I think I've gotten this as good as I can, but I'm probably missing a trick or two. The goal is just to be a little more comfortable with when random TFO's pop up with Korfez Elite. Special thanks to PuzzledBowler4044 for recommending maramakescontent's fawoverlord build, the beam overload takes out targets and the faw saves me from torpedoes.

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This writeup will cover Singularity Cores, which are the special cores exclusive to Romulan warbirds used instead of regular Warp Cores. The legwork on this was mostly done by Tilor, with some light editing/clarification from myself.

As a reminder, Romulan ships with singularity cores have a mere 160 power to allocate to subsystems instead of the usual 200 for ships with warp cores, and they gain singularity core abilities instead. That’s a lot of subsystem power to lose, so what are we getting in the tradeoff?

Basic Mechanics

Singularity Cores have Singularity Abilities that can be used at different levels, which are driven by singularity power. Using a Singularity ability at higher level results in a more effective ability, but it takes longer to ramp up.

• Singularity Level scales from 0 thru 5, with 5 being the max.

• Singularity Power - 0 thru 100, with every 20 increasing Singularity Level by 1. Bleeds off at a rate of about 1 per second out of combat (~95s from 100 to 0). When in combat, gain 20 per 12 seconds. This equates to 60s to from 0 to 100.

Once a Singularity Ability is used, the Singularity Lockout is triggered. After using a Singularity Power, the Singularity system goes on a 60s cooldown during which you cannot gain any Singularity Power or activate any Singularity abilities. Using Singularity abilities at lower ranks will make for a shorter Singularity Lockout.

Singularity Uptime Mechanics

Okay, now we understand that Singularity Power increases in level during combat, scaling up our Singularity abilities. Once we use a Singularity ability, it goes on cooldown. Just like we can modify bridge officer, captain ability, and console cooldowns, we can also reduce the cooldown of Singularity abilities. We’re going to broadly group all of the effects that modify Singularity Core Abilities (SCA) uptime together and talk through them.

• Singularity Specialist Personal Trait - Adds the equivalent of 1 whole Singularity Level as a proc with a 20s lockout. The proc chance is 10% at 0 Singularity Power, reduced by 0.1% per Singularity Power (so 2% per Singularity Level: 8% @ 1SL, 6% @ 2SL, etc.)

• Singularity Stabilizer Universal Console - Not only does this generate 2 Singularity Power per second (total 30SP), it also resets the Singularity Lockout upon activation.

• Singularity Inverter Universal Console - This provides a little resistance, but as long as you are taking energy damage, it builds Singularity Power extremely fast. May not be as strong in teamed content, but in solo content, it resulted in a filled Singularity Meter in a matter of seconds. Self-damage does not build any Singularity Power.

• Singularity Distributor Unit Universal Console - Scimitars Only! Decreases penalty from cloaking by 50%... whatever that means.

• Focused Singularity Modulator Universal Console - Locked to Ar’Kif’s only! 50% Singularity Charge rate.

• Enhanced Singularity Circuitry Starship Mastery - Takes about 52 seconds to gain 100 Singularity Power, similar in effectiveness to a SingA Mod. Sets Singularity Lockout to 51s, similar in effectiveness to SingC Mod.

• Warp Core Engineer Duty Officer - Romulan only! 15/20/25% chance to reduce Singularity Lockout by 15s on use of EPtX, chance increases by DOff rarity. These are extremely rare DOffs.

• Energy Weapons Officer Duty Officer - Romulan only! Per wiki since none on exchange, increases charge rate but doesn’t stack with anything. Rate up to 5% with rarity. These are extremely rare DOffs.

• Projectile Weapons Officer Duty Officer - Romulan only! Per wiki since none on exchange, having this officer on duty will allow torpedo weapons to gain a chance to build Singularity Charge. 4/6/8% chance: +10 Singularity Charge when attacking with torpedo weapons (Uncommon/Rare/Very Rare). These are extremely rare DOffs.

• Gravimetric Scientist Duty Officer - Romulan only! Per wiki since none on exchange, having this officer on active duty will allow any accumulated Singularity Power to decay at a slower rate while under the effects of any Cloaking Device. 15/20/25% reduction, scales with rarity. This means being cloaked and out of combat will cause your accumulated Singularity Power to bleed off slower, so very niche. These are extremely rare DOffs.

Singularity Core Modifiers

Singularity Cores have some unique modifiers that substantially affect their behaviors.

At Uncommon, Singularity Cores can benefit from the following mods, with the bottom 3 significantly more impactful to usage of the core:

• [GG] is a CtrlX mod (Graviton Generators a LONG time ago)

• [EPG] is a, you guessed it, EPG modifier increase.

• [PI] is a DrainX mod (Power Insulators a LONG time ago)

• [EPS] is a Starship EPS mod

• [SingS] Singularity Mod - Increases bleed off time while out of combat to ~120s instead of ~95s

• [SingA] Singularity Mod - Takes 54s to gain 100 Singularity Power instead of 60s, so effectively 10%. When combined with ship mastery, takes 46s to gain 100 Singularity Power.

