What is the best special effect for beam laser?

[InDigital]

I have huge beam laser put on my FDL. I would like to be able to do most damage to enemy ship. As everyon else i prosume :D

Now my beam is untouched - thinking of 2 grade short range blaster.
Can afford grade 2 upgrade because just a dweller is unlocked.
But it is unlocked at grade 5 so i can ask for at least one favor.

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Ok i spent 2 grades for exchange for Thermal Shock and gues what?
I lost 30% damage per second and everything went to negative numbers (RED).
Why? Is it bug?

[Agony_Aunt]

Originally posted by InDigital:

I have huge beam laser put on my FDL. I would like to be able to do most damage to enemy ship. As everyon else i prosume :D

Now my beam is untouched - thinking of 2 grade overcharged.
Can afford grade 2 upgrade because just a dweller is unlocked.
But it is unlocked at grade 5 so i can ask for at least one favor.

[ADDED NOW]
Ok i spent 2 grades for exchange for Thermal Shock anfd gues what?
I lost 30% damage per second and everything was at RED. Why?
Is it bug?

What was the actual main modification you went for (not the experimental effect)? You said overcharged, but overcharged doesn't exist for beam lasers.

Its also possible to just get bad rolls. No guarantees with Engineers.

[InDigital]

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

Originally posted by InDigital:

I have huge beam laser put on my FDL. I would like to be able to do most damage to enemy ship. As everyon else i prosume :D

Now my beam is untouched - thinking of 2 grade overcharged.
Can afford grade 2 upgrade because just a dweller is unlocked.
But it is unlocked at grade 5 so i can ask for at least one favor.

[ADDED NOW]
Ok i spent 2 grades for exchange for Thermal Shock anfd gues what?
I lost 30% damage per second and everything was at RED. Why?
Is it bug?

What was the actual main modification you went for (not the experimental effect)? You said overcharged, but overcharged doesn't exist for beam lasers.

Its also possible to just get bad rolls. No guarantees with Engineers.

I meant short range blaster.
After a roll everything was perfect. It rolled me almost 30% damage increase in second and gave me even -13 distributor draw. But after i spent 2 grades and aplied Thermal shock all numbers went to negative. Damage per second became -30% and distributor draw became +13%. Something about that.

[Agony_Aunt]

Originally posted by InDigital:

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

What was the actual main modification you went for (not the experimental effect)? You said overcharged, but overcharged doesn't exist for beam lasers.

Its also possible to just get bad rolls. No guarantees with Engineers.

I meant short range blaster.
After a roll everything was perfect. It rolled me almost 30% damage increase in second and gave me even -13 distributor draw. But after i spent 2 grades and aplied Thermal shock all numbers went to negative. Damage per second became -30% and distributor draw became +13%. Something about that.

Hmm... interesting. So not even seconday modifiers caused that?

Have you searched for more info about Thermal shock? It may be because it exchanges some of that thermal to direct heat, hence it shows a reduction in DPS (because heat is not DPS damage).

Its not a mod i've tried yet, so could be why.

[InDigital]

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

Originally posted by InDigital:

I meant short range blaster.
After a roll everything was perfect. It rolled me almost 30% damage increase in second and gave me even -13 distributor draw. But after i spent 2 grades and aplied Thermal shock all numbers went to negative. Damage per second became -30% and distributor draw became +13%. Something about that.

Hmm... interesting. So not even seconday modifiers caused that?

Have you searched for more info about Thermal shock? It may be because it exchanges some of that thermal to direct heat, hence it shows a reduction in DPS (because heat is not DPS damage).

Its not a mod i've tried yet, so could be why.

No no. Primary effects. I rolled it out and were really happy about roll. I rolled these stats from 3rd time and then i decided yeah.. Thats nice roll i should apply Thermal shock (ask for favour) on top of that. Applied that superpower and everything changed to 360 degrees :D

BTW i wrote support about that issue and the i will see what will they say about that.

[Agony_Aunt]

Ah, right. Well, random is random :P

You need to pray harder to RNGesus :D

[Aris]

Can you go to outfit and provide a screenshot of the gun like this:

http://i63.tinypic.com/1z35dvd.jpg

[InDigital]

Originally posted by arik:

Can you go to outfit and provide a screenshot of the gun like this:

http://i63.tinypic.com/1z35dvd.jpg

That is an efficient weapon. I had similar roll on overcharged multi cannons.

I still waiting for answer from devs about what happened with my uber roll that went to negative after aplying special effects. I gues i had so good roll that system even achieved more than "limits" and that''s why it gone to oposite/negative bug. :D

I had 30+ dps for 2nd grade beam. i think it is so cool... it was cool :/

btw. i thought about efficient weapon but i understood FDL is a close combat ship so overcharged or short range is the best.

[Aris]

Originally posted by InDigital:

Originally posted by arik:

btw. i thought about efficient weapon but i understood FDL is a close combat ship so overcharged or short range is the best.

Efficiency is a factor when you want to shoot for a long period of time and medium settings on your distributor