DPS-Boat (part II)

Guide (part II) How to build a DPS beam boat (+Escort):

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In the second part of the guide we willgo and intensify working with keybinds and then rehandle dual beam bank buils.

First of all we work through a checklist to make sure you are ready for this advanced information:

– You have a working single beam boat including equipment
– You collected experience with your bridge officer skills and know the effect of each of the bo-skills you use
– You don’t use to die too often
– Have your weapons set to autofire
– You are comfortable with using your abilities and want to use them timed on demand rather than spamming

6) KEYBINDS/MACROS II

In the first part we eased up ourselves the skill activation by putting the relevant skills to a spambar.
Now we want to go and time our damage relevant skills precisely:
An easy way to do so is putting the damage relevant skills to a separate bind and only hit it when suitable. (Splitbind)

For this we build a second bind on a separate key, in the following example it will be R! (It can be changed simply by just replacing the R in front of the commands by any other key! Some people prefer using 1,2,3)

Due to the Global Cooldown (GCD), you can only activate most abilities one after another.
Using a Power like Emergencypower to Weapons takes about 0.5 seconds to activate, during this time you can not use any other power, or in this regard start shooting your weapons.
To be more efficient you should only use powers either before you want to shoot, or when your weapons are already shooting.

The weapons activation is indicated by the highlight of the weapons, when they show the 4 second countdown the weapon is shooting off its cycle.
After its shooting cycle it goes to a one second cooldown and then, thanks to autofire starts the cycle over.

You should only use abilities when the weapons are showing the countdown numbers, not when they are about to refresh their cycle to make sure all of them are shooting properly.

This split into different keybinds allows you to more actively decide which abilities you should use next. Try to align your Attackpatterns and Fire at Will while maintaining your buffs and using healing abilities when they are required.

Before attacking a new target you could use some of your buffs. Once you are in proximity to your target and ready to shoot, you press spacebar once, to activate the fireing cycle and only once! When all weapons show the cooldown you should use additional abilities by pressing buttons.

Space “GenSendMessage HUD_Root FireAll”

Shift “+TrayExecByTray 3 0 $$ +TrayExecByTray 3 1 $$ +TrayExecByTray 3 2 $$ +TrayExecByTray 3 3 $$ +TrayExecByTray 3 4 $$ +TrayExecByTray 3 5 $$ +TrayExecByTray 3 6 $$ +TrayExecByTray 3 7 $$ +TrayExecByTray 3 8 $$ +TrayExecByTray 3 9 $$ Lootrollneed $$ GenSetEarlyOverrideFloat Hud_Statustarget_Space_Bufflist scale 2 $$ “

R “+TrayExecByTray 4 0 $$ +TrayExecByTray 4 1 $$ +TrayExecByTray 4 2 $$ +TrayExecByTray 4 3 $$ +TrayExecByTray 4 4 $$ +TrayExecByTray 4 5 $$ +TrayExecByTray 4 6 $$ +TrayExecByTray 4 7 $$ +TrayExecByTray 4 8 $$ +TrayExecByTray 4 9 $$”

Wheelplus “throttleadjust .175”
Wheelminus “throttleadjust -.175”

This new bind also includes the transfer of our throttle control to the mouse wheel as it eases up precise piloting a lot!

You should now go and take your multitarget dps-buff skills (FAW, any attack pattern, directed energy modulation, kemocite laced weaponary) an put them to tray 5, which will be your R button if you use the example bind.
Your shift key will automatically trigger abilities on the 4th tray which could be healing powers or defenses. You should only use this button if you have to.
DON’T FORGET if you use aux 2 bat to put both of them on the left end of the skillbar line, just as in your spambar line! (like mentioned in part I)

This bind is ONLY a good basis to start from as most players personalize their binds fitting their individual requirements.
To give you the opportunity to do so i will give you a short crash course of the syntax of keybinds.
Let’s just take the beginning of our spacebar bind as example:

Shift “+TrayExecByTray 3 0 $$ +TrayExecByTray 3 1 $$ +TrayExecByTray 3 2 $$….

Shift means the key you want to bind at, in this case shift.
The ” opens the command line for the key in front of it, as it will close it at the end.

+TrayExecByTray 3 0 $$ is one small box of your skillbox. the two numbers simply define the LINE and the COLUMN of your skillbar:

CAUTION! Binds count 0 as 1 so the left bottom small box would be +TrayExecByTray 0 0 $$. The bottom 2nd one from left would be +TrayExecByTray 0 1 $$ and so on…
CAUTION! Any changes in your keybind file will first affect after activation via in game chat! (like you did in part I)

7) DUAL BEAM BANKS (dbbs)
Now that you are able to time your buffs precisely you may start thinking about dbb builts which will also make some of the escorts pretty interesting for high dpsing.
Dbb builds are simple: fill front weapon slots with dbbs and aft weapon slots with omni directional beam(s) + cutting beam.
CAUTION! If you chose any ship having 3 aft weapon slots it’s essential you pick Antiproton as your weapon tye as only AP provides the option to get a second omni directional beam + the cutting beam. (Available as mission reward in “Sphere of influence”)

Once you finished your dbb setup you will find out flying it is completely different to a single beam setup as you dont have a 90° targeting angle on each side anymore, but only ONE on the front side of your ship!
Both alternatives are extremely strong builds and it depends on the preferences of the pilot which one is the better one!
I recommend everybody to try both on long terms!

Like at the end of part 1:

Now that we have come to the end of part 2, you should take some time to try and apply what you (should) have learned.

As we always want to optimize this guide we would really appreciate any feedback from you! (Even if it’s simply what you benefited from it!)

For any questions or feedback feel free to contact me via ingame mail: @maverick8711 or @ezri_carter, @holofrog, @Felisean, @Hellspawny, @jaymclaughlin

Thx for your attention!

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