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Critical Chance and Severity Capacity
induperator
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As the title suggests I'm making a thread to support the Idea of having a cap for Critical Chance and Severity, this has been put forward by other players in the past.
I'm happy with the recent change to Beam Overload with the Critical hit chance increased to 100% Beam Overload was quite under powered (at least in a PVE perspective) and it needed a boost it provides a reason to use beams instead of filling your forward slots with Dual heavy cannons and I'm glad Cryptic gave beam weapons some attention.
However...
As it was mentioned Yuzral's tribble time-warp video players with extremely high critical severity can take advantage of this and exploit it to get extremely high damage spikes making "vape" builds even more of a pain in the side, I don't PVP but I can only imagine how annoying that would be.
A Cap to Critical Chance and severity would go a long way to balancing PVP and keep numbers down because critical numbers are ridiculously high.
I spend a lot of money and time getting Superior Romulan Operatives on my Romulan character and honestly I wouldn't mind a cap on Critical chance if it meant helping to balance the game and while I do love getting constant critical hits I could live without it.
I do think the buff to Beam Overload is going to make it a much more fun ability to use and finally make it viable but I would hate for it to be nerfed because players are complaining of ridiculous vape builds in PVP one shoting them.
What does everyone else think?
Would you welcome a Capacity to Critical chance and severity?
Or do you have an alternative solution to to the Crit Crisis?
I'm happy with the recent change to Beam Overload with the Critical hit chance increased to 100% Beam Overload was quite under powered (at least in a PVE perspective) and it needed a boost it provides a reason to use beams instead of filling your forward slots with Dual heavy cannons and I'm glad Cryptic gave beam weapons some attention.
However...
As it was mentioned Yuzral's tribble time-warp video players with extremely high critical severity can take advantage of this and exploit it to get extremely high damage spikes making "vape" builds even more of a pain in the side, I don't PVP but I can only imagine how annoying that would be.
A Cap to Critical Chance and severity would go a long way to balancing PVP and keep numbers down because critical numbers are ridiculously high.
I spend a lot of money and time getting Superior Romulan Operatives on my Romulan character and honestly I wouldn't mind a cap on Critical chance if it meant helping to balance the game and while I do love getting constant critical hits I could live without it.
I do think the buff to Beam Overload is going to make it a much more fun ability to use and finally make it viable but I would hate for it to be nerfed because players are complaining of ridiculous vape builds in PVP one shoting them.
What does everyone else think?
Would you welcome a Capacity to Critical chance and severity?
Or do you have an alternative solution to to the Crit Crisis?
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hey, people wanted their instant gratification they got it! when people get bored of how tedious this whole thing has become and then how the team doesnt want to take its talons out of it because its a rich source of income to them... should of known better to be honest.
where is the harm in a little challenge, fun and enjoyment in it? the idea of "fun" has been twisted and distorted by both sides, how can you define it next tothe word normal? :P
it doesnt matter what i think or what we think could be done to it, if this is the way it is going, there is no point arguing against it because they will take our feedback and then shove it in the discreet clothes bin in the back and have it carted away without anyone noticing it before its ever seen.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
And I dont see a crisis. They do it for the casuals, who can now farm efficiently without having a clue about mechanics, isnt that a nice thing?
PvP is already dead, and if anything, they will go the way of "standardizing" gear when entering a pvp-match, similar to the kung-fu game they are promoting right now.
P.S.: Who ever finds a hint of irony may keep it.
i know what bo is and it was fine the way it was, it was meant to be an ability that caused a bit more damage like an average torpedo and sometimes you could get a large crit hit, but if that spike damage is far more then anything else and players exploited it to the ends of the earth with the rest of their TRIBBLE, which will happen without fail for obvious crit plus. then balance is the least of your concerns because the original intent has been twisted out of reason. what should of happened is the base damage of the bo should of been increased a little the same with the chance by a little with a proc that could award a certain chance of the next bo being free to fire with or something like that. there are other alternatives that could of made the bo more useful then giving it a 100% chance to crit everytime. its balance change alright, but instead of throwing that bean bag in the middle its at the opposite end now, just as far out from the objective as when it was on the other end.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
i can see posebility's hire that would do quite a bit of dps. i mean it no longer drain's weapon power. alway's a crit hit.
just a simple calculation made shure im going to buy every beamarray mk xii [over]
as that will be overpowerd right now. :cool:
I stopped reading after this. Are you sure you are playing STO?? because im tired of owning everything in PVE using my BO ability. Underpowered?? dude, shot a target with BO at 6 km range, and get rid of all their shields. Is that underpowered to you??.. jezzz ...:eek:
It was perfectly fine as it was. Another completely different thing is still there are ppeople out there that dont have any clue about using BO... not, it is not beam overload anymore (what is the point of the "overloaded" premise if it doesnt even drain power anymore), its just stupid.
I can't help but agree Beam Overload was quite lack luster one of the reasons I'm happy Cryptic have buffed it, I just don't want to see it nerfed right after it was improved.
Every so often I get a crit and do 20,000 to 40,000 damage only in that circumstance is it at all useful and a Volley of Dual Heavy cannons also completely sear the target's shields and bring them down I don't see the distinction.
Now it is even more of an "I win" button than a Tac Rom with SROs flying a Scim.
3000 damage? or you meant 30000?? because 3000 damage is NOTHING. How can be that overpowered lol?? Or maybe are you just being sarcastic?? sometimes i cant see the difference in some posts.. :P
I think you are confused. A BO 1 can deal 20k damage easily. And im not talking about criticals.. just the base damage. Do you really think that is the same as trying to use cannon fire or anything else for the same purpose?? in this case, to get ride of my target's shields and more in just 1 second?
I honestly have all sort of builds, beam tanks, cannon escorts, warbirds, bops, beam carriers, science ships, etc and i use BO everytime i can. Because for me and this is probably my opinion but i think its accurate, BO is a really useful ability and it was working just fine. Specially in PVE. Now it is just another OVERPOWERED skill.
I said 3000 damage anyway a Dual Heavy cannon burst can have the exact same effect as a Beam overload even more so.
This is a thread to discuss Critical severity capacity not to debate Beam Overload if you would like to do that go make your own thread.
I don't take people who put "LOL" at the end of every sentence seriously.
It didn't do what YOU thought it was supposed to do. If you're comparing CRF to BO that's your fail, not a design flaw.
CRF is closer to FAW. It had been asked in the past by players that FAW be given the same mechanics of CRF. If you don't understand that they both include an increase to the base rate of fire of the weapons as opposed to overcharging a weapon don't post on the subject.
So as amusing as your ability to misunderstand things is, to yourself and others, try to keep it down as you may mislead some folks. Just giggle or something harmless.
And crit severity doesn't need a cap. Just to be on topic. There's already 2 modifiers before severity that could be tweaked before you need to mess with it. Good tools are good.