Your tests are interesting, makes me wonder if cannons and beam overload are playing by different rules then those i have found for beam arrays. with that escort, you’re not operating at nearly the weapons power my cruisers run at, still your drops are a bit low from what I’m used to. An escort doesn’t really have the luxury of keeping weapons energy buffed anyway; they are better off relying on magical damage boosting skills.

Regardless of what your tests have found, my cruiser with its ~180 weapons power can use 8 beam arrays with FAW and not have its weapons energy drop below 100. Using eps power transfer (+32 more power) gets me well above 200 weapons power and the power display doesn’t drop from 100/125 with all guns blazing.

My build IS optimized, for maximum damage. It still has plenty of survivability because i only have to use my 2 LTCOM engineering stations to keep my power sky high with EPtW III, so there’s plenty of slots left for 2 EPtS I to chain together, an RSP, AuxToStruc, ET and DEM or Warp Plasma. A TT, ST and TSS further help to keep my shields unbreachable. I laugh as i shoot down up to 2 escorts or BOPs at once.

I’ll do some testing later to see if the drains of cannons and turrets gives me vastly different results then the beams arrays give me, and see if beam overload drops me below 100 power no matter what like it did for you. You may not be speced for EPtW very well, EPtW III should give +40, EPtW II should give +32 power, EPtW I should give +24. There might be some other suboptimized factor reducing effectiveness too, who knows. Maybe the 125-150 power range doesn’t like to work like it does when you run 160+. All I know is that what im doing works like a charm.

@lord ice.

What a horrible attitude. I hope you have read and researched the above responces bc your argument sounds like someone who hasn't pvp'd 1 match in the past 6 months.

Pvp should be 20% build 80% piloting and teamwork. Fire at will has changed that a ton. And that's what has us talkig about the power. They may change it, they may not. We come to the pvp forums to help with builds and ideas, and sometimes vent frustration, but your attitude is horrible.

If you posted to troll take it to a cube. I you want to learn how to pilot a starship pm me in game and I'll get you set up to be slapped around by a good dps cruiser. The damage is insane with faw. I won't do it, I prefer to win with strategy and not broken powers.

Have fun, Kill bad guys.
See you on the battlefield.
-CaptainHorizon
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