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T6 Starship Traits - FED, ROM, KDF - PvP Implications
mdwgardiner1701
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I may have misunderstood this:
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/7001833-tier-6-ships
Specifically:
"Since Starship Traits can be slotted, they can be used while flying any starship you own even if they are not Tier 6."
It therefore seems to me that at launch of DR the Feds will have 5 Traits they can achieve:
Reciprocity
Battle Ready
Emitter Synergy
Desperate Repairs
Radiant Nanite Cloud
KDF:
Advanced Firing Solutions
Overwhelming Force
Rom:
Tactical Retreat
Warp Shadow Decoy
If that is correct then it seems at least there are some kind of faction specific differences on the way. Presumably there will be OP LB ship traits as well.
Beyond the fact that the KDF have been screwed once again does anyone else have any thoughts on this?
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/7001833-tier-6-ships
Specifically:
"Since Starship Traits can be slotted, they can be used while flying any starship you own even if they are not Tier 6."
It therefore seems to me that at launch of DR the Feds will have 5 Traits they can achieve:
Reciprocity
Battle Ready
Emitter Synergy
Desperate Repairs
Radiant Nanite Cloud
KDF:
Advanced Firing Solutions
Overwhelming Force
Rom:
Tactical Retreat
Warp Shadow Decoy
If that is correct then it seems at least there are some kind of faction specific differences on the way. Presumably there will be OP LB ship traits as well.
Beyond the fact that the KDF have been screwed once again does anyone else have any thoughts on this?
Inner Circle / Special Circumstances
Gardiner, Suval, Thran
Korvak, Raketh, Xedar, Zidow
Decis, Vesok
Gardiner, Suval, Thran
Korvak, Raketh, Xedar, Zidow
Decis, Vesok
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Vin Naftero@playhard88 - FED Sciencie
K'tan@playhard88 - KDF Tactical
Argento@playhard88 - RRF Tactical (FED)
They will have access to more abilities as well.
DR truely is shaping up to be the death of alts.
I almost fell down laughing at the underlined quote. :P
I wonder how long shortly will be this time. 2 months, 6 months, 1 year?
How much time in game would that be?
As in is it DR type grinding, or pre DR type levelling?
Edit: I'm thinking missions like Surface Tension with lots of NPCs or any respawning NPCs could be good for that grind
Gardiner, Suval, Thran
Korvak, Raketh, Xedar, Zidow
Decis, Vesok
Whenever the KDF gets that new Negh'Var we heard so much of more than a year ago.
Whenever the KDF gets the Fleet Guramba
Intelligence Officer
- Predictive Algorithms (Starship Trait) - 15 Specialization Points spent in Intelligence Officer
[*]Improved Predictive Algorithms (Starship Trait) - 30 Specialization Points spent in Intelligence OfficerAnticipating the actions and movements of your foes has become second nature. Activating any Weapon Enhancement ability gives you crew a burst of focus, removing one negative effect from your vessel and improving your ability to hit enemies with your weapons for a short duration.
Weapon Enhancement Abilities include: Beam Overload, Beam Fire-at-Will, Cannon Scatter Volley, Cannon Rapid Fire, Torpedo High Yield, Torpedo Spread, Mine Dispersal Pattern Alpha, Mine Dispersal Pattern Beta, Surgical Strikes, Transport Warhead
Activating any Weapon Enhancement ability removes 1 Debuff effect and grants +2.5% Accuracy (stacks up to 4 times)
Anticipating the actions and movements of your foes has become second nature. Activating any Weapon Enhancement ability gives you crew a burst of focus, removing one negative effect from your vessel and improving your ability to hit enemies with your weapons for a short duration.
Weapon Enhancement Abilities include: Beam Overload, Beam Fire-at-Will, Cannon Scatter Volley, Cannon Rapid Fire, Torpedo High Yield, Torpedo Spread, Mine Dispersal Pattern Alpha, Mine Dispersal Pattern Beta, Surgical Strikes, Transport Warhead
Activating any Weapon Enhancement ability removes 1 Debuff effect and grants +5% Accuracy (stacks up to 4 times)
Pilot
Maintaining full throttle for an extended duration allows you to build up excess resonant energy that can be redirected into outgoing attacks as additional damage. This bonus only applies while you remain at Full Throttle, and takes several seconds to build up to its full potential.
+1% All Damage Bonus per 2 seconds spent at Full Throttle (max 10 stacks). All stacks immediately lost if your throttle is dropped.
Commando
While within a short distance of your foe, you will periodically beam over commando squads trained in demolition, to plant charges aboard the enemy vessel. After sufficient charges have been placed, they will be detonated to deal shield-ignoring kinetic damage.
Demolition Charges that haven't yet been detonated can be removed using Tactical Team, or will also expire harmlessly after a short duration if the attacker does not remain within the short transporter range.
Once 5 debuffs applied, deals 5731.6 Kinetic Damage (100% Shield Penetration)
Additional Demolition Teams cannot be applied for 12 sec after a successful detonation
If these had not been included, the current ship lineup would have prevented KDF or Rom captains from actually filling their 4 Starship Trait slots, and nobody would be able to fill them without paying for the T6 ships. Those additional Starship Traits are nowhere near as cool as the ones from the T6 ships, of course, but at least they're an option.
As far as PvP, Demolition Teams can be written off entirely... but the rest of the Starship Traits will each have their own interactions that will have a major effect. Certain subsets have synergistic benefits, which further alters the landscape, especially for Fed captains that have a wider collection to build those synergies from. The most ridiculous will probably be what you can accomplish with Reciprocity, Battle Ready, Pedal to the Metal and a speed tank... though many other combinations work off of and benefit each other.
