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Best Stand-Alone Universal Consoles and Starship traits?

Having bought the flagship pack during the sale I'm in the process of mastering the top-level traits of each ship and it got me thinking, is there any ship whose mastery trait is so great that it would be stupid not to acquire (regardless of the performance of the ship itself)? The same goes for their universal consoles, as I'll explain below:

A case in point is the Vandal destroyer. It's only a tier-3 vessel, but because it comes with the Plasmonic Leech it's bought by a huge number of players just for that reason alone. Are there any other ships that have an awesome console or trait that are on a similar level?

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    ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,571 Arc User
    Another that comes to mind is the Shield Absorptive Frequency Generator on the Valdore Heavy Warbird.
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    kjwashingtonkjwashington Member Posts: 2,529 Arc User
    edited May 2016
    All hands on deck is useful. Especially if you have a lot of tac or command BOff powers, but not a lot of sci powers.
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    annemarie30annemarie30 Member Posts: 2,610 Arc User
    reciprocity and the phantom Escort. fortunately a decent ship.. and the phaser lance is useful. consider it as a one-off BOL
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    ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,571 Arc User
    For Traits Reciprocity on the Federation Phantom Intel Escort and the All Hands on Deck from the the Presidio, Ty'Gokor, or Vastam Command Battlecruisers.
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    nightkennightken Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    for cannon using ship Withering Barrage from kor, valiant, and malem.

    Reactive Repair Nanites from the breen carrier is a good one for pets

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    oldschooldorkoldschooldork Member Posts: 426 Arc User
    edited May 2016
    I personally like the Supremacy trait from the Astika battlecruiser. It even stacks with the leech. It's a lobi ship, though.
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    kyle223catkyle223cat Member Posts: 584 Arc User
    Desperate Repairs from the Guardian and Radiant Nanite Cloud from the Dauntless are really good, as for universal consoles: Regenerative Integrity Field and Sustained Radiant Field are my personal favorite.
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    lucho80lucho80 Member Posts: 6,600 Bug Hunter
    AHOD is pretty nice for science captains.
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    innuwarriorinnuwarrior Member Posts: 305 Arc User
    edited May 2016
    lucho80 wrote: »
    AHOD is pretty nice for science captains.

    AHOD is nice for any captain
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    jade1280jade1280 Member Posts: 868 Arc User
    Phaser point defence system ;o
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    taylor1701dtaylor1701d Member Posts: 3,099 Arc User
    edited May 2016
    Subwarp sheath fron the pilot icarus. If you run a speedscort and the (Pen) function intrests you.
    Pairs well with pedal2the metal trait, and other speed based captain traits.
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    seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,918 Arc User
    Emergency Weapon Cycle from the Battlecruisers (Arbiter, Morrigu, Kurak) is a great trait.

    That and things like AHOD, Reciprocity, and Supremacy are staples of DPS oriented players.

    Another one that's not mentioned a lot is Battle Ready from the Eclipse. Great trait if you're running a reciprocity build and frequently use Intel and/or Engineering abilities.

    I'm also a fan of Improved Pedal To The Medal from the Pilot Tree.
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    questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,350 Arc User
    ltminns wrote: »
    Another that comes to mind is the Shield Absorptive Frequency Generator on the Valdore Heavy Warbird.

    Funny thing is that even after obtaining it in the last give away i simply haven't found a use for it. My birds don't need their shields.

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    jaguarskxjaguarskx Member Posts: 5,945 Arc User
    I purchased the KDF T6 Flagship pack this past weekend primary for my KDF tactical and science captains who are both flying BoPs. I only plan on flying the Martok (tac) and Gorkon (sci) on both of those captains because they torpedoes and GW. Not going to bother with the Kahless (eng) though since I do not see it's trait as being beneficial for those two captains. I have a secondary tactical captain flying the Mat'ha so flying the Martok would be beneficial. Lastly my KDF engineer captain will likely fly both the Martok and the Kahless. The Kahless' trait does not seem impressive to me, but I might as well fly it to check out the trait. I will likely buy the Fed T6 Flagship pack since I have 3 Fed captains. I am not so sure about the Romulan variant since I only have 2 Romulan captains.

    I am thinking about buying the cross faction T6 Battlecruiser Pack (Arbiter / Kurak / Morrigu) at the end of the year. The Emergency Weapon Cycle trait is useful to those captains using emergency power to weapons; primarily my Fed / KDF engineers and Romulan Tac.

    Next year I plan on purchasing the Command Battlecruisers (Presideo / Ty'Gokor / Vastam) for all three factions that have the AHOD trait. I may also buy the Fed T6 Flagship pack as well for their traits.
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    sovereign010sovereign010 Member Posts: 636 Arc User
    Thanks for the info guys, definitely some food for thought, now I have a better sense of what my next Zen purchase will comprise :D
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