Isolytic Tears Tested - Multi-Torp Salvoes do NOT generate more tears
Did a quick test on something I've seen conflicting information about for a long time. For a while I ran the Delphic Distortion Torpedo on a quantum build as my first torp to fire/ main HY torpedo, in part because I thought more HY torps (HY1 gives 4 torpedoes with the Delphic) meant more tears generated. I decided to finally test it.
Test conditions: Khitomer Vortex Elite Solo because it gives the lone tac cube at the start that won't just get one shotted. In my torp build Kirk, no spam bar hit, only abilities used are EPTE and Aux2damp for the mobility. I cloaked and decloaked to get HY3 from the 32nd Century Battlecloak and AFTheta, and fired one HY3 at the Tac Cube before turning and running out of range, circling the cube until any spawned tears were finished and despawned, and then leaving the map. I used Combat Log Reader and set it to not "sum pets by abilities" so that each isolytic tear was separate. I know my build isn't meta but I have exceeded 1m DPS in ISE channel runs, the Kirk can't slot HY3 with it's very low tac seating but the 32nd Century cloak only has a 2s cycle time.
EBM HY3 (1 Non-destructible AOE torpedo): 1 tear generated, it lasted for 24 seconds dealing 45 attacks.
Delphic HY3 (Salvo of 6 Torpedoes): 1 tear generated, it lasted for 26 seconds and dealt 53 attacks.
Romulan Hyper Plasma HY3 (3 Destructible AOE torpedoes): 3 (!) Tears generated, lasting for 13, 25 and 27 seconds, dealing 18, 48, and 49 attacks
Bonus test, to see if EBM creates multiple tears when hitting multiple targets:
ISE solo, same procedure otherwise, EBM hit no less than 7 targets with its green nuke of death, the Tac Cube, both side cubes and all 4 spheres. Only 1 tear generated, 50 attacks in 26 seconds, it only hit the center tac cube.
This wasn't a scientific test with a hundred samples, but the results seem pretty clean to me and will impact my choices. I hope my fellow Subspatial Warhead enjoyers appreciate this information o7