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This Comparison chart is useful for helping you select a better Beam. Check an individual unit's page for more details.
All values, except where explicitly specified to the contrary, are for beam weapons of 100% quality. Note that player-built beams (up to 200% quality) enhance a beam's damage-infliction capability and buffs.
DPS = Damage per Second. Note that a fast-firing weapon with lower damage can disrupt a mob from employing its psionic effects against you.
EPS = Energy per Second. Make sure your energy use doesn't exceed your reactor's recharge rate!
NEW columns:
- A new "DPS 200%" column has been addded in response to an in-game chat request, in order to make it easier to compare 200% (player-made) items to Non-Manufacturable items. Note that the figure in a NonMF item's "DPS 200%" column will be the same as its 100% value. There is, of course, the potential for a looted NonMF item to have a quality value above or below 100% but, as this spreadsheet can't easily be coded for every eventuality, a 100%NonMF vs 200%PM comparison is all you get!
- A new "NegEfct" column has been added. Previously, all buffs (changes) to aspects of a weapon's or ship's performance were listed in the Buffs column, whether they were a positive change (a "buff") or a negative change (a 'de-buff'). The Buffs column now only shows effects gained which benefit you:— these can either be enhancements to your weapons or ship, or the power to de-buff your enemies. Any negative effect (de-buff) which is applied to YOU has been split off into the new NegEfct column. Sometimes you may be able to counteract a personal de-buff by installing another ship item which buffs (improves) the same characteristic.
| Beam | Level | Range | Type | Damage | Reload Time | DPS | DPS 200% | EPS | Race | Class | Buffs | NegEfct | Buildable |
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| Damaged Drone Defense Laser | 1 | 800 | Energy | 3.0 | 2.0 | 1.50 | 2.25 | 5.50 | all | all | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Diamond Laser | 1 | 900 | Energy | 3.0 | 2.0 | 1.50 | 1.50 | 5.50 | Jenquai restricted | all | 0 | 0 | NonMf |
| Electron Shikari Charger | 1 | 800 | Energy | 4.0 | 2.0 | 2.00 | 3.00 | 7.50 | Progen restricted | all | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Gradient Laser | 1 | 900 | Energy | 3.0 | 2.0 | 1.50 | 1.50 | 5.50 | all | all | 0 | 0 | NonMf |
| Haywire's Circuit Breaker | 1 | 800 | Energy | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.00 | 1.50 | 4.00 | all | all | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Malicious Gaze | 1 | 1000 | Energy | 3.0 | 2.0 | 1.50 | 2.25 | 5.50 | all | all | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Most Delicious Pumpkin Cannon Mk. I | 1 | 5000 | Plasma | 5.0 | 1.0 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 10.00 | all | all | 0 | 0 | NonMf |
| Needlenose's Slingbeam | 1 | 900 | Energy | 2.0 | 1.0 | 2.00 | 3.00 | 5.00 | all | all | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Petit Sango | 1 | 1000 | Energy | 4.0 | 2.0 | 2.00 | 3.00 | 7.50 | Progen restricted | all | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Prosecutor Alpha | 1 | 1100 | Energy | 4.0 | 2.0 | 2.00 | 3.00 | 7.50 | Progen only | Explorer restricted | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Prototype P 1 | 1 | 1900 | Plasma | 18.0 | 6.0 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 5.00 | all | all | 0 | 0 | NonMf |
| Pulse Laser | 1 | 900 | Energy | 3.0 | 2.0 | 1.50 | 1.50 | 5.50 | Progen restricted | all | 0 | 0 | NonMf |
| The Fifteenth Iteration | 1 | 1100 | Energy | 9.0 | 5.0 | 1.80 | 1.80 | 5.00 | all | all | 0 | 0 | NonMf |
*Values of NonMf items marked with an asterisk might be better than listed here, but need to be verified in-game.