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sirmayday
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Sorry if I've overlooked an optimization forum this should be in; could've sworn I saw one before, but can't seem to find it now. Anyway, on the my question:
I know that, in general, CrtH > CrtD, and the logic behind that is pretty clear; it doesn't matter how hard you crit if you don't crit often enough for it to matter. That said, my fleet's spire is about a week away from having Tier 3 Research facilities, so I'm looking to outfit my Phantom with the appropriate tac consoles. Before I sink the dilithium and fleet credits into it, though, I wanted to see if there's an accepted point at which one should focus on CrtD instead of more CrtH. Is there?
I know that, in general, CrtH > CrtD, and the logic behind that is pretty clear; it doesn't matter how hard you crit if you don't crit often enough for it to matter. That said, my fleet's spire is about a week away from having Tier 3 Research facilities, so I'm looking to outfit my Phantom with the appropriate tac consoles. Before I sink the dilithium and fleet credits into it, though, I wanted to see if there's an accepted point at which one should focus on CrtD instead of more CrtH. Is there?
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Either way, thanks again for the reply.
The Vulnerability Locator consoles are one source, yes. Another potential source is lobi consoles such as the Tachyokinetic Converter. There are also rep system consoles such as the Assimilated Module.
So yes, focus on CrtD for your actual weapon modifiers, and let your console layout handle the CrtH.
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I find this to be an acceptable balance between damage and chance for myself personally, though I know others who do it far differently and look for that "mega crit" less often.
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Have you noticed that Isokinetic Cannon does as well? Unless I missed something, I don't recall it saying it was supposed to do that.
with this in mind you COULD make an all crtD built for every darn thing and aux to bad (cool downs) with 2-3 copies of overload....
For tac consoles, I can't think of a single time you would want crtd over crth. Stack your crtd on your weapons and leave it at that.
Other places to get crtd are from traits, specializations, and other consoles that have it along with crth.
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That is the basis of my current ship. I'm running five vulnerability exploiters and my four fore dual beam banks are all focused on CrtD. The idea is that the ship is configured to be able to rapidly cycle beam overloads and the occasional FAW.
CrtD x3 or x4 is what the high dps crews are focusing on. And they get the best EC results when put up for sale on the exchange.
Dx4 > Dx3+Pen or something to that effect.
I don't honestly know about the actual mechanics though - someone will have to explain it to me.
That is until the next meta change in about 3 months
Play here long enough, everything will come round.
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Everything has seen changes, some good, some not so good.
Right now my alts play with a mix of everything, but the alts that get the better DPS focus the weapons on CrtDx3 + pen. That's just an opinion, but it comes from people who's build advice works well enough to surpass anything I could hope to achieve.
With our luck Phasers will get a big update and become the most powerful weapon in the game, while antiproton will get a nerf. Just kidding of course
SS builds, BO builds, Particle Manipulator builds...
When choosing weapons, CrtH mods are a lot cheaper than CrtD ones, but seeing as you have to be using locators, there is no way to get anywhere close to the CrtD required to start pumping out some noticeable dps unless using CrtDx3 or better weapons. Until they rebalance those spire consoles, then this won't really change.
Are you using the Particle Manipulator trait with a high Part Gen score? That would cause to to crit a lot.
For an exotic damage build you just might.
I'm building one at the moment, a new character so still a few weeks off Level 15 Science, when I get there I'll try to see if the increased damage from the exotics outweighs the loss in weapons damage when I switch from Locators to Exploiters.
If you have BO build, use Exploiters and put atleast [Acc]x2 modifier on all weapons, CrtD for the weapon you are doing the BO off, and CrtH for all else.
If else, Locators and again atleast [Acc]x2, with CrtD for all weapons
For PVE
If you have BO build, use Exploiters, [CrtD]x3 for the weapon you are doing the BO off, [CrtH]x3 for all other.
If else, use Locators and [CrtD]x3 for all weapons.
Its that simple.
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Unless it is effected by PG boosts, than I don't think it has a full time 100% like BO does!
Tested it myself quite often and, it doesn't always crit 100% of the time.
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Surgical strike is crazy good by its own (+30% ctrh+acc ? Hell yeah !), but with the right gear, it is insanely good.
That's why AP with ctrd are so expensive right now.
Agreed, from day 1 of my game play, this has always been my choice, now it's made better with ever increasing ACC/CRTH from other sources.
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