Graviton beam is hilarious... if you can get 2 or 3 pointing on your enemy, his ship is rendered useless and you can just pound away (every gravtiton beam gives your ship a 150 flux dissipation advantage over your opponent)
Yeah but here's the thing
That flux dissipation works AGAINST you
The idea of energy weapons is to ride the flux levels as high as possible while avoiding overload to maximise damage
That "soft flux" is a major problem since its actual flux that can dissipate even if one's shields are up
whereas kinetic damage deals "hard flux"
This kind of flux cannot be dissipated with your shields up and require to either vent or juggle through your weapons at max range possible
its the most annoying type of flux to deal with
Its two completely different worlds to sum it up simply
Gravitons are
supposedly made to breach through shields but for that to happen you'd need to have the ennemy ship go full-*** with his weapons (usually on YOUR own shields) and next to no AI ship build uses weak energy weapons (here's a shocker, no AI build uses graviton I'm fairly sure save for the wolf perhaps)
To be quite honest I've been itching to see how a Wolf with mining blaster or even heavy blaster would do....And yet I'm not really fond of thoses Flux heavy weapons, so REALLY ITS TO THAT POINT....
personaly I think Burst PD do TOO MUCH damage to ships like frigates and destroyers
I mean:
I play Forlorn Hope with a custom Paragon design and breezes right through it
(score still indicates 50% even though I took no hull damage or any armor damage even noticeable)
Believe it or not my paragon has only 4 burst PDs mediums and yet half my frags were from thoses one-upping lasher classes on their own....
Also could the autopulse lasers be brought back to what they used to be ?
That new energy cell thing they put on it was a crippling nerf if anything, don't even want to touch a Odysee myself anymore cuz of that...
Beam weapons are only there so the enemy is forced to keep their sheilds up whilst the rest of the fleet fires at the ship. They are not used for being the only weapons to attack a ship.
You do realise you just said beam weapons are virtually useless right ?
Plus, tell that to Apogees, Paragons and Sunders...
Also as a side note, I was actually right when I mis-phrased something
Plasma cannons DO generate 1k flux per SHOT LEAVING THE BARREL
If you don't believe me make an apogee with max vents and fire a salvo of plasma cannon, enjoy your 3k+ flux spike...