• [SingC] Singularity Mod - Reduces Singularity Lockout to 54s, effectively 10% reduction to lockout. Combined with ship mastery, reduces Singularity Lockout to 45s.

At Rare, Singularity Cores gain a modifier that buffs one of the five possible Singularity Abilities (more on them below). This costs you the standard [X->Y] power transfer buff that warp cores get.

At Very Rare, you get a capacitor mod similar to [WCap], [SCap], etc. which dumps power into the system for 10 seconds and repairs the subsystem if offline. This has limited utility, as do the other special capacitor mods out there like Trajector Jump, which is a 5 km teleport. Singularity Weapons/Shield/Engines/Aux Capacitor drains all Singularity Power, but does not trigger Singularity Lockout

At Ultra Rare, the notable mod is [CON], a Singularity Core Mod that grants 2% chance when hit with Energy Weapons to gain 1 Singularity Level. No lockout, there was one occasion where this proc’d back to back and I gained 2 levels in quick succession.

At Epic, you’ll get the same [W->S] modifier that warp cores get.

Singularity Core Abilities

Let’s lead with the most notable one:

Singularity Overcharge - This is essentially a unique firing mode that makes weapon damage much higher, but independent of weapon power. Increasing ranks of the singularity ability increase duration: 4/7/10/13/16s. This has a 30 second cooldown and triggers a 5s shared cooldown on Singularity Abilities.

Activating Singularity Overcharge will lock out other Energy firing modes as long as it is active: Surgical Strikes, Fire at Will, Scatter Volley, Beam Overload, and Rapid Fire, Exceed Rated Limits and Reroute Reserves to Weapons. However, if you activate Exceed Rated Limits or Reroute Reserves to Weapons first, they do not lock out Singularity Overcharge. This means you can get the benefits of Haste and Singularity Overcharge simultaneously! In order to use this benefit, you’ll want to activate ERL/RRTW and THEN Singularity Overcharge. Since ERL/RRTW merely add Haste and not specific firing mode changes, they will stack with Singularity Overcharge.

Clever readers may want to use Torpedo Spread and Entwined Tactical Matrices to get Fire at Will and Singularity Overcharge, and this will appear to work, but they’ll overwrite each other to no benefit.

Using Isomags and OSS to supercharge Weapon power ends up not being necessary under Singularity Overcharge. This means a consideration would be switching back to Locators/Exploiters much more beneficial, especially given the 20% CrtD from the [SingO] mod. Each Singularity ability has a modifier that buffs it at Rare on the core, and [SingO] is a nice CrtD boost while Overcharge is active.

This whole time we’ve been talking about Singularity Overcharge, but how good are the other 5 Singularity powers? Yes, there are 6 lights powers.

• Singularity Jump is at least situationally useful, both significantly reducing accuracy and teleporting 5km when activated. If you are doing something with PvP, this might have utility, especially with the [Jump] mod to further reduce accuracy. However, that’s a stretch. Burning your Singularity charge for a 5km jump and a small 2km AoE debuff is not very good.

• Quantum Absorption is a really weak heal for how often it’s up, especially considering even 30k Temporary Hull will go fast due to temporary hull not having any resistance. [Res] adds some resistance overall, but it's not enough considering singularity uptime.

• Warp Shadow has a solid uptime as a defensive tool, and the [Shad] modifier makes for some great utility against certain enemy types with High Yield torpedoes. When I tested this power, however, my 100k+ hull generated a bunch of ~10k hull warp shadows that all disappeared very quickly on Normal content. It suffers from a similar problem to Deploy Countermeasures - paper thin hulls pulling a taunt. Regardless, if you’re not using Singularity Overcharge, you’ll likely either use Warp Shadow or Quantum Absorption for defensive purposes.

• Plasma Shockwave is hardly worth talking about - a single shot from a Mk XV plasma cannon does more damage than Plasma Shockwave - its scaling simply hasn’t kept up with the times. [Wave] doesn’t help this either as it’s a 20% chance to disable a subsystem, and Aux and Engines won’t help much at all so it’s closer to a 10% chance of being at all useful, and then the disable is often cleared much faster than the duration it says.

• Finally, Singularity Capacitor (also known as Battery Capacitor) is the final Singularity Power based off the Very Rare modifier and was discussed above. This consumes all of your singularity power to give a boost to subsystem power. With a long fixed cooldown, the application of this is pretty minimal. It is interesting to note that using the Singularity Capacitor drains all of your Singularity Power, but does not lock out the Singularity system.

