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stardrive85
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even if you have all the modules that increase the damage of the spinal lance.
the lance is still to underpowred.
it really needs to cause more damage when fired.
for a weapon that takes 3 minutes to recharge... and it dose like 2-6 damage when you fire at a ship that still has shields up!.
the lance is still to underpowred.
it really needs to cause more damage when fired.
for a weapon that takes 3 minutes to recharge... and it dose like 2-6 damage when you fire at a ship that still has shields up!.
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I'd hardly call that underpowered. However, what is broken is the accuracy of the lance. Basically it only hits in a 5° arc. Regardless of what the tooltip says.
Aha still has shields up, that's what you're doing wrong then. Strip the shields down to bare hull, fire lance see ship go boom. If you don't get good damage out of your lance then that means you're using an energy type buffing console that doesn't work for phasers.
Nukara for accuracy and Phaser boosting either regular ones or spire.
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1052611
In case you don't have the full Galaxy 3 set, you may use consoles that enhance CritH instead (e.g. assimilated module).
3 important things to hit to improve the damage of your lance:
1. Turn the weapon power all the way up to 11. That is, move the slider to 100, and if you don't reach 125 total in Weapon Power, make sure you keep a copy of Emergency Power to Weapons up so you do reach that threshold.
2. Tactical Console - Phaser Relay, make sure you have as many as your ship can fit. If you have the Fleet Credits and Dilithium, Vulnerability Locators with the +Pha property will also boost the damage of the lance while simultaneously boosting your crit chance across the board.
3. Use a tractor beam to pin your target to increase your likelihood of a hit. Whether this tractor beam comes from a Runabout hangar pet, Tractor Mines, or a BOff trained in the power, this'll go a long ways towards making sure you're able to show your target the bright, shining light at the end of your BFG.
2 slightly less important things to help you.
1. Try to avoid firing the lance when you, or an ally, haven't debuffed the target's damage resistance (by using Sensor Scan, Fire On My Mark, Attack Pattern: Beta, or Attack Pattern: Delta).
2. If you're a Tactical Captain, Attack Pattern Alpha, Tactical Fleet, and (especially) Go Down Fighting will all massively improve your damage output, so when you get them active together, your lance will be more-or-less at its strongest. Using GDF can be a little tricky, but with practice, you'll get used to letting down your guard enough to pop it before closing up any gaps in your defense and laying waste to everything around you.
Nukara Particle Converter.
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That's the one. IF i were to use a A2B BFAW build as many seem to advocate that would be the console to use.
Increase in accuracy and suddenly the lance connects to the target quite often.
Personally i think not using Single cannons or DHC is sacrilege.
Phaser DPS boosting consoles. If you've got access to a Fleet with a T3 Sphere you can buy some of the fleet consoles that add phaser damage, ones that add the crit chance, those are pretty good for the lance.
When you fire the lance, try to have your saucer seperated, the miss chance on the broad phaser lance is so much less then with the usual phaser lance.
The normal phaser DPS boosting consoles are called "Phaser Relay MK#".
Helpful tip: Expecting the game to match up to the show is a surefire way to set yourself up for disappointment.
Don't make the mistake of going there, and you'll be much happier in the long run.
Make the mistake of going there, and you'll spend a lot of time QQing about how this or that was supposed to be an unstoppable guaranteed one-shot-kill uber-weapon...and being laughed at for expecting it to work in-game the way it worked in the show.
Oh I don't know, the QQing of me and many others on this site I'm sure lead to them adding at long last the secondary deflector array to science ships.
Keep up the QQing OP you never know when they are listening.
Besides, other weapons have that shield bypass while others don't, they do have the obligation to go through and rebalance the weapons according to what happened in the series. Chroniton Torpedoes anyone? Or is someone going to make the excuse that all ships are flying with temporal shielding all the time now?
It's actually a design flaw in their system that goes beyond this one weapon. Shields are somehow able to negate almost all of the damage, if they manage to regen 75 shields in that one facing on any attack it suddenly makes it impossible to kill the target and this can happen without any shield regenerative abilities occuring. It's a problem I've noticed for some time now as a science captain because almost all of our skills and special attacks are kinetic which pretty much gets blocked 100% by this tiny shield facing all the time. The difference is, this ship is purchasable for real money, the science skills are not, so of course they most likely will look into it.
-Use Attack Pattern Alpha
-Use Attack Pattern Beta
-Use Fire on my mark III
-Use Tactical Fleet
-Use Emergency Power to Weapons
-Use Tactical Team
-Use Directed Energy Modulation, don't forget your Marion doff.
Get all of that gear and use all of those abilities, then if you can whittle down a players shields to nothing, turn your ship from broadside position to lancing position and put him in a tractor beam to reduce the chances he'll dodge it then if the lance goes off before he gets shields back, the hit doesn't miss and it manages to be a critical, it will definitely do decent damage that isn't trivial.
Simple really.
For something that has a 5 degree firing arc and 3 minute cooldown, something like this shouldn't miss.
In the episode it appeared in, it worked like a very narrow kinetic cutting beam.
This Exactly This!
I understand that it was a phaser type in AGT but in this MMO we should not be limited to only one energy type on an integrated ship weapon.
Hell I'd be happy with a device slot item that when slotted changes the energy type that the lance uses.
Plasma Conversion Device
Disruptor Conversion Device
Antiproton Conversion Device
Tetryon Conversion Device
Proton Conversion Device
Polaron Conversion Device
Phaser Conversion Device
The above items could be offered in the Dilithium Store and only available to players who own the Galaxy X or the Gruamba or any future ship that may have and integrated weapon.
35000 Dilithium each should be a decent price for the above devices.
Doesn't miss for me. I have lots of % to acc tho, maybe that's just because I'm a science in a beam boat but that's how it works.
My problem is this, when they get their shields back up enough to negate the majority of the damage, not all classes are created equal in this game so we don't get the enormously magical fairy unicorn tactical powers that boost it up to 50k.