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AvalonZ
Team: Rank: Peon Main: Deathbringer X Level: 3369 Joined: Tue Mar 27, 2018 12:35 pm Posts: 1
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Best and Worst Advanced Class SubSkills?
So its obvious that not all the advanced skills are equally useful. If they were, we would see a lot more variety in skill tree configurations between different characters under every class. Which skills tend to be underused among players and need to be buffed?
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Tue Mar 27, 2018 1:15 pm |
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yclepticon
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Team: Rank: Officer Main: yclept Level: 2002 Joined: Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:47 am Posts: 534
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Re: Best and Worst Advanced Class SubSkills?
Thanks for starting this thread. I will be very interested to hear what everyone thinks about this.
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Tue Mar 27, 2018 1:32 pm |
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Arcturus5
Main: Doran! Level: 7005
Joined: Mon Apr 25, 2011 2:00 pm Posts: 37
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Re: Best and Worst Advanced Class SubSkills?
My Sniper(s) uses Big Banker, Quick Scope and Centered. My Speed Demon uses Strategic Deployment, Master Scout and Centered. My Fleet Commanders use Wild Man, Bot Ph.D and Strategic Deployment. My Gunner uses Advanced Targeting Computers, Extra Tweaked and Mass Destruction. My Engineers use Computer Engineer, Droney and Strategic Deployment.
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Tue Mar 27, 2018 2:33 pm |
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Valkyrie300
Main: Obliterator200 Level: 3493
Joined: Sun Jan 18, 2009 3:49 pm Posts: 591 Location: Middle of Nowhere (South Pacific islands)
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Re: Best and Worst Advanced Class SubSkills?
Engineer Best: Computer Engineer Worst: Lol
Shield Monkey Best: Funky Monkey Worst: The other 3
Fleet Commander Best: Adv. Flight Controller, Fleet Admiral (group runs to benefit gunners and hybrid capital ship slaves) Worst: Fleet Protector
Gunner Best: Adv. Targeting Computers, Mass Destruction Worst: Gunboat Diplomat
Sniper Best: Marksman (Solo sniper) Worst: Quick Scope
Berserker Best: Berserking Berserker Worst: Berserker Classic
Speed Demon Best: Lucky Devil Worst: Fighter Ace
Seer Best: Assassin Worst: Brooding Gaze
General Best: Centered (often picked by solo snipers, SDs, seers, and occasionally by FC and gunners) Specialized: Droney (Engineer), Bot PhD (Fleet Commander), Shake it Off (Shield Monkey) Niche: Resilient Abysmal: Strategic Deployment (Delete Warp Beacons if you want to make this useful)
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Tue Mar 27, 2018 2:56 pm |
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Trakel
Team: Rank: Councilor Main: Benuto Level: 5870 Joined: Sun Jun 08, 2008 12:15 am Posts: 15
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Re: Best and Worst Advanced Class SubSkills?
Main FCs: Centered, Adv. Flight Controller, Wildman. I tend to run bank shields and each FC is geared to operate solo.
Berserker: Centered, Berserker Classic, Berserking Berserker. Solo Berserker that came from the 2008 era and doesn't like how slow they go.
Primary Sniper: Centered, Marksman, Grooved Bores. Solo Sniper (I'm sensing a pattern) that runs KD dgs.
Secondary Sniper: Centered, Grooved Bores, Quick Scope. Snappy, mid range sniper build.
Gunner: Centered, Resilient, Extra Tweaked.
Speed Demon: Centered, Shake It Off, Expansionist. Solo SD for KD dgs.
Engineer: Mechanical, Electrical, Droney.
I don't use my Seers or ShM enough to care about their skills.
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Skills that could use buffs or reworks:
Strategic Deployment: You can't take damage or fire. Bonus is very small and would be a big benefit only with very slow moving Seers.
Resilient: Too situational.
Centered/Shake It Off: The only difference is your dead or alive status, could easily be merged into one skill.
Bot PhD: Only really useful with fighter FCs, as a Pax Selen is fairly fragile, has limited aug choices, and doesn't make that much of a damage difference.
Civil Engineer and Computer Engineer: Engineers don't want to be hard to heal and not many of them actually use their healing weapons outside the minmax characters.
All of the Shield Monkey skills are a pile of flaming shit. Only minmax endgame players even think about Light Fighter ShMs.
Eye for an Eye: Very misleading. Lifesteal is only like 5%, so +33% makes it like 6.5%. People get this skill for the Resistance bonus.
Acrobat is really underwhelming.
Master Scout: Only used on SDs that prospect or have an Eniac Omega Planet Scanner. No use in combat since nearly every aug a SD uses has +speed on it.
Fighter Ace: The class already has -30% range and you want to reduce it even further? And only for +15% RoF?
Lucky Devil: No one gets that for the Crit Percentage.
Clairvoyant: As if Seers didn't have radar bonuses at all.
Brooding Gaze: Useless with bank shields and isn't a huge deal with regen shields. Useless Elect bonus too.
Fleet Protector: You don't do any damage as a FC. Centered is a more powerful skill if you were thinking of deploying Bhisaj drones to heal yourself.
Advanced Targeting Computers: It's a bad skill that is only beneficial with splash weapons. 66% of elect used for firing a weapon + 100 elect for one more target sounds okay, but the 100 elect consumed is a constant and doesn't care if you're only facing less than the new maximum. It provides monster power with splash weapons when you get clumps of stuff together, though.
