Best setup for Chimera Heavy Destroyer for pve?

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• birzark Member Posts: 634 Arc User

  January 2015 edited January 2015

  i would start by posting your build on here,http://www.stoacademy.com/tools/skillplanner/ it helps that we can see what your running and give some more detailed feedback.
  
  A lot of things come into play, style and budget and without knowing what your running will end up having some posting some very expensive builds to make.

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• tigeraries Member Posts: 3,492 Arc User

  January 2015 edited January 2015

  it has a console power for phaser lance... so phaser build.
  
  probably go with beam arrays and faw even thou it is 4/3 set up.
  
  your an engineer so you have EP2X trait... so I would space bar: EP2W, EP2S x2, FAW x2, APO x2 and APB.
  
  Could always go cannons if you prefer... swap out FAW with CRF and CSV.
  
  3 Dmg Control DOs to reduce cool down time for EP2X.

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• darkjeff Member Posts: 2,590 Arc User

  January 2015 edited January 2015

  tigeraries wrote: »

  I would space bar: EP2W, EP2S x2, FAW x2, APO x2 and APB.

  
  Never put Attack Patterns and FAW on your Spacebar.
  
  Their cooldowns will desync, and you lose a big chunk of DPS.

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• tigeraries Member Posts: 3,492 Arc User

  January 2015 edited January 2015

  darkjeff wrote: »

  Never put Attack Patterns and FAW on your Spacebar.
  
  Their cooldowns will desync, and you lose a big chunk of DPS.

  
  this is pve and not pvp... desync sure but how often?
  
  you have 3 copies of AP and 2 FAWs. total cool down between FAW copy 1 and copy 2 is what?

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• darkjeff Member Posts: 2,590 Arc User

  January 2015 edited January 2015

  There is a 15s System Cooldown between APs.
  There is a 20s Duplicate Ability Cooldown between FAWs.
  
  You will desync right after the first time they fire.
  
  At best, they will sync up once every minute. That's 75% of APs without FAW, and 66% of FAWs without APs. An obvious decrease in performance.
  
  Just assign all three APs and both FAWs to a separate button, and tap that button twice when you see they're both an AP and a FAW available. It's an extra button you tap every 20s for a very appreciable increase in performance.

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• nervehammer1004 Member Posts: 38 Arc User

  January 2015 edited January 2015

  Not to hijack your Chimera build thread but I was wondering if darkjeff could elaborate on the attack pattern/FAW info he just gave out?
  
  So if I understand correctly I would create a keybind for say (T) that has
  
  (all my attack patterns (APA, APB, APD, APO)) + (all my beam (BFAW/BO) or cannon abilities (CSV/CRF) )
  
  
  and then while battling in space I would just hit T when I saw any of those abilities available?
  
  I ask because I had went the Hilbert method where everything was on the spacebar and I just keep hitting the spacebar (a lot) to keep the abilities hot.
  
  Speaking of the Chimera - I use the Thoron infused Polaron on it and it's a beast, but I think Jeff's technique above may make it more beastly

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• darkjeff Member Posts: 2,590 Arc User

  January 2015 edited January 2015

  When you see both a Fire At Will and an Attack Pattern available, you tap T twice.
  
  The point here is that Fire At Will has a minimum 20s between uses, while Attack Patterns have a 15s. So you want to wait the additional 5s before firing the Attack Pattern, in order to have both buffs active at once.
  
  I did this (splitting the attack abilities off spacebar onto a different button) some time ago, after sarcasmdetector basically told us not to be so lazy. My DPS immediately jumped up by something like +20% (iirc).

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• shandypandy Member Posts: 632 Arc User

  January 2015 edited January 2015

  If you hit someone when you have APB active, they will suffer -X (dependant on attack pattern captain skill) damage resistance debuff for 5 seconds; so whilst the power is active for 10 seconds, the debuff is active for more {firing cycle/last hit/blah blah/windowless monads/scanner's moment}.
  
  Basically, stick FAW on one bind, APx on another, and ping 'em off together. Job's a good 'un.

  

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