its actually one of the most useful things when you are in a pug for some elite stf. with that power, you can push back the spheres in infected, the assimilated klingon ships from the kang and in KA, you can push back the probes. saved a lot of stfs for me

Most useless powers of STO? dare I say the QA team ability? I kid, I kid? haha.

centersolace, you've obviously never used BO with a dual beam bank on a cloaked ship. I can just line up, activate a bunch of abilities, decloak, and fire. Over 30k damage easy. BO can be absolutely devastating when used properly, so you might want to try it out before saying it's useless. On the other hand, abandon ship and ramming speed are useless since we can't set a timer or lock onto a ship. I mean come on, how do you miss a ship?

I guess if used right it's cool. I've just experienced a lot of inexperienced users using them or figuring them out x.x I guess.

Sweeping strikes is the most powerful melee move you can use. You're far more damaging with it with NO WEAPON equipped than with the most damaging sword/bat'leth.

Its so good because it can be spammed since it has no timer, is 360 aoe and can knock back targets.

Photonic fleet increases in effectiveness based on capt. skills. Read the description of it and you'll see.

I agree with abandon ship. For me its pointless because most deaths are so fast there just isnt time to react. If I could not click a heal fast enough how can I click abandon ship fast enough?

Beam Overload is a VERY good ability. Perhaps one of the most powerful available. Hint: You combine it with another set ability and with a certain ship setup and its just brutal.


Personally the most useless ability in my opinion is directed energy modulation.

Yes, it is good on paper but in practical use its just silly. The bleedthrough damage is so small that normal ship crew repair under combat fixes the damage...and PVE npc's have SO MUCH hull that its like trying to cut through a solid lead pole with a kitchen knife.

The best starbase defense and No Win's I've been on have at least 2 people who know how to use repulsors well.

Seriously, in No Win some NPCs will park their ships square on the transport until they blow up.

"I do not like Green BoPs. They are annoying and make me wheeze. I will not fly one with a goat, I will not fly one with a coat. I do not like BoP's and ham, I do not like them Sam-I-Am."

I do not like the ships they are useful on, therefore, I have little use for the ability. It's not ignorance at all.

Keybinds are your friends.......

It's better than Aceton Beam.

I lol'd.

Aceton Beam isn't good for damaging an enemy, but it's awesome for keeping an enemy from damaging you. It reduces their energy weapon damage by at least 50% (for AB1). It's great for boss fights.

Yeah this. The fact that it does some DoT is a bonus, the main reason you roll with one is for tanking. Debuffing their energy weapons damage gives you some time to heal up and let cool downs happen.

Is an integral part of how I can single handily tank an elite tac cube in a cruiser and not die.

In PvE it's near useless. In PvP? It's a poorman cloak. Without some skill in stealth your very likely to be seen very far out. About 5Km +/- 1Km is the range I get spotted. Which is to say, I'm likely already uncloaked and firing. That's not why I use it though.

The not getting spotted part is nice, but the +30-50% defense is very nice when a escort tries swooping in.