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?

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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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Ok so exactly what it says on the tin. I have been agonising for absolutely bloody ages about getting myself plasma omni-beams for the thrice-damned build I'm wanting to make on the Ra'nodaire. The build I'm working from is based off of Disruptor, but I need the ship weapon flavour to match the flavour of my Scorpion Fighter Squadrons.

I'll be able to get the Altamid plasma Omni once I finish the yearly event, but I have no chance of being able to buy the non-set plasma Omni, so unless some kind soul can make them easily and will accept energy credits as payment I'm shit out if look and in need of a replacement. I figure a single beam array will do the job but am uncertain.

Wondering what people think.

Hi all!

Was not sure if i should post this to r/STO or here, yell at me if this is in the wrong subreddit. :)

I recently started playing after trying the game ages ago, i got the Reliant from the Fed starter pack, I´m really liking the ship but i am failing to find any info about it on running ISA/ISE:s etc.

I know that it is not the best T6 ship in existence but i wanted to gain your insight if the Reliant can be used to achieve for example 100k DPS (an quasi-arbitrary milestone i wish to achieve)

I am doing the baby steps at the moment and leveling the captain, making a Phaser/BO build.

Is it impossible to achieve 100k DPS on the Reliant? (and for the sake of this discussion lets not calculate the effects of piloting the ship in this equasion)

If it is impossible, what is the level of DPS i should be expecting?

TL:DR;
Is it possible to do 100k DPS with the Starter pack Reliant in Beamboat configuration?

...or different build styles?

I.e., BFAW boats tend to blend together; there may or may not be a distinction between "BFAW DPS" and "BFAW tank"--it's been probably 7 or 8 years since I played a tank, so I'm not really qualified to comment here.

My EPG/anomaly build feels different than my EPG/DSD build, which is different from my EPG/torp build.

For that matter, my EPG/torp build is very different from my (well, Eph289's) all-quantum torp build, which is still different from my Lego T'Liss PlasTorp Spam At Warp Zillion build.

Carrier-wise, SAD/To'Duj spam feels a little different than the Fekh'iri fire/Lost Souls carrier I have.

Minelayers are a thing, too.

But all my CSV boats feel pretty much the same. All my BFAW boats feel pretty much the same, whether they're pew-pewing in orange or green or purple or yellow.

How many different builds or styles feel distinctive enough to you, however you define distinctive, as opposed to "kinda the same thing with a different skin"?

Edit on 12/7/2024:
I have played with the console a bit now and it isn't as overpowered as I had originally thought, though I still think it's a little bit OP. Kills in 1 vs 1 are definitely harder but not as hard as anticipated. However, the main thing I am this post up here for is pointing out that it's important we do not get more buffs or debuffs like this, since if we do, we will get rapid alternation in debuffs and buffs which isn't great. Overall though I think the console is fine enough to be left unchanged, but it could do with being minorly nerfed to what I propose later.

I also think its important the community has facts about the console.

Just thought I would do a brief write-up on the new console from the Obena.

Resistance Values
At values of 100% Hull - 0 All Damage Resistance.
At values of 93% Hull - 55 All Damage Resistance
At values of 0% Hull - 640 All Damage Resistance.

These values are passive and not removed by subnuke (ie there isn't a hidden buff which is removed by subnuke it is a proper passive)

The clickie also seems to have no cooldown mentioned or implemented in the tooltip, and testing appears to be consistent with this.
When the clickie is pressed you gain stacks of the bonus dmg and flight speed, and when you reach ten stacks you will get the radiation damage proc.

Implications on PvP:

Edit: This explanation is mechanically wrong but intuitively correct, if you want to see the full mathematics u/thisvideoiswrong commented below about the formula, to which I replied with the more formal mathematics of the equations.

