Most useless Powers of STO
 

In conjunction with This thread about the Ugilest Ships in STO, I decide to make a new pointless thread.

What is the Most Useless power/ability in STO?

My vote is Mask Energy Signature.. Complete waste of a boff slot for a half ass cloak that a half blind escort can see.

Mask energy isnt all that useless if you are willing to use it in a wierd way.. ^^

Having MES III on a science ship was my way of 'decloaking' in ker'ret near a BoP to feed him lots of sci-heavy carnage.

To get this effect you have to have multiplie sci boffs ^^, have aux pretty high, and change your MESIII boff for a more aggresive boff when you are ready :p

Surprise with a target engine/shield, tyken rift, tractor beam, (subnuke if necessary) and photon shockwave them ^^ (but then again now since PSIII got neutered... meh)

Of course this is best used on inexperianced KDF players, but still fun to play with :P

edit: forgot to add my personal 'pointless skill'

Ground:
Draw Fire
'I am a smooshy tactical captain, target me please!' ah.. i died, how unexpected :p

Space:
Dispersal Alpha
(fairly sure dispersal pattern alpha is a bit of a flop compared to beta, ill have to go with that)
That or abandon ship,

Ground: Sweeping Strikes. We can already melee, dammit!
Space: Photonic Fleet. Nothing but fake ships.

Abandon Ship for sure. I don't think I've ever used it or even wanted to use it.

There's a reason tacs wear red. ;)

Photonic Fleet is nice to get a little bit of extra DPS, and to screw with carriers. Abandon ship is a good "I'M TAKING YOU WITH ME PUNK!!!" ability (keybinds help with this one).

Beam Overload however, has no... practical... use... at... all.

I beg to differ. Just use it right before your target's shields go down. With any luck the beam will impact the hull.

That mask energy signature thing (also called the "poor man's cloak") is almost useless to me. About the only time it worked for me was in that one mission where I had to scan a mineral amidst a lot of enemies. Got the scan done as it went down and got blown up soon afterwards...

Not sure if serious....

Beam Overload III combined with Purple Dual Beam Array is like having the Death Star laser. I can normally take out a shield facing or do 15K in hull damage without critting.

I had forgotten about those. Most ships don't use dual beam arrays anyway. :P With beam banks it is very useless.

Back on topic... Emergency Power to Engines is not that great, Auxiliary to Dampeners+ Evasive Manoeuvres does much better.

Boarding Party is really cool, but there are so many counters to it is not worth it.

I'm the same way. i have BO2 and I use it as an opening move. I can chew through a lot of shielding with it.

And I love my Photonic fleet, even if it is just in the "OH!!! DISTRACTION!" sense :P I tend to save it up until I get to 50% health, then I throw down my Fleet support, Photonic Fleet, and then I high tail it out of there. Distracts some players, they have to play shell game with the ships, and it scares the crap out of noobs in kerrat :D