What is your favorite weapon type to use?

[Stegosaurus]

As the title says, what is your favorite and why?

Mine is the Ba'ul Antiproton with the linked sentry set (allows the Ba'ul energy weapons to chain an additional time and to deal more damage on the first chain shot). Combine that with a 40% crit chance and the Sentry Mode Console, and you get what I have so far seen to be an impenetrable force when used with almost any ship (I use the Intel Dreadnought and the Ba'ul Sentry Vessel with this loadout).

[N a v y 3 0 0 1]

Ant-borg minigun.

[A Fat, Angry Serval]

Leck's Knives. Effectively bypasses shields and hits for serious damage.

Oh, as for ship weapons, I haven't found a favorite yet.

[cap-boulanger]

For space weapons?

My science BOFFs.

No joke. Gravity Well III rocks.

[TricolorChutoy]

CRM or Boolean

[Shaila]

Depends on my ship / faction, i kinda rp it, so fed = phasers, kdf = disruptors, rom = plasma , ground is different tho, i use mostly plasma wide beam rifle for non borg and the tommi gun for borg

[VoodooMike]

Originally posted by Stegosaurus:

As the title says, what is your favorite and why?

Mine is the Ba'ul Antiproton with the linked sentry set (allows the Ba'ul energy weapons to chain an additional time and to deal more damage on the first chain shot). Combine that with a 40% crit chance and the Sentry Mode Console, and you get what I have so far seen to be an impenetrable force when used with almost any ship (I use the Intel Dreadnought and the Ba'ul Sentry Vessel with this loadout).

I'm a big fan of Ba'ul Antiproton as well, though they really do need the lobi set to properly shine. You should throw in Kemocite-Laced Weaponry while using FAW3 with them... the chains each get their own chance to proc the KLW explosion, and since every beam bounces to two other targets it tends to light up space like the 4th of July.

I haven't found Ba'ul Antiproton cannons to be all that wonderful, sadly. It seems to be the beams that set the world on fire.

[ytre]

kit performance and kit readiness to support various kit modules. sci modules from events. seismic agitation and cold aoe are my two most favourite

[The Dude]

Ground: Picard's Tommy Gun. At early play use TR-116B Rifle, after hiatus, Advanced Herald AP Beam Projector, currently using Reputation Chrono AP dual-pistols.

Space: Disruptor, Polaron, sometimes AP.

[Bigdave]

no idea all my weapons are rubbish i been playing on and off since lunch with still no idea about weapons lol

[cap-boulanger]

Originally posted by Bigdave:

no idea all my weapons are rubbish i been playing on and off since lunch with still no idea about weapons lol

For space weapons, you generally want to make sure all of your energy weapons are all the same energy type (all phaser, all disruptor, etc)... this because you get the most efficiency out of the Tactical consoles on your ship, which should in turn be type-specific boosters for that type.

The six energy types use the same damage scale (for generic lootable/craftable weapons) so there is very little inherent advantage to each over the others (the advantages generally are in availability of non-standard weapons, set bonuses, traits, and universal consoles).

Most builders also recommend having your energy weapons be all beams OR all cannons (turrets are cannons) because you will get the most efficiency out of your Bridge Officer fire-mode skills.

In addition, due to shared cooldown issues, it is generally advised to use only one torpedo (or none).