Changes like this console which have significant debuffs to resistance threaten to create a scenerio who undergo a meta debuff or buff are on either side of the asymtotes on the damage resistance equation.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TgTz696RTeBntWzdJO7HFP_JjU_bkiNxLfoVu3fDOdM/edit?usp=sharing
(From Chell's Thalaron Thesis)
This is another reason I have maintained (until now perhaps, though I am not totally convinced yet) that the I.F.F. Manipulator console from the suliban silik should remain bounded to that ship. Since, if anyone is debuffed with it they would experience an instantaneous massive debuff to their resistances to which there is very little sufficient counter. (To any dev reading this, I not yet proposing to unbind IFF Manipulator, so don't do this yet please! Edit on 12/72024: DO NOT UNBIND IFF MANIPULATOR PLEASE!!! This does not change enough to justify unbinding IFF Manipulator)

The limit of the damage resistance equation as net_drr -> -infinity is 4
The limit of the damage resistance equation as net_drr -> infinity is 0.25
As debuffs continue to get power-crept in the PvP space net_drr will fluctuate more drastically farther away from zero which means that mathematically we will get very fast and increasingly unfun resistance level changes to which the adversaries we fight need to employ very little skill to induce.

Up until now the devs had generally had the discipline to not add such a dramatic increase in resistance levels or debuff limits. While this one may not be the end of the world, it is important we do not get ones which are equivalently extreme.

I personally hope this console is nerfed very fast, while I am all for a new console which provides passive all damage resistance stats, I would have preferred something more like
+105 All Damage Resistance (double pax console resistances, which is where I am getting this from)
or
+52.5 All Damage resistance to 105 All Damage resistance as hull capacity decreases. As a passive.
+15% Max Hull
Which is a far more 'in line' with the game norms and overall objectives of game design. but provides a much-needed increase to survivability which we currently (until this console was released) lack while not being so extreme as to prevent good players from facing the problems I outlined.
This is outlandishly extreme however as a solution and fails to address the core mechanics that require improvement.

Implications on PvE:
As usual with stuff which affects PvP poorly this console has very little affect for the average player or PvE. It of course is a very strong tanking console, but we already had a number of very strong tanking consoles. Reverse Shield Polarity and basic protomatter heals are enough to tank almost anything in the game. I doubt more than a few people will benefit from this console existing for PvE.

===Later this month I will be writing a piece on the current state of STO PvP, but as a little sample:===
a) In the last year there have been a number of new additions to the game which are very disruptive in a permanent way. I can't emphasis enough that there is a very clear line in things released pre-march 2024 and things released post march 2024. The difference in implications to PvP is staggering.

b) Major but 'simple' bugs to fix remain unfixed despite months and numerous tickets, forum posts, and reddit posts. (Temporal Stasis Field, Darmok & Jelad, Decentralized Immunity etc)

c) Core PvP mechanics are sound and playable, PvP maps and game mode is working fine at a system level, and internal fights between groups or between rivals with rules which do not utilize gear released in the last year remain a source of high amounts of fun for the community.

d) A little attention from the developers which listens to our concerns would be extremely appreciated. PvP has historically been underappreciated, but there are a number of rather large communities in this game which play PvP, covering more than 200 High End Players who are also fleet leaders, fleet officers, content creators, etc. The mood in the community and perceptions of development team continue to decline due to the no attention the community has received. Most of what we want are documented bugs being fixed which have been submitted via tickets, forum posts, or posted on r/stobuilds or r/sto by myself or u/ProLevel (Brets Gaming Channel on YT) , not major overhauls to PvP. The knockon effects of 200+ High end players no longer caring to play the game are not trivial.
More importantly many of these are relatively simple bug fixes which turn the current state of PvP from borderline unplayable in public queues to very fun and engaging. I am only passing on what I believe to be the general consensus opinion on the issues right now and the prevailing sentiment in the community.

e) Both myself and u/ProLevel (Brets Gaming Channel on YT) have stated we are willing to help the development team with balances and fixes. We only need to be asked.

With that I conclude for now.
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Hello all!

