Monday, May 25, 2015

Priority One Podcast 223 | If You Re-Build It…

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This week, Trek Out the various ways the Enterprise seems to be being rebuilt. In STONews, the Featured Episode may have been delayed, but get a glimpse at the traits from the Iconian Reputation system, patch notes, and a new (or updated) alien ship. Of course, as always, before we wrap things up, we open Hailing Frequencies for your incoming messages.

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Micro-Review: The Iconian Resistance Reputation Space Traits (T2 and T4)

This is an interesting trait that seems to confuse some people.

You receive 2.5% of you outgoing (directed energy) damage as hull healing (triggers max 10 times per second) to self.

On paper it seems like a fantastic survivability trait, in practice it is fairly below average. It’s a very low level constant heal (as long as you’re doing damage and not at full health). It’s best to think of it as an addition to the normal passive hull healing your ship has.

In the long run, or i should say, in a long run; this trait will out heal the borg 2p. However this trait will not save you if you are taking a lot damage at once.

Radiant Detonation Matrix (Iconian Space T4):
This is a very controversial trait, mostly for PvPers; but some PvE-ers also have some gripes about it… Directed Energy Damage weapons have a 2.5% chance to do AOE radiation damage and remove buffs in an area around the target.

From a PvP perspective; the buff removal of this trait is extremely over-powered. Or so the PvPers claim… According to my testing, the buff removal only procs 1/minute. A PvP friend of mine told me he’s had it proc 1/45 seconds. So it looks like there is a 30 to 45s lock out on this ability.

A team of 5 people running this trait could theoretically keep you without any buffs permanently, however a team a of 5 science captains could do the exact same thing with SubNuke beam. With AHOD SubNuke can be fired off every 45 seconds also. Then there is the SubNuke carrier wave Intel Boff ability… and protonic barrage from the Dyson 3p space set; both of which also remove buffs. I don’t get why people are so up in arms over this one trait but seem to be fine with the others.

From a PvE perspective: the damage from this ability is really weak. From my testing it’s doing less than ½ the damage of Kemocyte Laced Weapons 1.

The trait description states that the trait benefits from exotic damage; however the particle generator skill does not buff it at all. The only thing that buffs the damage seems to be items or traits that have a direct bonus to exotic damage: like the constrictor anchor console, and the other T2 Iconian space rep trait “Particle Generator Amplifier”.

*Anything that buffs radiation damage will buff the damage though, but off the top of my head i can only think of a couple things that buff radiation.

** The devs have stated their intentions to nerf this ability so that it will only remove 1 buff at a time; and also reduce it’s damage

This week’s Community Question:

  • Let us know what you think about the time gated rewards for featured episodes.
  • Do you PvP? If so then what are your opinions about the Iconian Traits? Even if you don’t PvP, lets us know what you think

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Monday, May 18, 2015

Priority One Podcast 222 | LohluNUTz

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This week, Guest Host Kenna Treks Out the Nexus — but, not the one you’re thinking of from Star Trek Generations. In STONews, more controversial changes hit Holodeck with the retirement of Lohlunat Pearls and, subsequently, any other “free ship currency” you might have been saving up for the yearly events. Then, our Fiction Writer, Jake brings us another Foundry Review now that it’s back up and running on Holodeck. Of course, as always, before we wrap things up, we open Hailing Frequencies for your incoming messages.

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Micro-Review of the new Iconian Resistance Space Set

The “Meta” of the game is always evolving. With every new content patch and expansion we get new reputations and gear to play with. Today i want to briefly talk about what will be a potentially significant shift in ship building.

The Iconian Resistance Space set consists of 4 pieces. Deflector, Impulse Engine, Warp/Singularity Core, and Resilient Shield. Individually, each of the parts of the set are extremely tanky; probably the tankiest set in the game currently. However the 3p and 4p set bonuses are what are getting some people very excited.

Before we go into the set bonuses, a quick description of the individual parts:

  • The Iconian Resistance Deflector Array comes with increased Kinetic Resistance, extra power to shields, improved shield healing, increased hull and shield hit points, and at Ultra-Rare: [SciCdr] which reduces science cool downs by 10%.
  • The Iconian Resistance Hyper-Impulse Engines comes with increased Defense, extra power to engines, increased Energy Damage resistance when at full throttle, and at Ultra-Rare: [+CRes] which gives increased resistance to control effects..
  • The Iconian Resistance Hyper Injection Warp Core comes with extra power to engines, increased max engine power, bonus Engine power to Shields, Efficiency, Transwarp cooldown reduction, Hot Restart of disabled weapons subsystem, and at Ultra-Rare: [AMP]
  • The Iconian Resistance Resilient Shield Array reduces all energy damage to shields by 20%, Hot Restart of disabled shield subsystems, removes 1 debuff every 10s, and at UR: [REG], increased shield regen.

All of these are very nice and make for a very tough ship… but, it’s the 3p set bonus that really shines.

When firing energy weapons, 5% chance: +15% All Energy Damage for 8s to allies with 10km. Stacks 3 times.

What does this mean? If you are running this 3p set, yourself, any team mates, pets, friendly platforms, targetable torpedoes, etc..  within 10km, will get up to a +45% (category 1) energy damage increase; which is a +7% effective damage increase. This will stack if other members of your team are also running this 3p. This is significantly better than the current “Best in Slot” DPS meta of 2p Nukara+Romulan Engine.

Recommended setup would be Deflector, Engine, and Shield.

The 4p set bonus is an activated ability that grants extra damage, hull HP, and speed for 30s to yourself and friendlies, with a 2 minute cooldown. This ability does not stack with itself, so only 1 person should activate it at a time.

However to run the 4p you have to equip the Warp/Singularity core, which due to the way it balances power, and the cost of upgrading it to UR to get [AMP], is not really recommended.

For most builds the Fleet Spire or Dilithium Mine cores are superior. There might be some builds and/or situations where the 4p set might be beneficial.

*Although some of us are excited about this new set, we’re also very worried about the lag this might cause….

 

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Monday, May 11, 2015

Priority One Podcast 221 | DoFF Disaster

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This week, we Trek out an update on Star Trek Axanar with creator Alec Peters. In STONews, players will finally get to fly the new Pilot Ships that Captain Tom Paris teased us with during the latest featured episode. We’ll also review some controversial patches coming to the DoFFing system. Later, before we wrap things up, we open Hailing Frequencies for your incoming messages.

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Monday, May 4, 2015

Priority One Podcast 220 | Burst My Warp Bubble

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The web has been buzzing about a so-called warp field bubble that NASA may have accidentally created – so we’ll Trek It Out with Priority One Science Advisor Dr. Robert Hurt – Visualization Scientist for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. In STONews we’re joined by SarcasmDetector once again this week to chat about Season 10. Later we open Hailing Frequencies for your incoming messages.

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Special Thanks to Jay McLaughlin for inspiring the idea for the intro skit.

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