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Aux2bat nerfed?
sierra078
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What actually happened to Auxiliary to battery? Before Delta Rising you could have up to three technicians to reduce cooldown times on all bridge officer abilities. Why can't I do that anymore and is there something I can use instead?
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A2B/Tech still work
I know that livestream geko got all excited and did say that but the forum fires they probably nixed that idea lol. However I wasn't worried about it even though I have many characters that can use it just seems cheesy to use it sometimes that and it is annoying to use lol.
Same. I noticed my A2B cycle wasn't doing anything, and when I checked my space assignments they'd all been cleared. Reslotted my tech doffs and now all is well. I'd guess that's what happened to OP.
Troubleshooting your own issues is OP!
Now we get an a2b console from delta rep.
I have been trying to get one purple tech for the past 6 weeks or so. Either the Support Colonization mission is not available to select or I didn't get a critical success from seemingly 15+ attempts with 27% - 30% chance of critical success each time depending on the available Boffs.
The first purple tech took me a while to get, but after that, the next two dropped fairly quickly.
Only 15 attempts?!? . . . Amateur! It took 33 attempts with my Tac Krommie . . . I guess I pissed off the RNG.
Since we can't extend bridge invites anymore, it takes longer. Anything to slow us down.
I said "15+".
I can't remember the exact number since I cannot count that high...
Wait...no...then your number system would consider of "one" and "more than one".
Nah... anything above 15 is infinity when it comes to "purple doff" attempts.
Any A2B build has always come with downsides.
It takes more micro-management, denies you effective use of your auxiliary power and denies you the use of valuable doff slots.
I have never been overly found of flying with aux to bat and have never had a problem surpassing the performance of aux to bat builds, on cruisers escorts and science ships.
Now with DR we have even more options to reduce our need for A2B.
The Phantom's mastery trait dose an awesome job of reducing cool downs on tactical and intelligence powers, It averages just a couple of seconds off global on even the short duration abilities.
The delta reputation console will shave off the last couple of seconds without any trouble.
For those ships with intelligence Lt.Com and Commander slots the new surgical strike ability makes for a fantastic weapon enhancement buff. Ever lamented at how broadly BfaW spreads your damage? Well surgical strikes is that commander and lt commander single target buff to your beams that you have always wanted, and you can use it on any hybrid commander slot. Of course you can also use it with cannons and turrets.
While not useful for other cruisers that lack tactical abilities and use A2B to compensate, this helps the eclipse to no end.
So I say, leave A2B as it is, the power curve surpassed it long ago, and with DR its becoming even less necisery.
Whether it is a good idea to have in the game may be another story. Aux2bat doesn't really make sense from an immersion point of view (seriously, explain it to me in star trek terms), and from a gameplay perspective it feels a bit cheap (not cheap as in unfair, but as in feeling more like gaming this system than playing the game).
I use it in some builds because I appreciate shorter cooldowns, but I feel like I'd rather see a more interesting way of dealing with cooldowns.
IMO they're on to something with tying cooldowns in to the concept of ship's power, but aux2bat isn't quite... it.
Yes. They first alluded to them revamping abilities right around the changes to Beam Overload about 2 months ago.
To toss in totally revamped BOFF abilities on top of DR would have been a lot for most around here to handle.
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In green statements are very true, and that also means the KDF and Romulans get shafted again (can't use the Phantom to unlock the trait).
The addition of starship traits to select ships only some characters (depending on faction) can use causes great disadvantages. Mainly for the KDF and Romulans, simply because they've only got 2 Starship traits to get from T6 ships compared to the FEDs' 5 ship traits.
Toi'Va, Ti'vath, Toivia, Ty'Vris, Tia Vex, Toi'Virth: Add Tier 6 KDF Carrier and Raider.
Tae'Va, T'Vaya, To'Var, Tevra, T'Vira, To'Vrak: Give us Asylums for Romulans.
Don't make ARC mandatory! Keep it optional only!
Well 4 if you want to count the Benthan and Hazari ships
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I definitely didn't want to count those. Getting a lockbox ship for the sake of using it I can understand (despite them being typically overpriced), getting it only in order to unlock a starship trait gets us in the next level of absurd.
(Possibly to explain my view: I've never opened a single lockbox/lobi ship and pre-DR, my only 10 console ships were some C-store 3-ship bundles and Chel Grett-alikes.)
It's true however that getting ANY ship trait is associated with some spending. 3k Zen or 15 spec points ain't all that affordable either if the end goal is only the trait.
Toi'Va, Ti'vath, Toivia, Ty'Vris, Tia Vex, Toi'Virth: Add Tier 6 KDF Carrier and Raider.
Tae'Va, T'Vaya, To'Var, Tevra, T'Vira, To'Vrak: Give us Asylums for Romulans.
Don't make ARC mandatory! Keep it optional only!
P.S. You have to be a Fed to fly the phantom. Sorry Klinks.
But yeah, it should be nerfed: cruisers are not intended for damage and that was a limit Cryptic made since the creation of STO.
But then too many cruisers captains went out claiming their ships were TRIBBLE cause they didn't enough damage, and Cryptic ended up creating Cruisers that deal more damage than escorts while having stronger shields and unlimited healing abilities.
Yeah, that's the way
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They also raised the HP of the NPCs and increased the DPS needed to be competitive. Nerf A2B too much and old school cruisers would fall even further behind. Bad design decisions all compounding on each other.
I've been an engy cruiser captain since beta. The problem has always been one: tanking is mostly pointless in STO. If you can keep yourself alive, then you're done. DPS is king.
So, let me get that straight : if I am a Fed and I fly all of the T6 ships and unlock their own traits, then I can use those unlocked traits on every single ship I fly ?
Once unlocked, any starship trait can be used on any ship. You can slot up to four at once, and they have their own trait slots, so you don't have to forfeit any space traits for them. For instance, I am using the Romulan intel ship's trait even though I'm back in my scimi. There are also starship traits available from the specialization trees.
Tactical retreat coupled with GDF ? Nice
The whole starship traits thing and combination would deserve its own thread
Of course, but cruisers needed to be improoved, but not that much.
Now they are unkillable killers
Do think about it: in PVP an ordinary escort vessel would have hard times when it tries to kill a cruiser, it was quite balanced: cruisers needed more damage, yes, but now they do more damage than Escorts ...
Escorts are pointless now: less DPS, less hull, less shield, less healing ... GOD, there's no sense in this, and I feel fooled by Cryptic.
I spent months in refining dil to buy elite fleet gears for my escort, and what's happened ? cryptic excluded escorts from the game ... its not fair.
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