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Protonic Arsenal: Fire at Will III or Torp Spread III?
stongbads
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I'm looking for some advice if I should upgrade my Torp Spread from II to III while downgrading my FAW to II. I'm currently using Protonic Polaron beam arrays and a full Protonic Arsenal. Calculating my crits, my Gravimetric Photon Torpedo has a 41% crit while the rest of my beams arrays has a 22% and my experimental weapon has a 28% crit. Do you think it's worth upgrading my Torp Spread to III?
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One would think FAW3 would win out anytime, esp. if trying to fit a torpedo into the build.
However, you're talking about the Grav Torp, which changes the game quite a bit in PVE.
For general purposes, esp. with your beam + grav torp build, I would go with FAW3.
But... if you have Grav Well and you have the Dyson Grav Torp, you need to have Torp Spread 3. Most esp. so if you have good Particle Generators Skill (determines the "rift" damage). With Grav Well to bunch up your targets, firing Dyson Grav Torp with Torp Sprd 3 into that blob is devastating. If the rifts occur, you don't even need Energy Weapons. For PVE, a Torp Boat with Grav Well can literally wipe out waves of NPCs by itself in a few seconds and not require Energy Weapons fire.
That's wrong, the single large rift's dmg is far lower compared to potentially many rift stacked on top of each other, which is in turn far lower compared to romulan torp spread splash.
I am not talking about the gravimetric rift, I am talking about the massive damage variance the HY version has. In my case non-critical damage goes from 25k to 100k, and the explosion covers the GW3 area of effect quite nicely.
How do you have so many high critical chances?? :eek:, we assume you using all SO boffs, right?
I have a reman sci captain and and a tactical scimitar. I've been using a normal setup with aux to battery, 7 plasma beams (caustics, had a long break and I'm still raising my reps) and a borg cutting beam. However I feel that it's very boring to play that way and scimitar looks silly firing broadsides as it's clearly designed to fire forward plus not having a torp on a ship is not very authentic trek to my tastes.
So, as the dyson rep is rising fastest, I was thinking of putting together a scimitar with dual beam protonic polaron banks, the proton weapon, the gravity torps and the lot, together with dyson tactical consoles buffing proton damage. Would that actually work or would it be terrible? I'm not looking for 30k dps since I'm not gonna pvp with this character and not like infected space elite even needs that. An 'ok' ship would work for me but not a terrible one. I have plasmonic console available but not the valdore one.
It would be terrible. Scimi doesn't have the turn rate to use dhc or dbb. It won't come close to the dps of escorts sporting the same weapons, much less beam array cruisers.
Valdore console haven't reached the "mandatory" status of plasmonic leech, but you should still have it.
Blame it on FAW Online.;)
Yeah, right.
I run a turret/DHC scimi, no fleet weapons, only 1 fleet tac console, and the thalaron set.
I can solo Borg tac cubes without dying even once. Takes me 5 minutes on a good day, 10 on a bad one, but I can do it.
Anyone who says single-beam FAW spam is the only way to use a scimi has never, ever flown ISE in a really good alpha-striking scimi.
I've ran 5x Miranda ISEs before. And it was fun. It's also besides the point.:rolleyes:
Look, my Scimitar has easily out-DPSed full fleet-outfitted bugships, and it's not even fully specced yet.
I've also out-DPSed a number of beam scimis, although I will admit that my alphas are a part of that.
Cannon Scimis are not weak.
Universal consoles, Fleet tactical consoles, and for the gravimetric photon torp 3pc-dyson-weapon-set
That's correct plus the Gravimeteric Torpedo also has a natural +6% crit chance. Sorry for being away from the forums for a few days, it's been a busy week. To answer the questions on my starship, it's just for PvE with GW1 to gather the mobs and then pummel them with the torp;s rifts. I'm still working on tier-5 reps across the board;
Tholian Recluse
Gravimeteric Torp & Experimental Weapon
Kinetic Cutting Beam
3x Protonic Beam Arrays MK XII
Elite Fleet Deflector, Warp Core and Shield.
Plasmonic Leech, Zero Point Conduit, Borg Assimilated Console, Proton Particle Stablizer
4x Flow Caps or 4x Particle Gens
2x tact Polaron Consoles Mk XII
2x Adv mesh Weavers
I am not a expert builder or even very experienced but my TRIBBLE Mk X blue geared Falchion can turn at 16.7 at full speed. While this isn't Escort levels of turn value, it has been more than enough turn rate to allow me to keep my cannons on target.
Also when I switched to beam and broadside using the same Mk X blue gear levels, my performance and survivability went way down and I found myself struggling doing the same content I felt OPed on before.
Again, I am just a fledgling level 50, brand new to the game for the most part but I think there is at least some evidence supporting the Scimitar as being a good cannon boat.