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jestersage
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One thing I found out with STO compared to CO is that I actually need to spend more of the zen to get good stuff, and because of that, I decide against buying the expansion slot for bank and inventory.
Which means I need to clean out the consoles that I had stockpile
From what i can gather on the forum, there are a few consoles that are essentially useless:
-Anything to do with crew, since it is insignificant to hull healing
-EPS console - you are not going to do power transfer in the middle of battle.
-Any science console /science-oriented deflector for captain that have no science ability
-Turn rate console for carriers
-Polaron weaponries and its associated
Anything else I missed?
Which means I need to clean out the consoles that I had stockpile
From what i can gather on the forum, there are a few consoles that are essentially useless:
-Anything to do with crew, since it is insignificant to hull healing
-EPS console - you are not going to do power transfer in the middle of battle.
-Any science console /science-oriented deflector for captain that have no science ability
-Turn rate console for carriers
-Polaron weaponries and its associated
Anything else I missed?
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Using covariant shields, the 10% bleedthrough can be nasty for your ship. But if you manage to keep your shields up most of the times, with a full crew, the hull regeneration can be a blessing while your hull healing powers are on cooldown.
Additionally, because science depend on thier powers alot when there is not much DPS through weapons, a strong crew can lessen borg crew damage, boarding parties and torpedoe crew damage so that all your boff powers do not get disabled.
Perhaps I favour these consoles because of my more defensive playstyle.
well you can pretty much throw away all consoles you have since you already scrapped some of the best consoles for pvp :rolleyes:
Both of you need to stop posting about PvP issues.
1)True EPS console might not be as useful as other consoles, but you should be transferring/switching powers as need in PvP and PvE.
2)Polaron is very Very VERY useful even w/o the jem set in PvP. The power drain in great!
so true, plus if you are having energy syphon or any other power drain power used on you then having EPS console will regenerate your power levels more quickly, my tac never leaves home without one, your obviously a noob if you think most if not all those consoles are useless, trust me in pvp I got swarmed by syphon drones nearly 0 power levels throughout the whole match, and that was before I had my EPS console,
Absolutely! I'll never pilot an escort without an EPS console.
Additionally Starship Power Insulators, Starship Inertial Dampeners and Starship Sensors all provide resistance to various debuffs and controls although they aren't as critical.
If you are equipping EPS Flow Regulators because you think it regenerates weapons power, you are wasting valuable console space.
no, not true even in the slightest. it makes only sense to use one if you constantly switch powerlevels between systems or if you have a Beam overload in your setup. otherwise the console does not earn a place in a setup.
check again with a parser this time :rolleyes:
if you do a quick research on stowiki you will find out that you are mistaken. science team is only affected by starship shield emitters
Engi team is only affected by starship hull repair.
tactical team is shown to be affected by able crewman, the weapon skill buffs get reduced. I logged into the game to check, lost all my crew (went to 0, all dead) and TT did exactly the same thing as it did with full crew, although i had lost 12 skillpoints in projectile and energy weapons.
i could parse all day, that doesn't make EPS do the things you claim it does, period. But if you have the feel it helps your build be my guest and continue...
just don't go around and say things that simply aren't true. The info on the console clearly states what the console does. Not more not less. Also the coresponding skill (starship electro plasma systems) does not have that effect on weapon power drain...if you care to read the skill description you will see.
This is from the June 3, 2010 patch notes. That's almost three full years ago.
EPS Flow Regulators do not affect the regeneration of weapons power. And haven't since 2010.
If you are using them because you switch between power settings frequently and/or in combat, then they are helping you play this game. If you are using them because you think they help regenerate your weapons power, you are wasting valuable console space.
So this is what I understand:
-EPS console IS mostly useless, until a big "maybe" changes in the Romulan update.
-able crewman consoles is only useful in a Shuttrle/small craft, otherwise other consoles are significantly more useful
Are there other useless consoles that I can get rid of?
Hate to burst a bubble but recently did a test with a ship build with and without an eps console. They still helped with the power drained from firing weapons. Remember that the decloaking bug was also stated fixed around 2 years ago yet it still remains. Do not blindly follow Cryptic patch notes, they have a habit of being "inaccurate."
What Cryptic should consider before releasing anything.
all those tactical consoles that either buff only beams or cannons or torpedos...since they buff only about half of what weapon type specific consoles buff, they are worthless and utterly useless.
on the subject of turnrate consoles on cruisers: Ofcourse they increase your turnrate, but it is a questionable move to use a cruiser, and wasting a console slot for a slight increase in turnrate.
You are still not going to outmaneuver anything and it doesn't help you keeping your broadside on target, or distribute heals. So this begs the question: Is it worth it? The answer is no if you care about efficency. If efficency is of no concern, then anything is worth it, even an EPS console or a beam weapon console.
anybody can actually check if the EPS cosnoles works or not. Fire all your weapons...preferable beams, and watch to what level your weaponpower drops.
Put an EPS console onto your ship, repeat and watch carefully to what level your weaponpower drops now.
In theory (actually tested it anyway) the test with the EPS should show a slightly higher maximum droppoint in weaponpower...
but in reality there is no difference. I tested it at starbase 234, single stationary target, great place to parse data too.