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Are we going to get Herald Transphasic Torpedoes?

lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,896 Arc User
in Star Trek Online General Discussion
There has been so little love for transphasics...well for as long as I've been playing before f2P...have been very little added...only transphasic torpedo added in forever was the Resonant set...the only good torpedo is the Rapid Reload...the wide angled Voth torp is nearly worthless because it's like the weakest torp in endgame...not to mention none of the Voth transphasics can be upgraded...not even the wide angle.

They're obviously in game already...so why not show you don't completely 100% hate torpedoes Cryptic?
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  • kayajaykayajay Member Posts: 1,990 Arc User
    Until a Transphasic Torpedo passes straight through someone's shields (Chroniton too for that matter) and does crippling damage or even total destruction...meh.
  • nathraelnathrael Member Posts: 264 Arc User
    It is entirely possible Herald Transphasics may be included in the weapon boxes in the Herald Lockboxes. But as far as Cryptic hating torpedoes, what I have seen of Terran rep on Tribble disproves that.
  • lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,896 Arc User
    nathrael wrote: »
    It is entirely possible Herald Transphasics may be included in the weapon boxes in the Herald Lockboxes. But as far as Cryptic hating torpedoes, what I have seen of Terran rep on Tribble disproves that.

    Didn't seem the most impressive to me last time I tried it...only thing powerful was the broken 3 piece set.
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  • lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,896 Arc User
    nathrael wrote: »
    It is entirely possible Herald Transphasics may be included in the weapon boxes in the Herald Lockboxes. But as far as Cryptic hating torpedoes, what I have seen of Terran rep on Tribble disproves that.

    No torpedoes...just power creep'd AP weapons...
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  • jarvisandalfredjarvisandalfred Member Posts: 1,549 Bug Hunter
    lianthelia wrote: »
    nathrael wrote: »
    It is entirely possible Herald Transphasics may be included in the weapon boxes in the Herald Lockboxes. But as far as Cryptic hating torpedoes, what I have seen of Terran rep on Tribble disproves that.

    No torpedoes...just power creep'd AP weapons...

    Yes, ones that, coincidentally, do less dps than regular ap. Such power creep. Much wow.
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  • alphahydrialphahydri Member Posts: 391 Arc User
    I am wondering about this too. The Herald hangar pets come with the torpedoes, so it makes no sense for the player's own ship to not be able to use them...
  • lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,896 Arc User
    jarvisandalfred wrote: »
    lianthelia wrote: »
    nathrael wrote: »
    It is entirely possible Herald Transphasics may be included in the weapon boxes in the Herald Lockboxes. But as far as Cryptic hating torpedoes, what I have seen of Terran rep on Tribble disproves that.

    No torpedoes...just power creep'd AP weapons...

    Yes, ones that, coincidentally, do less dps than regular ap. Such power creep. Much wow.

    Because there has been so much testing with the weapons being out...what a hour or two? 21% bonus energy can't possible be effective at all can it?
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  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,572 Arc User
    Has anyone gotten any of the ship's and checked? They may come with them as Common default weapons on the ship. I believe this happened with the Voth Ships, had the Chroniton Quantum or some such multi Torpedo and was Common.
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    'As l speak now, the words are forming in my head.
    l don't know.
    l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
    That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
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  • warmaker001bwarmaker001b Member Posts: 9,205 Arc User
    ltminns wrote: »
    Has anyone gotten any of the ship's and checked? They may come with them as Common default weapons on the ship. I believe this happened with the Voth Ships, had the Chroniton Quantum or some such multi Torpedo and was Common.

    Even if there were common quality standard weapons on the Herald ships, none of them would be upgradable.
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  • lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,896 Arc User
    warmaker001b wrote: »
    ltminns wrote: »
    Has anyone gotten any of the ship's and checked? They may come with them as Common default weapons on the ship. I believe this happened with the Voth Ships, had the Chroniton Quantum or some such multi Torpedo and was Common.

    Even if there were common quality standard weapons on the Herald ships, none of them would be upgradable.

    Plus don't like the idea of paying 200 million ec for a torpedo, especially for it to come up with 100% random stats if it were upgradable...which those items aren't.

    Figures...two nice type of transphasic torps and neither really obtainable or upgradable...Cryptic doesn't really care unless it's Photon or Quantum...
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  • samt1996samt1996 Member Posts: 2,856 Arc User
    To hell with the stats. It's those sexy blue visuals I'm craving! ;)

    Can't wait to get a whole set!

    Now we just need a blue plasma weapon type and you can rainbow build in the color Blue. :D
  • lopequillopequil Member Posts: 1,226 Arc User
    Have there ever been any lockbox projectile weapons? That's a rhetorical question; what I really wonder is "why not?".
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  • lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,896 Arc User
    lopequil wrote: »
    Have there ever been any lockbox projectile weapons? That's a rhetorical question; what I really wonder is "why not?".

