test content
Logo
What is the Arc Client?
Install Arc
Is Creative Trait any good for Engineers?
tigeraries
Member Posts: 3,492 Arc User
The description says + to Healing HP & Shields and Damage dealt by Kits.
I don't know of many kit abilities that do Damage for Engineers... cause I don't think Creative boosts your turrets, mines or bombs.
For Tactical Players you have Rally Cry but for Tactical Bridge Officers? I don't think any of those ground skill gets any boost either.
I don't know of many kit abilities that do Damage for Engineers... cause I don't think Creative boosts your turrets, mines or bombs.
For Tactical Players you have Rally Cry but for Tactical Bridge Officers? I don't think any of those ground skill gets any boost either.
Post edited by Unknown User on
0
Comments
Yes, it's a good trait to have on any character class. It's most useful on Science officers, but Engineers and Tactical officers make good use of the trait.
--->Ground Combat General Bugs Directory
Real join date: March 2012 / PvP Veteran since May 2012 (Ground and Space)
EDIT: Oh, I think you mean for BOFFs, not you as a captain. I really can't tell because they seem to parse into my own damage. I do know one of my medics can heal as nicely as I can and he has creative. But how much that is coming from creative, I couldn't say. (EDIT 2: I think? LOL I really don't know. *I* have creative. I think some BOFFs do. In either case, I can't see in a parse where it ups BOFFs but also can't see where it doesn't up them. Sorry for keeping editing. Trying to answer this in two ways. For you, yes, it is worth it. For BOFFs, I really can't say even after coming back to think more on it.)
Wish they would make it so it effect buffs and debuffs. That way it would have some value for Tactical and Engineer Bridge Officers.
Only way I can think you can test is if you make 2 Engineers and respec them one with and one without creative.. ditch bridge officers and go in and lay mines with max rank skill of 9... and log the damage. Figured 9 is good since the mines will do more damage, so if creative does offer a boost... it'll be easier to see. If it buffs the mines then Creative should also work for BOFF Engineers, and if it doesnt work for you, no way in hell would it work for Bridge Officer Engineers.
From what I gather, Tactical BOFFs has zero ground skills that make use of Creative. Engineer BOFFs only has the Shield Heal that uses it. And should be required on Science BOFFs.
The creative trait is currently not affecting many engineering powers (see thread linked below). It does affect hypos, shield charges, Adrenal Booster, Emergency Shield Capacitor, and Medical Nanite Cloud---none of which are kit powers.
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=896211
The wording is slightly ambiguous in the short description.
Creative:
- Boosts all shield and health heals
- Boosts all damage by damage dealing kit powers.
Your heals dont need to be on a kit. Your heals need to be actual heals. Indirect heals like reroute power to shields (which increases the shield regeneration stat) wont show a buff on the ability tooltip. This may or may not still be buffed if the healing pulses delivered by the regeneration stat are increased, I've never checked. Unhelpfully the word 'regenerate' is used in the description of some powers that work as heal over time effects but arent related to the shield regeneration or health regeneration stats.
Cryptic should either fix the trait or fix the tooltip. The last time I looked at the creative trait on Tribble, I obtained the following stats.
Engineering Proficiency II
Without creative: +7.5 Shield Regeneration/sec for 60 sec
With creative: +8.6 Shield Regeneration/sec for 60 sec
Reroute Power to Shields III
Without creative: +44.7 Shield Regeneration/sec for 15 sec
With creative: +44.7 Shield Regeneration/sec for 15 sec
How is one supposed to tell that the creative trait affects Engineering Proficiency, but not Reroute Power to Shields? Both are captain powers, and the stats are worded in the same way. From what I can tell, the creative trait does not affect most engineering powers.
I'm giving this threat a little bit of CPR.
Just the opposite. It's useless on Engineers, since it only affects two Engineer powers, both of them shield heals. Drones, turrets, generators, mortars, mines... none of them are affected by Creative.