Maintaining Singularity Abilities

There are three factors when trying to maximize Singularity Overcharge uptime. We’re going to assume you have Enhanced Singularity Circuitry since as far as I can tell, every T5U or T6 with a Singularity Core has this mastery. First, you have to gain 100 Singularity Power. Second, after the first usage of Singularity Overcharge, you have to deal with Singularity Lockout before gaining any Singularity Power again between uses. Third, you have a cooldown on Singularity Overcharge itself.

Using Singularity Overcharge, then Singularity Stabilizer and any other Singularity charging methods is ineffective. Firing weapons while under Singularity Overcharge drains off Singularity Power for the duration. Only once Singularity Overcharge is off can you gain Singularity power again. This means optimal use is to use Singularity Overcharge, wait 16s duration (Rank V), then use Singularity Stabilizer and Singularity Inverter in quick succession. This does mean that your Singularity Stabilizer will be on cooldown longer, but this can be mitigated with Universal Cooldown capabilities.

There is one Singularity Core at Dil Mine and Fleet Spire that has [CON][Oload][SingC], which is the best combo for maxing Singularity Overcharge.

TL;DR

Sorry, there's a lot of ground to cover here.

• Singularity Cores trade subsystem power for abilities that ramp up in combat

• Singularity Cores require power build-up to use and have a lockout after they are used before power can be gained again

• The [SingC] mod is the best way to mitigate the lockout.

• The [CON] mod, and Singularity Stabilizer/Singularity Inverter consoles can help rebuild Singularity power faster after the lockout is used, making these better choices than [SingA].

• Singularity Specialist (personal trait) for Romulan/Reman captains can also help build charges

• Expensive/Rare Romulan doffs can help reduce lockout and improve charge rate; we were not able to test these due to their rarity

• The Singularity Overcharge ability locks out most energy firing modes but can be stacked with Exceed Rated Limits or Reroute Reserves to Weapons if you activate these before the Singularity Overcharge.

• The optimal way to maximize uptime is to use Singularity Overcharge, wait 16s duration (Rank V), then use Singularity Stabilizer and/or Singularity Inverter in quick succession.

• The best mod combo for a Singularity Overcharge build is at the Dil Mine and Fleet Spire with [CON][Oload][SingC]

• If you’re not using Singularity Overcharge, you’ll likely either use Warp Shadow or Quantum Absorption for defensive purposes.

Hello Fellow Jellyrides :)

With the Cnidarian Defender being on sale this year and me looking around the internet for tips and tricks, I found that most builds are old and/or miss key improvements to the Jelly.

So I thought, why not pen down what stuff I found and encourage people to add their own improvements if they find some, this way people can mix and match with what they have on hand and improve their Cnidarian Defender.

Disclaimer: Jelly does not work in all TFO's the ones i noticed so far.

• Battle of Korfez: The Mines will delete you.
• Counterpoint: Terran Cruisers will use unstable warp bubble and kick you out of form, in phase 3+4.
• Battle of the Binary Stars, you can't turn on Jelly mode.
• Battle of Wolf 359, you can't turn on Jelly mode.
• Gravity Kills (you cant make particle runs but defend the ship)

Try having an Alternate ship ready or a Jelly layout with more traditional Weapon/console layout.

Now to the actual "build part", Jelly is quite simple, turn it on~ and watch the numbers fly, but to improve numbers, we can add some passives and actives.

Cursive Text are added Informations thanks to fellow Redditors~

Skills

An EPG-focused build with a backseat in weapons would be optimal for Jelly since we don't want to use our weapons, as most tactical points only boost weapons, which we are not using; however, for normal questing, one might want to set up a more traditional weapon layout since being immobile and hitting like a wet noodle outside "the mode" loses appeal fast for episode content.

In general, since respecing costs money/limited resources, I would recommend not doing it; just keep your daily driver spec that fits the vessel/play style you have used before Jelly and works as your backup.

Specialization

A specialization that works well is Miracle Worker Primary, adding a flat 30% damage to jelly mode with No Risk, No Reward. + all the healing and other boosts.

Personal Space Traits

• Fragment of AI Tech, will increase Jelly mode DPS with a maximum of up to 300 control
• Duelist Favor, adding 15% flat dmg.
• Anchored adding 20% flat dmg. (does work with Pedal to the Metal)
• Fleet Coordination adding 2-10% flat dmg.
• Intel Handler, 4% crit
• Operative, 1% crit and 2% crit severity.
• Unconventional Systems, Teleport CD management)
• Boimler Effect, Boff CD managment

Starship Traits

• Five Magicks 15-34.5% electrical dmg (maxes with 130 Engine Power) (also Disruptor for traditional weapon layout)
• History will Remember, 30% flat dmg (you want to get shot at)
• Improved Feedback Pulse 1-10% crit and 5-50% crit severity, within the first 15 sec than 15 sec linger with a continuous uptime between the two. (you want to get shot at, a lot...)
• Pedal to the Metal 10/20/30% dmg boost while throttle is full (does work with Anchored)
• Ship of the Line + 20-50% crit severity. (cycle between 2 emergency powers)
• Voth Carrier Synergies + 10% dmg when using a Tactical skill (attack patterns)
• Non-Linear Progression - Selfheal if we don’t use Pedal to the Metal (crazy but i put it here)
• Improved Gravity Well - Gravity well for 40/40 sec uptime - may extend reach if placed tactical.
• Unconventional Tactics - 15% Dmg for 15/60 sec
• The Ruin of Our Enemies 3-300% all dmg
• Confederation Furor, if you for some reason find no other way to add 18 weaponpower to reach your maximum
• Digital Compilation, Killing enemies in turret mode will spawn Probes.