I am having trouble with DPS sustainment. I'm not quite sure what I may be doing wrong.
If more information is needed, please let me know! Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Also note, this is a Terran Lexi (T6-X2)

Here's the build:

Edit: Added Ship Core

Fore Weapons:
Agony DBB (DMGx4, CD/DMG)
Phaser WADBB (Dx4,CD/D)
Terran Task Force Phaser DHC (Proc, Dx3, CD/D)
Terran Task Force Phaser BA (Proc, Dx3, CD/D)

Aft Weapons:
Advanced Inhibiting Phaser HT (Dx4, CD/D)
Omni Phaser BA (Arc, Dx3, CD/D)
Pahvan Omni (Dx4, CD/D)
Heavy Bio-Molecular Phaser Turret (Proc, Dx3, CD/D)

Ship Core:
Elite Fleet Intervention Protomatter DA (ColCrit, CtrlX/Hullcap, CtrlXx2, Hullcap)
Prevailing Innervated Impulse Engines (SecSpd-2, SPD)
Mycelial Harmonic MA Core (AMP. S-W, SCap, SSR, W-S)
Tilly's Review-Pending Modified Shield (Capx4, Cp/Rg)

Devices:
Temporal Negotiator
Advanced Battery - Energy Amp

Consoles:
Phaser Isomags x8
Subspace Fracture Tunneling Field
DPRM
Ordnance Accelerator
D.O.M.I.N.O.
M6 Computer
Point Defense Bombardment Warhead

Hangar:
Advanced To'Duj Fighter Squadron

Traits:
Context is for Kings
Fleet Coordinator
Fragment of AI Tech
Inspirational Leader
Intelligence Agent Attache
Point Blank Shot
Superior Beam Training
Symbiotic Ice
The Boimler Effect
Unconventional Systems

Starship Traits:
Dimensional Modulation
Emergency Weapon Cycle
Unconventional Tactics
Pilfered Power
Preferential Targeting
Strike from Shadows
Superweapon Ingenuity

Space Rep:
Advanced Targeting Systems (R2)
Energy Refrequencer (R2)
Magnified Firepower (R2)
Precision (R2)
Tyler's Duality (R2)

Active Space Rep:
Anti-Time Entanglement Singularity (R2)
Bio-Molecular Shield Generator (R2)
Deploy Sensor Interference Platform (R2)
Quantum Singularity Manipulation (R2)
Refracting Tetryon Cascade (R2)

Stations:
Sci SRO:
Jam Sensors I
Photonic Officer I
Very Cold in Space III

Tac SRO:
Kemocite-laced Weaponry I
Attack Pattern Beta I
Beam Overload III

Tac/Intel SRO:
Override Subsystem Safeties I
Cannon Scatter Volley I

Eng/MW SRO:
Emergency Power to Weapons I
A2B I
Narrow Sensor Bands III
Mixed Armaments Synergy III

Sci SRO:
Tractor Beam I

DOFFS:
(This needs work, but unsure of how to really get these.)
Green PWO CritD
Blue EWO CritH
Purple EWO Chance to reduce the time to recharge when using beam special attacks
Green EWO CritD
Purple DCE Chance to reduce the recharge time for Emergency Power to subsystem abilities

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

A further evolution of my previous Solo ISE Vengeance build, now with the Dilithium Transporter Console from the Credence and some minor tweaks in the wake of Turretgate

Screenshot version of the full build

Captain Details

Space Skill Tree

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.

Loadout

Officer Details

Traits & Duty Officers

Other Information

Solo ISE run "strategy":

I dare not claim what I am about to share here is "suggested practice" in any form, but below is what I employed for my latest run:

