Ship Bundles mini-review..
I never could find at least 2 out of 3 ships worth of a bundle to make a bundle attractive, until getting the Miracle Worker bundle. Now I have a first hand opinion on them, and, some surprises.
Some things I've enjoyed with having the entire bundle of a .. bundle of ships, so far, are...:
All 'costume pieces' are free/included. When you go to modify how your ship looks there are no pay options.
The obvious - there's 3 Starship Mastery Traits, and 3 Consoles. In the case of the Miracle Worker Bundle, if you use all 3 consoles the recharge time on the powers from all 3 consoles are reduced to 1 minute from 2.. which, I'm glad I got to try.
The different Boff layouts are the real game changers so far with my first bundle. There's always an Engineer Commander (the highest rank), but, everything else is shuffled depending on which ship in the bundle I'm flying. It makes for some real interesting combo changes.. that work with my theme and without having to change any gear.
On paper, I assumed the Tactical MW Warbird would be the best fit for me but now that I've actually floated this tub around... I dunno... I might just fly all 3. I've got fairly distinctive builds for each with the only real constant being.. Fire at Will .. and other agro grabbing AoE. The overall theme, so far, being, try to stay alive while aiming Boff cones and broadsides Beams at everything on the map, while, also trying to pump up enough energy to power 7 Beam Arrays to a respectable level so that stuff goes down in a respectable amount of time.
The only thing I'm sold on that comes with a single ship in this bundle, so far, is.. the look of the Sci Warbird. No matter which ship in the bundle I fly, they all look like a barely altered version of the Sci ship.
I haven't seen an entire bundle that I like enough of until now, to get. I hope I find more. Even if I only end up flying one ship out of the bundle it's been well worth getting all three ships that are in this first bundle I've gotten, and, even if I only end up flying one ship out of the bundle.. it's going to have parts from the other ships cherry picked out (I'll get the exact console layout and look I want) so that I get the best fit for me - which, so far, is different than what I thought it would be when looking at things on paper. So far, it's looking like I'll probably end up flying all three! Which, I totally didn't expect to happen.
Being able to slide around between three builds without having to change gear or anything (just swap some Boff abilities around and redo a few hotkeys or use loadouts..) is a pretty good ability. None of my other toons have it.
So, yeah. Thumbs Up on my first bundle experience.