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How to best use radiation-applying weapons? (For example 'Withering Disruptors')

angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,005 Arc User
edited November 2015 in The Academy
Usually the rep weapons you get from the boxes are of varyingl usefulness, but through coincidence I discovered that the withering photon torpedoes form the Terran rep actually work quite well since they apply shield bypassing radiation damage.

Which skills do work in favour of those weapons? Is it exotic damage or is there something else going on for "radiation damage"?

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  • autumnwind34autumnwind34 Member Posts: 29 Arc User
    I know the counter command ordanance set has radiation damage as well and a console to boost it, I wonder if they stack
  • norobladnoroblad Member Posts: 2,624 Arc User
    pretty sure its exotic. Try it in space ... you know, outside a home planet like new rom, put on the weapon, then look at the values, then put on a trash +pgen item, and it will go up if its exotic.
  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,005 Arc User
    noroblad wrote: »
    pretty sure its exotic. Try it in space ... you know, outside a home planet like new rom, put on the weapon, then look at the values, then put on a trash +pgen item, and it will go up if its exotic.

    You know, I literally never thought about that. Thank you very much, that's ingenious advice right here pig-2.gifpig-4.gif​​
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    ^ Memory Alpha.org is not canon. It's a open wiki with arbitrary rules. Only what can be cited from an episode is. ^
    "No. Men do not roar. Women roar. Then they hurl heavy objects... and claw at you." -Worf, son of Mogh
    "A filthy, mangy beast, but in its bony breast beat the heart of a warrior" - "faithful" (...) "but ever-ready to follow the call of the wild." - Martok, about a Targ
    "That pig smelled horrid. A sweet-sour, extremely pungent odor. I showered and showered, and it took me a week to get rid of it!" - Robert Justman, appreciating Emmy-Lou
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  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,005 Arc User
    According to my tests, partgens do NOT increase withering radiation damage. So maybe it's a thing very, very limited to just the rep set?​​
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    ^ Memory Alpha.org is not canon. It's a open wiki with arbitrary rules. Only what can be cited from an episode is. ^
    "No. Men do not roar. Women roar. Then they hurl heavy objects... and claw at you." -Worf, son of Mogh
    "A filthy, mangy beast, but in its bony breast beat the heart of a warrior" - "faithful" (...) "but ever-ready to follow the call of the wild." - Martok, about a Targ
    "That pig smelled horrid. A sweet-sour, extremely pungent odor. I showered and showered, and it took me a week to get rid of it!" - Robert Justman, appreciating Emmy-Lou
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  • norobladnoroblad Member Posts: 2,624 Arc User
    Guess so. Would have been nice for the exotic sci boats. FYI flowcaps/weap power do increase the shield drain of the other new torp. And I think, but not 100% sure, that pgens increase the damage of grav torp & crafted gas cloud. I can't remember... been flow caps built for a few months.
  • generator88generator88 Member Posts: 698 Arc User
    If memory serves, to count as "Exotic damage", a particular source of damage must not come from firing a weapon. Hence, this is just "Radiation damage ", buffable only by things that specify such. Contrast with, say Aceton Beam, which doesn't come from a fired weapon, and is therefore Exotic.
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  • gerwalk0769gerwalk0769 Member Posts: 1,095 Arc User
    edited November 2015
    I'll check when I get home but off hand I think four stats come into play with the Terran Photon Torpedo. I think three weapons stats Starship Weapons, Starship Projectiles, Starship Subspace Decompiler, and Graviton Generators. I believe I boosted the radiation by using the Counter-Command Multi-Conduit Energy Relay console.

    And there is a 33% chance to apply a stack of Withering Radiation with the rep. torpedo, and the other non-rep. torpedoes I believe.

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  • tempus64tempus64 Member Posts: 806 Arc User
    This thread on the same topic had some additional info

    http://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/1206911/how-do-you-boost-radiation-damage

    There was a little in this one as well but might have been much the same

    http://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/1204658/neutronic-torp-how-do-you-buff-it
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