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Hi all. Not going to go into details of my whole build for this...
I have a temporal light cruiser with BOFF slots:
Lt Commander Tactical
Lt Commander Universal/Command Specialisation
Mostly fly as a canon looking build (gravimetric torps front / photons rear) but sometimes switch one to Borg plasma torpedo.
Borg torpedo is TRIBBLE without Torpedo High Yield. Ensign tactical slot is kemocite so I only have slots for 2 of Torpedo Spread, Fire At Will, Beam Overload, Torpedo High Yield.
Is there a way of getting a firing mode without using the BOFF slot?
Ways I know so far...
[Spread] modification to the torpedo itself
Command Specialisation Focused Assault gives occasional High Yield
Starship trait with a temporal ship gives Spread I whenever you active fire at will, and gives Fire At Will I whenever you activate spread
Are there any others e.g. a BOFF with an integral trait rather than trained ability, or a console, starship trait, personal space trait, ship device, DOFF ability?
I’m thinking of putting another tactical in the Universal/Command slot. It’s been really useful having another science slot for hazard emitters so I can also have Jam Sensors to trigger Catastrophic Overload starship trait so want to find another way around the block to trigger any torpedo or beam attack pattern.
I’m not getting much else out of the BOFF slot though... I have Focused Assault but you can’t chose if / when your torpedo will be high yield. Also have overwhelm emitters. Just can’t seem to find anything I love from the Command Specialisation so wondering if it fill it with tactical!
2 more questions too...
Most BOFFs have 3 or 4 ground traits therefore 0 or 1 space traits. Do any have 3 or 4 space traits?
Is there a list of unusual DOFFs anywhere? I don’t mean rare as in purple, but any that are really out of the ordinary. I have one that placates the next attacker for 4 seconds after activating power to structural integrity, for example.
Thanks everyone
I have a temporal light cruiser with BOFF slots:
Lt Commander Tactical
Lt Commander Universal/Command Specialisation
Mostly fly as a canon looking build (gravimetric torps front / photons rear) but sometimes switch one to Borg plasma torpedo.
Borg torpedo is TRIBBLE without Torpedo High Yield. Ensign tactical slot is kemocite so I only have slots for 2 of Torpedo Spread, Fire At Will, Beam Overload, Torpedo High Yield.
Is there a way of getting a firing mode without using the BOFF slot?
Ways I know so far...
[Spread] modification to the torpedo itself
Command Specialisation Focused Assault gives occasional High Yield
Starship trait with a temporal ship gives Spread I whenever you active fire at will, and gives Fire At Will I whenever you activate spread
Are there any others e.g. a BOFF with an integral trait rather than trained ability, or a console, starship trait, personal space trait, ship device, DOFF ability?
I’m thinking of putting another tactical in the Universal/Command slot. It’s been really useful having another science slot for hazard emitters so I can also have Jam Sensors to trigger Catastrophic Overload starship trait so want to find another way around the block to trigger any torpedo or beam attack pattern.
I’m not getting much else out of the BOFF slot though... I have Focused Assault but you can’t chose if / when your torpedo will be high yield. Also have overwhelm emitters. Just can’t seem to find anything I love from the Command Specialisation so wondering if it fill it with tactical!
2 more questions too...
Most BOFFs have 3 or 4 ground traits therefore 0 or 1 space traits. Do any have 3 or 4 space traits?
Is there a list of unusual DOFFs anywhere? I don’t mean rare as in purple, but any that are really out of the ordinary. I have one that placates the next attacker for 4 seconds after activating power to structural integrity, for example.
Thanks everyone
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Other than that, you've listed everything I know that applies to standard weapons. So, probably consider swapping over the Lt. Comm Uni to Tac. Pending it's not a dedicated torp boat, the most I usually run for Command is Rally Point Marker for the healing ring.
As for BOffs with 3 or more space traits, Kentari and Lukari from the Fleet Colony World have 3x Space Traits. https://sto.gamepedia.com/Special_bridge_officer
Special DOff list:
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Duty_officer/Special - though this just lists them, not what they do, so you have to click through to the individual DOff's page. There are a lot of them, as most of the DOff packs added some, and now and then some come out from Lockboxes directly.