Plasma beams

[Lt.Colonel Johnny Frost]

How good are the corrosive plasma beams you can buy in the exchange are they worth spending the money on them or shall i keep my regular plasma beams. Im currently using the reputation beam, 1 chronoplasma beam and the rest are regular MK XIV with crit rating varying between 40/60%

[Sirius]

I like them.

But in the end, it doesn't really matter at all and damage type is mostly a question of taste.
ALL types are viable, as long as you don't mix them.

I personally use corrosive plasma on my one Tac escort and they are pretty beast with appropriate extra buffs.

And I generally like hybrid weapons - you have the basic stuff + extra procs, what's not to like?
Explains the price though. Still, I like canon weapons even more (all my feds have at least one Phaser loadout with Quantum / Photons).

And yet corrosive plasma is one set I still use now and then. Maybe because it was freaking expensive to kit myself out, and, well, it works.

Is it worth it? That's for you to decide, as I initiailly said.

[Lt.Colonel Johnny Frost]

Ok cool ill try a couple out!

[Vellari]

Originally posted by n3mes1s:

The only difference between the regular plasma and the corrosive is that the effect of the exotic damage in the corrosive is bigger (i think, im not 100% sure since it was a long time ago).

Sort of correct.

Regular plasma just has plasma DoT.
Romulan plasma has (in addition to plasma DoT) -10 damage resistance for 15 seconds
Corrosive plasma (in addition to plasma DoT) has a scaling damage resistance from -1 to -20 over 20 seconds.

Edit: Haven't done the math but eye-balling it I'd say Romulan is the best of the three as the damage resistance is immediately -10, where as with todays dps curve very few targets are even alive for 20 seconds for the Corrosive to max out.

[Daywalker]

Originally posted by |x|SiriuS|x|:

I like them.

But in the end, it doesn't really matter at all and damage type is mostly a question of taste.
ALL types are viable, as long as you don't mix them.

I personally use corrosive plasma on my one Tac escort and they are pretty beast with appropriate extra buffs.

And I generally like hybrid weapons - you have the basic stuff + extra procs, what's not to like?
Explains the price though. Still, I like canon weapons even more (all my feds have at least one Phaser loadout with Quantum / Photons).

And yet corrosive plasma is one set I still use now and then. Maybe because it was freaking expensive to kit myself out, and, well, it works.

Is it worth it? That's for you to decide, as I initiailly said.

mixing is no problem you can have 200k + dps even with a rainbow layout.

[Sirius]

Yes when you know exactly what you are doing.

For beginners / intermediates I still stay don't mix unless the damage type is the same.

Not to mention that rainbow ships look kind of stupid. When I play, I don't want to play a disco shuttle. But that's just me of course.