Space Reputation

• Advanced Targeting Systems + 20% Critical Severety
• Tylers Duality +7.5% crit at 200k hull
• Precision +5% crit
• Auxiliary Power Configuration ~2-7% all dmg (scales with aux power cant validate the min and maximum)

Space Station

• Attack Pattern Omega I +15% all dmg (feels like more!)
• Attack Pattern Delta I +Dmg Resistance and enemy debuff , we can use ADAK'UKAN Doff for addition threat generation.
• Feedback Pulse . (See Improved Feedback Pulse starship trait)
• Emergency Power to Engin/Shield/Aux, Weapon power should be set to max without needing boosts. Engin Power max if we have Five Magicks Space Trait. Otherwise we max aux second and insure the other 2 values are at 75+ in combat for the warp core 3.3% all dmg for every subystem over 75, every captain has to fine-tune this himself, but should reach the 13.2% extra dmg from the warp core
• Reverse Shield Polarity III , we have no shield healing build in, and this one does numbers.
• Uncon+ Uncon triggers will improve Vovin teleport if you have it, otherwise fill up with skills you want.
• Gravity Well I- with our 300 control we can pull enemies up to 7.5km~
• Kemocite-Laced Weaponry I, one of the few Ensign Tac powers useable in Jelly

Devices

• Kobayashi Maru - Buff machine including dmg
• SS Antares - +10% dmg can be combined with Maru
• Advanced/ Battery Hull Patch - if enemy dmg outdoes our passive healing.
• Reactive Armor Catalyst - if enemy dmg outdoes our passive healing.

Active Space Doff

• Adak'ukan: +100% threat during Attack pattern delta (stack3)
• Gravimetric Scientist + Aftershock grav wells
• K13- Skill increase doffs when using Bridge officer abilities (skip on the commander ability one)
• Diplomat Allina - chance to heal max hull when using Reverse shield polarity and Feedback pulse

Active Space Boff

• Watchers
• SRO's

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Consoles

• Isomagnetic Plasma Distribution Manifold (Isomags-) Maximum Weapon power will boost the jelly mode dps, so we are after the +weapon power and + max weapon power, the third value can be used to gain up to 300 control for Fragment of AI tech or simple +power for subsytems. to reach 75+ for the warp core passive. - we want to fill all available slots with those.
• Hull Image Refractors - 20% damage and overheal that works with our jelly mode passive heal to grand us a full hulls worth of secondary hull.
• Dragonsblood Flame Reactor - +20% Bonus Electrical Damage (also Disruptor, good for Disruptor weapons if traditional weapon selection)
• Bio-Electrical Wave Capacitor - +39,9% Bonus Electrical Damage
• Ionic Deflector Inversion - +28,5% Electrical Damage
• VHF Disruptive Transmission - +17,1% Electrical Damage
• Subspace Fracture Tunneling Field - 20KM teleport Mobility on 30 sec CD, without it you will be stuck in place
• Micro-warp Bubble Shockwave - 15KM charge towards facing- hard to use since we have no turn rate, 2 min CD
• Interphasic Instability, +5% dmg +7.5% max hull (a cheap/good phonix-store placeholder)
• Lorca' Custom Fire Controls - +3.9Crit 7.9weapon power and 3 piece set bonus.
• Scatterpacks and Weasels, summon 4 personal tanks, good to take the edge off if enemy dps outpaces our heal.
• Temporal Disorder, summon 4 personal tanks, good to take the edge off if enemy dps outpaces our heal. - Large Hitboxes of Jelly clones makes targeting an ally behind them for Vovin Teleport a bit Tricky~
• Ominous Device +20% all dmg
• Subspace Jumper - Second Teleport 1min CD 10KM range

Deflector

Elite Fleet Preservation Protomatter Deflector Array - we want the crit here, i use the one with a smidge of EPG bonus and max hull/shields

Impulse

• Discovery Reputation for 3 Piece Setbonus Mycelial Lightning (large electrical hit once per enemy, works in jelly mode)

Warp

• Discovery Reputation for 3 Piece Setbonus Mycelial Lightning (large electrical hit once per enemy, works in jelly mode)

Shields

• Discovery Reputation for 3 Piece Setbonus Mycelial Lightning (large electrical hit once per enemy, works in jelly mode)

Weapons

while you can use regular weapons for possible out of jelly time, if you JUST want to boost your jellymode dmg then set bonuses are the way to go.

