Replaced all my weapons with tetryon beams

[BDK]

DPS is higer, but it's taking forever to kill stuff .. sigh. Why lie about dps?

[ImperatorPavel]

Are you using tactical consoles that enhance tetryon weapons? What bridge officer powers are you using? Ship power allocation?

There's lots of things that come into play when trying to boost your DPS - using weaponry of the same basic energy type is just one of the basic things.

[Maj_Cyric]

Yeah in most cases when i've helped a random player who was in a TFO i was that I ran a parse and noticed they were doing things "wrong".. i've found that most just didn't know about ship subsystem powers.. Or that they could be or how to change them.
The default power setting on a ship is 50/50/50/50... 50 power to each subsystem..

A Weapon Subsystem set at only 50 means you first firing cycle of weapons will do only 75% of their innate damage (before the maths if distance, armor, resistance etc).. Which if you aren't supplying enough weapon power to bring the subsystem back up, then the next salvo shot you fire will be at a further reduced power level doing even less than the 1st salvo you fired...

Also under your Space skills (before picking a Spec) down at the Captain Rank of skills (4th set of skill groups) there is 3 skill point set called "Long-Range Targeting Sensors" in the Blue Science column.. Maxing that out with 3 skill points is very important (a MUST if you use Beam weapons)... It negates some/most of the distance damage fall off with the farther from a target you when firing at it.. And Beams suffer the most from damage fall off...

A mission reward Tetryon Omni can get gotten for free from doing the mission Butterfly..
It's part of the Iconian War Story Arc..

Also this console should be easy to get..
Sticky Web.. It's Uni-Console Gives +25% damage to tetryon & +1.8 Auxiliary Power Setting.
It can be pulled from the Infinity Console prize box, which means it can be bought from the exchange.. Not sure the current going price for them is, but it shouldn't be that much..

[PhotriusPyrelus]

I'd guess your DPS is parsing higher because it's counting all the procs doing damage to the three shield facings you're not hitting? I also suspect that your "forever" means only that you're not one-shotting them, you poor thing.

[Crimnt]

ALL my consoles and weps were changed! And all my Traits where reset!!!

[BDK]

Originally posted by PhotriusPyrelus:

I'd guess your DPS is parsing higher because it's counting all the procs doing damage to the three shield facings you're not hitting? I also suspect that your "forever" means only that you're not one-shotting them, you poor thing.

Nah nothing like that. I've been doing the same mission over and over, and every time I've replaced my other weapons with tetryon, it takes longer to kill something - Even though dps is higher.

[BDK]

Originally posted by Crimnt:

ALL my consoles and weps were changed! And all my Traits where reset!!!

It happens when you play certain missions and you have to control a different ship. Fairly annoying, yes.

[BDK]

Originally posted by ImperatorPavel:

Are you using tactical consoles that enhance tetryon weapons? What bridge officer powers are you using? Ship power allocation?

There's lots of things that come into play when trying to boost your DPS - using weaponry of the same basic energy type is just one of the basic things.

Tactical consoles +dmg beam weapons.
Officers: Beam overload , Tactical team , Emergency power to weapons , Directed energy modulation.

[Grendel_the_Wise]

Why would you do something foolish like that.

[BDK]

Originally posted by Grendel_the_Wise:

Why would you do something foolish like that.

Because the game makes no sense at all.

[cyäegha]

i mean, i guess it depends on what kind of consoles and set bonuses you were rocking
just slapping higher-grade beams into your ship isn't necessarily an improvement if they're a lower rarity or they don't really match up with your sets
that, and generic +dmg consoles aren't as powerful as +tetryon consoles in this case, or any case really... yes, rainbow boats are a thing, but pretty much never as good as simply stacking one 'element'