Ability: Cannons: Rapid Fire

Overview

Basic Information

• Profession: Tactical
• Locale: Space
• Game Description: Rapid Fire improves your next cannon attack. Quickly fires numerous bolts. Each bolt does less damage than a normal cannon shot.

Detailed Information

• Used by: Captain
• Target: Self
• System: Cannons
• Ability Type: Buff
• Activation:
• Range: N/A
• Shares cooldown with:
  • Cannon: Rapid Fire
  • Energy Weapons: Surgical Strikes
• Starts cooldown on:
  • Cannon: Scatter Volley: 15s
• Modified by:
  • Skills
    • Energy Weapon Training - Improves all weapon damage.
    • Targeting Expertise - Improves all weapon accuracy.
    • Weapon Specialization - Improves Critical Severity.
    • Weapon Amplification - Improves Critical Hit
  • Subsystems Power Level
    • Weapon
  • Traits
    • Point Defense Protocols - Activates an automated defense turret which fires when Rapid Fire is active.
    • Go for the Kill: Critical Hits extend duration of active Cannon: Rapid Fire by 3 seconds. May occur once every 5 seconds.
    • Directed Energy Flux - Activating any Temporal Operative Bridge Officer Ability or the Directed Energy Modulation Ability will boost the damage of Cannon: Rapid Fire, Energy Weapons: Surgical Strikes and Reroute Reserves to Weapons for a short time
    • Preferential Targeting - Activating Beam: Fire at Will or Cannon: Scatter Volley will cause Beam: Overload or Cannon: Rapid Fire to do 100% additional damage for the next 30 seconds.
    • Heavy Tachyon Mine - Spawns a large mine that will cause high kinetic damage (with 100% shield penetration) and a Tachyon Particle Hazard that will heavily damage shields.
    • Frontal Assault - Provides a boost to your frontal shield hardness and regeneration rate for a short time.
• Trained by:
  • Bridge Officer Trainer (Rank I, Rank II)
  • Requires 2 Tactical Skill points

Ability Ranks

Ability/User Rank	CD	Ability Effects
Rank I: Lieutenant	30s	Upgrades your Cannon weapon to fire 50% more shots per second while actively firing for 10 sec. Additionally, for this duration, your cannon weapon deal 100% of their normal damage with each shot.
Rank II: Lt Commander	30s	Upgrades your Cannon weapon to fire 50% more shots per second while actively firing for 10 sec. Additionally, for this duration, your cannon weapon deal 110% of their normal damage with each shot.
Rank III: Commander	30s	Upgrades your Cannon weapon to fire 50% more shots per second while actively firing for 10 sec. Additionally, for this duration, your cannon weapon deal 120% of their normal damage with each shot.

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