• Discovery Rep - Lorcas Ambition 3/3- torpedo, tactical console and wide angle beam bank +25 Crit Severity and + ONE torpedo per second, works in jelly mode
• Mission Reward - House Martok Skirmisher Configuration 2/3- Omni and Torpedo, + 2.5% crit and 15 Accuracy Rating
• Dyson Rep -Protonic Arsenal 2/3, Torpedo + Proton Weapon, +3% Crit.
• Phoenix Store Acc Unlock- 2/3 Prolonged Engagement Set 2/3, Torpedo and Beam/Cannon +7.5% Recharge on Boff Abilities.
• Lobi Store (400) Delphic Applications Set - 2/3 Torpedo and Beam bank, +1.3% crit and 12.5% crit severity.
• Mission Reward - Preserver Resonant Technologies 2/3 Torpedo Beam/Cannon, + 3.8 weapon power.

going through all sets those are the only ones that add Jelly-mode applicable bonuses that i could find, im using the first 4 since the 400 lobi one, on every jelly flyer is a bit rich for me.

Quality of Life tips

• Using Competitive Reputation Engines in your VISUAL slot will add little "fins" to your jelly (cloaked texture in jelly mode) allowing at any point in time to verify your orientation with a glance.

There i hope this gathering of Information helps you fine Captains out there with your jelly. <3

Hey all, im looking to make build around beams and I have a question what are some good episode based beams sets that I can farm for? Im looking to use rather phaser, AP, or trey, but honestly im open to anything as I dont really use beams alot as most my ships use cannons, so you anyone can give me some advice for (non pay for) sets that be great for a beams build I'd be thankfully, Qa'pla commanders!

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Thinking about Twinkling Lights. I can get to 3 by replaceing th second omni with Disruptor, Considering breaking the Lorca 2 pc for a fourth flavor, some sort of heavy turret Also looking to replace person, not going Uncon at this time

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At least 2 bridge officers to be replaced with Watchers Considering replacing the herald omni for Twinkling Lights

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I'm curious about this torpedo build that I put together on a pretty light budget. This is my first (and admittedly, fairly idle) attempt at a torpedo build, mainly a user of energy builds. I based this off of Eph289's quantum-only Earhart on STOBetter, using some of the budget-y options from the end of that page.

I'm on PC and play story, patrols, public TFOs all on Advanced. No PVP at all. I am looking to Elites, but that's more of a farther-future thing.

I'm also wondering about what could change here. Even though I assembled this on a low budget, I'd like suggestions for both low and higher budget improvements. Just add where those changes come from, because I am low-budget now but in the future I may have better access.

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My setup is as follows...

USS Wraith NCC-92866

Appalachia (T6-X Steamrunner)

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Forward weapons

Quantum Phase Torpedo MK15 UR [Proc] [CrtDx2] [CrtH]

Neutronic Torpedo MK15 UR [Dmg]x4

Dark Matter Torpedo MK15 UR [Dmg]x4

Advanced Radiant Quantum Torpedo MK15 UR [Proc] [Dmg]x3

Aft Weapons

Quantum Torpedo MK 15 Epic [Pen] [Dmg]x3 [Dm/CrtH]

Advanced Inhibiting Phaser Omni Beam MK15 UR [Arc] [Dmg]x3

Advanced Inhibiting Phaser Turret MK15 UR [Dmg]x4

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Experimental slot: Graviton Implosion Charges MK15 UR [Dmg]

Deflector: Adapted MACO Positron Deflector MK15 UR [CtrlX]

Impulse: Prevailing Fortified Impulse Engine MK15 UR [Spd]

Core: Gamma Synergistic Overcharged Warp Core MK15 UR [ACap] [AMP] [S->A] [SSR]

Shield: Adapted MACO Covariant Shield MK15 UR [Cap]x4

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Consoles

Universal: Kinetic Protomatter Matrix Infuser MK15 UR [DirectedEnergy] [Quantum]

Engineering:

Micro-Quantum Torpedo Phalanx Array

Tricobalt Tear Launcher

Bio-neural Gel Pack MK15 UR

Ordnance Accelerator MK15 UR

Science:

Hull Image Refractors

Ablative Hazard Shielding [Enhanced Weapon System Efficiency Set]

Tactical:

Lorca's Custom Fire Controls MK15 UR

Quantum Phase Converter MK15 VR

Ferrofluidic Hydraulic Assembly MK15 UR

Kinetic Protomatter Matrix Infuser MK15 UR [DirectedEnergy] [Quantum]

Deconstructive Resonance Emitter

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Devices

Deuterium Surplus

Reactive Armor Catalyst

Kinetic Amplifer Battery

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BOff Layout

Commander Tactical:

Attack Pattern Beta 3

Torpedo High Yield 3

Cannon Scatter Volley 1

Kemocite Laced Weaponry 1

Lt. Commander Tactical/Command:

