What's with my AA

[notyourfather]

I respec my captain to try the "Massive AA" skill. After pressing tilde or O, it just goes directly to cooldown.

Without MAA I get a progressively increasing AA efficiency until I reached 150% but with MAA, it stays at 100% and I also don't get to choose which sector I want to reinforce.

Also without MAA and after pressing ~, I get RED damage numbers on planes but with MAA, I get only WHITE.

[Thyaliad]

Oh that's interesting.

The skill mentions that it makes Priority Sector no longer buff AA guns ... does it mean it just removes that buffing portion directly?

So it doubles the instantaneous damage but means your AA guns can no longer be buffed?

[dejiko_nyo]

AA now works as increased damage for a limited time (like a mini DFAA) with preparation and cooldown. MAA gives you INSTANT increased damaged WITH the downside of increasing cooldown by 50%. That is what I understand from the post and playing. I don't use MAA anyway because it is 4 points of waste for me as I tend to run generalist builds. Other people might use it when running a specialist build.

Anyway, I think AA now is more balanced (no more ridiculous shima killing 41 Hakuryuu (or was that Midway?) planes) but from the CV PoV, still irritating, although that is because all my targets are bunching up. Amazingly, AI ships know how to overlap their AA bubbles very well.