Monday, June 29, 2015

Priority One Podcast 228 | Battlecruiser in a Bottle

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This week, we’re interviewing the team behind the upcoming Star Trek fan film “Star Trek: Captain Pike”. In Star Trek Online news, we’ll be reviewing the latest featured episode, “Time in a Bottle”, and looking at the highlights from this week’s patch notes. In Command School, Kam will be taking us through the new Tier 6 Battlecruisers, now available in the zen store. And as always, before we wrap things up, we’ll open Hailing Frequencies for your incoming messages.

TOPICS DISCUSSED

 

COMMAND SCHOOL: New Tier 6 Battlecruisers

All right cadets! Hurry up and sit down, we’re about to dive into a few new ships released this week. The Tier 6 Battlecruisers (…and a T6 Heavy Warbird)!

Announced very early last week, this patch included the release of the very latest Tier 6 ship pack; which will include updated versions of the Avenger, the Mogh, and the Mogai. The first two are battlecruisers while the later is a Heavy Warbird (aka a Destroyer).

We’re going to talk about the Arbiter and Kurak at the same time, because their stats (like the ships they are based on) are almost identical.

  • They have 8 weapons in a 5 forward, 3 rear configuration
  • 3 device slots
  • 9 turn rate with 50 inertia, and .15 impulse modifier
  • 5 Engineering, 1 science, and 4 Tactical consoles. the fleet variants add 1 science console slot.
  • +10 power to both Weapons and Engine subsystems
  • They can equip cannons
  • The come with the standard Battlecruiser masteries and Communication Arrays
  • Bridge Officer layout is 1x Engineering Commander, 1x LTC Tactical/Intel hybrid, 1x Tactical Ensign, 1x LT science, and 1x LTC Universal (replaces the LT universal from the T5 ships)

The Morrigu is an update of the Mogai/Valdore. Like it’s T5 sibling, it’s a Destroyer (not a battlecruiser), with the technical designation of “Heavy Warbird”

  • It has 7 weapons in a 4 forward, 3 rear configuration
  • 3 device slots
  • 14 turn rate, with 60 inertia and a .20 impulse modifier
  • 3 Engineering, 2 science, and 5 Tactical consoles, the fleet variant gets an additional Engineering slot
  • +10 to Weapon and Engine power
  • Obviously can equip cannons as it’s a destroyer
  • Standard Singularity Powers
  • Masteries of the Tactical Warbirds
  • It’s Bridge Officer layout is as follows: tactical Commander and LT, 1x LTC Engineer, an Ensign Science, and 1 LTC Universal/Intel hybrid

All 3 ships come with the Universal Console – Ablative Hazard Shielding; which when activated grants temporary secondary shielding. On expiration grants a large shield and hull heal. The console provides a passive boost to shield hardness and regeneration.

According to the blogs; the consoles from the T6 Battlecruisers can be fit on any faction battlecruisers. Example for Federation players, you’ll be able to fit the console on the T5 Avenger and the command battlecruisers. The console is part of a 2 piece set with the Console – Universal – Variable Auto-Targeting Armament. The 2p bonus is extra turn rate and weapon damage.

The console from the Morrigu can only be fit on the Mogai, the Valdore, and the Morrigu itself. the console is part of a 3p set with Shield Absorptive Frequency Generator (aka Valdore console), and the Ionized Particle Beam (from the Mogai)

The 3p bonus is increased Max Hull HP and turn rate.

All 3 ships get the Emergency Weapon Cycle (Starship Mastery Trait). This trait grants, when slotted: activation of Emergency Power to Weapons will provide a reduction in weapon power cost and grant a boost to weapon firing speed for the duration of Emergency Power to Weapons.

At the time of this reading, the scale of the buffs is unknown.

Now for the really Juicy Parts!

The battlecruisers are unique as they will allow us to run 2 LTC tacticals. This means that for the first time on a cruiser, we will be able to run Attack Patterns Omega, Beta, AND FAW3! Very exciting! That’s not all; because the LTC tactical is a Intel hybrid, we’ll also be able to squeeze abilities like Overload Subsystem Safeties. I already have some theorycraft builds brewing in my head, and i can’t wait to get these ships to test them out.

The Morrigu is even more exciting! It can pull off a trick that very few ships can do. My theory craft for this would be to have Tyken’s Rift 1 and Overload Subsystem Safeties 3 in the LTC Universal/Intel seat, with the starship traits: AHOD, Greedy Emmiters, and Emergency Weapon Cycle.

