Hey guys, I think this thread has run its course.

If you would all like to make a new "Top Concerns of PvP Balance" thread to air other grievances, I promise to give it a read, and respond where/when possible.

Jman will you download ACT and use it with hilbert's plug in?

And do the actual Weapon test.

The bug we suspect is that the weapon modifier properties isn't working with FAW. Not that FAW is ignoring all accuracy in the game period. Whatever your baseline plug in for the games default Accuracy math is what FAW runs on, instead of the [Acc] on the weapons themselves.

It's a pretty easy test, and looking though hilbert's guide you even get that mentioned IIRC. Heck it's even been mentioned in those ancient Cruiser Threads, repeatedly.

Seriously, try it. ACT and the plug in takes a whole of five minutes to get to work, and all you have to do then is pick up a few double Acc beams and then double CrtH, and run FAW on each and see the large damage disparity.

You'll never use whatever garbage Cryptic gives you guys again once you use ACT and hilberts tracker for damage, and accuracy tests.

Oh please not yet, can you clarify a few things incase I missed them?

You said faw should be fixed, does that mean it was in the patch, or will be in the next one?

You also mentioned there are other boff abilities suspected of similar problems, could you tell us what they are?

agreed, i basically said the same thing too. and mentioned the MVAM and breen ship loosing any sort of tactical edge with its station setup

Piecing together some of his posts, I'd say it was the following:

Not seeing the issue. Found the issue. Going to look at the issue. Anniversary Event's happening, so it may be a couple of weeks. Fixed that particular issue internally, but the Anniversary Event's still happening - so it may still be a period of time before it hits Tribble and then Holodeck.

With possible outside speculation that it may or may not be part of a batch patch addressing potential other related issues rather than being done piecemeal...

Thanks man, I guess that means we will have even more reason to celebrate.

The question about sci powers being tac buffed is would removing or reducing that make it where they would be rebalanced so that they would function adequately based on skill spec, and not on how much dps TBR/FBP puts out with full tac buffs.

I want tachyon beam to do something and be a worthwhile skill to take on a burst damage Vesta build but its not, its not even any where close to useful compared to TB and TBR or even GWIII.

Sci skills shouldn't be about the damage numbers they should be about the effects. VM is a good example it does 0 damage at all but is useful if you take it as it causes the enemy to use up options to counter it giving you an opportunity to make a kill. And TB is basically the space version of hold to the ground and pummel no one cares about the miniscule damage it does, the effect is worth so much more. Yet only a few people use TBR for the push effect most are still using it for the damage.

As far as tachyon beam I'd like to toss the drain and turn it into a just a flat reduces shield resist or possibly increases bleed through damage by % amount skill. That way instead of being a shield damage skill its a shield affecting skill.

Thats my opinion on science anyway.

Wow. I'm gone for 5 months & this is still an issue.

Not for much longer, man.

They seem to have found the problem and are now coming up with a way to fix it.

So for those of us who have been staying tuned... seeing that there's some nifty stuff being done in patch notes and all the rest...

...is there any word on where this stands?