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Currently rocking some normal Disruptors with the (Pen) mod but wondered (before the Upgrade weekend finishes) if it worth while buying in some coalition disruptors?
I'm using a Rom Tac with dhc
I'm using a Rom Tac with dhc
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Pen: All attacks with this weapon ignore 10 Armor Rating
With coalitions, what makes them is the proc - they were changed with Season 13 to occur with less frequency.
I'd argue that you'd probably want to use Dual Cannons, not the DHC, to get more firing cycles if you are using coalitions. Second, it seems like Coalitions would have more impact on larger targets with more health that you're trying to whittle down - think the transformers or Tac cube in ISA or the queen and pickle ships in Hive Space - from the 30 sec of lower resistance rating when it does proc.
Conversely, with Pen you'd want to use DHC since you'd want the most damage per hit. If you're fighting NPCs in Japoori or Argala, for example, 2.5% chance is pretty low. Most of them would die before you'd likely get the coalition proc vs. the armor pen on all attacks.
So, I think one of the important "it depends" is what type of enemies you expect to fight most frequently.
There's a bit of a misunderstanding here. You don't get "more cycles" with regular dual cannons but more shots per cycle. That gave them an edge on stuff that procced per shot but now that everything is standardised to proc per cycle regular DCs are pretty useless again.
Personally I'd go for crafted [PEN] weapons for various reasons.
-way easier and cheaper to get than those lockbox variants
-easier to upgrade their quality since they come as MKII very rare
-permanent attribute instead of a 2,5% chance per cycle
-re-engineerable for a perfect mod setup
Nowadays it's Terran Task Force Disruptor DHC (the Reputation project one) plus either Sensor-Linked Disruptors (which boost weapon Skill stats for all weapons) or Spiral Wave Disruptors (Innately higher damage) for high-end Disruptor cannon DPS. Post Tier 6 Reputation, Phaser seems to have taken over the top slot with Terran Task Force Phaser DHC, Prolonged Engagement DHC (Weekend Event item, builds Haste [rate of fire]), and Trilithium turret and two-set (Haste and a proc for more Haste).
Coaldis is no longer the super used type, so you're not going to see a ton of procs. The more weapons in the run the more procs you see. The nice thing these had were they could stack across the team while normal disruptor types can only stack max once per the debuff type (nanite and normal / crafted dis are different procs, thus can affect the target at the same time, but if everyone uses crafted you can only get at most one proc on the target - it will refresh the duration if someone has it but it will not increase the -DRR magnitude).
Since its fallen out of use, you're going to see lower performance, but much closer outcomes in both team and individual context. Most people pushing the max have moved to types with the raw damage (Spirals having an extra 15% Cat1 and an inbuilt Dmg mod) or ones with passives (such as Sensor Linked weapons).
Nowadays I'd just suggest which ever type looks best to you.
And I actually re-read before I posted...
Thanks for the correction. I had the notion of firing cycle so front of mind from the coal proc point I was making that I didn't even notice my error.
Do you really think dual cannons are useless? Interesting. I'll have to play with it some more.
Dual Cannons and Dual Heavy Cannons are effectively exactly the same right now. Removing the 'per shot' proc in place of 'per cycle' didn't make Dual Cannons suck, it just made them effectively the same as Dual Heavies. Use whichever you have, if you already have nice Dual Cannons, don't go and scrap them for DHC's.
They're both good.
I like dual cannons. I think they flow better in combat, and the power management is generally less stressful. I think its worth noting that KLW is still per shot, and anything that has a chance to proc with a critical such as protonic is also per shot in the sense that each shot can critical.
Overall I agree that it's not worth scrapping one for the other for the vast majority of players. Though admittedly as I say this, I just finished building and upgrading a full set of DC's for all my characters over this weekend.
