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Alteration token should also include career change
esel9912
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I leveled up an engeneering captain, got promotion ships, lobi gear, and maxed out weapons, by attending events for many years. Now I learn that with a tactical career, I could do much more DPG, thus I would like to change the career of my main character. I had hopes to be able to do this with the captain Alteration Token, but that just lets me change species and gender.
My suggestion: add the possibility to change the career to the alteration token.
My suggestion: add the possibility to change the career to the alteration token.
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Changing your character's gender and costumes is one thing, but your career is something else entirely.
Now with that in mind, if you want DPS there is no winner take all "best" captain type despite what some talking heads and people may tell you. Career wise what you're essentially picking is what baseline powers you want to have. Certain captain types will give more baseline tools to certain build types, but that's where what is "best" ends. Point blank whoever told you that you can't do great damage as an Engineering captain lied to you. Being an engineer doesn't automatically make one a great tank either. You can ask some of the other forumites on here, I'm a tactical captain tank, but I can put out heals rivaling or exceeding engineers. Would the engineering captain powers help me as a tank, certainly they would, but by no means do I required them. Likewise you don't need tactical captain powers to do great damage. They can certainly help but aren't required.
If your goal is DPS, the first question I should start with is what kind of DPS you want. Do you want energy DPS, torpedo, mines, science powers? What do you personally want to do?
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Yes, it probably is technically possible with a LOT of work by the developers and QA team to offer some kind of full respec where they just throw away all the accolades and traits. No, it's unlikely that Cryptic will spend that amount of time for the few people who want this even if it means delaying the next story episode or TFO.
It never hurts to ask, just realize that the answer might be "no".
Exactly. While I sometimes run an Engineering or Science character for variety when playing ground, there's just no replacement for the damage orientated buffs that only tactical captains have access to when going for Delta Papa Sierra.
I can see how a career change might be difficult from a programming perspective though. Players would lose career specific items such as kit modules.
Dude. You literally created a sock puppet account, so that you could agree with your own suggetion. 🙄😒
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Science can debuff enemies, and strip buffs. And being able to heal by being attacked and summon holoships?
All three classes are able to do DPS. You just gotta learn how they do it. STO is not bound by the Trinity.
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Isn't higher level DPS more about ability synergy anyway, with your base class mattering very little. While I'm no DPS chaser I've not found any significant difference between the base performance of my SCI, ENG or TAC toon and I got all 3.
Is Attack Pattern Alpha useful, certainly but I've not noticed it causing any drastic increase in DPS compared to the other careers.
EDIT:Last I checked my highest damaging toon was my SCI TOS character.
In terms of damage output, I think it's safe to say that APA is more interesting than Photonic Fleet.
But that's just damage output. If you like playing a summoner character, APA isn't going to be very useful. Same with on the ground, if you like playing a healer, it doesn't matter that you can't have all sorts of offensive buffs like tacs do.
Besides, it's probably easier for tacs to easily do more damage, but in the end all careers are going to be able to contribute to completion of all content. So, OP, if you like doing more damage, just roll a tac. Your existing engineer and science characters can still do their own thing then, there's more to the game than just doing damage.
Some species weren't available in the past, and they are now. Cardassians for example. It made sense for Cryptic to offer longtime players a chance to change their old characters and use the expanded options we nowadays have, without losing everything they worked on in all these years.
With careers, it's different though. We've always had these three careers. I don't really see a good reason why we should be able to revert choices and make different ones, when no new options have been added in that regard. You could always create a tac, if a tac is what you wanted to play.
And increasing your DPS is possible in other ways, to much greater effect too. Changing some of the fundamental things of the game, isn't required for that.
Thing like Attack Pattern Alpha, Fire on my Mark, Go Down Fighting, and Tactical Initiative (as well as their equivalents on the ground) make doing damage much *easier* with a tactical Captain. They also get the benefits of many career specific buffs that are literally huge in the form of kit modules such as Ambush (and others) on the ground.
Attack Pattern Alpha is +33.2% (49.6%) All Bonus Damage, +3.32% (4.96%) Critical Chance, +33.2% (49.6%) Critical Severity, and +80% (119.6%) Flight Turn Rate strength for 20 sec
Go Down Fighting is +20 All Damage Resistance Rating and +50% Bonus All Damage
Combine these with the traits A Good Day to Die (use GDF at any hull integrity) and Intelligence Agent Attache (recharge Captain abilities faster) and you've got a monster.
