4-3 escort or 7-8 BA battle cruisers.
Random Quote from Kerrat
"Sumlobus@****: your mums eat Iced Targ Poo"
C&H Fed banter
1) DHCs are unbalanced especially compared to DCs but the amount is not enough to worry about.
2) Avoidance of damage is comparable to resisting damage just more random and prone to 'swings'. The real problem is that while methods exist to reduce an enemies ability to avoid damage in the beginning there is still little or no way to reduce an enemies ability to resist damage to their shields.
3) The original design concept was poor for PvP. The new design concept is still poor for PvP. Attrition style systems work much, much better when properly designed and is why no MMO PvP has ever had nearly the success of MOBAs. This also illustrates that 'scenarios' are much better than simple 'arenas' when it comes to PvP. This is because they have a much better built in 'tolerance' for imbalance while still remaining enjoyable.
Shouldn't Beams, with their built in Accuracy component almost be the equivalent to DHC's with their CrtD Bonus because of Accuracy Overflow?
Think about this:
American Football has been in open beta for 144 years. ~Kotaku
Boo stealth edit.
Anway, ask yourself this, BO DBB double tap forward? Or option for mix of rear BA BO w/forward DBB? Or rear double tap BO w/5DCHs forward? I wouldn't under estimate 50k crits from a BA. And w/things zipping around w/epte changes a player can't count on maintaining close range.
Random Quote from Kerrat
"Sumlobus@****: your mums eat Iced Targ Poo"
C&H Fed banter
Fleet Mogai w/ Romulan Tac Captain
Traits - Accurate, Astrophysicist, Crippling Fire, Elusive, Helmsman, Inspirational, Last Ditch Effort, Operative, Singularity Specialist
Reputation
New Rom - Precision, Sensor Targeting Assault, Quantum Singularity Manipulation
Nukara - Enhanced Shield Penetration, Aux Power Config - Offense, Refracting Tetryon Cascade
Omega - Omega Weapon Training, Omega Graviton Amplifier
TT1, BO2, BO3, APO3
TS1, CRF1
EPtS1, DEM1, EPtW3
ST1, HE2
TB1
(4x Sub/Sup Op, Sub/Infil)
DOFFs - SE(DEM), WCE(Cleanse), EWO(BO), 2x Conn(TT+Acc)
Deflector - Omega Mk XII
Engine - Omega Mk XII
Core - Elite Fleet Reinforced Mk XII [SingA][Jump][SCap][AMP][SSS]
Shields - KHG Mk XII/AMACO Mk XII
Weapons
Fore - Heavy Crescent, Subspace Torp, Elachi/Polarized Disruptor DBB, Experimental Array
Aft - Cutting Beam, Hyper Torp, Nanite Disruptor Turret
Consoles
Tac - 4x Induction Coil Mk XII
Eng - Borg, Nukara, 0Point, Bioneural
Sci - Shield Absorptive Frequency Generator, Ionized Particle Beam
Wouldn't it be funny...if the last piece of damage in the 2x BO, CRF, TS, TT, FOMM, APA, APO, DEM, EPtW, TB, Hyperflux, Tet Cascade, Ionized Particle, Ambush, etc, etc, etc...er, if the last piece of damage was actually a plink from the Turret?
At this point, it's hard not to feel that it's kind of moot to discuss certain things, eh?
Heck, somebody can probably tweak that build there and make it even better...
...so yeah, I edited my previous posts - feeling it's kind of moot.
yes...I totally agree
Sadly, I can't follow a lot of that since I stopped paying attention to the power creep awhile back. Just kinda happy the t'varo retro is sorta like what the B'rel used to be capable of as far as dog fighting goes.
Random Quote from Kerrat
"Sumlobus@****: your mums eat Iced Targ Poo"
C&H Fed banter
Unfortunately, something went horribly wrong along the way and the balance has tipped toward sheer damage output, the holy DPS, making for a decidedly less interesting game. Unfortunately, with the introduction of the Subspace Integration Circuit, a universal pocket crowd control console, it's clear that Cryptic has given up and decided to turn everyone into a Tac officer.
Some of it is just going to be my own non-standardized shorthand...hrmmm, I'll do a general glossary of the whole thing (not just for you, but anybody looking at it) from top to bottom. Though, I think I made a mistake - not sure you can resequence the base racial trait (I'm used to Aliens - so I'll drop Singularity Specialist). I screwed up on the Core too, a /rant/facepalm build - stupid of me...I'll replace that with a Singularity Core below.
Traits
Accurate: +10% Bonus Accuracy
Astrophysicist: +10 Sensors, +10 Flow Caps, +10 Particle Gens
Covert Operative: +1.5% Crit Hit, +3.8% Crit Severity, -10% CD Cloak
Crippling Fire: -2.4 Accuracy on a Crit Hit (can stack 3 times)
Elusive: +10% Bonus Defense
Helmsman: +10% Turn, -10s CD Evasive Maneuvers
Inspirational Leader: 10% proc (any BOFF ability use) +10 all Starship Skills for 15s (can stack 3 times)
Last Ditch Effort: +Damage Resistance w/ Go Down Fighting (can stack 3 times)
Romulan: +Stealth while Cloaking, +Damage with Ambush
Reputation
Precision: +3% Crit Hit
Sensor Targeting Assault: on Crit, 20% proc to Placate 2s
Quantum Singularity Manipulation: +100 Science Skills for 8s, Cloaks after 3s (shields do not drop)
Enhanced Shield Penetration: +2.5% bleedthrough with directed energy weapon attacks
Auxiliary Power Configuration - Offense: up to +25 Weapons Training/Energy Weapons/Projectile Weapons (scales wtih Aux)
Refracting Tetryon Cascade: PBAoE within 3km (chains up two more targets within 5km) X damage to initial targets, 0.5*X damage to 2nd targets, 0.4*X damage to 3rd targets (does Tetryon damage)
Omega Weapon Training: +30 Weapon Training
Omega Graviton Amplifier: 2.5% (directed energy weapons)/5% (projectile weapons) proc to do 751.4 kinetic damage with 100% shield penetration (if it procs, it's always 751.4 damage...can't be buffed, can't be resisted)
BOFF Abilities
TT1: +18 Weapons Training/Energy Weapons/Projectile Weapons, removes boarding parties, distributes shields, removes Tactical debuffs
BO2: 725% beam damage (-50 Weapon Power)
BO3: 846% beam damage (-50 Weapon Power)
APO3: +25% Damage, +35.5 Damage Resistance, +150% Turn, +150% Speed, +45% Defense, Immunity to Movement/Disable Debuffs
TS1: 171% torp damage to up 3 enemies (100% to-hit, Torp Spread does not miss)
CRF1: 130% cannon damage via DPS (increased fire rate)
EPtS1: +X Shield Heal, +Y Shield Damage Reduction, repairs disabled shields
DEM1: +28 hull damage per directed energy weapon pulse
EPtW3: +16.6% directed energy weapon damage, +X Weapon Power, repairs disabled weapons
ST1: +X shield heal, clears Science debuffs
HE2: +X hull HoT, +Y Damage Resistance, clears Hazard debuffs
TB1: ~minor damage, disables cloak, slows/snares/parks (thus reducing Bonus Defense)
BOFF Traits
4x Subterfuge/Superior Operative & 1x Subterfuge/Superior Infiltrator:
+16.3% Defense, +950 Stealth, +8% Crit Hit, +20% Crit Severity, +10s Ambush duration, +10% Ambush damage, -CD for Cloak
Note: Stealth was supposed to stop stacking back in March - it's stacking again.
