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xlesha911
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How many shield penetration? I've tested it on elite Tholians & Elachi... well, seems like ~20%, pretty useless.
And on screenshot it is [CritD] [CrtH], but i get lol [Dmg]
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And on screenshot it is [CritD] [CrtH], but i get lol [Dmg]
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And let me tell you this:
The mods are inconsistent. There is no shield pen (which I was kind of hoping for as pre-determined mods for VR/UR since special items CAN have pre-determined mods). Would have been a nice carrot on a stick for upgrading if VR added 1 ShPen mod and UR added another for a total of 50%.
But I upgraded mine to UR. CritHx2, Dmgx2 at UR for me.
STILL: the damage is showing as 202 DPS at UR for me. This thing does 50 more basic DPS than any other weapon I have and something like 80 DPS more than my TR-116B. Because the base damage is high for a Mk XII blue, I think it gets more value from upgrading in mark and quality than most weapons do. This may actually be worth upgrading to epic. Going from VR or UR increased the damage by over 20 DPS.
Also note that many weapons no longer even USE personal shields.
I may run coliseum and see if it works in there. There's probably a strong case to be made that this MIGHT BE the only ranged weapon that should still work in melee only zones. From a lore perspective because "energy inhibitors" shouldn't do anything to a basic shotgun. From a game mechanics perspective because this does physical damage, which MIGHT BE the filter applied in places like Coliseum and the Klingon Bat'leth tournaments. (Side note: How awesome would it be to have shotguns ruled a legal weapon for Bat'leth tournaments?)
~6 shoots vs shielded borg, same as VR TR, but... U need to be very close to target, and common sword + doffs significantly outperform it...
Not worth upgrading...
My character Tsin'xing
The nanopulse is not a physical weapon. That might actually lend support to the shotgun working there since the restriction doesn't seem to be melee/ranged but physical.
I'll check at some point.
This may not be the best time to mention this, but if you didn't like the mods you had you could have discarded the shotgun and reclaimed it in the dilithium store, and rolled different mods. I decided I wanted a crtDx2, so I just kept throwing it away and reclaiming it until I got what I wanted.
Are you sure it is re-claimable? Because there is no indication whatsoever that this is possible with the shotgun.
It only pulls that kinda damage if you're literally in their face at sword ranges. Even then you're taking serious damage and still have to use abilities etc. so there is down time in enemy faces. TBH the weapon works well for stuff like advanced borg and elachi. The problem is people think it's a free ticket to elite ground STFs and have been losing them for the regulars all day. A shotgun does not equal elite stf time.
Look in the dilithium store reclaim section. You should see the box the shotgun came in there. I'm pretty sure Because I discarded and reclaimed it a couple dozen times before getting the mods I wanted.
Not sure if that was their intention when including it in the reclaim tab, but its there as of this moment:
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Notice it's greyed out now because you can only have one on the char at a time.
Thank you! Didn't know this was even possible :rolleyes: