[whocares1975]

I personally tend to go for 'traditionalist' builds so I'll leave it to others who have experience in torp builds to comment on that aspect. However, I wanted to address the Kinetic Cutting Beam and my experience with it: I have found it to be quite successful on my shield-stripping science build, but had poor success with it elsewhere. It seems to need to go against bare hull, and even the slightest shielding stops it from doing anything. On top of that, it might have a constant visual going, but it still needs the enemy's shields to be 0% at the premise moment the 'turn' starts or it will register as doing nothing. This makes it particularly tricky on builds that aren't designed to keep hitting one shield facing. Others might have had different experience but that's been mine.