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Science Officer regrets
uthandol
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So, ive made a significant investment on my science officer (600 USD overall) and am now regretting it. I have all advanced content on farm/faceroll status. And as I turn my attention to elite content I just cant top tac DPS. I do very well for a non-tac spacewizard but I feel as I dont have a place in a elite setting. Eng heals/tanks better. Tac DPS. Sci does..........? Debuffing? Co-opt energy weapons is nice one every 2-3 minutes and perhaps sub-nucleonic on a boss but apart from that and sensor scan the class just doesnt have a purpose. Why drop a Tac for Sci? Am I missing something here?
I guess my question is three-fold. The first part was above. The second is if there are any sci captains doing elite TFO (space) and not being carried? If so, what is your team roll? And the last question can Sci caps expect any love at this stage of the game (doubtful)? Because overall, when its said and done..there is a reason sci is the lowest played class in the game. I guess there isnt much hope for a fix.
Anyways, sorry for being a negative nancy. Just curious if i should abandon ship for a tac before I invest any more USD.
I guess my question is three-fold. The first part was above. The second is if there are any sci captains doing elite TFO (space) and not being carried? If so, what is your team roll? And the last question can Sci caps expect any love at this stage of the game (doubtful)? Because overall, when its said and done..there is a reason sci is the lowest played class in the game. I guess there isnt much hope for a fix.
Anyways, sorry for being a negative nancy. Just curious if i should abandon ship for a tac before I invest any more USD.
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I have read the above post from darkbladejk and it gives me some hope. I do have fun with science. I prefer it to my other two (tac and eng) and why I have focused so much money and effort on it. I guess I need to find fleets who actively do elite tfo's and ask around. Again, thank you both for the reply,
I would just create characters of species and careers you like, get your favorite ship, optimise it and collect your own crew. And enjoy the game if you've done those things.
Worrying about DPS is unnecessary beyond a certain point, in my opinion. It should definitely not negatively affect the amount of joy you get out of the game - it's just a number in the end.
I also use Reverse Shield Polarity and Hazard Emitters to boost survivability.
I note you say you are hitting 140k, that's far above what you need to do Elite.
Parsing ISA is a horrible, horrible tool to understand DPS in this game. Unfortunately it is essentially also the only one. Still, you can't compare your ISA numbers to someone elses ISE numbers. That's not apples to oranges, its apples to bulldozers. Elite functions very differently than advanced because of how much longer enemies live. You also can't look at numbers that don't even involve you because very possibly that was a premade group that all worked to support the tac in pushing absurd numbers. What if you were there, what would their numbers be? Those numbers are always highly dependent on the team, whether they are buffing the numbers of someone else, or competing for them.
Then you have to ask yourself, how would you do with that tac build? You might do better than that other person. You might also do far worse despite running an identical build because you don't know how to use it, how to fly it. You just don't know at all.
Ultimately if you want to do elite, you need to learn them by doing them and figuring out where to improve. You're probably completely ready for elite and have been for a long time.
This. I also have more fun with my engi and sci captains.
Sci in space has AoE shield resistance boosts, Aoe all dmg boosts, AoE debuff, energy damage immunity, subnucleonic, and photonic fleet which help leverage all these on a debuffed target while drawing some aggro away from you. Most of these work off of Aux power.
Tac I enjoy as it allows for a pure build with minimal extraneous buffs other than giving yourself more damage, and works equally well on any ship. Even a Lt Tac on a Sci vessel benefits from Tac boff cooldowns for more frequent exotic torpedo damage.
Engineer I dislike and even gave up on an alt I've worked so long on in favor of a lowly Sci. Eng space powers do very little for science vessels as two of the main powers are concerned with overcap (aux does not benefit as much as weapons), subsystem drain, and just more raw power.
Tac just has TOO many good damage buffing powers. Science should have more buffs to exotic damage, like their skills should innately increase non weapon damage
Engineers would be in a much better spot if their max level ability (Which actually gives a crazy damage boost), had a range of 10 kms. Right now its like 3 kms its really awful. Some of their older abilities could use a pass over, not for damage boosts, but to make them more effective at tanking because right now they really aren't that much better than the other two classes at tanking.
Yet they way some people talk about you'd think it wouldn't be possible for a tac captain to be inferior to a sci captain and that tac char with default whites would easily out-DPS a sci char in all gold mark 15s.