Overview
Photonic Officer reduces the recharge time of bridge officer powers.
Recharge time of captain's abilities (e.g., Attack Pattern Alpha) and special console abilities (e.g. Universal Consoles) are unaffected by this ability.
This ability also has no effect on shared cool down times. For example, activating Photonic Officer will reduce the 30-second cool down of Beam Overload, but not the 15-second cool down that it starts on Fire at Will or duplicate copies of Beam Overload.
Basic Information
- Profession: Science
- Locale: Space
- Game Description: Photonic Officer reduces the recharge time of all your bridge officer abilities.
Detailed Information
- Used by: Science Bridge Officers
- Target: Self
- Ability Type: Buff
- Activation: 1 second
- Range: N/A
- Shares cooldown with:
- None
- Duplicate ability cooldown:
- 2 minutes
- Modified by:
- Duty Officer
- Photonic Studies Scientist (Reduces cool down on the ability, but will not reduce it below 2 minutes)
- Duty Officer
- Trained by:
- Bridge Officer Trainer (Rank I and II)
- Rank III available only on Photonic Science Officer
Ability Ranks
Ability/User Rank | CD | SPR | Ability Effects |
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Rank I: Lieutenant | 3-5m | 500 |
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Rank II: Lieutenant Commander | 3-5m | 750 |
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Rank III: Commander | 3-5m | 1000 |
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Notes/References
When considering the effectiveness of this power it's important to remember how recharge bonuses work. The formula is as follows: RechargeTime = BaseRechargeTime / ( 100% + Buffs )
For example, using the Rank 2 version of this power will reduce the recharge of Gravity Well from 60 seconds to 40.8 seconds: 60 * (100% - 32%) = 60 * 0.68 = 40.8.
Since Photonic Officer affects its own recharge time the actual recharge time will be shorter than the times given above. This difference amounts to a recharge reduction of between 14.5 seconds and 24 seconds depending on the rank (it doesn't follow the formula above since the bonus only applies to the first 60 seconds of the recharge time).
As of the October 15 2010 patch, the Photonic Officer ability features a male voice-over. The words said upon activation are "Please state the nature of the emergency".
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