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Phaser weapons no good in space combat?
marvelfan007
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Everything else seems to be better. Or is that just me?
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So once you have a weapon set you like work to upgrade it to gold- then you should be fine.
I'm not that great in PVP combat for many reasons but in fleet actions and normal story mode I prefer my federation weaponry.
standard vanilla trick for each energy type.
dps is king so antiproton is the "best"
disruptors has a debuff
plasma has a dot
polaron reduces power levels
tetreyon drains shields
dont think I am missing anything.
pick an effect you like, or go rainbow and forget about it all and be happy.
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This was remedied somewhat with the pulse phasers and a few others. Getting a decent set of pulse phasers with good mods is nearly impossible though. I do like what they did with that new tritanium phaser, unfortunately there is only one as a mission reward. The prolonged engagement phaser was a nice attempt as well, although I heard it's basically garbage since they thought it was a good idea to start it at 90% damage instead of 100. I guess the devs haven't noticed yet that there is very little in the way of "prolonged engagement" in this game anymore.
The new colony holding looks like it will have some pretty good weapons, you might try the phaser variation of those.
AP is "best" as it can the most universally useful proc (either crit hit or crit severity can't remember atm, but crits are a form of a proc), but if you have low critical hit that isn't a "must have" either.
But the still it depends on what you're after.
Getting to the top of the DPS charts is a very different goal than being able to play the game content well.
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I use phaser on my main on a cannon build currently. Getting with him in the 110k+ DPS reach in ISA was not an issue. If I force it I think I can get a lot higher. If you look around phaser got multiple awesome sets lately with the one from recent FE being one of the best. It’s so good that it’s even installed on rainbow builds setting the highest DPS records.
While it is correct to point out that the phaser proc is not the most useful in game (compared to Disruptor, AP or discrete weapons feature utilizing rainbows) the difference feels far less significant than picking a fed toon over a romulan one or flying anything else than a scimitar for that matter.
I think there are 1001 more important choices to make on a build than which energy type to pick.
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AP will be the best just because it's buff is always on and you can increase it's chance of happening with CrtH.
Then, Coalition Disruptors have 2x the resistance debuff of normal disruptors; but still stuck at 2.5% proc
I literally pick energy type for each character dependent on what color looks best with the ship they fly.
It's the mark and the mods that matter. I won't say there is zero difference, but the difference is small enough that it's not worth stressing over.
Phasers are still my favorite of all of them, I just like them.
And you use them well Sea. When you can get around to it please check out the new phaser set
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Trilithium-Laced_Weaponry
if you have not have it already. Top of the line for free from story.
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Hmm.. those actually interest me. I'm all about anything that offers firing cycle haste.
I'll have to give them a try, thanks for the heads up!
Keep in mind more firing cycle haste means more weapon power is needed.
They actually highlight the need for a energy slot in the cosmetics tab to unify the look to what you slot in there.
Yeah, a related but different question for sure. The weapon proc is negligable, but if you can get a bunch of consoles and etc to buff phasers vs other types then that could make phasers 'better'.
Probably entirely irrelevant for elite difficulty, but on alts and for-fun builds it is nice seeing a bit higher damage from something used as intended.
From a soft-RP perspective, I also think of phasers as federation's way to try to discourage ongoing conflict in less-than-lethal ways, by trying to disable vital subsystems as a way to say this fight is over, we can damage you a lot more but we may choose not to this time, so retreat or let's try another way to solve the problem.
Sunrise mission gives you 1) quantum phase torpedo, 2) quantum phase beam array and 3) quantum phase converter. The quantum phase torpedo normally busts shields with torp spread severely busts shields. I'm talking from 3,000 to 20,000 shield drain guarantee. The quantum phase beam array is a shield drain and heal proc all in one of massive proportions. And the quantum phase converter is basically an extra phaser damage boosting console (+) that you don't need to put in a tactical console slot.
With 2 of these items on your ship your drain abilities will get a serious boost. And with all 3 items, you get an amazing quantum distabilising beam power that is a powerful phaser attack fired from your deflector that needs 2 minutes to cooldown.
Beyond the Nexus gives you 1) trilithium-enhanced omni-directional phaser beam array and 2) reinforced armaments. The trilithium-enhanced omni-directional phaser can be added to your ships aft weapons array with a regular omni-directional phaser beam array meaning you can really churn out the phaser damage from the get go, and given it has a speed enhancement for all beam weapons the damage is churned out even faster. The reinforced armaments are just a good idea per sea and feed into a 2 piece boost you'll really want...
With both of the above items on your ship you'll gain the 2 piece set bonus of speed tweaks. And when this kicks in...oh baby, you really do churn out damage like never before.
AND, if you're a part of a fleet and have space for any non-mission phaser beam arrays noted above, check out the elite fleet drannur phaser beam arrays with the regular phaser proc and a couple more tasty ones besides you just be clamoring for from the new colony holding...
Are phaser weapons good in space combat? HELL YES!
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I'm dying to try this combination with the Exceed Rating Limit MW power, if they would put out some decent MW ships! That Tzenkethi escort only has a lt. MW slot, I mean come on! Insufficient!
I think I'll have to disagree on that. Tetryon actually has quite a bit of support too. The Krenim set, the new set from Melting Pot, the Nukara rep stuff... hell... even the Competative Rep has Tetryon.
I'm still testing if at least the 3 piece Preemenant set is worth trading the Nukara set for, thus replacing the short range Tetryon clicky with extra Tetryon Damage. Still got the full Krenim for its clicky that is actually superior to the Nukara set's, and the 2 piece mine/console for extra damage.
Really want to add the Lobi Tetryon torp to that build but... I haz only 7 lobi.
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vs everything else.
antiproton proc is always doing dmg
phaser proc can always shut down a subsystem
disruptor proc is always debuffing
plasma proc is always stacking a dot
polaron proc is always draining subsys energy
All weapons are useful. It's how you build around them. I use Phasers on all my Feds, especially Agony Phasers.