STO: Auxiliary Power

I found this info on the STO forums and wanted to capture it... A lot of this stuff is hard to figure out.

There is a lot of question of what aux does for any given power, so here I will list the effect auxiliary power has on any given power. Most of this information came from going into the game, and seeing what happens to the power information when I adjusted my aux power settings.

This information should be accurate as of season 3.

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This power gets significant bonus from aux power, and you probably want to use this with as much aux power as possible.

This power gets a very situational or marginal bonus from aux power and/or it may not affect the effectiveness of the power itself or its major effects.

This power gets no bonus from aux power, or the bonus is too small to be meaningful.

Auxiliary power does this for the given power:

Science Powers

Charged Particle Burst: Increases shield drain

Energy Siphon: Increases buff/debuff duration

Feedback Pulse: Increases damage reflected

Gravity Well: Increases damage and repel strength

Hazard Emitters: Increases heal and damage resistance

Jam Sensors: Decreases fragility

Mask Energy Signature: Increases stealth*

Photonic Officer: No discernible effect

Photonic Shockwave: No discernible effect

Polarize Hull: Increases damage resistance

Science Team: No discernible effect

Scramble Sensors: Increases duration

Tachyon Beam: Increases shield drain

Tractor Beam: Increases damage

Tractor Beam Repulsors: Increases repel

Transfer Shield Strength: Increases shield healing and increases shield resistance

Tyken's Rift: Increases damage and power drain

Viral Matrix: No discernible effect

Engineering Powers

Auxiliary to Emergency Battery: Increases power buff

Auxiliary to Inertial Dampners: Increases resistances and speed/turn rate strengths

Auxiliary to Structural Integrity Field: Increases Heal and Resistance

Science Captain Powers

Photonic Fleet: No discernible effect

Science Fleet: No discernible effect

Sensor Scan: Increases resistance debuff

Starship Dampening Field: Increases resistance buff

Subnucleonic Beam: Increases recharge time debuff

Other

Increases stealth detection rating on science ships

Increases stealth detection rating on non-science ships

Increases cloak effectiveness*

Decreases carrier hangar recharge times

*Cloaking mechanics are notoriously hard to test, however the magnitude of change when changing aux power settings was insignificant compared to the magnitude of the stealth granted, according to the tooltip.