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Romulan Hyper Torpedo vs Omega Torpedo
malachicartwrigh
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As the title suggests, which do people use and why?
I know there was an old post on this, but I think this may be out of date.
Also, how do they rate compared to the new slew of Romulan faction and Elachi weapons?
An important consideration is the tac consoles effect. My UI indicates that Ambiplasma Envelope consoles are giving my Omega and Romulan weapons a healthy boost, but this is flatly contradicted in old posts.
I have no experience with parsing combat data.
Anyone know for sure whether in combat the rates are boosted?
I know there was an old post on this, but I think this may be out of date.
Also, how do they rate compared to the new slew of Romulan faction and Elachi weapons?
An important consideration is the tac consoles effect. My UI indicates that Ambiplasma Envelope consoles are giving my Omega and Romulan weapons a healthy boost, but this is flatly contradicted in old posts.
I have no experience with parsing combat data.
Anyone know for sure whether in combat the rates are boosted?
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although... it's nice that i can launch a maximum of 6 of the hairy little balls of plasma with Torpedo spread ^-^
Romulan Hypers are somewhat good in a multiple-engagement combat. And NPCs tend to target these, so at times can take off some fire off your ship. However, they are slow and can be easily outran. But when they hit, they do hit hard.
The Hyper plasma torpedo launcher might at first seem to be the same.
However the HPTL fills a role that the Omega can not. Give it 3 projectile duty officers and it becomes a poor mans AUX Cannon.
There are numerous science ships which suffer from the need to pump power into too many subsystems at once. Spamming hyper plasma torpedoes is a fantastic way for them to achieve sustained conventional damage to supplement their science powers without diverting power from aux to weapons.
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If you are fighting moving targets and/or different kinds of targets, and can keep the ship pointed at the target(s), then the omega torp works great as a mega-cannon--just fire a torp once every second and do incredible damage. It also has decent high-yield and spread upgrades for when you encounter something like a cube or gate.
I agree, I use both. The cool down doesn't conflict when on separated to the front/rear, but which should go on the front?
Against slow targets (elite Borg STF's with large gateways etc.) the Romulan Hyper torpedo is best in front. Against fast targets the Omega. The stated dps for the Omega is far in excess of any other weapon I've come across, with zero energy drain. With the Romulan on the rear, and three Purple/Blue torpedo Boff's, when I run away many enemies disintegrate!
These figures are significantly boosted by the Ambiplasm tac console (or the Plasma burn figures by the Infuser con)
Roms torps do mediocre damage by themselves but if all three connect they do the most dps. Projectile doffs do affect them and such they are usually off cool down. They cam be shot down.
I use rom, in pve there is no contest. For pvp, I prefer quantums or transphasics
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Currently thinking of mounting it in the rear so it fires backwards
I've that or used it in sliding attacks on a decloaking alpha strike.... the scim has a lot of inertia due to its size while still being maneuverable..... I can move sideways and keep my nose on targets.
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On a more serious note, does anyone know what actually got changed in the borg torp a couple weeks ago? For months it's been bugged to have unlimited charges that never run out with a stuck "5" supply never going down. Now the counter goes down from 5 charges to 1 with each shot, but it just resets back to 5 and keeps firing! The patch said the charges would be properly consumed now, although that doesn't appear to matter if the counter is just going to reset anyway.
The omega torp is not that bad, but the 3set bonus from the borg is useless, and I already use the beam cutter and the console.
Ummmm its far far far from useless.
Its extremely useful, especially in PvP.
2 seconds of 99% damage reduction, thats a lot if it procs while your taking heavy fire.
If I'm doing Fleet actions like No Win, Federation Fleet alert or Azure, I switch to Omega up front, and Rommie torp in the rear. Gravity Well the groups of ships, plus Scatter Volley plus Torp Spread 3 (include all the tac buffs to) = awesome. On Azure, i can clear all the Tholians on a 3 point ship ( can't remember the name ATM) in about 30 seconds or less.
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