Overwhelming Force + AOE torps exploit?
Hey fleeties. I had to take a break from STO thanks to another lengthy hospital stay (I'll spare you the details but I feel 1000% better) and started playing with a new build last night when I noticed an insane jump in my DPS.
Having a spare starship trait slot, I slotted Overwhelming Force from the YoH Fed ship trait box. Overwhelming force applies a photonic shockwave to HY torps, and a charged particle burst to beam overloads. I had the photon torps from the Counter-Command rep set equipped and fired a HY3 torp at a group of Herald ships caught in my GW1 during Gateway to Grethor.
HY torps from the counter command set are large, non-destructible projectiles that hit for high-ish damage and then apply the set rad dmg to other hostiles in a 2km radius.
The torp hit for 60k, and set off the shockwave; however the aoe effect triggered a shockwave from all the other enemies caught in the grav well, duplicating this damage. So you're looking at 5 shockwaves from a bunch of ships in close proximity. I basically took out the group in 1 attack, which for someone not in the 10k club isn't half bad.
I thought this might have been a fluke, but I have been able to re-create this with no problems, multiple times. Though it only seems to work with AOE torps. That said I could not re-create this with the Radiant Quants from the Iconian set, or the Omega torps.
Has anyone else experienced or attempted this? Seems severely OP.
I welcome your thoughts/ideas.
Having a spare starship trait slot, I slotted Overwhelming Force from the YoH Fed ship trait box. Overwhelming force applies a photonic shockwave to HY torps, and a charged particle burst to beam overloads. I had the photon torps from the Counter-Command rep set equipped and fired a HY3 torp at a group of Herald ships caught in my GW1 during Gateway to Grethor.
HY torps from the counter command set are large, non-destructible projectiles that hit for high-ish damage and then apply the set rad dmg to other hostiles in a 2km radius.
The torp hit for 60k, and set off the shockwave; however the aoe effect triggered a shockwave from all the other enemies caught in the grav well, duplicating this damage. So you're looking at 5 shockwaves from a bunch of ships in close proximity. I basically took out the group in 1 attack, which for someone not in the 10k club isn't half bad.
I thought this might have been a fluke, but I have been able to re-create this with no problems, multiple times. Though it only seems to work with AOE torps. That said I could not re-create this with the Radiant Quants from the Iconian set, or the Omega torps.
Has anyone else experienced or attempted this? Seems severely OP.
I welcome your thoughts/ideas.