For engineers their Captain abilities that increase power levels or negate power drain from weapons simply don't come close to the straight damage buffs tacs get.
I do like Miraculous Repairs and the trait that allows it to reset so it can be used a second time.
I play all three classes and find them all unique and fun to play.
Ability synergy, traits, gear, even positioning... DPS is more than just one ability. Its a science in its own right. How things work together.
There is no ONE ability to rule them all.
Each class can dish it out in different ways. But there is one absolute constant that cannot be disputed by anyone.
If you're dead, your DPS is 0. Unless you have an active Gravity Well. Then somehow you still do some damage. lol
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I'm sure that some of the many carriers we've been seeing in the past weeks, also include players that had never flown one before. So I think there is some experimentation and trying out new things.
It helps that recent ship releases have been helping niche builds. The proton and drain stuff from the Dyson ships. Summoner builds with the console from the Rex and now the new temporal ship. Torpedo builds with the Achilles.
Also, on the ground, I'm seeing some diversification. V'ger probes and Ball Lightning as instant killing machines have become less omnipresent, instead there's more other lightning stuff, including the latest Risa kit modules. I'm even seeing some sword fighters and captains with regular phaser pistols, as well as 'beast masters'. It's similar to how Spore Infused Anomalies as one of the previous go-to traits, has now become a rarer sighting.
Unfortunately there's also still a lot of oversized hand-cannons as the easy damage dealers and, on the other hand, I would have expected to see more split beam rifles (seriously, they seem very rare for how useful they are) and stuff like the Risa volcano ability. But to me it seems that players are definitely experimenting.
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After playing a tactical character properly for the first time on another account, I noticed that it is clearly superior to my engineer character (Kristy). That's why I actually wanted to sacrifice 750 Zen to adjust my career. I was very disappointed that it wasn't possible, so I started this discussion.
Unfortunately, I no longer know which character I should give this year's annual event, which I'm almost finished with, because it now seems like a waste for my main character (Kristy).
I'm trying to maximize my DPS, to get the records with energy weapon damage, CSV. I use a plasma build and now wanted to acquire the Gorn Hunter Pilot Raider to incorporate the cannons, consoles and the plasma trait into my build. I would like to use attack pattern alpha in combination with this.
Of course I am aware that all my engineering skills would be lost if I could switch to tactical officer. I would have to earn them again, which would be no problem. Equipping a new tactical character with all that I have on my main character (Kristy) would be a much bigger effort.
Nevertheless, I accept that it is not possible.
Thank you for your answers and interesting discussion points.
Its not a waste really. If there is a ship you want to get for that character, go for it. Doesn't matter which character you give the T6 Promo to. The thing that really matters is that its fun for that character. You can have a build to try and do pure DPS, and you can set up another ship that is built more for fun and how you play that particular character. There is no right or wrong way to play, unless you are purposefully trying to sabotage others.
If you put a lot into Kristy, that is perfectly fine. If you wanna take a break from her and work on your Tac, that is also perfectly fine. I'm sure some more experienced Engie Players can give some advice on how to boost your DPS if that is something you are really interested in.
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Zero issues with them.. they are some of my oldest characters.
only works within a faction (and TOS and DSC are different factions for this purpose) so no FX changes or unlocks to species not originally part of the faction.
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I know, I know… there is already a captain rename… Just wished it would have included it…
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Negative. However there is apparently talk of potentially opening up species options thanks to the token.
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Don't play them myself a lot, but when I was in Borg Battle Royale yesterday, it was an engineer that kept us going as we approached round 100. His shields and turrets gave him a survivability in rounds with those pesky Vinculum drones that even my (admittedly, more risk taking) Sci lacked.
With most maps being smaller nowadays and teams being less mobile than they used to be compared to missions like Starbase Incursion, Infected or Khitomer ground, that fort building thing that they excel in is definitely useful in many scenario's.
I will say though that engi is a bit more expensive to build around, at least in my experience. Definitely worth doing once, though. All my other toons are science, because I just like that huge self-heal from Medical Tricorder.
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I thought I'd mention that I have a lot of fun with my engineers just to reinforce that the all three disciplines bring different things to the table. Sure.. when it comes to straight dps it's go tactical or go home, but perhaps it can be beneficial to have three different characters in order to take advantage of the different playstyle that comes with each discipline? With recruitment events happening on a regular basis this can be pretty easy these days while at the same time bringing some decent rewards for both one's character and account.