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Why should I want a spire warp core?

emacsheadroomemacsheadroom Member Posts: 994 Arc User
edited December 2013 in Fleet System and Holdings
Power drain from firing weapons is not an issue that can be solved with faster power recharge. Resistance to drain is not necessary when there are power insulators. Does drain resistance affect the drain of my own weapons?

What's the point of spire warp cores? They don't seem to do anything that the dilithium mine cores do better.
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  • tpalelenatpalelena Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    Perhaps they are more useful for people who did not put skills in power insulators.
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  • john98837john98837 Member Posts: 761 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    You want them because the drain resistance does effect the power you draw to fire weapons. Think of it as a very weak version of marion frances dulmer or the omega graviton amp. It won't keep your weapons power at near 125 when firing 7 or 8 weapons but it will keep it 5 or 6 points higher than it otherwise would be.

    I did testing on this with the elite cores when they were on tribble. With 4 arrays firing weapons power held 3-4 points higher than with a normal core. Testing was done with all other power level effecting items removed, leech, cutting beam, ect.

    The EPS boost also leads to faster recovery of aux power for a2b builds.
  • futurepastnowfuturepastnow Member Posts: 3,660 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    It's more like an always-on Nadion Inversion, so yes, the drain resistance does reduce weapons drain. And EPS is always useful, even if it doesn't affect weapons drain directly.
  • seannewboyseannewboy Member Posts: 667 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    No but it does get your weapon power back up after you fire, and allows batteries and EPtox, toi work faster.
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  • ursusmorologusursusmorologus Member Posts: 5,328 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    There are many ways to mitigate drain but some ships are still more susceptible to it. Escorts have +15 weapon power, cruisers have weapon power cruiser command, sci ships can buff flowcaps, etc., but despite all that I still have a couple of ships that suffer falloff a lot.
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  • futurepastnowfuturepastnow Member Posts: 3,660 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    seannewboy wrote: »
    No but it does get your weapon power back up after you fire, and allows batteries and EPtox, toi work faster.

    EPS doesn't affect the return of drained weapons power, and has not done so for a long time. Nor does it affect the speed of EPtX powers or batteries, which are basically instantaneous (there's nothing to speed up). EPS does affect how quickly aux power rebuilds after being drained by A2B, for example, or how quickly all power levels rebuild when you come out of full impulse. And transfers from one subsystem to another.
  • generator88generator88 Member Posts: 698 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    EPS skill does impact the amount of power granted by EPTX abilities, right?

    Just checking...

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  • asraschaalasraschaal Member Posts: 54 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    Yes it does. This guy here made listed the formula which has been pretty accurate for me.

    http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=921701
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