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I must be living under a rock, Science OP, what did I miss?
hyefather
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I've been hearing alot about these Part-Gen builds doing OP damage. Would someone please explain to me when/how this happened. I have been using GW and TBR and see no diff. I haven't changed my build since season 9 tho. Just curious what all the hype is? I sure would like to have a better dps build on my science character than what I got.
P.S. I got my Science crafting level up to 16. Arn't I suppose to get some trait or something? I can't find anything New in my traits or accolades showing a buff. What am I missing here. With all this science talk I've missed. I must be living under a rock.
P.S. I got my Science crafting level up to 16. Arn't I suppose to get some trait or something? I can't find anything New in my traits or accolades showing a buff. What am I missing here. With all this science talk I've missed. I must be living under a rock.
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Science:
Trait: Your Particle Generator skill gives up to 25% bonus crit chance on Science powers (at 100 PartGens)
so the idea I'm hearing is that if you stacked partgens skill to 400 then you would have a 100% bonus crit chance on sci powers.
1) The trait is in your trait list.
2) Max those part gens and exotic damage. Psychological warfare helps hike the annoyance.
3) Delta Rising will hike things up even more on sci ships with unlockable ship traits.
WUT??? Seriously?
BY THE GODS!!!!!!!!! I Believe I can do it. I just crafted a console earlier today that had 63.8 part-gens. I'm gonna try it. I'll be a god in pvp. Mwa HA HA HA HA...........your not pulling my leg are you?
you apply all the above with some technicians, grav scientists and torp duty officers on a science heavy ship. the effect would be deadly. if you could find some tac positions open add to cscatter/bfaw with a2b or similar, or apb.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
The mega well build with aftershocks really trolls Romulan cloaking vapers. From what I understand, you can make a close to 20km gravity well.
Graviton Generators are where things get silly. Each point of graviton generators will increase the radius of your well by 0.015km. Which isnt going to do much, but there are enough ways to stack them that with full aux power and the right gear you can put out 15km diamiter wells as standard.
Every ship you can catch multiplies the damage the gravity well can do. If you want to spke 40k dps in a science ship this and a gravametric torpedo are the way to go.
Of course in any situation where a bigger well fails to net you more ships the point of stacking graviton generators is lost, and you may as well go with particle gens.
Without consoles from the new crafting system 18km with the romulan rep power is doable. With the new consoles yes 20km is within reach, but not yet as standard... but we are getting there, mk XIV on the horizen and all ^.^
I wonder if by combining the right mix of part gens, grav gens, psych warfare trait, consv of energy trait, and the science R&D trait with 135 aux you can get a nasty GW3 going.
Its worth noting that the Psych W. Trait only effects pull strength sadly... I wish it effected radius, that would be epic... though it would increase the chance of a nerf.
piloting a 135 aux vesta with GW3 and aftershock.... yes..... it's nice. I like it.
With an area of effect cloak and a high yield temporal disruption device right down the center.
PING PONG WHIPLASH!
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Lol, throw in some warp plasma in for good measure and a grav torp spread.
Watching large numbers of enemies in starbase fleet defence, no win, fleet alert or undine assault ping pong around is halarity multiplied by graviton generator skill value squared.
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LOL, oh yeah, those are the best places to set it off, especially the SB fleet defense...... I love just watching whole enemy NPC formations just collapse on themselves.
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In PVP its a little different as there are a few ways to escape this ability, some can be overcome or prevented, some cant.
"If this will be our end, then I will have them make SUCH an end as to be worthy of rememberance! Out of torpedos you say?! Find me the ferengi!".
If you have GW2 you can get GW3 as they occupy the same commender level spot in boff abilities. A Boff can be trained in it by a sci player with at least 6 levels to the grav gen skill.
I can still move.
I can still fight.
I will never give up!
I really hope this is true. I am running a Dauntless science vessel, as a torp boat with 417 part, gens and full aux power. With the ability from the Delta set my cannon has crits at 25k with 100% shield pen, and GW and TR are sick. Can't wait till I get 15 in Science R&D.
Still wondering how people havn't noticed...
SCI Captains can make it work nicely.
TAC Captains really make the PGen/Exotic Dmg Builds shine.
FYI OP: It takes a lot of resources to get to those crazy performance numbers.
And that is why science power is such a guarded secret. If used correctly it can be devastating, but compared to tactical abilities or A2B it is difficult to master.
I am not convinced it's op. But it's at least effective and can help you blow through hit point bags even in PvE. (And it's damn useful often in STFs where you need to stop NPCs from reaching particular locations.)
But I still miss the days of my Shield Draining (Charged Particle Burst + Tachyon Beam) Tri-Cobalt bomber. Still lots of skills that could use a buff.