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weapon power lowers when using aux2bat
moody83
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Hi all
I have a question about an aux2bat build that i am using on my fleet sovereign.
When i use aux2bat the auxilary is drained and poured in to the other 3
Now when i look at my phasers and torpedo damage they get lowered when i enable while it should actually be more?
Has it something to do with the new warp cores?
Thanks all
I have a question about an aux2bat build that i am using on my fleet sovereign.
When i use aux2bat the auxilary is drained and poured in to the other 3
Now when i look at my phasers and torpedo damage they get lowered when i enable while it should actually be more?
Has it something to do with the new warp cores?
Thanks all
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It get's weirder my weapon power is even higher then before when using eptw?
My weapons power was indeed at 125, i lowered it and used it on aux power.
Never realized that to much weapons power could have a negative effect.
That's not quite it. The thing is, there's a cap at 125, so boosting your weapon power above that doesn't result in higher tooltip numbers. (It's actually a soft cap, with power above that going into a buffer, but that's a little complex so let's ignore it for the moment.) So probably what happened here is that you had the offensive T4 Nukara passive, so when you hit Aux to Batt it dropped your Aux, which reduced the bonus you got from that, while your weapon power was already at the cap and so it couldn't boost the number you saw on the tooltip. (I thought of an A->W core as well, but that's only 7.5%, while A2B is more like 75%, so the net effect would have been positive rather than negative.) But having that high weapons power was still good for you, because it meant the power level was still high when Aux to Batt wasn't active, it's just that it couldn't get pushed up higher by Aux to Batt because there was nowhere for it to go.
EDIT: Just reread the OP, and my explanation is definitely what happened, since this affected both energy weapons and torpedoes, and torpedoes aren't affected by weapon power, but are affected by that passive.
Your saying having weapons set at say 100 then using a2b gives a higher dps tooltip reading than 125 weapons power after a2b?
Doesn't sound right. Should be the same if the first scenario boosts weapons to 125 too.
When you use a2b you essentially loose the nukara weapons skill boost until aux is restored.
iirc its about a 10-20 dps drop on dhcs.
If you want to negate it, pop an aux battery or use EPtA after using a2b.
or is a high aux rep passive a better buff than aux2bat?
Then which one will you pick? There's increased damage based off of aux power, or increased defense based off of aux power. Both of which will be practically useless in an Aux2bat build.
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The passive definitely makes high-aux builds more interesting (i have choosen the defense-passive and have much success with high-aux on my Wells, Atrox and (Sci focussed) Oddy (ENG captain), but i can't say much about the dmg-increasing one
Due to the way resists work (diminishing returns), you'll get more benefit out of the weapons boosting skill.
Don't forget, with a2b you simply temporarily loose you nukara skill boost. It can be negated as I've mention before. Or, ya know, don't fire off a2b immediately... Only do it after your big alpha is over.