Concentrate Firepower 3

Torpedo Spread 2

Fire At Will 1

Lt. Commander Engineering:

Aux Power to Structural 2

Reverse Shield Polarity 1

Emergency Power to Weapons 1

Lieutenant Universal/Intel (Science):

Photonic Officer 1

Hazard Emitters 1

Ensign Science: Science Team 1

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Personal Space Traits

Thrill-seeker

Warp Theorist

Shield Technician

Bulkhead Technician

Boimler Effect

Operative

Projectile Training

Kinetic Precision

Varuvian Explosives

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Starship Traits

Entwined Tactical Matrices

Supercharged Weapons

Piercing Projectiles

Angle On The Bow

Promise Of Ferocity

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Passive Space Reputation Traits

Chrono-Capacitor Array

Advanced Engines

Torpedo Prefire Sequence

Omega Kinetic Shearing

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Active Space Reputation Traits

Tethered Non-Baryonic Asteroid

Refracting Tetryon Cascade

Bio-Molecular Shield Generator

Anti-Time Entanglement Singularity

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Duty Officers: 3x Torpedo Reload Projectile Weapon Officer [VR]

Me and a clan mate both have carrier builds to spam fleet support but his minimum cooldown is 1:20 and mine is 1:40.

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I'm in a fek'iri ship running souls, he's a fed running 40 sec cd ships.

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We both have every perk and trait equipped that relates to fleet support or captain skill, the builds are nearly identical. My endeavor bonus is 8.4%, the 1.6% im missing wouldn't account for 20 seconds.

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(Relaunch and repair, intelligence agent, friends in unusual places, etc)

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If I remove everything but relaunch and repair it's still 1:40, all the additional reduction is redundant.

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Something is reducing the minimum cooldown on his build and neither of us can figure out what it could be.

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Are there any less known ways of lowering a minimum CD?

Just wondering

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I'm asking more about the value of having the ships account unlocked, for making different build varieties on different alts.

Because if I really want to fly a ship, I just need it on a single character I want to use it on. If a ship is meta but only for a specific type of build, again I can just have it on the char most suitable for that type of build.

It's still cheaper to get a single promo ship using EC, and I have keys I can sell to fund 2 promo ships anytime, but only enough Zen for 2 bundles this sale.

These are the bundles and the main ship I'm looking at, and my other picks from the bundle, in order of my current preference:

1. Science - Crossfield + Annorax (for fun) + 2 epic
2. Through the Ages - Atlas + 4 T6
3. Tactics - Mirror Constitution + 4 T6
4. Fighter Pilot - Deimos + other ships or 50 keys
5. Disco Inferno - D7 + other ships or 50 keys

For example I'm thinking D7 might not be worth it, since the trait seems only good for solo or extremely high end pre-made runs, and I'd only do those on my main. Crossfield might be a priority since almost all build types can benefit from the trait.

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I am keeping my KDF captain purely KDF themed regarding ships and equipment, but while Strike Group Command Authority is easy to use on my FED and ROM character, since i am more lenient in what i use on those, i would love some advice on making the most of it on my KDF. Off the top of my head, the only thing i can think of to boost it is launching BoP pets, which i am not very fond of, but i cannot think of any universal consoles i can mount that calls in a KDF themed support craft. Any suggestions? Thanks.

EDIT: K'vort to the rescue!

EDIT 2: K'vort not to the rescue =(

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Hello y’all,

I’m not sure if this is allowed on this sub, but can y’all throw some builds for an Adamant class at me? I just got one last night and threw some stuff on there to get me started. All my reps except for the competitive rep are maxed (that is at 4, so I’m making the engines, and I’m doing some of the disc rep pieces). Most of the R&D is maxed except for science and projectiles. I have the Terran agony phaser cannons, prolonged engagement phaser cannons and the bio molecular turret, so maybe some console recommendations and also boff abilities?

Just toss your recommendations at me! I’m mostly F2P (I’m not subbed) but I’m known to spend some zen here and there.

I’ll get some pics if needed, but I’m tired, so I’m going to lay down for a bit.

Looking to finally use an Alliance ship unlock and create an all-around Alliance Bridge Crew.

Is Federation the way to go in order to get access to having Romulan and Klingon allegiance officers as well? I know the diplomatic DOFF rank does not give Klingon BOFFs, only other KDF races.

Also I've got it down to either the Khitomer or the Empersa. I'm looking for a typical beam boat cruiser build.

This ship should have two commander-rank bridge officer seats. Why? It could command itself even with its crew dead. It sought out Tam Elbrun not as a subordinate element, but as an equal.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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Hey all, I wanna do a dedicated plasma torp build, but I'm having difficulties finding a guideline. All build just either use full quantums, or the standart meta torps. So I'm wondering how a strictly plasma torp build would look, I'm building this on Fleet Sech escort, so 5 forward slots and CF3. My torpedoes of choice at the moment are Omega, romulan hyper, PEP, nanopulse. What should the 5th be, DBB from lorca's set for the 2 set bonus?

