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No fleet gear, will replace beam training with Particle manipulator as soon as unlock expect feedback on Delta ops but 15% rad dmg and 13.3K kinetic that ignores shields can't be ignored may lose the rev shield and go for the temporal 2 pc instead or maybe unlock the mycelial rift by replacing the temp core.

in earth orbit, Control is 343 EPG 506 might replace a bellum part gen with a intertial damp and get the control to 382

Temporal Stasis Field is a Starship Trait released off of the Premonition Science Vessel which is currently extremely broken and has gone unfixed since release.

First Major Issue:
Hold Duration does not scale down with Target Control Expertise.
Evidence: https://youtu.be/flTWmrVgx2s

This has a number of consequences, not only does the scale down not affect the duration of the hold, but things which should provide an immunity to it do not always provide an immunity.

Non-Control Abilities Such As:
Certain Intelligence BOFF Abilities, Temporal BOFF Abilities, Beacon of Kahless, Anti-Time Entanglement, Elachi Rift Jump slow abilities can trigger Temporal Stasis Field. A smaller number of these abilities can trigger the trait even when it isn't slotted.
Some control abilities like gravity well also trigger it when it isn't slotted.
This permanently prevents players from unslotting the trait when trying to do certain activities in the game rendering entire characters dysfunctional for those activities.

Game Balance:
AoE Holds cause tray offline for multiple players in PvP, coupled with additional bugs, its rather overpowered.
The ability should be changed to an Engine Offline.

Counters:
The starship trait "Improved Polarize Hull" provides a 1/2 uptime meh counter to the ability, but it isn't sufficient.

For PvP purposes, this trait being so horribly bugged has caused significant harm to the PvP community.
To the Developers:
Please fix this as soon as possible.

Let's hope this is seen by the Devs and Fixed Asap please share so they know:
-T'Vek Saterk (@data#7310)

The Universal Console Decentralized Immunity has a major bug with it.

When you go untargetable, you are able to substantially refund the cooldown of the console. If you fire off ETL right after activating the drone, you can get the console back very fast. This is likely because the drone loses target lock with you and this counts as a drone destruction even though the drone wasn't destroyed which is not what the tooltip says. This coupled with the Subspace Fracture Tunneling Field and Unconventional Systems means that people taking advantage of this bug can be virtually unkillable.

Game Balance:
This console as a concept, especially now with the Modern Cooldown reductions is just bad for the game and should be fundamentally redone. The notion that someone should have near total uptime on full dmg immunity is absurd with or without a bug which makes 70% uptime become 95% uptime. Regardless, if the console isn't changed the console needs to be fixed.

Evidence of Claims:
https://youtu.be/aif783o5xKw

Lets hope this is seen by the Devs and Fixed Asap:
-T'Vek Saterk (@data#7310)

The starship trait Darmok and Jelad has three major issues with it, this bug has been in the game since the release of Darmok and Jelad over 1 year ago.

1. The Darmok Debuff Icon does not exist and is just a white square.
   
2. The Darmok and Jelad Disable Appears to be lasting for close to six seconds, which means it does not scale down with Control Expertise, even though all disables should (should only last for 1-2 seconds)
   
3. The Debuff can be re-applied despite the fact it is supposed to only trigger one time. This only happens if the adversary is running the "Fresh from R&R" Personal Space Trait. There are not any similar known interactions (to my knowledge) with Fresh from R&R so the bug likely lies with Darmok and Jelad. If there is comment below.

Evidence of Claims:
https://youtu.be/O6FdM67qRL0

Lets hope this is seen by the Devs and Fixed Asap:
-T'Vek Saterk (@data#7310)

It's my first build and I don't added the DOFFs yet. But every suggestion is welcome. :)

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Just in case it is not clear from the post title: "Solo" ISA does not mean joining a Random or PuG group in a team of 4 other players. "Solo" in this case means me, a singular ship with no other teammates, against the entire ISA queue.