1. Upon map load: Deploy Hangar pet 1st wave, Cruiser Command Weapon System Efficiency, and Kobayashi Maru.
2. 20 sec mark: Activate EPTE, Hangar pet 2nd wave, Cloak.
3. 8 sec mark: Activate CSV, TS, EPS, BO, AES, Aux Batt, OSS, FPNA, and Evasive.
4. Combat start: Dash straight towards main Tact Cube. No vertical movement, just straight ahead.
5. Use Dilithium Transporter. Unleash Spambar and all other clickies. Use Agony Distributor only when main Tact Cube shields are very low.
6. Maintain range of between 4-5km to main Tact Cube.
7. Reuse clickies as soon as available.
8. If I make it past the opening phase in time: Head for left Transformer.
9. Use Agony on the Transformer, CSV+EPG everything in sight.
10. Speed over to right Transformer, shooting any Spheres/Probes along the way.
11. Use Agony on the Transformer, CSV+EPG everything in sight.
12. Head behind Gateway to deal with it and the Spheres while keeping out of range from the final Tact Cube.
13. After Gateway is dealt with, speed towards the final Tact Cube.

My Lazy Spambar Sequence

DPS parse observations

^(Table) ^(formatting) ^(brought) ^(to) ^(you) ^(by) ^(ExcelToReddit)

Appendix

1. Raw combatlog can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tVBJ4atyqK-qZpbAkwe_ByERfUiAyoVB/view?usp=drive_link

Like most people here I've suffered from a CSV 'misfire' on occasion, or at least that's what I thought was going on.

When I started recording my runs and examining what was occurring, the results were different and I wasnt actually getting as many CSV misfires as I thought I was

I've made a short-ish video on recognising when CSV is actually misfiring - e.g. the ability is activated, it goes into cooldown, but does NOT appear on the buff bar and the weapon icons do not change.

In addition, there are some mechanic related items that may be perceived to be a CSV misfire that actually aren't (FPNA's 60% proc for C:RF1, selecting a target outside of arc, target behind another target etc)

I'm going to be recording my runs over the coming days and actually getting a CSV misfire on video (fingers..crossed?) with a quick analysis on it. When I can catch an actual CSV misfire on video!

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F7UgiYPYYk

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Was messing around on a new build and noticed I was getting stacks of the trait even though I didn't have any torpedos equipped. Is that a new thing, or supposed to happen? Wasn't sure if anyone knew about it here 😅

Or just options other then lance in general?

Hey folks, this is a fun one that a few of us have been looking into for the last couple days. It came to light when we all got the Nagus giveaway. Its trait, Streak Breaker, is triggered by misses. Some of us noticed it was stacking up WAY faster than it should on builds that should barely be missing at all. That led us to finding two interesting things:

Interesting Thing #1: "Dropped Hits"

TL;DR: Not every shot fired is showing up in the combatlog. I think all the un-logged shots were misses.

In the mission "Doomsday Device", I equipped 5 Dual Cannons, activated CSV, and fired one cycle. What I expected to see was 30 attacks logged against each target. What I actually saw in the combatlog was this:

• IKS Aktuh: 29 hits, 1 miss
• IKS HoS: 30 hits
• IKS Wo': 29 hits

So the question was: What happened to the 30th shot against the Wo'?

Typically when you miss, it still gets logged. It is recorded as a hit that had 0 pre-resist damage, 0 post-resist damage, and has the "Miss" flag included. Below is an example - the three things I mentioned are the final three pieces of the log line:

24:11:27:11:02:18.2::That Old Scientist,P[727633@8422012 That Old Scientist@vanderben],,*,I.K.S. Wo',C[19 Space_Klingon_Raider],Dual Antiproton Cannons - Scatter Volley I,Pn.Vk4r05,,Miss,0,0

For the Wo', there was no such line in the combat log. I went through the log line by line, and it only had a record of 29 shots. The other shot seems to have simply been dropped by the system.

Coming back to the Streak Breaker trait: As I continued to test this, the number of dropped shots in each test was equal to the number of unexpected Streak Breaker stacks I was gaining. That tells us that Streak Breaker is treating these dropped shots as misses - there's also another test further down that further supports the theory that the dropped shots were already going to be misses.

As for why these shots are being dropped and not logged as Misses: I don't have an answer.

Interesting Thing #2: Turret CSV Bug

Credit to Mara for suspecting this was a thing, and to xGamefreakz for noticing the hard evidence.

