What I find funny is the general arguement that every new Console brings more and more power creep when the fact is that is simply not true. Only a few consoles are responsible for it along with traits, doffs, and ship masteries. I test EVERY new Console that comes out in the Lockboxes or in fleet stores and 99.9% of them are almost trash aside from the gimmicks for fun builds. The real issue behind that is that Cryptic designs a new power 1 of 3 ways. 1. (5% of the time) it's soo stupidly OP that everyone buys one and then 4-6 months later it gets nerfed or 2. (90% of the time) the console has a neat visual effect and adds some minor debuff that makes the console fun but not extremely useful (along with a 2 or 3 minute cooldown) or 3. (5% of the time) the console is useful and balanced but useful for only 1 or 2 builds at most
The primary Console culprits of "Powercreep" are the Romulan - only Shield Absorbative Frequency Generator The Plasmonic Leech Console Spire Tactical Consoles And Embassy Plasma Science Consoles (nerfed but still powerful) There are many others but these add tons of power I could go on and on with the list of Boff power stacking for stupid dps but most people know the culprits on that end as well as ship gears so I'll skip those but for the ship masteries the biggest issues come from the Vonph Dreadnought The Zahl (zombie ship) And All hands on Deck Are major sources of power creep but are not game breaking by themselves. It's when you start to combine all these things together that stuff gets crazy.
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1. (5% of the time) it's soo stupidly OP that everyone buys one and then 4-6 months later it gets nerfed or
2. (90% of the time) the console has a neat visual effect and adds some minor debuff that makes the console fun but not extremely useful (along with a 2 or 3 minute cooldown) or
3. (5% of the time) the console is useful and balanced but useful for only 1 or 2 builds at most
The primary Console culprits of "Powercreep" are the
Romulan - only Shield Absorbative Frequency Generator
The Plasmonic Leech Console
Spire Tactical Consoles
And
Embassy Plasma Science Consoles (nerfed but still powerful)
There are many others but these add tons of power
I could go on and on with the list of Boff power stacking for stupid dps but most people know the culprits on that end as well as ship gears so I'll skip those but for the ship masteries the biggest issues come from
the Vonph Dreadnought
The Zahl (zombie ship)
And
All hands on Deck
Are major sources of power creep but are not game breaking by themselves. It's when you start to combine all these things together that stuff gets crazy.