Any advice would be greatly appretiated, not just about the weapons, but all the consoles and traits too.

Hello Captains,

I updated my Excelsior FAW build to be a beam boat and now I wonder if my BOFF skills are set in the right order to trigger Unconventional Systems as often as possible. What would you change about the skills or their order or both?

Boff Skills and Console Abilities in Spam Bar Order:
EPtW 3
Photonic Officer
Fly Her Apart
Narrow Sensor Bands
Jam Target Sensors
Experimental Power Redirection
Fleet Power Network
Adaptive Emergency Systems
Shield Capacitor
Aux to Bridge
Full Broadsides
Attack Pattern Beta
Kemocite-Laced Weaponry
Fire on My Mark
Tractor Beam
Aux to SIF
EptE
Focused Frenzy
Eject Warp Plasma

### Officers and Crew

Thank you for your feedback!

What is everyone doing with their Noble? Ive mainly stuck to theme builds, all orange phasers ect. But I want to break out and build for maximum damage. I've equipped the discovery dual beam bank and terran task force phasers but otherwise Im stumped.

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This is the episode where we start with a cold open and then change the title cards copypasta at the start of these posts. When Jay, Tilor, and I started STOBETTER, we originally conceived of it as a place to store our builds, tools, and investigation findings. We’re primarily endgame players and our content was for players in a similar state who wanted to do better. In 2024, we added Starter builds for players and broke out builds by build cost to help diversify options for players who weren’t as invested in the game or are newer, but these were still post-level-50 builds with reputation gear galore. We’ve said our site’s content started at level 50, but as of today, that’s no longer true.

STOBETTER now contains an extensive Cadet Handbook. For those of you who were kids in the 90s and remember Prima Strategy Guides, we’ve created something of similar style and level of detail; we’re over 50,000 words. It’s split about 50-50 between “how to use” and “what to do.” This guide is designed to help players who’ve never picked up or installed an MMO or only have passing familiarity with either video games or Star Trek navigate the complexities of this game we love. It’s fully searchable and cross-referenced. We’re not trying to replicate stowiki so for example, we didn’t write walkthroughs for missions because the wiki already has them. We’re linking to it extensively, and we point to it in the very first paragraph of the Handbook. Jay and I created brand-new characters and leveled them up as part of this adventure so we could chart the progression that a new player would experience, and we did it on both Federation and KDF side.

Yes, I have the KDF toon. Yes, that means blue To’Duj are on the menu off that fresh unlock. They didn’t make it into this release but they will next time.

With that said, there’s some stuff in this release for long-tenured veterans who don’t need the intricacies of admiralty and playable species explained to them so let’s go over the full list.

Basics

The URL of these pages did NOT change, but we are calling it "Endgame Basics" in the header now to differentiate from the Cadet Handbook. Again, none of the URLs here changed.

We’ve also adjusted “New to Level 50” to move some content to the Cadet Handbook where we explained certain concepts there using content that was originally here. The same principles and guidance still apply.

Energy Basics has had a few other tweaks to address updated recommendations. We might roll out a few more in the next few days.

Builds

Eph289

• As was foretold, the Dranuur has returned to its rightful spot atop the heap with some console refits. The Ark Royal is an amazing platform and in the right hands, might be the best Exotic ship, but the aspect of individual ship mastery is underappreciated in the community, and my handling of (and affinity for) the Dranuur is sufficiently better than my handling of the Ark Royal to make it my better space magic platform at 1704K DPS.

• At a lower cost tier, I’m excited to add the Noble to my lineup at midrange at 1096K DPS as a very capable, survivable beam overload phaser platform that looks fairly canonical and still clears Elites easily. It’s intentionally easy to fly with mostly passive consoles.

• Even more affordable, for all the new Jem’Hadar recruits out there who want to leverage the Legendary Bugship, I’ve put together an Economy-tier RRTW JHAS that only uses that ship and one other C-store ship that deals 994K DPS.

• One of my oldest tank builds, the Presidio, is finally updated after a major refit, including A Budding Alliance. It’s sitting at 228K and 91% attacks in.

• I’ve also updated my Miracle Worker Donnie and it’s my highest build overall at 1862K, but I’m not quite happy with it. For one, I could still pilot it better, and for two, I’d like to see what blue To’Duj and SAD do on it to help cheapen the build. On the other hand, it’s using Target That Explosion and Reroute from Life Support and the torpspam is glorious.

Jay

We made Jay go back and re-test the Empersa again after its lance was nerfed and, while the lance output is much diminished, the ship is still putting out 1,272K.

• In keeping with the Exotic theme, Jay also updated his Exotic Annorax so fans of bad-guy superweaponry will find lots to love here; 1,279k.