TL;DR: Every time a Turret fires a shot while CSV is active, your Global Accuracy takes a hit equal to the accuracy penalty from CSV. And these stack.

This one is pretty easy to see for yourself if you look.

• Open the Stats tab so you can see your Accuracy Rating
• Activate CSV and fire one Dual Cannon
• Notice that your Accuracy Rating did not move
• Now do it again, but with a Turret
• Watch your Accuracy Rating start flickering all over the place, sometimes dropping by 100 or more

If you watch the numbers closely, you can see that the penalty you're taking is always a multiple of the penalty from CSV. That is, with CSV 2 which has a 40 accuracy penalty, you'll see it drop by 40, 80, 120, and sometimes even 160 or beyond. (And for anyone unfamiliar, yes Accuracy Rating can go negative.)

Since the penalties seem to coincide with each shot from the Turrets, my guess is that Haste probably makes this issue worse. But I have not done any explicit tests to validate that.

Putting it Together

So now to recap, we've seen that Turrets with CSV can cause mayhem on our displayed Accuracy Rating, and we've seen that not every miss shows up in our combatlog. Now let’s look at how this can actually affect performance.

For this test I equipped 5 Dual Cannons and a varying number of Turrets. I fired 6 firing cycles (6 cycles x 6 shots per cycle x 5 weapons x 3 targets = 540 expected shots). I took note of how many shots were logged as hits, how many shots were logged as misses, and how many shots were not logged at all.

• # of Turrets equipped: 3. My 5 Dual Cannons hit 408 out of 540 shots
• # of Turrets equipped: 2. My 5 Dual Cannons hit 419 out of 540 shots
• # of Turrets equipped: 1. My 5 Dual Cannons hit 471 out of 540 shots
• # of Turrets equipped: 0. My 5 Dual Cannons hit 540 out of 540 shots

Out of the 322 shots that didn’t hit, only 15 of them were logged.

If you want to see more of the data, here: https://imgur.com/a/tZmxGly

If you want to run some tests of your own, here’s how to read the relevant stuff from OSCR: https://imgur.com/a/yiBQD8S

Wrapping it up

These are my main conclusions:

1. When a Turret fires under CSV, it makes your global Accuracy Rating start taking huge penalties. This affects your other weapons.
2. Parsers are not able to accurately report on your accuracy, because they’re not receiving a record of all your misses.

That it from me. For advice on how to handle all this, u/MaraMakesContent has some thoughts to share:

***

The Sky Is Not Falling

Hey kids, it’s me, Morrigan@Anubis714, your friendly neighborhood dps chaser. The implications of all of this were… quite startling. We’d been losing a ton of performance without realizing it for god knows how long. The good news about that is this - you don’t have to fix anything! That’s right - you will continue to perform exactly how you’ve been performing the entire time. It’s always been broken. 

BUT. 

If you want to perform better, here’s some of the things I’ve been evaluating to work around the turret problem.

