That means a second instance of FAW can’t be activated until 20 seconds after the first one is activated. The ability has a ten second operating period and a 30 second cool down, globally it is 20 seconds. Commander in which it hits at 90% power and -30 accuracy. ![]() At Lieutenant its 85% power and -40 accuracy. Players relying on FAW should by all means use weapons with accuracy boosts. At Ensign the ability hits with 80% power and -50 accuracy. The ability still works great on Tholian Webs and buzzy little micro enemies, but not at the expense of firing on your actual target. Each target will get five attacks up to a total of ten per cycle. If there is no other targetable enemy the ability will only attack the main target. Now the ability will attack the primary target AND another random target if one exists. But the current FAW works a little differently. The idea is to wear down the shield facing to expose the hull. Without a followup series of shots a single beam hit does very little damage to an individual target, the shields soak it up and it’s over. But the problem with it was the random part. It was great for eliminating annoying carrier pets, mines, heavy torpedos, Tholian webs and so on. Then look at the beams vs cannons overall.īeams: Fire at Will aka: FAW: This attack used to be a random targeting attack. ![]() So first I want to go over each of the four basic energy weapon tactical bridge officer attack abilities. I wrote about the Beam Overload change here which was probably the most significant change made among the weapon attack changes. ![]() Some time back Cryptic changed the attack abilities of both beams and cannons, so my previous argument is now out of date. But I argued against FAW as a rule because it randomly targets enemies and in the end I showed that FAW doesn’t kill enemies as fast as Canons or Beams with Overload. The DPS counters were all in on King Beam most using multiple instances of FAW. I wrote a blog piece on this site several years ago about the beams versus cannons debate that was at the time raging.
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