Let's face it: those that have and build for these Starship Traits will have a significant advantage over those that do not buy in or do not factor in what synergies benefit their build... or even those that restrict themselves to the Starship Traits granted by the Specializations.
The mastery traits were seperated by nearly the same exp as one spec point was at 60. This is pure ship kill exp, and at 60 that means delta patrols and lv 60 stf. Doing pre delta missions results in npcs 10 levels under you tthat give very little exp. To my knowledge there is no short cut to capping ships, unless a cstore itrm is introduced. At 60 the current offered exp boosts are hysterically small vs level or spec point so I assume something new is coming. Time wise it took me around 90 minutes robot spamming patrols to cap at current tribble rate. Exp on tribble is doubled, I'm sure I wasn't setting any speed records, so take that ad you will.
Thanks for that, I have not spent enough time on tribble to consider those other ones.
Well that doesn't seem too bad, as ppl will be levelling and grinding.
At least their is beyond level 50 progression and hopefully some more unique builds for pvp will come from this.
Gardiner, Suval, Thran
Korvak, Raketh, Xedar, Zidow
Decis, Vesok
Dear God DDIS. I really don't get them. What would something like this even be remotely good for the game. Christ if this is not P2W then they $%^&ing need to back away from the #$^&ing stove. :mad:
if it makes you feel any better, most of it is pretty much pointless in pve
Honestly, in light of what will be available, FAW should end up being the next ability tossed onto the garbage bin.
Serious.
Are you saying that if we made a program that generated yellow numbers, getting bigger the more times you pushed the space bar in succession, we could put Cryptic out of business? :P
Good grief. Im gonna have to sign up to VPvP.
What kinda muffins have they been eating? Been to Amsterdam recently I wonder.....
Then please fill out my dissertation survey on feline attachment, it'd be a massive help (-:
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/87XKSGH
Far as i see it Feds gonna have 10-20 Tier 6 C--Store Ships for every single KDF Ship that comes out... and obviously that means alot more Faction exculsive Starship traits for the Feds compare to the KDF which some could more powerful than what the KDF could even have and nothing to counter with.
i think you can only slot 4 tier 6 ship traits at a time though, so i suppose thats balanced. but the available fed traits, with the mad healing and all, thats gonna make a big difference between factions.
i was referring to rom boffs with superior space traits.
I think the fun will be the with potential DOFFs they drop out for those Intel abilities, eh?
Erm... can Romulans actually fly ally T6 ships? With the prohibition against flying ally T5 ships, I'd assumed that Romulans would likewise be excluded from using ally T6 ships... and the Starship Traits and synergies they provide.
I agree entirely. The synergistic nature of the Federation Starship Trait pool is awe-inspiring, and Reciprocity alone makes me think that Hawk was... ...using the royal "We" rather than commenting on the dev team as a whole. With the addition of the Defense bonuses from the Intelligence Officer Specialization, Escort Starship Mastery Leveling, Battle Ready, etc. paired with the ability of Reciprocity to cooldown Attack Patterns: Omega which then helps trigger Reciprocity... yeah. If it has any ability to get 30 sec cooldown abilities to within ~10% of global, they finally "fixed" Aux2Batt w/Tachnicians... by replacing it with something more effective with a lower opportunity cost.
I know what I'd like to see in lock box cross-faction Starship Traits: Reciprocity. Unfortunately, adding Overwhelming Force to a Federation captain with Reciprocity/Battle Ready/Emitter Synergy and a decent Science Ship would just make the imbalance worse, and you can bet that will be the KDF contribution if such an exchange occurs.
If we actually had a decent Science ship for our Klingon captains with Delta Rising, Overwhelming Force would have been really neat. It grants the ability to "throw" miniature versions of otherwise PBAoE abilities at a target's location, at a better cooldown than the full-size ones. Of course, until we know just how reduced that radius is we won't know how useful it is; my bet is that most of the time you'll be able to hit your designated target and that's about it.
Yeah, I've been thinking of what I could do with them... it's pretty bad, especially where Federation speed tanking is concerned. That actually has me wondering just where the Accuracy of Delta Rising NPCs has been set, since there are so many potential increases to Defense inbound that it could be quite possible to sit on the 25% minimum chance to be hit if an adjustment isn't made. Of course, if NPC Accuracy is adjusted, then everyone else is left even more vulnerable, making speed tanking even more prevalent, necessitating a further increase to NPC Accuracy, then everyone else is left even more vulnerable... etc. Those are NPCs, though, so they don't matter for a PvP discussion other than slowing the rate at which a PvPer can farm to participate in PvP. :P
Not a lot will improve in how the KDF or Roms perform in PvP, but the Federation is about to get a massive buff for those purchasing the full Operations Pack, and (if you've reviewed the Intelligence Officer Specialization) the additional defenses against Flanking could (not sure since the Specialization also offers bonuses) further diminish both factions. Our Romulans can probably survive just fine, assuming we can get Intel boffs that retain the faction's Space Traits, and our KDF captains at least got something to increase damage output. Still, it's certainly not as nice as cycling Tac Team, 3 Weapon Enhancement abilities, and 2 Attack Patterns at their global cooldowns at the "cost" of not taking damage... not to mention the improved cooldown on the Intel powers as well.
We live in interesting times. Well, our characters do. :P