But Here’s An Umbrella

• Move away from turrets
  • In high end CSV pugging builds, a lot of us have migrated to 5/2/1 ships. This allows us to easily move over from using a turret alongside our Pahvan Omnis to the Kinetic Cutting Beam. This has been used in the high meta for a while now due to the fact that under the high haste and cat2 saturation available to us, it outperforms a turret and oftentimes keeps up with a forward gun. Now, in a pug environment, it’s not as good, but it’s still better than a turret in a lot of cases. And now with turrets actively harming your DPS, it’s actually a good idea to move in the KCB regardless of your performance profile as long as you have some haste going on. 
  • Phaser and Disruptor are the flavors to go with in this use case. Losing the Biomatter Autoturret on a Complex Plasma Fires Build is devastating to CPF performance, so it pretty much knocks it out of the top slot in this case.
  • This is particularly harmful to anyone wishing to use Mixed Armaments Synergies on a Beam build, as you really need it to keep the buff up. That being said, MAS isn’t as big a deal as it used to be.
  • On x/3 ships, you can, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, slot an aft weapon to complete a set bonus like Dark Matter Quantum + Lorcator. You could also just slot another Omni there. Anything is better than a turret at this point.   
• Countering with ACC
  • If you have Terran Goodbye and Weapon Emitter Overdrive, you can counter the accuracy fluctuation with your own overdriven accuracy rating. In this case you would not need to drop your turrets, allowing you to keep a Complex Plasma Fires build active. This will lead to a higher weapon power consumption, but this can be covered by Dilithium Transporter if you have it. If you’re running on a x/3 and not an x/2/1 you can run KCB alongside the Autoturret and run the Assimilated Module 2pc for power coverage if you do not have Dilithium Transporter
  • Narrow Sensor Bands does help to an extent, but it has low uptime.
  • I wouldn’t spend a ton of slots hunting acc if you don’t have WEO and TG. With the exception of a few high value sources, most take up a valuable slot for a low value. That being said, D.O.M.I.N.O. isn’t a bad way to get some accuracy in there, and +15 from Superior Accurate isn’t bad either for a single Personal Space Trait slot considering just how bad of a hit this problem is to DPS. Altamid Swarm Processor isn’t the worst option either, but in the era of active buff/damage consoles, it is less than desirable. 
  • In a supported environment, High Power Communications Network gives allies in range +100 Accuracy. Combined with the DPS having just Terran Goodbye, one or two of these appears to be enough to counter the accuracy issues. This means that CPF builds in a supported environment are still queen of the charts. 

I’ve spent a lot of time over the last day flying a variety of builds under both cases, and I’ve found that my Turretless Phaser build is swinging as hard as my Turreted Acc boosted CPF (WEO+TG) build is in Solo ISEs. Both solutions seem to be viable - so if you’re wanting to hold on to your CPF build, just drop in WEO and TG. I honestly wouldn’t consider this path unless you had at least WEO or TG. They provide a combined 125 Acc, and that’s the kind of numbers you need to really deal with this issue without a support team. While you can pick up Acc from the sources I mentioned, you’re looking at like 65-90 if you took the readily available traits and consoles without using WEO or TG, a little more if you took into account Narrow Sensor Bands uptime. I haven’t done thorough testing on this case, so maybe someone can follow up on this. My gut says it won’t play out well, though. 

If you want to push forward another flavor, just drop off your turrets and move in the KCB. If you’re stuck with an x/3 ship, use a slot to complete a set with a torpedo, array, or omni (if you don’t have the Pahvan). It’ll do better than having a turret rob you of shots. If you don’t want to do anything, don’t! You didn’t lose anything today. I mean if we can pull off 1.6m solo ISEs with broken builds losing us huge chunks of dps, is it really that big of a deal? Yes. Yes it is. I want my numbers. So do you.

Hello all,

While browsing the wiki today I stumbled upon the Morrigu and while looking through the trait and console set the idea of a Beam Overload build popped into my head.

I haven't put too much thought into it yet and I don't have a full build mapped out yet, but I wanted to check if my thought process was somewhat sound.

Basically, with the Morrigu (or Fleet Mogai) you're stuck with a singularity core and the somewhat lower power levels that go with it, so BO might not seem like the obvious choice. However the added drain on weapon power would be offset by both the Emergency Weapon Cycle trait and the 2-piece bonus from the Enhanced Weapon Systems Efficiency set.

I haven't gotten past the initial napkin sketch stage as it where, but would this concept be somewhat viable and a logical way to build? Or am I missing something that makes it not worthwhile to continue down this path? Or perhaps lower power levels haven't been a concern for singularity core ships in ages (I'm still at the casual level since I slowly started playing again earlier this year).

I'm not looking to create something that will top the DPS ladders, just something that can hold its own and contribute in a meaningful way during random TFOs (and hopefully Advanced TFOs as well).

Also, since it's related to the subject, I'll ask here as well: Is the same console from different ships interchangable for different console sets?

To elaborate: The Arbiter, Kurak and Morrigu all come with the Console - Universal - Ablative Hazard Shielding which is part of a set for each family of ships.

