Engineers Best Effect for Small / Medium Cannons for PvE

Old Duck

Old Duck
While it sounds crazy, I've been enjoying fixed cannons on some of my small fighters, and I'm wondering which special effect gives the most bang for the buck. The ones of particular interest to me are:

Thermal Cascade
High Yield
Dispersal Field

My other question would be if Thermal Cascade and High Yield stack. Do two cannons with TC generate twice as much heat, and do two cannons with HY double the likelihood of doing module damage? Most of my configurations use twin cannons. Should I go symmetric or asymmetric with my effects?

This is specifically for PvE, and I ask because NPCs tend to respond to certain effects differently than humans (Force Shell being a favorite of mine for noob PvP just to screw with people, LOL).
 

Kzak

Kzak
I heard High Yield is bugged - reducing damage by far more than the 35% - so that's probably not what you want. Thermal cascade gives extra heat to the target, but is unlikely to disturb a NPC much. I'd go with Dispersal Field. Free chaff, kind of - but you don't need to have that on more than one cannon as it doesn't stack.
 

NecasekO

N
I use cannons a lot, both fixed and gimballed, and IMO there isn't a must-have special effect for them so I usually go for autoloader. I hate it when my cannons get out of sync with their reloads.

Only on my DBX that uses just 1 large cannon I'm using the negligible +2% damage as special.

High yield used to be good as a general purpose effect but at this time it has a drastic damage reduction so it's pretty useless against shield and hull, making it a very niche use weapon.
 
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