Some questions

sixela78 · March 2017

Hi!

First I have some questions regarding the game. I've started playing a month ago and my main character is level 52, Romulan and science officer Fed aligned. So far, I've managed to do well, but since I started the delta quadrant missions I feel like it's harder for me to survive, especially when fighting the borg. I would like to ask what's the best ship and build I could get to be able to survive longer and do these missions without dying once- at least!

I got also other questions but it's more for my other character that is Fed. I'm roleplaying her as someone from the Kelvin Timeline, I saw people getting the Kelvin Constitution, is it still possible to get one as of today? If so how and where?

Thanks in advance to the ones who will help me

dracounguis · March 2017

You can get the Kelvin Constitution on the Exchange. Just have lots of EC. Or you can buy Master Keys for real $ and then trade them for the ship. Piles of Master Keys have become the de facto currency for very large purchases where EC amounts would be cumbersome in the trade window.

Your Warbird can survive just fine. You may just need to grab an armor console for plasma weapons. Fleet Dil Mines offer some good ones w/ extra buffs if you got the fleet credits for it. Also some reputation shields that counter 'any' or plasma damage too. The MACO set is the original end game gear set and tailored to be anti-borg. The Aegis set is a nice defensive set too and can be found on the Exchange or crafted. Main thing Borg like to do is squish you with a plasma torp. Something like Fire At Will or a trail of warp plasma pretty much negate them.

sixela78 · March 2017

Thanks for all the advice, so I managed to grab a Kelvin timeline constitution for my Fed char and am now level 52. I'm doing all the borg mission I can and I participate to all queue so I can get marks with both my Romulan and Trill char. Thing is I heard the Iconian and Quantum sets are good too, do you think I should focus on which one for the Kelvin constitution ?

For my warbird it's just too hard to maneuver sometimes, I tend to get stuck especially when I do the Breach, that's why I was thinking of purchasing a new ship. I'm not sure but I usually like science ships, I had an Intrepid class with my fed and really enjoyed it so I was more looking for a romulan ship that could be quite similar, easy to maneuver and a ship I can keep for some time. Any suggestions ?

I have another issue, the language of the game is set to french but for some missions it's badly translated and I can't do them properly. How can I switch the language to english ?

Thanks again for all the advices

odinforever20000 · March 2017

sixela78#6094 wrote: »

Thanks for all the advice, so I managed to grab a Kelvin timeline constitution for my Fed char and am now level 52. I'm doing all the borg mission I can and I participate to all queue so I can get marks with both my Romulan and Trill char. Thing is I heard the Iconian and Quantum sets are good too, do you think I should focus on which one for the Kelvin constitution ?

For my warbird it's just too hard to maneuver sometimes, I tend to get stuck especially when I do the Breach, that's why I was thinking of purchasing a new ship. I'm not sure but I usually like science ships, I had an Intrepid class with my fed and really enjoyed it so I was more looking for a romulan ship that could be quite similar, easy to maneuver and a ship I can keep for some time. Any suggestions ?

I have another issue, the language of the game is set to french but for some missions it's badly translated and I can't do them properly. How can I switch the language to english ?

Thanks again for all the advices

Iconian is a rep set that'll take a while to get...Plenty of good free ship sets and Weapon sets that are great in the mean time (Quantum,Sol Defence,Braydon..ect)

I fly Romulan ships alot (specifically Science ships for all my toons)..Some places in the Breach require a bit of planning especially that wide turn..So far im liking the Romulan Multi Mission Ships. With their set bonus, they turn ok (Not Escort or Wells Temporal Sci vessel great)

https://sto.gamepedia.com/Surhuelh_Reconnaissance_Explorer_Warbird This one is my fav so far..I feel these ship turn just a hair Laeosa and feels more like turning the Rom DSD only doesn't quite feel as big.(The Consoles with these ships are fun)

jaguarskx · March 2017

I recommend two T6 science vessels from the C-Store:

#1 - Laeosa Research Warbird
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Laeosa_Research_Warbird

The Romulans have finally received their own T6 science vessel. If you are a Romulan science captain and you want to command a T6 Romulan faction science vessel, then this is the ship for you. I've been waiting for this ship ever since the end of 2014 when the Delta Rising expansion introduced T6 starships.

#2 - Eternal Temporal Multi-Mission Science Vessel
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Eternal_Temporal_Multi-Mission_Science_Vessel

This is a cross faction science vessel that any faction can use. If you have a science captain in each faction and you want the best bang for your Zen, this is the ship to buy. This ship was released before the Laeosa was made available.

