Cannons

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• noroblad Member Posts: 2,624 Arc User

  April 2014 edited April 2014

  gieger wrote: »

  Does cannon dps drop off over distance traveled?
  
  I notice that in the lobi store there is a cannon weapon that has the bonus of soemthing like, "Damage will not diminish with distance".

  
  Both cannon and beam drop off, beams drop off slower. The details are on the wiki but past 5 cannons begin to approach the dps of a DBB. At 7+ the DBB beings to win out (both weapons fired at the same distance). Cannons should really be kept to about 3k and closer for optimal results.

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• darioo1 Member Posts: 35 Arc User

  April 2014 edited April 2014

  yes..cannon dps drops after 5km distance from target.

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• ridddickxxx Member Posts: 479 Arc User

  April 2014 edited April 2014

  Cannon, dual cannons and turrets DPS will drop down to 25% efficiency on 10 km range.
  Beam arrays and beam bank will drop to 80% efficiency on 10 km range.
  
  Have in mind that every weapon starts slowly loosing dps at about 2km and beyond.
  Cannons will keep most of their efficiency at least 6km, try not go beyond that point.

  

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• darkjeff Member Posts: 2,590 Arc User

  April 2014 edited April 2014

  It's worth restating that while cannons have a steeper drop off in damage due to distance (all weapons do less damage at distances greater than 2km), DHCs start so much higher that it's not until 7.5km that they only do as much damage as a DBB at that distance.

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• drone0815 Member Posts: 1 Arc User

  April 2014 edited April 2014

  Here's a nice chart:
  Star Trek Online Ship Weapons Guide
  
  The numbers are a bit different from what ridddickxxx posted above, but it's always nice to have a graph to look at.

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