Phaser Ship Weapons

Phasers are the standard energy weapons of Federation starships and they are the starter weapons for new Federation characters. They come in several types, as most energy weapons do in STO. Phasers deliver a consistent beam attack designed to burn down enemy shields more efficiently than kinectic weapons (mines and torpedos). All phasers have a 2.5% chance of disabling one ship subsystem (turning, engines, weapons, shields, etc.) for 5 seconds. Without buffs, phaser damage to shields is about 1/10th of its rated damage to hulls. All damage points shown in the tables are rated against unprotected hulls without resistences or buffs.

Phaser Beam Array[]

These are normally mounted, single beam weapons that are the standard of the Federation. They deliver a precise attack shown as an orange beam. Following some general notes about these weapons.

They may be mounted on any ship class, Federation or Klingon.
They have an attack arc of 250 degrees, which allows for a broad overlap of front and rear mounted weapons.
They use -10 weapon energy.
They have a 2.5% chance of disabling one subsystem for 5 secs..

Below is a grid of the specific characteristics without buffs and enhancements.

Level	Basic	Lvl I	Lvl II	Lvl III	Lvl IV	Lvl V	Lvl VI	Lvl VII	Lvl VIII	Lvl IX	Lvl X
Min Rank	EN	EN	EN	LC	LC	CO	CO		CA		AD
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Damage	100	108	118	129	139	149	159		180		200
DPS*	80	87	95	103	111	119	127		144		160

DPS = Damage Per Second

EN = Ensign, LC = Lt. Commander, CO = Commander, CA = Captain, AD = Admiral.

Dual Phaser Beam Array[]

These are normally mounted, dual beam weapons that are the standard of the Federation. They deliver a precise attack shown as twin orange beams delivering more damage than single arrays at the cost of a narrower firing arc. Following some general notes about these weapons.

They may be mounted on any ship class, Federation or Klingon.
They have an attack arc of 90 degrees, which provides no overlap of front and rear mounted weapons and means that the target needs to be in front of the weapon.
They use -10 weapon energy.
They have a 2.5% chance of disabling one subsystem for 5 secs.

Below is a grid of the specific characteristics without buffs and enhancements.

Level	Basic	Lvl I	Lvl II	Lvl III	Lvl IV	Lvl V	Lvl VI	Lvl VII	Lvl VIII	Lvl IX	Lvl X
Min Rank	EN	EN	EN	LC	LC	CO	CO		CA		AD
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Damage			157		185	199	212		239		266
DPS*			126		148	159	169		191		213

DPS = Damage Per Second

EN = Ensign, LC = Lt. Commander, CO = Commander, CA = Captain, AD = Admiral.

Phaser Cannon[]

These are normally mounted, single beam weapons that are the standard of the Federation. They deliver a powerful precise attack shown as three orange pulses delivering more damage than single arrays in terms of Damage Per Second at the cost of a narrower firing arc. Following some general notes about these weapons.

They may be mounted on any ship class, Federation or Klingon, up to Level IV. After that they can only be fitted to Escort class ships..
They have an attack arc of 180 degrees, which provides no overlap of front and rear mounted weapons. This means that the target needs to be in front of the weapon in order to be targeted.
They use -10 weapon energy.
They have a 2.5% chance of disabling one subsystem for 5 secs.

Below is a grid of the specific characteristics without buffs and enhancements.

Level	Basic	Lvl I	Lvl II	Lvl III	Lvl IV	Lvl V	Lvl VI	Lvl VII	Lvl VIII	Lvl IX	Lvl X
Min Rank	EN	EN	EN	LC	LC	CO	CO		CA		AD
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Damage			85		100		115		129		144
DPS*			114		133		153		172		192

DPS = Damage Per Second

EN = Ensign, LC = Lt. Commander, CO = Commander, CA = Captain, AD = Admiral.

Dual Phaser Cannon[]

These are normally mounted, dual beam weapons that are the standard of the Federation. They are the second most powerful phaser weapons offered and appear as three orange phaser bolts, larger than the Phaser Cannon. Following some general notes about these weapons.

They may be mounted on any ship class, Federation or Klingon, up to Level IV. After that they can only be fitted to Escort class ships.
They have a very narrow attack arc of 45 degrees, meaning that the target must be located directly in front of them.
They use -12 weapon energy.
They have a 2.5% chance of disabling one subsystem for 5 secs.

Below is a grid of the specific characteristics without buffs and enhancements. (No data yet on these - I assume they are dropped items.)

Level	Basic	Lvl I	Lvl II	Lvl III	Lvl IV	Lvl V	Lvl VI	Lvl VII	Lvl VIII	Lvl IX	Lvl X
Min Rank	EN	EN	EN	LC	LC	CO	CO	CA	CA	AD	AD
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Damage
DPS*

DPS = Damage Per Second

EN = Ensign, LC = Lt. Commander, CO = Commander, CA = Captain, AD = Admiral.

Dual Heavy Phaser Cannon[]

These are normally mounted, dual beam weapons that are the standard of the Federation. They are the most powerful phaser weapons offered at the cost of a narrow attack arc and appear as three large orange phaser bolts. Following some general notes about these weapons.

They may be mounted on any ship class, Federation or Klingon, up to Level IV. After that they can only be fitted to Escort class ships.
They have a very narrow attack arc of 45 degrees, meaning that the target must be located directly in front of them.
They use -12 weapon energy.
They have a 2.5% chance of disabling one subsystem for 5 secs.
Additional buff for +10 critical severity.

Below is a grid of the specific characteristics without buffs and enhancements.

Level	Basic	Lvl I	Lvl II	Lvl III	Lvl IV	Lvl V	Lvl VI	Lvl VII	Lvl VIII	Lvl IX	Lvl X
Min Rank	EN	EN	EN	LC	LC	CO	CO	CA	CA	AD	AD
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Damage			237			299	319
DPS*			158			199	213

DPS = Damage Per Second

EN = Ensign, LC = Lt. Commander, CO = Commander, CA = Captain, AD = Admiral.

Phaser Turret[]

These are normally mounted, single beam weapons that are the standard of the Federation. They deliver a precise attack in any direction shown as a dotted orange beam. Following some general notes about these weapons.

They may be mounted on any ship class, Federation or Klingon.
They have an attack arc of 360 degrees, which allows for a complete overlap of front and rear mounted weapons, at the cost of damage output.
They use -10 weapon energy.
They have a 2.5% chance of disabling one subsystem for 5 secs.

Below is a grid of the specific characteristics without buffs and enhancements.