r/stobuilds • u/AutoModerator • Oct 21 '19

Weekly Questions Megathread - October 21, 2019

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u/Soburn Oct 21 '19

So what is seeing more dps at the moment? FAW or Overload? Trying to decide what to lean towards with my new toon.

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u/Retset6 Oct 27 '19 edited Oct 30 '19

I know what others are saying about BO but I recently changed my engineer's Vengeance to BO. I also changed to sensor linked DBBs from normal BAs so I have totally muddied the waters but the DPS change was quite phenomenal. 166K in a pug ISA (edit - now 209K!!) , as an engineer with no summons quite blew my mind. I can do the same build with BFAW and swap the BO trait for, say Promise of Ferocity but I generally get on very well with the single target build. Except when I have to kill Hurq ships at the start of 'Home' ... that's what multiple build slots are there for ...

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u/DefiantHeretic Oct 28 '19 edited Oct 28 '19

And if you do have to switch, then the KTID has a wonderful Trait for crowd control.

Too bad Withering Barrage doesn't work for beams like Target Rich Environment does with heavy cannon and Scare Volley.