I just stumbled across this in /r/STO, and it looks like a big deal for those who are choosing between tactical and science variants of similar ships.


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[–]Mastajdog 3 points 1 day ago 

Quote:3 TAC consoles is a little week in the T6 meta

Sorry for going almost entirely offtopic here, but:

Quote:3 TAC damage boosting consoles are a little week in the current meta

Let me explain, as briefly as I can.

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Math; please skip if you don't like math
The subject of Universal consoles>tac consoles came up the other day. Currently, the best universal (outside of the leech) is the Bioneural, solely for it's 25% CrtD. If you're paying attention to build meta knows that the CrtD mod, which has 20% CrtD and a flat damage boost to that weapon can be less than 3% actual increase. Logic dictates that universal consoles (outside of the leech) are thus about that point or worse.
Tactical consoles aren't that fantastic either. There was a point when, at the very high end, your cat 1 looked like this:

• MK XII VR weapon+4x MK XII VR Tac consoles+skillpoints+Dlyrene
  

That was a whopping 459.4%, which meant each tac console actually gave you 6.53%
Suddenly, things change, and your cat 1's look like this:

• MK XIV Epic weapon+5x MK XIV Epic Tac consoles+skillpoints+Dlyrene+ship mastery+AMP+Iconian 3-set (reasonably 9, up to 15 stacks)+Iconian 4-set+Fleet skills boost
  

Suddenly we're at 823.7, and your tac console's raw damage boost is only 4.55% (observant readers will notice that this part alone is better than a universal).
And then we have 1.9% CrtH on them. Extrapolating from the weapon mod tables, since I'm lazy, is ~2%.
So, despite the upgrades to MK XIV and the CrtH, tac consoles have barely kept up with power creep, and in very high end teams haven't even kept up.
To figure out embassy consoles, I'm taking a look at the average of my last few runs in the Tulwar (I really like the threat generation 5+th consoles give off, so I've never swapped back) gave this breakdown:

• 50,400 dps from weapons
  
• 20100 dps from plasma explosions
  
• 12,000 dps from other things (non-cheezed KLW, pets, tet cascade, etc)
  

It adds up to ~82.5k total.

• Each embassy console is giving me ~4200 dps
  
• Each tactical console would up weapon dps by ~6.5%, or ~3300
  

End mathing

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The TL;DR is that on my ship, the console breakdown looks about like this for DPS:

• Embassy consoles: +5%
  
• Tactical consoles: +4%
  
• Universal consoles: +2%
  

They suck. They all do.
There are only two consoles that actually make a noticeable difference on my ship. The one of them, our glorious lord and savior plasmonic leech, is well known. The other one is the Valdore console. My last run got this result out of SCM:
SCM - Infected [LR] (S) - Heal Out: 2,777,886 HPS: 15,536.00 (91.5% of Team) - Vel@jarvisandalfred
And I'm not saying that it's to blame or anything for that abominable healing number or anything, but it did do 13,479 hps that run.
So yeah. Damage boosting consoles are all in a sucky state right now. I wouldn't really worry about how many tac consoles a ship has right now.

Work in progress...

Currently using the Sol Defense Set until I decide on a rep set. Got the Kinetic Cutting Beam and Nukara Particle Converter in the works.

Accidently bought a Hull-Repairing Weapon Signature Nullifier by mistake, but will keep it until I replace it with another Plasma-Generating Weapon Signature Nullifier. 

As per Ed's advice, I got an Elite Fleet Plasma-Integrated Warp Core [AMP] [ECap] [Eff] [SSS] [W->A]

So far, it seems to be a pretty solid build, though, don't know if I'm doing a lot of DPS, yet. Doesn't seem like it, but haven't decided if I'm going to upgrade stuff or not.

Gonna upgrade to a Fleet Pathfinder later in the month when I can get a module with my monthly stipend.

hoi my name is jeremy   i love to play star trek online 

my pc is still down.  hopping to get if up and running soon(months).  have to see.thanks.

Scotchy is my Federation Engineering Captain. I enjoyed to play him but somehow the guy got lost in the crowd for a while.

Now he is back:







Scotchy earned the Attention he got, and paid back:

SCM - Infected [LR] (S) - [10:12] DMG(DPS) - @edarta: 15.20M(25.60K) @twhyte76: 9.53M(16.12K) @scouse_si: 7.95M(13.41K) @ejoker3: 2.32M(3.89K) @magazzinoyyy: 1.47M(2.46K)

I have to test the Midnight Set yet, probably with a fleet warp core.

I fear I get a ship collection trait...



This time I wanted brute force. It's all about Grunt and Oomph,

I run this spam tray.


It may be not the smartest tray, nor smartest build. I just mastered the ship, scared fleet mates (Hi Mom!) and today I ran an ISA:



Many people hate Pick-Up-Groups. However: If you can make there, you can make it everywhere!
Another top numbers result. And if are not sober, they don't notice...

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http://news.uci.edu/health/uci-brain-com...n-to-walk/

Using a new "brain" technology, scientists were able to help a man, paralyzed in both legs, to walk with the assistance of a device allowing his brain to send electrical signals to his legs.

Reminds me of the technology described in the TNG episode, "Ethics", when Worf suffered a similar spinal injury.

Hey all its Rod....AKA shenis...Kurock...Tpau....knovi...ramiera. Finally registered on the new site.

cant wait to see you in game. also cant wait for T6 Prommy or the return of my m key to functionality lol

feel free to ask anything. I also am on at varied times of the day usually every day I don't always see chat to much pew pew pew but I accept team invites for any thing episodes, leveling, stf, though my gear may not do Elites ill give it a go. not afraid to hug a mugatto if its needed lol.

don't know what else to say except.....there is no ED only Zull!!!!

I christened the USS STANISLAUS with a quote of Heather Gummer in mind. The german synchronization "Heiliger Stanislaus!" was really cool at that moment.


A loadout with double beam arrays tought me that I can copy Sovereign's build but not her piloting.

The new build is once more based on my habitual/boring EPtS/EPtW setup with 3 Damage Control Enginees for reduced Emergency Power cool downs, the Warpcore Engineer for even more Juice and 2 Conn Officers to reduce the CD of Tactical Team, and to buff Attack Patterns.

I had started with the concept of a sturdy damage dealer. One more run through the Midnight Mission to complete the tanky Solar Defense set.

And then reason left the building. I upgraded a Hyper Capacitor Shield Array (new R&D recipe, not in the STO Acedemy yet) and actually used its special ability:


For 30 seconds the shield loses ~200 pts per weapon fired. Each shot drains this weird thing. I get 40% damage bonus from my epic beast when at full capacity. The shield can not be healed while in that state. I used that twice in the first flight.

The Pick Up Group was a good one and I got a personal record immediately:

SCM - Infected [LR] (S) - [06:31] DMG(DPS) - @edarta: 12.84M(33.16K) @petrkorb: 8.07M(20.72K) @Xingxi: 5.81M(14.98K) @dontask1: 4.89M(12.72K) @tonyyy666: 3.80M(9.70K)

I survived, thanks to the ship's Ablative Hazard Shielding console, also a top position in trouble provoked:

SCM - Infected [LR] (S) - DMG In: 434,693 (38.6% of Team) - Piper@edarta

I am not sure if I want to do that every day - both times I used the shield's self-destruction mode, a routine situation turned... interesting