Cannon

Cannons have a firing arc of 180° and deal slightly more damage than Beam Arrays.

Cannons, Dual Beam Banks, Dual Cannons, and Dual Heavy Cannons can not be mounted in aft (rear facing) weapon slots. Turrets are considered a type of cannon. Turrets can be mounted in aft (rear facing) weapon slots.

180° Weapon Arc for the Cannon

Damage Types

There are several types of Cannon available, each of which are listed below. Each type of Cannon offers a different proc (random chance for an attack bonus). The damage done by these weapons is modified by several skills from the skill tables and certain Tactical Consoles. The baseline damage is dependent on the array's Mark level and its rarity.

For more information on the base damage done by Cannon weapons, see the respective weapon type articles.

• Phaser: 2.5% chance to disable a random subsystem
• Disruptor: 2.5% chance to lower the targets hull damage resistance by 10% for 15 sec
• Plasma: 2.5% chance to apply a non-stacking damage-over-time debuff
• Polaron: 2.5% chance to reduce all enemy subsystem power levels by 25
• Tetryon: 2.5% chance to deal additional shield damage
• Antiproton: +2.5% chance to inflict a Critical Hit

Modifiers

Uncommon Cannon will have one modifier suffix, Rare will have two and Very Rare will have three. These suffix bonuses can be multiples of themselves; for example, instead of a very rare item having [Acc] [CrtD] [CrtH], it may well just have [CrtH]x3, which would increase critical chance by 6%. It could also have two of the same modifier, plus one of another.

• Acc: +0.1 Accuracy
• CrtD: +20 Critical Severity
• CrtH: +2% Critical Chance
• Dmg: +5 DPV

Base Damage Table

All values given are for common weapons. There is greater damage with increasing rarity.

Rank	Mark	DPV	DPS	Value ()
				Common	Uncommon	Rare	Very Rare
None	I	78	104	541	719	—	—
	II	85	114	1,081	1,438	1,795	—
Lt. Cmdr.	III	93	123	2,162	2,876	3,589	—
	IV	100	133	3,243	4,314	5,384	6,486
Commander	V	107	143	4,324	5,751	7,178	8,649
	VI	115	153	5,405	7,189	8,973	10,811
Captain	VII	122	163	6,486	8,627	10,768	12,973
	VIII	129	172	7,568	10,065	12,562	15,135
Lower Half Rear Admiral Upper Half	IX	137	182	8,649	11,503	14,357	17,297
	X	144	192	9,730	12,941	16,151	19,459
	XI	151	202	10,811	14,378	17,946	21,622
	XII	159	212	11,892	15,816	19,740	23,783

Player Skills

The following Player Skills provides a benefit to this weapon type.

Lieutenant

• Starship Weapon Training

Lt. Commander

• Starship Energy Weapons

Admiral / General

• Starship Energy Weapon Specialization

Tactical Consoles

The following Tactical Console provides a benefit to this weapon type.

• Prefire Chamber

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