Exotic damage

[kage1822]

What damage types are considered exotic damage?

[Maj_Cyric]

Exotic damage is a category of damage from sources other than weapons, such as from bridge officer abilities or console abilities. Exotic damage can be the same type as non-exotic damage; see its section below for details

https://sto.gamepedia.com/Damage_type_(space)#Exotic_damage

[ytre]

exotic damage is a damage type of it's own.

[kage1822]

I was more wondering about what weapons are buffed from the exotic particles generator, like polaron & tetryon for example, or as a fried told me, exotic damage is more of captain and BO abilities...

[ImperatorPavel]

Originally posted by kage1822:

I was more wondering about what weapons are buffed from the exotic particles generator, like polaron & tetryon for example, or as a fried told me, exotic damage is more of captain and BO abilities...

Exotic Particle Generator does not buff weapon damage (well, not the direct damage a weapon does anyway). It buffs the damage on abilities like Gravity Well, Subspace Vortex, and It's Very Cold in Space (all of which are Science bridge officer abilities).

[kage1822]

Then is it worth ising those instead of the consoles that buff weapons?

[ImperatorPavel]

Originally posted by kage1822:

Then is it worth ising those instead of the consoles that buff weapons?

That depends on what you're flying and your intended playstyle.

[kage1822]

I tend to play dps

[ImperatorPavel]

Originally posted by kage1822:

I tend to play dps

Yes, but what ships do you fly?

[kage1822]

Generally escorts or destroyers, dont have extra money to spend to buy zen, as there's a couple other classes I'd like to try, such as some sci vessels & strike wing, and maybe a dread or 2

[Maj_Cyric]

Originally posted by kage1822:

Generally escorts or destroyers, dont have extra money to spend to buy zen, as there's a couple other classes I'd like to try, such as some sci vessels & strike wing, and maybe a dread or 2

Soo... hmm... You're "In the Market" for ship and are just looking around?

Do you know if you want to a character with either an Energy Base type(Beams/Cannons etc).. Fly close and up in the face pressing buttons that causes lots of "Big Bada Boom"
Or
Science Based (Space Magic that does all the Exotic damages like Grav well & Vortex. They can also Drain targets power and shields etc.. Annoying types that use evil magic that change enemy ships facing in RNG way (very annoying if fighting Tzenkethi since their front is best place to hit them)

[kage1822]

Ive been mostly been either a cannoneer or a beamboat since launch, have considered making a torp boat

[Lucid Z]

I would recommend reading more of the guides on reddit sto builds. Like this one for example, which should help you understand what exotic builds are and what they do: https://www.reddit.com/r/stobuilds/comments/9pu8mr/space_magic_and_you_weys_guide_to_epg_in_the/

I main a science captain myself, heavy exotic and torpedo build. Most regular weapons, like the the phaser/disruptor/antiproton...stuff like that...isn't affected by exotic. Exotic damage is mostly generated through abilities like Gravity Well, Subspace Rift, certain dots from weapons or abilities...stuff like that. There are certain torpedoes you can get as well that are affected by exotic. Like a Gravimetric Photon Torpedo, for example, which causes rifts to form. Also a lot of consoles that could give you powers to use, like Delphic Tear for example. Consoles can also add bonus damage for exotic, your personal space traits, starship traits, reputation traits and so on. Think of exotic builds as a mage/debuff/control class. You can definitely put out a ton of damage if built right.

But yeah, just read up on some guides you can find on sto builds reddit like the one I posted. There are also plenty of youtube videos that go over it as well. Like for example this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UoeDxY2C5k More recent video, but he makes some tanky/exotic builds.

It's a lot of fun to play though if all you've ever played is beam/cannon builds. That's what I used to do until I started reading more about exotics, then I got hooked.

There's a lot of good equipment you can get for budget builds and you can get some nice reputation sets for it.

[[FuFo] Mortucus]

Originally posted by kage1822:

I was more wondering about what weapons are buffed from the exotic particles generator, like polaron & tetryon for example, or as a fried told me, exotic damage is more of captain and BO abilities...

science abilitys are exo damage

[Maj_Cyric]

Nooo... It's clearly Arcane..