Missile skill: You don't need more missile slots and it's usually a downside. Extra missile charging rate is like RoF for missiles. You drain elect faster.
Gunboat Diplomacy: Capital Ships do everything that Heavy Fighters can do and more. There are not enough non-class locked superitems to make that extra slot worth it.
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Tue Mar 27, 2018 11:50 pm |
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Fyuryus
Team: Rank: Officer Main: Fyuryus Level: 3451 Joined: Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:45 pm Posts: 496 Location: Rockford, IL
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Re: Best and Worst Advanced Class SubSkills?
FC: Fleet Admiral, Wild Man, Extra Tweaked? (Hard to remember, haven't seen my FC in a year) Shm: Funky Monkey, Really Super, Shake it Off Zerk: Big Banker, Weapons Master, Impervious Armor Engineer: Droney, Mechanical Engineer, Computer Engineer
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Wed Mar 28, 2018 1:20 am |
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yclepticon
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Team: Rank: Officer Main: yclept Level: 2002 Joined: Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:47 am Posts: 534
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Re: Best and Worst Advanced Class SubSkills?
Can I jump in and ask you all to really highlight the Advanced subskills that are least useful? Those would be the ones I'd like to work on.
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Wed Mar 28, 2018 8:28 am |
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Trakel
Team: Rank: Councilor Main: Benuto Level: 5870 Joined: Sun Jun 08, 2008 12:15 am Posts: 15
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Re: Best and Worst Advanced Class SubSkills?
yclepticon wrote: Can I jump in and ask you all to really highlight the Advanced subskills that are least useful? Those would be the ones I'd like to work on. Quote: Skills that could use buffs or reworks:
Strategic Deployment: You can't take damage or fire. Bonus is very small and would be a big benefit only with very slow moving Seers since everything either shoots or gets shot on a frequent basis except for a DPH Seer.
Resilient: Too situational. There are generally more useful advanced skills.
Centered/Shake It Off: The only difference is your dead or alive status, could easily be merged into one skill.
Bot PhD: Only really useful with fighter FCs, as a Pax Selen (RC20) is fairly fragile, has limited aug choices, and doesn't make that much of a damage difference in T22 content. I've seen a couple of FCs utilize this skill but their slave dies at least once per ANY Kalthi Depths dg level, and every 2-5 levels for Perilous Space.
Civil Engineer and Computer Engineer: Engineers don't want to be hard to heal and not many of them actually use their healing weapons outside the minmax characters.
All of the Shield Monkey skills are a pile of flaming shit. Only minmax endgame players even think about Light Fighter ShMs.
Eye for an Eye: Very misleading. Lifesteal is only like 5%, so +33% makes it like 6.5%. People get this skill for the Resistance bonus.
Acrobat is really underwhelming.
Master Scout: Only used on SDs that prospect or have an Eniac Omega Planet Scanner. No use in combat since nearly every aug a SD uses has +speed on it.
Fighter Ace: The class already has -30% range and you want to reduce it even further? And only for +15% RoF?
Lucky Devil: No one gets that for the Crit Percentage.
Clairvoyant: As if Seers didn't have radar bonuses at all.
Brooding Gaze: Useless with bank shields and isn't a huge deal with regen shields. Useless Elect bonus too.
Fleet Protector: You don't do any damage as a FC. Centered is a more powerful skill if you were thinking of deploying Bhisaj drones to heal yourself.
Advanced Targeting Computers: It's a bad skill that is only beneficial with splash weapons. 66% of elect used for firing a weapon + 100 elect for one more target sounds okay, but the 100 elect consumed is a constant and doesn't care if you're only facing less than the new maximum. It provides monster power with splash weapons when you get clumps of stuff together, though.
Missile skill: You don't need more missile slots and it's usually a downside. Extra missile charging rate is like RoF for missiles. You drain elect faster.
Gunboat Diplomacy: Capital Ships do everything that Heavy Fighters can do and more. There are not enough non-class locked superitems to make that extra slot worth it.
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Wed Mar 28, 2018 5:24 pm |
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Tomzta09
Team: Rank: Officer Main: Mow Level: 9760 Joined: Mon Feb 02, 2009 2:57 pm Posts: 4731 Location: Kuratovo, Russia
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Re: Best and Worst Advanced Class SubSkills?
On my sniper I used Big Banker, Centered and Grooved Bores. Sometimes I'd swap Grooved Bores with Marksman though I think Marksman could use a buff in someway, same goes for Long Scope. Quick Scope since Analysis charging time was drastically cut down to 2 minutes? I personally think it's a waste and a bit silly now.
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Thu Apr 05, 2018 7:12 am |
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Arcturus5
Main: Doran! Level: 7005
Joined: Mon Apr 25, 2011 2:00 pm Posts: 37
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Re: Best and Worst Advanced Class SubSkills?
yclepticon wrote: Can I jump in and ask you all to really highlight the Advanced subskills that are least useful? Those would be the ones I'd like to work on. Shake it Off Resilient Flying Monkey Tanky Monkey Enveloping Monkey Mechanical Engineer Electrical Engineer Acrobat Fighter Ace Brooding Gaze Clairvoyant Fleet Protector Flying Monkey Gunboat Diplomat
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Thu Apr 05, 2018 7:59 am |
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