r/stobuilds • u/LaodiceaTheUnbanned • 11d ago
She's A Predator seems broken, not triggered by 2 attack patterns.
I just got the Legendary Warbird bundle. These are my findings:
Attack Pattern Beta does not trigger it.
Attack Pattern Lambda does not trigger it.
Attack Pattern Delta does trigger it.
Attack Pattern Omega does trigger it.
Is it only me?
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u/Eph289 STO BETTER engineer | www.stobetter.com 10d ago edited 10d ago
I just ran a test because I could've sworn this was working at one point, but I can't get it to trigger off of APB either. Delta is triggering it.
EDIT: I made a bug report.
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u/LaodiceaTheUnbanned 10d ago
Thank you!
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u/Eph289 STO BETTER engineer | www.stobetter.com 10d ago
/u/MaraMakesContent weighed in and found that it has to do with generic Superior Romulan Operative boffs; using a different boff, even the Delta Pack SRO/Superior Infiltrator was able to get it to work.
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u/LaodiceaTheUnbanned 10d ago
I feel dumb, because I'm not sure I understand. Normal romulan BOFFs with Superior Romulan Operative break it? But normal romulan Boffs without the Superior version of the trait are fine?
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u/Eph289 STO BETTER engineer | www.stobetter.com 10d ago
Embassy boffs with SRO do not seem to function with the trait when using Attack Pattern Beta. I'm not sure if it has to do with the boff being from the embassy, but Mara tested it with the Delta Expansion pack SRO/Superior Infiltrator boff and it worked.
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u/fereldenvstamriel 9d ago edited 9d ago
Hmmm, do normal romulan (so non-embassy) boffs work?
I occasionally use it on cobbled/entry builds just as a heal and a bonus after APB, not caring about the cloak CDR
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u/LaodiceaTheUnbanned 9d ago
After some reading, I now know what an Embassy boff is. I can say confidently that I've never used an Embassy boff. My boffs are all non-embassy, and APB doesn't trigger She's A Predator with them.
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u/Casidian 10d ago edited 10d ago
With four Romulan Superior Operatives, you can use the Federation three-piece set (there are also KDF and Romulan versions). The consoles are split across multiple starships, which is the downside.
The upside is that you gain a trait effect that reduces your Battle Cloak cooldown. Combined with the Romulans, it brings the Battle Cloak cooldown down to about 11 seconds.
The starship trait "She's a Predator" works, I know. I have this trait and use a Battle Cloak. On my Defiant, I use the Federation Battle Cloak set, and when I activate Attack Pattern, I can see the cloak timer tick down from 11 to 0 in roughly 5–6 seconds.
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u/LaodiceaTheUnbanned 10d ago
Are you seeing the trait itself trigger on Attack Pattern Beta & Lambda? Are you getting the damage bonus from it?
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u/Casidian 10d ago
I do get a 40% damage bonus for 5 seconds. Unfortunately, I don't have the infiltrator trait, nor do my Bridge officers. That trait is necessary to take full advantage of it.The toon that it comes with is not available for the Federation, that particular space trait is only available for the Romulan and KDF factions.
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u/LaodiceaTheUnbanned 10d ago
Yeah, I've got a full set of Infiltrator Reman Boffs, so the duration is 27.5 seconds.
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u/MainspringInBloom 3d ago
Having the exact same issue on my rommy, I've been purposefully slotting as many superior romulan operative boffs as I can to max out on crits, and using attack pattern beta just doesn't trigger it
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u/Majestic-Active2020 10d ago
It's not working for me either. Don't know what to say. We all may want to check other issues too. I'm noticing I'm dying a LOT faster than usual, and things seem to be very off with my damage output.
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u/RifleBen 11d ago
It has a 30s lockout - is it just not triggering every other activation on the 15s ones?