It has been quite some time since I've done one of these Budget Challenge builds. One of the motivating factors for this was a personal concern that doing nothing but Solo ISEs in uber-expensive builds would cause me to lose perspective on the performance capacity of entry level end-game builds. Thus, I set myself the personal challenge with the parameters in the post title, to see how far I could get. If nothing else, it made me appreciate the sheer performance gap between this and uber-expensive builds.

A few notes before we get to the build proper:

1. Tetryon is the chosen energy flavour here, solely because Isomag Consoles for it on the Exchange are the cheapest compared to all other flavours. The "Phaser Tax" is very real.
2. Ship used is a T5X Hirogen Hunter Escort, which can still be bought for dirt cheap from the Exchange and is the only remaining T5 Infinity Lockbox ship that comes with a free T5U upgrade. Going with a T6X Fleet ship that can carry its own Grav Well would have made this Budget Solo ISA attempt easier.
3. The extra Personal Space Trait slot from Elite Captain Training will not be utilized for the purpose of this budget build. But since STO's loadout system does not like it when I leave a trait slot empty, I have occupied the extra slot with a useless trait.
4. One advantage I have that I am unable to drop is my Personal Endeavour rank, which is currently maxed out at 750. Expect 16-20% less total DPS from above declared results at Endeavour Rank 0 (going by the DPS calculator tools).
5. For as much practice that I've had with ISA/ISE, I'm still ultimately a lazy pilot who would rather automate my abilities activation than use it strategically. A better pilot than I flying this same build should easily do >100k DPS in the same Solo ISA scenario.
6. When I tried a few Random 5-player PuG ISEs in this build, the resulting DPS range was between 120k-133k. By ISE 1st phase standards, that would be considered just about pulling my own weight, but it would be disastrous if the combined DPS output of the other 4 players was less than 400k DPS.

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Space Skill Tree comment: My current generalist skill tree. My rationale for the lack of Engi skill points is that EPS Power Transfer and Nadion Inversion on this toon should have the ship power aspects well covered.

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Solo ISA run "strategy":

Basically the same as any good-form ISA runs, but this specific budget build presented some challenges that I am not sure I was completely able to overcome:

1. Lack of Grav Well to keep Probes/Spheres bunched up, which led to a rather messy run.
2. Lack of CSV uptime meant that I had to sometimes manually target Generators and stray Probes/Spheres.
3. Lack of overall DPS meant that smaller targets like Probes/Spheres don't all get deleted in a single volley. Giving them plenty of chance to wander around, contributing to a messy run.
4. Despite the amount of defensive items on this build, taking on both the Gateway and final Tact Cube was not feasible. Had to tackle them one at a time, starting with the Gateway.

My Lazy Spambar Sequence

DPS parse observations

Self-healing parse observations

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References and Resources

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/stobuilds/comments/1h2vt24/bug_discovery_turrets_with_csv_are_hurting_your/
2. https://www.stobetter.com/new-f2p/energy-basics
3. https://www.stobetter.com/tools
4. https://vger.stobuilds.com/

Appendix

1. Solo ISA raw combatlog can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ypudSs20kfUvqR2Nz9-hBG--CAFkI3E2/view?usp=drive_link
2. Sample PuG ISE raw combatlog can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dgNF1ZdyJXAEG97xk17y8LxFJpWeD9Kr/view?usp=drive_link

Greetings all,

Long time STO player (since 2010). My first toon is a Tactical Captain. I've got a lot of lockbox, promo and most c store ships to choose from. I've been trying to get a build for this character for above 300k dps for solo running Trouble over Terrh. Although, every time I fly it I always seem to miss the mark. My playstyle is to fly into the mess, park and fire. Hopefully blowing things up before they blow me up. I'm trying to find the right balance between energy weapon DPS and tanking ability. Phaser beam array energy weapon build. I have a lot of gear, universal consoles, and other accessories to help round out the build. I was flying the Hydra, but it is a glass cannon and for me doesn't get above 300k DPS. I'm sure I'm piloting it wrong. Any thoughts or suggestions? Our fleet uses the last part of Terrh to parse DPS for approved builds. The enemies spawn quickly and it lasts for a few minutes until the rift closes.

