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Why are dps guys speccing drain?

postinggumpostinggum Member Posts: 1,117 Arc User
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Looking at builds by high dps players they are putting points into drain but slotting no drain powers. As far as I know all this does is make then more resistant to npcs using drain abilities, am I missing something?

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    postinggumpostinggum Member Posts: 1,117 Arc User
    Any idea the kind of sci stat such a build work at once space sets and consoles are included?
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    alcaatrazalcaatraz Member Posts: 113 Arc User
    Engineers make good use of the DrainX skill since Nadion Inversion scales with it. Otherwise its an insurance to protect against getting drained in situations where it might be possible by NPC's or Other players.
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    peterconnorfirstpeterconnorfirst Member Posts: 6,225 Arc User
    edited August 2017
    Some DPSer currently use this space set:

    https://sto.gamepedia.com/Quantum_Phase_Applications

    Reason is the 3 piece set power which happens to scale with drain.
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    darkknightucfdarkknightucf Member Posts: 1,546 Media Corps
    From a torpedo perspective, Neutronic and Quantum Phase scale nicely with DrainX. With those two weapons vs shielded targets, and especially in a Sci-Drain build, DrainX is an offensive stat.
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    revolution0214revolution0214 Member Posts: 12 Arc User
    edited September 2017
    I do not use the Quantum Phase Applications set, but my Shamshir build currently is specced into Improved Drain Expertise + Drain Infection. The reason behind this is mainly because I use Charged Particle Burst and Drain infection for a little bit of supplemental DPS. Some people also use Tyken's Rift in its place, but I like Charged Particle Burst as it's fun fnu to me, for some reason.

    At any rate, in my case, it's certainly not necessary to spec into Drain as I did, but it's nice for a little supplemental DPS, if you want it. Ultimately these three points can be spent wherever you want.
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    pottsey5gpottsey5g Member Posts: 4,177 Arc User
    postinggum wrote: »
    Looking at builds by high dps players they are putting points into drain but slotting no drain powers. As far as I know all this does is make then more resistant to npcs using drain abilities, am I missing something?
    I use drain as Reverbearation makes all my mines and torpedoes disable shields and the more drain I have the longer shields are disabled for.
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