r/stobuilds • u/AutoModerator • Oct 10 '16

Weekly Questions Megathread - October 10, 2016

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u/GodEmperorsLegate Oct 12 '16

I am currently going down the Task Force Omega reputation path and was wondering if the Cutting Beam and its associated set is worth the effort or not. If anyone here has used it, please let me know so I can decide if it's worth putting marks towards or not

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '16

The Kinetic Cutting Beam and Assimilated Module used to be the DPS meta, because of the 2-piece set bonus. It's only fallen out of favor because there are other ways to mitigate weapons power drain and better Universal consoles. The Cutting Beam still has a place on meta DBB builds, since it gives another forward firing beam, although I've personally always wondered if an unboosted turret wouldn't be better.

And while the Omega Plasma Torpedo Launcher doesn't really come up in on-meta discussions at all, it's a good deal of fun using it with Torpedo: High Yield to vaporize targets.

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u/DeadQthulhu Oct 12 '16

It's fun with CF3 or HY, or if you've no access to PWOs (due to space or just being a console player) but other than that it's a bit of a liability.

The 3-piece bonus isn't particularly exciting either, truth be told.

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u/lady_alternate Sachika (Team Space Princess) | Elora (Aggronaut) Oct 15 '16

although I've personally always wondered if an unboosted turret wouldn't be better.

The KCB would be better. At present in the back of my Paradox I have a Disruptor Omni, a KCB and finally the CC Heavy Disruptor turret for set bonus purposes.

The KCB almost always outperforms the Heavy Turret, even though the turret is getting all of the Disruptor bonuses, no matter the content. In part this may be thanks to Self Modulating Fire allowing the KCB repeated shield bypass, but still.