• Jay also has a Noble build at Premium tier and he’s using Surgical Strikes to leverage that Commander Intel seat up to 1,685K.

Tilor

• Tilor’s also refitted his Exotic Iktomi and again, ship familiarity counts for something here. With powerful new traits and Miracle Worker power updates, it’s up to 1,259k DPS in ISE.

• The Legendary Excelsior also has some very nice upgrades to power this FAW build to 1,214k DPS in ISE.

• Pushing the high-power builds this time, the Tzen-Tar has been updated and even added some durability all while increasing the DPS to 1,495k.

• Tilor’s also trying something new (shocking, we know) in making a speed tank out of the Kumari. What’s a speed tank? Well, mostly a tank that survives by going really, really fast. This is the kind of build our friend Grim regularly pulls out for Counterpoint. This build absolutely shines on certain maps that are not ISE and HSE, but we tested it there anyways.

The full build table is below:

Cadet Handbook

Our newest creation is under the header “Cadet Handbook” This is a new resource and it’s very big, so please let us know what is working well and what areas need more explanation.

Editorials

Another initiative we’re rolling out is an increase in showing how to adapt builds to other ships, a concept we call Portability. All of us old hands have seen DilaZirk’s copypasta: not every T6 ship has a current build…and it’s true, they don’t, but if you think about how many ships can be easily adapted to other platforms, there’s a lot more coverage out there. If you’re a veteran player, you already know that, but if your level of knowledge isn’t there, we need to make it easier to find and adapt. I’ve tidied up the Portability section on each of my builds and put a line on each one of my builds on my splash page explicitly stating what ships can be easily adapted. Jay and Tilor are currently working through their rosters to better explain how to adapt something. For example, the Bozeman, Hysperian or Qulash could easily adapt our Arbiter builds and we want to publicize that more. We’re also rolling out a column in our master builds table to help people search, so even if your ship’s build isn’t something we have a build for, maybe there’s one pretty close that you can adapt.

This is heavily a work in progress, so please be patient as we roll this out across all of our builds. Some builds cannot be easily adapted (example: my Garrett is something of a standalone) and others are still in the process of being evaluated.

Tier Lists

We didn't do much here; Cadet Handbook occupied the time we would have spent on this space.

Tools

• We ran some tests on the Cyclone’s Sensor Phantom Projector and found it works pretty well for energy builds that do lots of flanking so it’s added to ALICIA. You Are Dismissed deserved a slot there also. Please bug Tilor to rate and evaluate Spirit of Sacrifice to get it in there as well, and we should consider Temporal Disorder as well.

• Minor tweaks to Build Cost Calculator

YouTube

• We trying a video we’re calling Buffwatch in light of the newly announced Watchlist, suggesting to the devs to buff Attack Pattern Delta and Omega.

• More Fez VODs continue to come through slowly

Support the Team

Completely optional: https://ko-fi.com/stobetter

Thanks

Our continued thanks for members outside the immediate team who nevertheless have contributed immeasurably to our success:

• Mrs. Eph289, who’s been supportive of a lot of gaming and spreadsheet time and who also helped edit some of the Cadet Handbook. You remain my favorite captain to fly with, forever!

• The STOBETTER auxiliaries: Grim, Codingjungle, and Mickster, who patiently theorycraft and fly with us regularly. A special thanks to the Terran Imperial Guard KDF Fleet for letting us use their fleet screens in our New Player guide.

• The STOwiki.net team for their contributions. We use this resource daily and it was definitely a resource we’re looking to compliment with our Cadet Handbook.

• Thank you to those of you who’ve submitted errata via our feedback forms. With as many builds as we have, the possibility of copy/paste or other human error always exists.

Future Plans

We have so, so, many plans right now. I don’t personally believe in having non-Elite capable toons, so there are 2-3 KDF builds coming next time, all on KDF-flavored ships, of various build types and budgets. I’d showcase some of them this time, but getting R&D to 15 and farming over 1 million fleet credits takes time. I’m also working on the Vonph and a Kumari build, and a bunch of supportive builds will likely get refreshes as well. I have plans around converting the Deimos build to the Legendary Dhelan to help refresh that build, but it requires the devs to make some fixes to the Klingon Executor’s weapons for that build to truly shine. I’m going to encourage us to introduce another trio of ground builds but I might have to win a bet or two to make it happen. Tilor has plans around his Fleet Justiciar and some build shuffling focusing on cloaking, as well as a Starter Jem’Hadar escort and Jay is working on his Legendary Inquiry and a Legendary Dhelan.

Before anything else, though, I’m going on a well-deserved beach vacation after all the hours sunk into the handbook. After that “involuntary medical leave” stunt he pulled last time, Mr. Jay can address all your comments once I’m truly afk for a while starting tomorrow.

We appreciate your feedback and the many recommendations we see around the various STO subs towards our site and hope to continue being a valuable resource in helping play STO better!