Been wondering and wanted to ask publicly

Does Directed Energy manifold really increase penetration?

someone already told me but i wanted to confirm.

i am talking about the console not the ability.

i wouldnt be asking if the stowiki was very specific what each thing does
its definition is it increases beam damage which is not even true. so i ask around
they said it was for shield penetration so i came here to ask.

If you mean the console, 'Directed Energy Manifold', it increases the damage of all beam weapons by X%

If you mean the engineering BOFF ability, 'Directed Energy Modulation', that increases the amount of shield penetration weapons do.

Answer: NO. It increases your weapons power level. A MKXI rare will give all of +3.5 to weapons.
http://www.stowiki.org/Console_-_Eng...ution_Manifold

Shield penetration is:
http://www.stowiki.org/Ability:_Dire...rgy_Modulation
this is the ability that penetrates shields and is not directly related to the console you're asking about.

The manifold is kind of a useless console if you can slot Plasmonic leech in, which with no buffs at all will give +8 to all subsystems. Fully specced into flow caps, like +18 all power levels.

While we're not on the subject of the ability Directed Energy Modulation, it is currently non-functional when cannon and beam abilities are active. So if you feel it's underperforming that might be why. Just FYI.

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