Is everything in STO set up to debuff Plasma weapons?

[Elthiar]

This has probably been discussed before, but I can't find the thread for it, and I thought with the advent of the Romulan faction it might have changed.

I have been trying to stay faithful to the Romulan fluff with my Romulan character (attached to the 7th ITS) by going all plasma weapons on my ships.  I even finished the Romulan reputation to get all Romulan plasma weapons thinking that might help.  But it hasn't.  With the new Mirror Universe event happening I have finally thrown in the towel on Plasma.

In my first few runs of the Mirror event I went in with my Fleet Mogai with Romulan Plasma weapons.  It felt like I was beating on the escorts with a Nurf bat.

The next few runs I switched to Fleet Plasma weapons, same feeling.

Finally I gave in and sucked all the credits from my other characters and changed over to Disruptor weapons but could only go mk xi blue for the disruptor induction coils (had 2 purples for the plasma infusers) nothing else changed on the Mogai. With this load out I'm taking out the squads of three escorts in about 15 seconds on my own (an engineer character).

Am I doing something wrong with the Plasma load outs or is STO set up to debuff Plasma weapons, even when that's the main weapon for the Romulan faction?

[~Maiax~]

Sir, I believe there's nothing (too) wrong about plasma.

Myself, I use a full compliment of plasma cannons and turrets on my Scimitar (+ one Kinetic Cutting Beam for torpedo-like damage). I also equipped Mk XII Tac and Sci Fleet consoles which boost the plasma damage, and I daresay my damage output is more than satisfactory.

As an example, in our last joint Fleet mission on Crystalline Entity (March 22nd) I scored #1 in raw damage dealt. I also tend to do fine in Mirror Invasion events (12 so far).

[CAPT Huckabee]

Disruptors have a nice proc.  A lot better then plasma, so maybe that's it.

[Elthiar]

Unfortunately, my KDF Romulan doesn't have access to MKXII fleet tac consoles for plasma damage yet.  And if he flew a Scimitar I doubt I would see much wrong with Plasma weapons either   I was just noticing the difference between the damage using the same mk consoles and the same weapons just different energy types.

I thought it might be the proc as well, but Romulan Plasma weapons from the Rep system have both Procs for plasma and disruptor.  Not sure though, if double proc weapons do both procs at the same time or do the procs randomize when the 2.5 percent happens?

[~Maiax~]

Forgive me, Sir, I didn't want it to sound like I was boasting.

Btw, my current starship is a Plasma Arrays equipped Science Vessel, and it also tends to work very fine. However, this starship is rigged for Particle/Exotic AoE Damage, so Gravity Wells 1 + 3 are her main strength.

Personally, I love the Plasma proc, eating enemies' hull with their shields fully up; I remember how irritating it was for me, especially looking at my own ship on fire, covered with obscuring green Plasma smoke. Maybe that's one of the reasons why people try to gain Plasma damage resistance?

I would also recommend adding a 360 degrees arc Kinetic Cutting Beam (only a Tier 2 Omega Rep) instead of torpdedo launchers, it works fine with all my statrships.