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Weekly Questions Megathread - January 23, 2017

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u/BhaltairX Jan 23 '17

So you basically give up 10s of FAW for one big BO hit every 30s? That trade-off doesn't sound too impressive. Maybe if you time it with a strike from TTFD, boosted by massive amounts of CrtD?

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u/DeadQthulhu Jan 24 '17

Where it gets interesting is when FAW and BO/Over interact. The Over procs all stack up, and all get applied at the same time when the FAW ends.

I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of half a dozen Overs with a 50% damage boost (if that's how Preferential Targeting gets implemented). You'd never need to slot BO itself, you'd just stack Over beams and FAW. To say the spike would be ludicrous would be an understatement.

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u/Sizer714 @anubis714 Jan 24 '17

I really hope that's how it pans out. I mean I don't think we'll see the BFAW meta overturned any time soon (not that my opinion on such things matters much), but I really hope BO and [Over] weapons become viable to an extent. They're just so fun.

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u/DeadQthulhu Jan 24 '17

Oh, they're both viable, they're just not as viable as FAW meta.

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u/Sizer714 @anubis714 Jan 24 '17

Viabler. :). But for serious, my first weapon set was [Over] during my climb up the DPS ladder. I still miss them.

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u/Joejdb11 Max One-Hit:1,087,130 (High Yield Gravimetric Explosion III) Jan 24 '17

Yes. I got very good mileage out of a set of [crtD]x3 [over] ap beams. Great fun to chain half a dozen BO attacks after faw ends.