This skill increases your command of Control Effects, including both your effectiveness when using them. and your ability to resist the same effects. Control Effects include all of the
following:
- Disable
- Hold
- Repel/Pull
- Confuse
- Placate
- Flight Speed Debuffs
- Turn Rate Debuffs
Each point of Control Expertise provides both of the following:
- +0.5% Base Effectiveness for Outgoing Control
- +1% Resistance to Incoming Control
+60 Control Expertise
Total Skill Bonus = +60 Total Control Effectiveness Modifier = +30% Total Control Resistance Modifier = +60%
Overview
Control Expertise is a Lt.Commander Science skill that is available to all Lieutenant Commanders.
This skill increases the effectiveness of Control Effects that you use while increasing the resistance to effects. At maximum from the skill chain, you gain 30% effectiveness toward your control effects and 60% control resistance.
Abilities affected
Bridge Officer abilities
- Emit Unstable Warp Bubble (speed debuff)
- Gravity Well (pull)
- Photonic Shock Wave (repel)
- Tractor Beam (hold)
- Tractor Beam Repulsors (repel)
- Timeline Collapse (pull)
- Charged Particle Burst (placate with doff)
- Deploy Countermeasures (confuse)
- Heisenberg Amplifier (confuse)
- Jam Sensors (placate)
- Photonic Shock Wave (disable)
- Scramble Sensors (confuse)
- Viral Matrix (disable)
- Does NOT affect Subsystem Targeting or the Phaser proc.
Console abilities
- Deploy Unstable Entanglement Platform (pull, speed debuff, turn debuff)
- Fluidic Energy Focusing Array (repel)
- Graviton Pulse (speed amd turn debuffs)
- Launch Subspace Rupture (speed debuff)
- Lorca Maneuver (flight speed debuff)
- Magnetometric Overload (repel)
- Multidimensional Graviton Shield (repel)
- Multi-Target Tractor Arrays (pull, flight speed and turn rate debuff, also disables cloak)
- Photonic Shockwave Torpedo (repel)
- Projected Singularity (pull)
- Spatial Sinkhole Generator (pull)
- Subspace Eddy (pull)
- Subspace Wake (speed and turn debuffs)
- Tholian Web Cannon (hold)
- Timeline Analysis (speed and turn debuffs)
- Antimatter Spread (confuse, placate)
- Indoctrination Nanites (disable)
- Magnetometric Overload (disable)
- Photonic Shockwave Torpedo (disable)
- Thoron Pulse (placate, disable)
- Sensor Disruption Field (placate)
- Violent Dampening Wave (disable)
Set bonus, innate and other abilities
- Assimilated Tractor Beam (hold)
- Bio-Molecular Reactive Shielding System (repel)
- Gravimetric Photon Torpedo Launcher (Gravimetric Rift pull)
- Energy Web (hold)
- Singularity Jump (pull)
- Heavy Graviton Beam (repel, disable)
- Chroniton weaponry:
- Chroniton Torpedo Launcher (slow)
- Chroniton Mine Launcher (slow)
- Krenim Chroniton Torpedo Launcher (slow)
- Voth Transphasic-Chroniton Launcher (slow)
- Wide Angle Voth Transphasic-Chroniton Launcher (slow)
- Tricobalt weaponry:
- Tricobalt Torpedo Launcher (disable)
- Tricobalt Mine Launcher (disable)
- Trilithium Tricobalt Torpedo Launcher (disable)
Modifiers
Following items or abilities will increase Control Expertise skill level, which in turn affects the performance of abilities in the section above.
- Emergency Power to Auxiliary
- Deflector Dishes with the [CtrlX] modifier, as well as numerous special deflectors.
- Secondary Deflectors with the [CtrlX] modifier.
- Singularity Cores with the [GG] modifier.
- Console - Science - Countermeasure System / Graviton Generator / Inertial Dampeners
- These 3 consoles function identically; they had separate functions in the past
- Console - Engineering - Conductive RCS Accelerator [CtrlX]
- Console - Science - Exotic Particle Field Exciter [CtrlX]
- Threat-Scaling Science Consoles - [CtrlX] Modifiers
- Particle Focuser Science Consoles - [CtrlX] Modifiers
- Console - Science - Shield Refrequencer [CtrlX]
- Console - Science - Temporally Shielded Datacore
- Console - Universal - Assimilated Module
- Console - Universal - Chroniton Drive Actuator
- Console - Universal - Covert Munition Deployment Console
- Console - Universal - Bioneural Infusion Circuits
- Console - Universal - Enhanced Sensor Disruption Field (+25)
- Console - Universal - Mycelium Ambush (+13.3)
- Console - Universal - Multi-Target Tractor Arrays (+13.3)
- Console - Universal - Polymorphic Probe Array
- Console - Universal - Weapon Sensor Enhancer (+40)
- Console - Universal - Tachyokenetic Converter
- Console - Universal - Threat Analysis Matrix
- Delta Alliance Hyper-Efficient Impulse Engines
- Joined Symbiote
- Kelvin Timeline Warp Theorist Duty Officers
- Molecular Reconstruction's Support Configuration (+40)
Set bonus
- Exotic Particle Generators
- Prevailing Regalia - 2 piece (+15)