    They don't care much for torpedoes...
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  • kitsunesnoutkitsunesnout Member Posts: 1,210 Arc User
    I suggest hanging onto those included torpedoes you get with your ships, they might become upgradeable one day, you never truly know, and that might be the only way to ever have them, so don't even think about trashing them!
  • samt1996samt1996 Member Posts: 2,856 Arc User
    Has it been confirmed they come with them?
  • arachnaasarachnaas Member Posts: 118 Arc User
    I like the look of the weapons that the herald ships have been using, but I'm disappointed that they are transphasic. I was really hoping for blue AP torps so I could replace my reds. I get ocd about mismatched weapon color.
  • lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,896 Arc User
    kitsunesnout wrote: »
    I suggest hanging onto those included torpedoes you get with your ships, they might become upgradeable one day, you never truly know, and that might be the only way to ever have them, so don't even think about trashing them!

    It has been a year and they still haven't even bothered with Voth Transphasics...not even the Wide Angle one that came with the 500 million EC costing Dread.
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  • nathraelnathrael Member Posts: 264 Arc User
    samt1996 wrote: »
    Has it been confirmed they come with them?

    Yes, the Herald ships come with them. White Mk X, non-upgradeable.
  • alphahydrialphahydri Member Posts: 391 Arc User
    I'd like to bump/semi-necro this thread instead of creating a new one. It seems odd to me that effort would be put into creating a new torpedo variant that is only available by claiming a Herald ship, and even then stuck at Mk X and non-upgradeable. Is it possible we could get these in upgradeable form, or are we stuck with them the way they are now?
  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,666 Community Moderator
    No semi about it alpha. You are a NECROMANCER!
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    Yang Xiao Long wrote:
    I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
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  • alphahydrialphahydri Member Posts: 391 Arc User
    rattler2 wrote: »
    No semi about it alpha. You are a NECROMANCER!
    LOL, it's only like 2-3 months old though! Not five years like that one necro'ed thread yesterday! :D

  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,666 Community Moderator
    According to the forum rules, anything over 30 days, IE 1 month, is considered Necro. So you're still a Necromancer.
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    Yang Xiao Long wrote:
    I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
    The nut who actually ground out many packs. The resident forum voice of reason (I HAZ FORUM REP! YAY!)
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  • alphahydrialphahydri Member Posts: 391 Arc User
    rattler2 wrote: »
    According to the forum rules, anything over 30 days, IE 1 month, is considered Necro. So you're still a Necromancer.
    Huh, well there are worse things to be, I guess LOL. Necro'ing threads is very common on the bug report forums and nothing really happens there, so it's odd that it's frowned upon here.

  • samt1996samt1996 Member Posts: 2,856 Arc User
    I still want better herald torps.
  • bcullenbcullen Member Posts: 15 Arc User
    I too would love to see some better Herald Torps. They have a really neat special function and look great in flight. It would be such a waste to be stuck with only while mk X versions....
  • kayajaykayajay Member Posts: 1,990 Arc User
    I still say for Chronitons and introducing the Krenim, they should have been a terrible enemy and we would all have needed temporal shielding to survive, otherwise the torpedoes WOULD have ripped right through us.

    Temporal ships getting built in superior ones of course and some bonuses ;-)
  • reynoldsxdreynoldsxd Member Posts: 977 Arc User
    They should make the Herald torps from the herald ships upgradable and acc bound on upgrade.

    Also: lobi store has the corrosive plasma and the plasma-plasma torps... the latter does plasma damage and is buffed by plasma tac consoles....
  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,666 Community Moderator
    reynoldsxd wrote: »
    Also: lobi store has the corrosive plasma and the plasma-plasma torps... the latter does plasma damage and is buffed by plasma tac consoles....

    The Bio Plasma Torp? Its energy based like the Anitproton Torpedo we got from the Crystaline Entity.
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    Yang Xiao Long wrote:
    I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
    The nut who actually ground out many packs. The resident forum voice of reason (I HAZ FORUM REP! YAY!)
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  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,572 Arc User
    edited January 2016
    Don't give the people the impression that Common quality items can't be upgraded, they can. If these can't it is by design or lack of addressing it in the design and not because it is Common quality.

    I have been reminded that standard issue Common quality stuff is not Upgradeable. Though stuff that isn't Common is (Wide-angle Quantums, Aux Phasers, etc.) unless they goofed.
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    l don't know.
    l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
    That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    Actually "standard issue" gear can't be upgraded. Lock box ships have... interesting standard issue gear sometimes.
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