DOFFs
System Engineer (DEM): Reduces Weapon Power drain while using DEM
Warp Core Engineer (EPtX Cleanse): on EPtX use, 40% proc to cleanse all negative effects (Debuffs, Control, DoTs, etc) provides a CoT (cleanse over time, lol - meh) cleansing every 0.5s for 2s
Energy Weapons Officer (BO Penetration): on BO use, 30% proc for 35% shield penetration for other attacks for 4s
Conn Officer (TT +Acc/Per): on TT use, 20% proc for +100 Perception and +5% Bonus Accuracy (swingy DOFF, as multiples do not add rolls but rather add the buff - so you could get +200 Perception/+10% Bonus Accuracy from the 20% proc)
Main Ship Gear
Omega Deflector Mk XII: +26.2 Sensors, +17.5 Targeting, +17.5 Inertial Damps, +8.8 Grav Gens, +17.5 Insulators, +17.5 Part Gens
Omega Hyper Engines Mk XII: for the Omega 2pc set bonus
Honor Guard/AMACO Covariant Shields Mk XII: on receiving directed energy damage, 25% proc to -25% bonus accuracy and 1s placate
Elite Fleet Reinforced Mk XII [SingA][Jump][SCap][AMP][SSS]: +20% Singularity Charge Rate, +100% Singularity Jump Accuracy Debuff, +Shield Heal, +Shield Power, repairs disabled shields, +3.3% All Damage per Subsystem @75 or more power (so up to +13.2%), +Slipstream Speed
Weapons
Heavy Crescent Wave Cannon: SHC Disruptor, +60% Crit Severity, 2.5% proc 100% shield penetration and ignore 50% damage resistance
Subspace Torp: +60% Crit Severity, 10% proc disable for 2s
Polarized Disruptor Dual Beam Bank: 2.5% proc/2.5% proc -X damage resistance/-Y all current power levels
Experimental Romulan Plasma Beam Array: 2.5% proc/2.5% proc +X Plasma DoT/-Y damage resistance (there for the 3pc mainly), +6%Crit Hit
Cutting Beam: there for the 2pc
Hyper-Torp: meh, torp spam pseudo mine blah, blah - there for the 3pc mainly
Nanite Disruptor: 2.5% proc -X damage resistance and +Y shield bleedthrough
Note1: The Disruptor debuff from the Polarized and Nanite stack (Pol-Dis, Nan-Dis, and the Pla-Dis hybrid debuffs all stack - don't know if the Elites do as well). The Pol-Dis and Pla-Dis are dual procs...both apply, just like the Nan-Dis. Still unsure if it is 2x 2.5% rolls for Pol-Dis/Pla-Dis, 1x 2.5% roll like the Nan-Dis. Same thing is a consideration for the Rom Plasma.
Note2: I didn't pick mods on the weapons. Folks have their own preferences.
Consoles
4x VR Mk XII Induction Coils: +30% base (TRIBBLE/Mk 0) Disruptor damage (+120% base damage)
Assimilated (Borg): +5 Weapon Power, +5.1 Hull Repair, +0.92% Crit Hit, +9.2% Crit Severity
Nukara Particle Converter: +5 Shield Power, +17.3 Insulators, +17.3 Part Gens, +10% Beam Accuracy
Bioneural Infusion Circuits: +17.2 Structural Integrity, +17.2% Subspace Decomp, +15.2% Crit Severity
Shield Absorptive Frequency Generator: can't remember the specifics, heals based on energy damage done to the target
Ionized Particle Beam: electrical damage (Aux based) drains Aux, some debuff
Note: I didn't pick up the Mogai stuff, so I'm very fuzzy on it - somebody that did could provide the actual info. Same will apply later with the 2pc. I went T'varo for EBC shenanigans.
Captain Abilities
APA3: +50% Damage, +5% Crit Hit, +50% Crit Severity, +120% Turn
FoMM3: -50 Damage Resistance, -150 Stealth
TI3: -CD Tac BOFFs
GDF3: @50 hull or less, +X% Damage
TF2: +30% Damage, +16 Targeting, +16 Maneuvers
Set Bonuses
Omega Force 2pc (Tetryon Glider): -X Shields per directed energy weapon pulse
Silent Enemy 2pc (Subspace Disruptions): +7.6% Disruptor damage (base), +15.2 Shield System
Romulan Singularity Harness 2pc (Plasma Conductive Circuitry): +7.6% Plasma damage (base/Energy only), +15.2 EPS
Romulan Singularity Harness 3pc (Plasma Hyperflux): w/ Experimental Array 222-224% damage beam damage, 222-224% Plasma DoT damage, -32.3 (or so) damage resist (vs. 2.5% proc for -10 with normal firing mode)
Omega Adapted Borg Technology 2pc (Omega Weapon Amplifier): 2.5% proc +10 Weapon Power, +500 Current Weapon Power Drain Resistance Rating, +500 Maximum Weapon Power Drain Resistance Rating
Mogai 2pc (Enhanced Weapon Systems Efficiency): like, OWA w/o the proc, eh? Honestly, don't know - don't fly a Mogai
The term "powercreep" completely fails to address the current state of the game, lol. And like I said, no doubt the pro builders out there could make this ship even more deadly...and also of note, it's not even September. S8's coming later this year - we'll have more goodies and more goodies and more goodies.
It's kind of funny...if you drink too much, have done too many /facepalms or /headesks...
...so it's kind of why I decided that it was relatively moot to carry on that discussion about Fixed Damage Ratios between weapons.