The Eternal has one basic advantage over the Laeosa and that is it uses a warp core rather than a singularity core. That means your ship will have 200 power points to distribute between the 4 subsystems (before any bonuses) rather than only 160. The singularity core sacrifices 40 power points for singularity abilities. More power means your ship performs better. It also has a single hanger.

The basic disadvantages to the Eternal are:

A. It is not a Romulan faction starship
B. It does not have any singularity abilities
C. It cannot cloak

I have both ships. I bought the Eternal so that my KDF and Romulan captains can finally fly a T6 science vessel from the C-Store. However, because the Laeosa and the Naj'sov (KDF) Research Vessels were later released, I have not bothered to fly the Eternal yet.

odinforever20000 · March 2017

jaguarskx wrote: »

I recommend two T6 science vessels from the C-Store:

#1 - Laeosa Research Warbird
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Laeosa_Research_Warbird

The Romulans have finally received their own T6 science vessel. If you are a Romulan science captain and you want to command a T6 Romulan faction science vessel, then this is the ship for you. I've been waiting for this ship ever since the end of 2014 when the Delta Rising expansion introduced T6 starships.

#2 - Eternal Temporal Multi-Mission Science Vessel
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Eternal_Temporal_Multi-Mission_Science_Vessel

This is a cross faction science vessel that any faction can use. If you have a science captain in each faction and you want the best bang for your Zen, this is the ship to buy. This ship was released before the Laeosa was made available.

The Eternal has one basic advantage over the Laeosa and that is it uses a warp core rather than a singularity core. That means your ship will have 200 power points to distribute between the 4 subsystems (before any bonuses) rather than only 160. The singularity core sacrifices 40 power points for singularity abilities. More power means your ship performs better. It also has a single hanger.

The basic disadvantages to the Eternal are:

A. It is not a Romulan faction starship
B. It does not have any singularity abilities
C. It cannot cloak

I have both ships. I bought the Eternal so that my KDF and Romulan captains can finally fly a T6 science vessel from the C-Store. However, because the Laeosa and the Naj'sov (KDF) Research Vessels were later released, I have not bothered to fly the Eternal yet.

DO you have the Romulan MMSV? How do you think it stacks up against the Leaosa? Personally I love singularity cores (Some give me 40 EPG points!!)

davefenestrator · March 2017

DO you have the Romulan MMSV? How do you think it stacks up against the Leaosa?

I'm waiting for a 20% ship sale on the MMSV mega-bundle, but I do have the Laeosa and it's a nice ship. You do need a fleet module to upgrade to the fleet version instead of it being 11-console "fleet level" out of the box.

odinforever20000 · March 2017

davefenestrator wrote: »

DO you have the Romulan MMSV? How do you think it stacks up against the Leaosa?

I'm waiting for a 20% ship sale on the MMSV mega-bundle, but I do have the Laeosa and it's a nice ship. You do need a fleet module to upgrade to the fleet version instead of it being 11-console "fleet level" out of the box.

I have both ships...I really Like the t6 MMSV for Roms..The set is kinda fun in the Tzenkethi from..or anytime you can grab a buncha enemies infront...and Boom.

sixela78 · March 2017

Actually I really like the singularity abilities so I'm not sure to be willing to sacrifice that for a ship, I'd probably pick a Romulan shi even if I'm tempted to get the Eternal as well. Do you think the bundle is worth it? Or should I go with only the ship? I don't mind buying a ship actually especially if I can keep it for some time

I've got another issue and needing advice again

So I'm trying to finish the "Assimilation" episode of the Borg story and I keep on dying when I fight the Assimilated Undine, I can't even kill one, before I die and the rest of my team follows. I have no longer issues in space but it's now in ground combat. I use mainly anti borg weapons for me and my boofs along with the remodulators.

jaguarskx · March 2017

odinforever20000 wrote: »

DO you have the Romulan MMSV? How do you think it stacks up against the Leaosa? Personally I love singularity cores (Some give me 40 EPG points!!)

Nope. Not yet and not for a while. There are at least 20 C-Store starships ahead of the the MMSV mega bundle on my buy list.

arionisa · March 2017

I always hated that assimilated undine too. I now go in with at least two engineers, most times three as most of my toons are engies also. I plant turrets and mortars just outside the door where you find the undine, plant mines in the doorway, station my away team outside the room and then go in just far enough to trigger the fight. Running right back out of the room, past all my turrets, mines and away team without shooting at the undine again gets the aggro off of me and plants the undine in the middle of a lot of firepower. From there, I release my away team to run around at will and just fight.

