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What Energy Weapon Type, Do You Find Yourself Using The Most?
shadowwraith77
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What Energy Weapon Type, Do You Find Yourself Using The Most? 263 votes
Phaser
21%
57 votes
Disruptor
13%
35 votes
Antiproton
33%
87 votes
Plasma
10%
27 votes
Polaron
6%
16 votes
Tetryon
2%
6 votes
Other [AKA Hybrids/Reputation/Lobi/Lock Box/Dilithium Store Specialty/Etc.]
11%
30 votes
None, I Use Primarily Torpedoes To Do My Dirty Work
1%
5 votes
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I do change moods often though and go through phases of running canon ships (phasers), role playing an assimilated ship (plasma), I even rock retro phasers from time to time.
I always go back to antiproton's though. Extra crit damage is too good to pass up.
My Romulan and KDF tend to lean more towards disruptors, but I think my Romulan also has a Plasma build...
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Federation - Phasers, but I have use Polaron on one ship.
Romulan - Plasmas
KDF - Disruptors and Plasmas
I have 9 captains. All 3 Fed captains use Phasers currently. I have 2 Romulan captains and both use Plasmas. I have 4 KDF captains; 3 of them use Disruptors while the remaining captain uses Plamsas. Therefore, I make equal use of Phasers, Disruptors and Plamsas and I cannot vote in this poll since there does not seem to be a way to vote for more than one weapon type.
Everyone may have 1-2 DPS builds but most people are here to role-play.
BTW last time I checked a FPER with Phasers was smashing DPS records!
AP is soo overrated. Usually people who look for a fun to pilot ship will not chose antiproton. Just only with the terrible weapon sound makes you cry. And most people dont use critic builds like most romulans. For those players, antiproton has no more use that disruptor or other energy type. And because honestly i play for fun, and i dont care if one weapon is "better" , "worst" or watever.
And because people is already tired of so much antiproton and so much antiproton love.
Because it has nothing to do using phaser or other energy type specially because for measuring the DPS it doesnt matter the proc at all unless you are going for a critD/H based build. Phasers are actually amazing.
Have since moved on to Antiprotons though.
I use Phasers/Poton Torpedo on my main Federation Captain.
I use Polaron on my alternative Federation Captain, the beams that look like cannon fire in a Kobali Samsar ship.
Then I use (Nanite)Disruptors on my main Klingon.
So it's rather themed than a favorite. I like to try everything out, for the sake of diversity.
I get why antiproton's proc bonus makes it the most popular, but it's always looked to me as if the other energy weapon types are about the same. So I don't understand why tetryon is consistently treated as the worst possible option.
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The reasoning is that tetryon's proc is less useful after the enemy's shields go down (whereas, say, disruptor's debuff to damage resistance is useful all the time). Technically that's true, but only really if you're playing solo: in a team setting tetryons are better, since they affect the shields on all facings, not just the one you're shooting at.
And of course, tetryon's proc is no help shooting static unshielded targets in ISA, which is for some reason the standard map for calculating DPS. It's good against ships, not for bombardment.