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Except that, literally at no other point in time have they ever developed the game that way that Tac/Sci powers don't interact. But if they want to start, more power to them because I *STILL* say APA, TF, APO, etc, should not buff exotic damage. And Exotic damage needs a base buff to compensate. Tacs in Sci Vessels are op,…
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"Each Borg Red Alert requires the Captain to be at least level 50 to enter." This is kinda a huge nerf to the originally intended purpose of these red alerts, since the idea of these Red Alerts originally was that /every/ ship should join the fight when a RED ALERT distress call picked up. Also, the double EXP was a way of…
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Well this is why I ask questions. Now I know exactly what's going on. You can only learn so much on your own with limited resources. And no matter what way you slice it, it still stacks horrendously more than it should based on relative mechanics of other powers in the game. My main problem with it is the fact that borg…
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Thank you very much for this information. It is much appreciated.
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Okay, this is good intel. You show up to -300 just like the +300. But let's go for broke here. Say you had four recluse with Elite Mesh Weavers and everyone on the team huddled together and also used APB2+3. That's roughly −250+4(4 x −40) = -890 What is the effective damage resistance then? Does it ever cap or soft cap?…
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For the account wide rewards, you need to talk to the new Temporal Agent NPC, Romulan Flotilla and near Quinns office on ESD. I don't know where the one is on Qo'nos. Toon needs to be at least level 10 to claim account wide rewards. And you need to be level 50 to use the Starship trait.
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I disagree, T6 ships come with new passive and active powers and traits that T5-U ships still won't have. But with the Intel and Command powers, (mainly Intel) there currently exists a HUGE performance gap between T5 and T6. More so than previously. I mean, I know we've been at Vice Admiral for a long time, but it feels…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm1p9mE9RBw I do not like that my Oddyssy Class Flagship seems obsolete now with Intelligence and Command powers. If we're going to get new pilot powers... come on. I think the entire idea of how Starship BOFF stations are balanced needs to be revisited. These quasi classes they're trying to…
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I think it's implied that this will be space PvE. Looks interesting. I'm looking forward to the Iconian war. And I would like to see new PvE that is less DPS based and more strategy based. Can you give me a reason for equipping my cloaking device? Can I get rewards (Skill/specialization points?) For evading ships instead…
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If there is a reason PWE/Cryptic won't ban this guy, then I'd like an official response. I have sent in two tickets. I'm a 1600 day subscriber I shouldn't have to deal with this. All I wanted to do, is help a Fleet member get his Borg BOFF from KGA.
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You only seem to appear when humanity must learn some kind of lesson during a hardship. What are you here to teach us today with your deadly games, Q?
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I look forward to listening to another informative interview with the Systems designer. As a theorycrafter, the systems section of the patch notes is always my favorite, and keeping up to date on current ship specs is something that I look forward to. Always looking for the cutting edge. Thank you for bringing us this. And…
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As far as grabbing aggro, it used to be hard for me to grab aggro from an Escort doing 10,000 DPS unless I attacked first. If the escort player got first aggro it was hard to make it let go. Also Escorts using [-Th] Consoles now also helps.
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It is my strong opinion, that if Dispersal Patterns are nerfed to the proposed numbers in the OP, they should be brought town a tier on the BOFF skills. Ensign, Lt, LtCmdr instead of Lt, LtCmdr, Cmdr
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+1 I still have my first Vulcan Tac BOFF from Stranded in Space on my main. And even after retraining to 100s of builds and contributing to Starbase projects, I have over 2.5mil excess Expertise on my main. Make it so.
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Ker'rat, when the 8 things are scanned and the four hubs need to be destroyed. I'm cloaked. I didn't ask for this update. I wasn't even scanning nodes. Why should I have to drop out of cloak for this update from my officer?
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So, I couldn't help but notice what seemed like a ninja hotfix yesterday to re-add the 50 Fleet Marks to Investigate Officer Reports? Or was it a scheduled change within the game's code? While I am purely curious why this wasn't in any patchnotes and just discovered this randomly, I'm certainly not complaining. I would…
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Yeah, at least Eng/Sci characters can spec into threat control for ground and space. Even if they're kits don't allow it. I have threat control for my Eng/Oddy. I tank and heal like nobodies business, and my team survives more because of it. Tac Cube aggro'd in ISE? No problem. I'll draw it away from the Gate until the…
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So because you've been enjoying the broken-ness it shouldn't be fixed? Some people enjoyed the Voldemort exploit. Like someone else said, no matter how much you buff science abilities, Tactical will be able to double it or worse with how things are now. Which I guarantee you, Crytpic would say that's not working as…
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Science wasn't meant to be a dedicated healer. Science was meant to be debuff and control. But it can't even do that thanks to the changes. And a mass of sci/sci, can't finish a match together, when 5 tac/tac or eng/eng can. That is the problem. I'm not saying Sci should have the same DPS as Tac. And I'm not saying Tac…
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I can attest to the fact that two forward torpedo launchers can be very effective. Especially in STFs, with so many unshielded structures. And if you have 3 purple Projectile weapons DOFFs, for the cooldown proc, instatorps with Photons all day long. It's almost like you're ship is just constantly using HY1 24/7 This is…
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I'm not asking for Tactical to be Nerf'd. I'm asking for Tactical to not Buff Science. It's THAT simple. It's not a nerf. It's a bugfix. Tactical should not buff Science. Wouldn't it be bull TRIBBLE if spec'ing into Attack Patterns suddenly doubled the damage of Tyken's Rift? It just doesn't make any more sense than Attack…
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Because that's how we got into this mess in the first place. All sci abilities got nerf'd because of PvP and now they are useless in PvE, unless you min/max and sacrifice all your subsystem power to Aux. Particularly against the borg. A lot of sci skills don't make a dent on the borg. They seem to have a lot of resist, as…
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What if it just gave a buff to Impulse Thrusters skill instead of a buff to base turnrate or the current percentage buff? Honestly, anything percentage based can be min/maxed and effectively "exploited" upon. Such as an Escort with a full loadout of these being able to spin like a top. I think it would make more sense to…
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I have to agree, after many respecs, and many attempts this year, neither of my two Science captains have been very successful in STFs or much else in PvE. I haven't even tried PvP. I don't want to think about it. But I remember a time, back in Season 2 or 3, when I would see a team of 5 Intrepid's destroy my cruiser…
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I've noticed this as well, my gravity well could barely grab onto probes in KASE. Otherwise seems to work fine.
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I usually only have a one to two week probation period for new members, to grand fleet store and limited bank access. (withdraw limits increase with rank) But right now, provisions really aren't much of a problem for us. We have dozens of store provisions for gear. We still have some issues generating Fleet marks. Not…
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I see what you did there. I have autofire on for all weapons. I use torpedo DOFFs. And often have at least two torpedo launchers. They fire so fast. I couldn't keep up with them if they weren't on autofire.
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I believe long ago, that used to be the case. But if you look at the ingame tool tips now, all AP weapons give +20 to Critical Severity, natively, in addition to any modifiers. No mention of Critical Chance, unless of course it has a CrtH modifier. Below you see a comparison of two AP DHCs. DHCs also have a passive +10 to…
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From my understanding of Anti-Proton, it has no " 2.5% proc" per say, it just has a native +20 to Critical Severity (a CrtD modifier) so in theory, if your crit chance is higher than the base 2.5%, with skill, borg console, or other modifers (Attack Pattern Alpha), AP is actually better at dealing raw damage, much more…