There have always been classic arguments you can make in favor of either dual cannons or dual heavy cannons. dual cannons fire more shots per cycle on average for slightly less damage per bolt than a dual heavy. Dual heavies fire less shots per cycle, but for slightly more per bolt. Unless you're trying to go for stupid numbers it won't make that large of a difference save perhaps in the feel of the firing cycle.
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Weapons all drain their amount for the duration of them firing, but all start on the first shot. So a DC and a DHC will both start their drain at the same time. the DHC however will stop firing after 2s and then wait 3s before firing again. DCs will fire for 3s and then wait 2s. After the 2s/3s respectively the power will be returned to the system.
What happens is that as soon your firing, if you have adequate EPS and Power (both in additional power above the system as well as power in the system, this is a bit of a grey area to try and describe without a lot of math and jargon, not sure if you want it) then EPS attempts to move power into the subsystem.
So while yes DHCs will fire shorter, the power curve starts as soon as you start, so you need to take into account both the firing portion as well as the power reclaimed, since the weapon power is dynamic when it applies its damage multiplier.
I love Dual Cannons, I agree that they seem to flow a little better in combat. They don't seem to have as long of a distance between the next volley so it makes me feel like I am laying more consistent fire (rather that's actually true or not.) My general prefered setup with 5 fowards is 2 Dual Cannons (One of them Prolonged,) 2 Dual Heavies (Terran Taskforce for one) and the Phaser Quads. I just like the way that setup works, it seems to perform well for me.
That's given me some stuff to think about, thanks for that. You really know your stuff!
Tell us the jargon and math part. Because right now, your words have no meaning. Once you have said the math part...it may not be clear to everyone, but it will clarify it for some others. And even more will ask questions and know TO ask. Then, you will know how to explain it to more people.
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Some of us know who he is, and if you followed the build reddit, you would know that his words do indeed have meaning. None the less, if you would like him to go into deeper detail, maybe throw a please in there? I don't know if you intended this post to be snide and demanding, but it sure reads that way.
He already has done it.
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Quad Cannons, Single Cannons, and Turrets work just like Dual cannons in terms of their power curve, while Heavy Turrets look like DHCs in their curve. The only noticeable thing is that Quad Cannons additionally drain -10 Engine power while firing,
This might be of some interest.
Yeah, thats why i keep thinking they should lower DMG a little, but increase Arc...
8 weapons firing every 5 seconds w/ a proc chance of 2.5% should get you 2 procs per minute.
Before the proc nerf when it was per shot you'd get 4 times that, for 8 ppm.
And at endgame, if you have good dps; no basic mob will probably live long enough to get any proc'd debuff. So really weapon procs are only useful against 'bosses' now.
While that's mostly true, don't forget that under 'optimal' conditions, 3 of those weapons will be your rear turrets since you can't have more then 5 cannons firing on one target. Still though, for basic mobs it's still very much true, the proc doesn't matter because everything melts from the pure damage anyway.
Assuming 5s cycles (no haste), you get the equation of:
(This is the negative binomial I was talking about, but since this is just the general forum I didn't want to overload the thread with it)
So yes, its about 2 PPM. Hastes vastly effect this; for instance +25% haste (brings the cycle time to 4s), you get with 7 weapons an average expected time between procs as 21.816s (2.750 PPM):
Which is what you would expect to see. As you increase the cycle hastes, you get more rolls, so you should see an increase in the number of successful ones.
Yeah that's the kicker for this, it only works for if all weapons are firing. This is also just an average; there will be times where you get two weapons to proc within the same cycle, and others which wont proc for a min. That's just how statistics work, and since we don't know how the RNG (or ever will) assigns numbers for procs the best we can do is this where we take an approximation.
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As a small sidenote, the full variant of this equation looks as such, where if you have a per shot proc (such as protonic polaron) then the number of shots is however many the weapon fires; for dual cannons this is 6, DHCs get 4, and these all change under weapon enhancements.
I bet he has better things to do?
Can't you tell....he loves the STO math and if it helps him explain things better.
Don't hesitate, please do it.
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