Hey folks and happy holidays to everyone.
I've not that experiences yet with tanks at STO, but I want to start with a support tank. So I found a build for my most favorite ship, the styx.
Here it is:
https://www.stobetter.com/intro-builds/eph289/suptank-styx
But - and that's the point (maybe not such a big one) - it's made for an ENG toon. If I would use it for a TAC toon, what should I change at this build?

Hello, merry Christmas and happy holidays. :)
Since some days I try to create (okay, find is better to say) an useful Fleet Magee (Command) beam build. I read the guides at DPS League, checked STO Better out and enjoy to read 'The Baby Series' for beam builds. And yes, I watched a couple of videos too.
Anyway, I can't find a build for the Magee. Of course, there are some Pilot builds or kinetic builds for the Shran/Cabot out there, but not what I'm looking for.
So that's why I would like to ask here for help to buil for the Command Fleet Magee. :)
I'm pretty much horrible to build only by myself and yes, I would appreciate some 'ready to eat' builds. Thank you.

I really fancy making two builds, with one as much Fire as possible and the other as Cold as possible.

Can anyone suggest any ways of doing that?

There are only so many Fire and Cold consoles and weapons in the game (and unless I buy another and try, I have no idea if the Breen Torpedo can be fitted twice) but can anyone suggest how to fill the blanks into weaponry and consoles to make a Hot and a Cold work?

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Hey all, I would love any advice on how to increase my DPS for this plasma build. I have tried to include as much set bonuses and consoles as I can that increase plasma DPS. Any tips on what to change such as boff layout, starship traits, consoles, and ESPCIALLY doffs, would be great.

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Captain Faction: Romulan (KDF-Aligned)

Captain Race: Romulan

Captain Profession: Engineering

Primary Specialization: Command

Secondary Specialization: Intelligence

Ship: Fleet Operations Command Warbird T6-X

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Fore Weapons:

• Experimental Romulan Plasma Beam Array Ultra Rare MK XV [Crtd]x4
• Plasma Beam Array Very Rare MK XV [Crtd]x2 [Over]
• Romulan Plasma Beam Array Very Rare MK XV [Crtd]x2 [Proc]
• Advanced Piezo-Plasma Beam Array Ultra Rare MK XV [Crtd]x4

Aft Weapons:

• Plasma Beam Array Very Rare MK XV [Crtd]x2 [Over]
• Omni-Directional Plasma Beam Array [Arc] [CrtD]x2
• Plasma Beam Array Very Rare MK XV [Crtd]x2 [Snare]
• Romulan Plasma Beam Array Very Rare MK XV [Crtd]x2 [Proc]

Deflector: Bajor Defense Deflector Array Ultra Rare MK XV [HullCap]x4

Impulse Engines: Bajor Defense Hyper-Impulse Engines Ultra Rare MK XV [Full]x3 [Spd]

Warp Core: Mycelial Harmonic Matter-Antimatter Core Ultra Rare Mk XV [A Cap] [OLoad] [SSR] [Trans]

Shields: Tilly's Review-Pending Modified Shield Epic Mk XV [Cap]x4 [Cap/Rg]

Consoles:

5 Engineering Consoles: 

• Engineering - Bellum RCS Accelerator Mk XV
• Universal - Linked Command Matrix
• Engineering - Sensor Suspension Burst
• Engineering - Troyius Protocol
• Zero-Point Energy Conduit Mk XV

3 Science Consoles:

• Universal - Destructive Protomatter Wave Projector
• Universal - Piezo-Electric Focuser Mk XV
• Universal - Sustained Radiant Field Mk XV

3 Tactical Consoles:

• Advanced Tactical - Vulnerability Locator [Plasma] Ultra Rare MK XV
• Advanced Tactical - Vulnerability Locator [Plasma] Epic MK XV
• Advanced Tactical - Vulnerability Locator [Plasma] Epic Rare MK XV