Would the console from one of these work to complete the set of a different family of ships?

For example: Can I rip the console from an Arbiter and put it on a Mogai together with the Mogai's Ionized Particle Beam to get the 2-piece bonus? Or do I need to specifically use the 'Romulan' version of the Ablative Hazard Shielding Console found on the Morrigu to get the Romulan set bonus?

Thanks for any tips or advice

Can anyone post what they believe to be the most optimal build for the Golden Nagus??? So far she seems like a really solid build. I've tried a beam tank and a scatter volley but I'm thinking about a Torp build now. Trying to find what fits her best. Thanks in advance, I appreciate any feedback. 🖖 everyone

I decided to experiment with the Galaxdred.

I am not in a fleet, so fleet gear is not an option

most traits are placeholders until i can get advice/score said traits

the single isomag turn and particle console turn were needed. The isomag replaced a Beam mod and the sci console replaced the quantum phase console the first run was a pretty miserable 21K. subsequent runs were 29 and 31.

I'm thinking swapping out the beam banks for beam arrays

eventually I will get everything epic

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Inspired by a few folks at r/sto complaining about elite players ruining event TFOs, I put together a build limited by a T4 platform.

Here is my Kobayashi Maru BO build.

https://preview.redd.it/hlobr4fvh33e1.jpg?width=1368&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=505d4d7a17edf025c26ae155a736950e7458a15c

I'm considering a change to my torpedo. Not sure the Terran 2pc is worth it. Considering the Grav Torp as my control power is pretty high.

Any suggestions would be appreciated keeping in mind I may not have everything (ie. Starship Traits).

Thank you all for considering this non-meta build :-)

Welcome to the weekly questions megathread. Here is where you can ask all your build or theorycrafting related questions that might not warrant a full post. Curious about how something works? Ask it here!

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How exactly do I go about crafting beam arrays with the [Arc] modifier?...not the omni-beams. I want to make 8 for a lazy F.A.W. build.

So, I have been working on this little number ever since I started using this character. I'm currently working through the missions to get what I need in terms of the actual ship weapons and whatnot.

The main thing I intend for this build is to give somewhat of an idea of what to do for free to play players like myself, especially new ones; the majority of New players aren't going to have access to the Altamid Omni for example.

What this build currently shows is where this ship is at the midway point of the Delta Quadrant Episode, just before The Kobali Front in fact. I plan to double back and get everything that can sorted out before pressing further with missions.

What I'm currently wanting help with is the BOFFS. I'm already partway there I feel but I understand I'm not as good as I like to think I am. The amount of times I have been blown up in this game are proof of that, after all. I know the repeated explosions and implosion I have suffered so far with this ship are more from the fact it is a T5 at level 65 and so far without proper quality on the DECS and Consoles, but any help that can be offered with BOFFS (or anything I may be missing on the consoles/weapons/DECS) will be greatly appreciated so hopefully there's at least one decent (and most importantly free) build for new players to use as a laibchpad to grow themselves from.

Hello all,

I am going round and round on which order I should be using these clickies to optimize damage. Your help would be very much appreciated.

The order I have them now is:

• BOFF: Photonic Office II
• BOFF: Gravity Well III
• Destabilized Dimensional Rift
• Genesis Seed
• Mycelial Spore Burst
• Boronite Laced weaponry
• Cascading Subatomic Disruptions
• Time Tsunami
• Delphic Tear
• Interphasic Instability
• Tholian Web
• BOFF: Very Cold in Space II
• BOFF: Let it Go II
• BOFF: Destabilized Warp Core I
• BOFF: Delayed Overload Cascade III
• BOFF: Charged Particle Burst
• Refracting Tetryon Cascade

Been changing the order and looking at parses, but with so many combinations, could use some help.

TRAITS:

• Checkmate
• Improved Gravity Well
• Strike From Shadows
• Spore-Infused Anomalies
• Improved Photic Officer
• Angle on the Bow (I have a Covert warhead Module)

Thank you!!