The tactic would be to hit all your big buffs as you’re approaching your target, open up with the Tyken’s rift. You’ll get 165 weapon power and no weapon cost drain for 10 seconds, followed by 20s of reduced weapon cost drain.

I can hear a bunch of you rolling your eyes already: even more power creep for Tactical captains… i beg to differ, Engineering captains will probably get the best out of this. Imagine for a moment: Start off with Nadeon Inversion which will give you 30s of no Weapon power drain, at the end of the 30s trigger greedy emmiters (we’re now up to 40s), at the end of the proc, trigger Directed Energy Modulation with Marion: another 8 seconds for a total of 48s of no Weapon power cost drain. With AHOD an engineer can theoretically trigger Nadeon Inversion every minute. This has the potential to propel Engineers to be nearly on par with tactical captains!

You can push your eyeballs back into their sockets now. I hope to have some videos recorded of the ships done this weekend. Stay tuned to the Priority One youtube channel for more information!

This week’s Community Question:

  • Have any of you gotten your hands on one of the new Tier 6 battlecruisers? What are your thoughts? Even if you haven’t, what are your opinions about our review and the ship in general?

Let us know YOUR thoughts by commenting below!

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Monday, June 22, 2015

Priority One Podcast 227 | For the Love of…

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This week,  we’re honored to interview Adam Nimoy -Leonard Nimoy’s son – and talk about ‘For the love of Spock‘ – a documentary that takes a personal, intimate look at the life and career of Leonard Nimoy, and his alter-ego, Mr. Spock. In Star Trek Online news, we’ll be telling you about the rewards for the new featured episode that’s just come out, and we’ll be talking about the forum migration. And as always, before we wrap things up, we’ll open Hailing Frequencies for your incoming messages.

TOPICS DISCUSSED

This week’s Community Question:

  • What are your opinions about the new Feature Episoded, “Time in a Bottle”, and its rewards?

Let us know YOUR thoughts by commenting below!

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Monday, June 15, 2015

Priority One Podcast 226 | The New Normal

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This week we’re bringing you a special broadcast all the way from the sunny shores of Risa. We’ll be Trekking Out an asteroid that’s just been named after a Star Trek favourite. In Star Trek Online News, we’ll be learning about changes to Advanced PvE queues, and the introduction of some new tier 6 ships available exclusively to 1,000-day veterans. Our Foundry Reviewer Jake Morgan tackles a murder mystery in paradise, and as always, before we wrap things up, we’ll open Hailing Frequencies for your incoming messages.

TOPICS DISCUSSED

This week’s Community Question:

  • Do you play normal and/or advanced PvE queues? What do you think about the changes to rewards, and will you change which queues you choose to run?

Let us know YOUR thoughts by commenting below!

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Monday, June 8, 2015

Priority One Podcast 225 | Nandi Crush

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This week, we look to the skies and Trek Out super-massive black holes then return home for some quantum theory weirdness. We’ll also cover Adam Nimoy’s “For The Love of Spock” documentary that just started its Kickstarter Campaign. In STONews, the Summer Festival is here!  We’ll hit Risa and also take a more in-depth look at the Featured Episode House Pegh.  Of course, as always, before we wrap things up, we’ll open Hailing Frequencies for your incoming messages.

TOPICS DISCUSSED

This week’s Community Question:

  • Did you get the Nandi early? What are your thoughts? Even if you haven’t, what are your opinions about Kam’s review and the ship in general?

Let us know YOUR thoughts by commenting below!

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Monday, June 1, 2015

Priority One Podcast 224 | Another Chapter

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This week, Jayce Treks Out the second volume in the IDW Star Trek Ongoing Comic series and Kam reminds us that you can always learn something from Priority One Podcast. In STONews, the Summer Event is upon us along with a new ship & awesome summer gear! We’ll also offer some highlights from an AMA session from STO’s Community Manager LaughingTrendy. Kam goes over the rewards from the new Feature Episode, and Jayce keeps us up to speed with this week’s Patch Notes. Later, Cookie and Elijah interview the two new hosts replacing them on the show — Kenna & Kam!  Of course, as always, before we wrap things up, we’ll open Hailing Frequencies for your incoming messages.

PRIORITY ONE’S DELTA RECRUITMENT GUIDE!

TOPICS DISCUSSED

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:

  • Now that the featured episode has been released… What are your thoughts on the next chapter in the Iconian War?

Let us know YOUR thoughts by commenting below!

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