1 Universal Consoles:

• Tactical - Lorca's Custom Fire Controls Ultra Rare MK XV

Hangar:

• Elite Scorpion Fighters

Officers and Crew

Officer 1 Lieutenant - Uni

• Tactical Team I
• Beams: Fire at Will II

Officer 2 Lieutenant - Tac

• Tactical Team I
• Kemocite-Laced Weaponry II

Officer 3 Lieutenant - Sci/Command

• Hazard Emitters I
• Photonic Officer I

Officer 4 Lt. Commander - Eng

• Engineering Team I
• Directed Energy Modulation I
• Emergency Powers to Weapons III

Officer 5 Commander - Eng/Command

• Engineering Team I
• Overwhelm Emitters II
• Auxiliary Power to the Emergency Battery II
• Auxiliary Power to the Emergency Battery III

Duty Officers:

• Conn Officer - [SP] Recharge time reduced for Tactical Team and Buff
• Technician - [SP] Recharge of Bridge Officer Abilities Reduced after Auxiliary to Battery
• Technician - [SP] Recharge of Bridge Officer Abilities Reduced after Auxiliary to Battery
• Technician - [SP] Recharge of Bridge Officer Abilities Reduced after Auxiliary to Battery
• Maintenance Engineer - [SP] Recharge time reduced for Engineering Team and Buff

Personal Space Traits:

• Accurate (Improves the accuracy of space weapons)
• Beam Barrage (Gain Beam Damage when activating Beam skills)
• Beam Training (Increases Damage from your Beam Weapons)
• EPS Manifold Efficiency (When you use Emergency Power to Weapons, this trait causes all of your other power levels to gain a moderate subsystem boost)
• Give Your All (Gain Damage Reduction from Engineering abilities)
• Grace Under Fire (If you take more than 20% of your hitpoints in damage within a 5 second period, the cooldown on Miraculous Repairs is reset.)
• Innocuous (Slightly increases Critical Severity, and makes enemies less likely to attack you over other targets)
• Operative (Increases Critical Chance and Critical Severity)
• Romulan Operative (Increases Critical Chance and Critical Severity, Reduces Cloak Recharge)

Space Reputation Traits:

• Chrono-Capacitor Array (Reduces Bridge Officer Recharge Times)
• Magnified Firepower (All Weapon Damage)
• Precision (Increases your Critical Hit Chance in space combat.)
• Tyler's Duality (Critical Chance based on Hull Capacity)

Starship Traits:

• Emergency Response Teams (While slotted, when any shield facing becomes depleted, you gain a significant amount of Secondary Shields for ~30 seconds. While the Secondary Shielding remains, activating any Science or Intel abilities heal your hull and shields.)
• Emergency Weapons Cycle (While this starship trait is active, using Emergency Power to Weapons will also reduce weapon power cost and increase your weapon fire rate moderately.)
• Energy Overdrive (Movement and Beam Damage from Beam Firing Modes)
• Radiant Nanite Cloud (Causes all bridge officer and captain ability hull heals to heal for an additional 50% over 4 seconds in a 3 km radius.)
• Redirecting Arrays (While Beam Array: Fire at Will is active, any damage that your starship receives will periodically extend its duration.)
• Strike From Shadows (Buffs for attacking foes not targeting you)

I'm going to apologise right now for this not being as detailed as my usual questions, I'm absolutely exhausted and sick as a dog but I'm annoyed by the lack of ftp friendly builds on StoBetter which is supposedly a holy grail of builds.

So, I come here once more to ask those with more experience; what the fuck do I do with cannons?

Now don't get me wrong, I have the weapons and certain universal consoles already in mind, likewise with Boff abilities.

What's had me spend an absurd amount of time scouring here and Sto'better' to no avail is the DECS and non-universal consoles. I'm running a phaser cannon build, do I use Phase Relays or Prefire Chambers? Do I bother with shield/hull regen consoles or do I just go for resistances and stealth?