That's all it takes most of the time, some of my up and coming toons that aren't so strong or geared as well, I'll shoot the undine but make it a point to not do enough damage to pull the aggro back to me, run around rezzing my away team as any of em drop and eventually the undine goes down.

If you can afford it, equip your entire away team with TR-116Bs. Totally bypasses shields and the borg don't adapt to it. Last time I looked, they were running between 500-800K in the exchange, but if you managed to get a K-connie, then 3 million or so for TRs is chump change.

nephitis · March 2017

You should buy a couple of BOFF slots so that you can have different setups. But here is a piece of advice that I can give you in regards to ground.

Get yourself four purple / Superior Bridge Officers, Human engineers with Superior Covert, Superior Lucky, Teamwork and Leadership.
Equip them primarily with Your Choice / Shield & Heal Generator / Quantum Mortar I / Turret III. For the first slotted skill mines are good for the Borg Undine, so give that a try. However, for other content you can always use something else if you want. For example, Degeneration from Temporal Specialist. If you don't need health and shield regenerators in the future you can get the Explosive Drone from the exchange. The the quantum mortar can also be replaced with Photon launcher in the future but this comes from the K-13 fleet holding.
Give all of your BOFFs short, or even better, long range AOE weapons... with emphasis on AOE. Such as the Romulan Plasma Wide Beam Rifle, the Herald staff or the Jemhadar minigun from the Lobi store. Or just regular split rifles and miniguns. You can also give them the Dyson reputation split rifle etc. Regardless of what you get they will do significantly better with an AOE weapon (for its secondary firing mode).
If you got the ones with Superior Lucky they will have higher innate crit chance. You can capitalize on this by giving them armor that gives them even more crit chance. Early on you can buy that gear from the exchange but later on the Omega (reputation) armor will do wonders for them. Including the shield with its dodge chance.

Well, there you have it. This will make them a lot stronger. My most important advice is that you give them a multirole purpose. Give them all multiple ranks of every key ability, and that even for each specialization. This allows you to change their abilities and put them in the order you want thanks to the multiple ranks (I through III).

But most important of all... it makes playing ground content with them a lot of fun. Naturally you can do this with all three classes should you want to also have Sci and Tac bridge officers.

sixela78 · March 2017

Thanks Arionisa! Just bought these weapons for my boofs and myself and they are absolutely amazing it took down the assimilated undine so fast and no one died in the mission

can I use these weapons for everything or they are good only for borgs? I feel like I kinda lack of knowledge on everything here I read some guides but honestly it doesn't help me as much as you

Nephitis, I have three engineers, one Bolian green, one Andorian purple and one liberated borg purple. Should I still get a human one ? And also my character is also engineer trill joint. After I got two vulcan scientists one green and one blue and two purple tactics, one purple human and the other purple is betazoid.

nephitis · March 2017

It is up to you really. If you prefer to play with different races you can continue to do so. However, human engineers provide excellent combinations of traits that some of the other races do not have access in these combinations. Some traits cannot be accessed at all by certain races.

So if you are looking for the best "free" added performance to be had from traits then human engineers is the way to go. Teamwork gives a teamwide bonus to exploit damage. Superior Covert gives valuable innate exploit damage. Superior Soldier provides very valuable innate critical chance and expose chance. This last trait is most valuable of the three simply because the innate critical chance allows to build a strong team tailored solely for crits.

And if all four of them have the "Omega" reputation armor set, they each get an additional innate 2.5% CritH. In addition, they also get an extra 2.5 CritH per ground team member, including yourself should you have the same set. When everyone carries the Omega set you and your BOFFs can have up to 25% CritH. What it is important to remember is that your and their turret/mortar fabrications seem to be affected by this chance to crit.

Unfortunately the Omega weapon is not among the best of AOE weapons because if its shorter range, but it certainly has spread fire and extra Borg damage.

And with engineers you can also get the DOFFs that provide a chance to spawn an extra generator, turret and mortar. All of this combined or even parts of it will more than likely create a significantly more stronger team than what you currently have.

grendelthewise · March 2017

All the sets work awesome, some better than others. The key to survival against any one is to make sure you have heals and a good damage resistance on your ship. The ship you are flying is a solid ship with plenty of space for what I mentioned.

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