[DAILY Q&A] Ask and answer any questions you have about the game here. (April 20, 2018)

Why is short range blaster mod completely overlooked for plasma accelerators?

I haven't seen any videos or any posts and discussions about it. SR gives a lot more damage than efficient and other benefits of efficient are either have a low noticeable effect (power draw - depends on your ship) or can be easily fixed (thermal heat).

Taking the chieftain as ship perspective (because i don't have anything larger), power draw is no issue at all, increased thermal heat is countered by 2x Thermal vent beams and you are left with "stock" level plasma capacitor drain. A G5 charged enhanced distributor and 4 pips to weapons is enough to hold the trigger and keep firing plasma without running out of juice.

I took this theory into HZRES yestarday and its insane... Everything worked just as theorized. The damage of plasma with SR is just stupid.

I can only imagine what happens when you do the same thing on a corvette with 2x C4 plasma.

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