Overview[ | ]
Auxiliary to Battery drains your ship's Auxiliary Power level and equally distributes it to your Weapons, Shields, and Engines power levels. If you're not using your Auxiliary power for abilities, this provides a brief but reasonable boost to your ship's performance.
Basic information[ | ]
- Profession: Engineering
- Locale: Space
- Game Description: Auxiliary Power to the Emergency Battery diverts your auxiliary power through the emergency battery to boost your weapons, shield, and engine power levels.
Detailed information[ | ]
- Target: Self
- System: Auxiliary Power
- Ability Type: Buff
- Starts 10 second system cooldown on:
- Duplicate ability cooldown:
- 10 seconds
- Modified by:
- Skills
- Electro-Plasma System Flow - Increases weapon, shield, and engine power bonus.
- Subsystems power level
- Auxiliary -- Power bonus depends on current auxiliary power level.
- Duty Officer
- Technician
- Reduces recharge time on other Bridge Officer abilities when Auxiliary to Battery is activated.
- Technician
- Traits
- Cold-Hearted - Energy weapons will afflict foes with a debuff which Slows, Drains Power, and reduces Damage Resistance Rating.
- Self-Replicating Hull - Provide a substantial boost to Hull Regeneration and Energy Damage Resistance Rating for a short time.
- Skills
- Trained by:
- Bridge Officer Trainer (Rank I, Rank II)
- Requires 7 Science Skills (Rank III)
- Non-common Bridge Officer Candidates (Rank III)
Ability ranks[ | ]
User Rank | CD | Ability Effects |
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Rank I: Lieutenant | 40 sec |
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Rank II: Lieutenant Commander | 40 sec |
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Rank III: Commander |
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Notes[ | ]
- Numbers for ability power are base values taken from tooltips and are heavily modified by skills and Auxiliary Power
- The amount distributed is increased with your ship's current Auxiliary power levels at a rate of about +2 to Weapons / Shields / Engines for every 5 Aux.
- This combos well with EPS Power Transfer - boost all power levels with Transfer, then use Aux to Bat to dump the boosted Aux power to the rest of the ship. With Rank III Transfer, this can turn equally-distributed power on a ship to a burst of near-maximum levels for Weapons/Shield/Engines. Alternatively, the ability can be used just before the EPS bonus runs out to prolong the effects of boosted weapons, shields, and engine power for another 10 seconds.
- You can slot up to 3 Specialization: Technician Duty Officers, which reduces Bridge Officer Cooldowns every time this ability is used. If combined with multiple instances of this ability, considerable Cooldown reduction can be achieved.
Images[ | ]
Auxiliary to Battery activation on a Morrigu Heavy Warbird