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vekares227
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I am trying to hit 20k in DPS and while I can crit with my Phantoms power beam for about 40k, I cant get above 17 otherwise. I fo use phasers and not AP (I dont care, im fed I USE phasers). I have the plasmonic leech, all my weapons and consoles are XIV Ultra Rare. I do use my quad cannon and its (critX) (dmg)x4......should I replace it with a standard DHC (critD)x2(critH)?......I have purple Boffs, I use Fire on my Mark, Atack Alpha and the other Fed Damage buff for my cannons rapid fire volley and I do see 17k at times, its mostly 4-11k
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do you use pattern beta and power to weapons? Are you amped? Are you using the set that boosts phaser damage (undine rep)? Do you stay 3k or less from your targets?
Remember not to compare single target dps vs aoe dps. Cannons struggle with aoe and comparing their damage to beams in a trash target killing contest is folly.
Also what abilities are you using, I'm using surgical strikes on my phantom and i also have phaser for the lance, i think my highest crit with that is 200K
again, are we looking at aoe vs single target? 20k single target dps is *just fine*. Its a cannon ship, read deeper.
amped warp cores add 3.something % total damage when your power levels are over 75. So if you have 125/75/75/75 you get 12.whatever % damage bonus. Fleet warp cores have this, and most cores seem to gain it if you turn them to gold quality.
if you get much more than 3k from a target, your cannon dps damage falloff makes them do less damage, to the point that dual beam banks become superior at about 5k. But less than 3 is where you want to be with cannons, and nose to their hull is even better.
your feelings have no impact on the topic. At 8 and 9k range your dual heavy cannons probably don't hit as hard as a beam array.
You have to not only have the amp core, you have to USE It by having your power levels tweaked.