The closest I got to any sort of answer was seeing a comment say about the Sol Defence set, only to be immediately have whiplash from how fast the reply to them went for the damn Colony set. So I know at least one Mission set to unlock and eventually replace once I have the build firmly locked in.

A final question is specialisations, any worth using on a tactical/Escort as opposed to a beam boat build, or just start and Intel again.

IRW Conquerer

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Building a FAW DEWSCi Carrier with a Fleet at level 21.*

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Trying out some of what I think I've learned from STO Better.

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*Got a fleet store invite, so I have some higher level fleet consoles. Note: T6X starship trait - The Ruin of Our Enemies T6X2 starship trait - Repurposed Cargo bay hanger

What do y'all think of her so far? Suggestions of how I might improve it are welcomed.

So I picked this ship up in a Mudd’s bundle and decided it would be a good fit for a relatively undeveloped Sci captain alt. I want to lean most heavily into the Sci component since Int seating gives me an extra anomaly for SIA/Int abilities trigger SIA. I also intend to use fresh from R&R and 2x Int Team and lean into Exitus Acta Probat, just because (haven’t PvP’d in more than a decade).

I’m planning to leave the ship in tactical mode since I’m basically not going to have anything that would trigger a DSD. But I will have a ton of INT BO abilities to trigger SIA. Unless someone talks me out of it, since I have the Subspatial Warheads and Assault Formation Theta traits available to me and this ship does have the Combat Dark Cloak/ability to slot AP:O, I was going to select those traits and skew more SciTorp than SciDEW. I was planning, since Transport Warhead triggers SSWH and SIA, to use it over HY.

Or I guess I could eschew both (traits and firing modes) and go with TS and use the Gravimetric torpedo and go SciDEW?

USS Vacuo

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-------------- | -------------- | -------------- Hangars: 2 | Advanced Valkyrie Squadron | VR   | Advanced Valkyrie Squadron | VR

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I have access to most of the carrier traits. looking for suggestions for improvement

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Recently back into the game after a (7?) years long break. Figured out what has changed and got my main set up right, then made my first alt during gamma recruitment, went with sci - was just planning to complete what is needed to get the space warfare specialist doff for my main.

Its been more fun than I thought, recently unlocked the Gehmor for trait on my main and put my alt in it. Really like the ship, wanted to try and play some support with it so went full iconian set and FPNA console. Of the fighters I have unlocked Type 7's have the best performance hands down as I do not have SAD or CA.

I bought some hangar craft power transmission consoles with [auxpwr] as a placeholder until I picked a weapon type. They were cheap, I landed on disruptors and was originally planning on getting hangar craft modules in the weapon type I would choose down the road.

On to my question, I am now wondering since the Type 7's are torpless if I would be better off going with disruptor isomags over hangar craft? It seems like I am doing more damage with my ship and just using the fighters for the debuffs for both my team and I. I really have no plans of picking up SAD just for an alt, as I have used my tokens from the year event on stuff needed to get my main back into a meta-ish state.

Current setup is SS as my main firing mode.

Advanced queues are so easy they have become boring on my alt, want to get him in a spot where I am doing elites.

Hi all, its quite a few years since I last put a dizzy BO build together so I've lost track of the beam meta, what 3 weapons should I load into the back of a 5/3 boat? Pahvan Omni probably takes up one slot, what else?

Which setup is likely to perform better?

Using Vincent Kish, and having TS2, CSV2, APB3

Or

Some other DOFF, and having APB1, TS3, CSV3

I have a Beam main, who flies a Cali, I could get her something 'better'

OR, my space rending anomaly wizard could get her own primi ship, shes in the Legendary Temporal Science currently, which I actually quite like, but still.. Thoughts and options would be appreciated! (t6 premium box from this years campaign, strongly prefer fed).

Edit

Maybe I'm overthinking this and need to swap my legendary crossfiled for the premium crossfield

I'm curious if this is something folks are still running, the full set? I've ran the full set on my Kirk but never have parsed output but survivability and haste were competitive at the elite level. Thank you and I welcome the knowledge of this fine group 🖖🏽

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Wondering what people think.