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lonedragon27
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What are some of the best Space Doff abilities? Particularly ones that are only found in boxes or on the exchange.
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This is a link to the STO wiki thta lists all the different DOff powers.:
sto.gamepedia.com/Duty_officer
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Well resourced players will currently have ships that have a lot of cooldown reduction and tons of subsystem power, as those things get rebalanced some currently cheap doffs might become more sought after. Healing is getting nerfed a bit, this could place a premium healing boosting and damage restistance boosting doffs( like the aux2damp one.)
For combat the crithit and critd boosting doffs have been very nice, I've no idea about current pricing but would expect purple to be insanely pricey. Many moons ago I liked the weapons to extra shield power ones, which might become useful again.
I never knew there was a Doff that extended the duration of Reverse Shield Polarity and now I kinda want one.
Yeah see...I have trouble trusting lists like this because if I notice there's even one missing(and there's more than one...at least all of the K13 doffs), I assume there must be more missing that I'm NOT aware of.
Sure. It will cut down on needing to stack two Tac Teams or the downtime between uses of one.
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What about your preferred play style? Is it All Beams? All Torpedoes? A mix of both? Science Damage? Team Buffer? Debuffer? Healer?
I'm trying to find a build I really like. I ground (or is it grinded in this instance) the TRIBBLE (wanted to use another word...can we swear on these forums?) out of this game since I started just before the first summer event. So I have lots of traits and consoles to work with. It might take me a while to get up the EC to do anything major as most of my assets are not liquid right now. I have a few high price items posted on the exchange, a few thousand beam upgrades and like 400 omega fragments to sell when the market becomes more favorable.
I will probably use my Fleet Arbiter as I like it best of all the ships I have used. So I want to be somewhat tanky but still put out decent damage. The doffs I am most familiar with are the ones that affect torps and GW. My current plan only includes one torp but I'll probably still slot a Sci boff with GW.
'Gravimetric Scientist' has a variant that spawns multiple GWs, and a variant that reduces it's cooldown.
If you use "Emergency Power To [Subsystem) then 'Warp Core Engineer' DOffs grant those a chance to boost all subsystems' power levels.
"Damage Control Engineer" drop the cooldown on those "Emergency Power To [Subsystem]"
Since you use mostly energy weapons, the "Energy Weapons Officer" has some variants that you might like. Some reduce cooldown on "Fire At Will" and "Beam Overload". There is a tanky variant that boost your Shield Power Levels when you fire.
"Conn Officer" variants can boost your "Attack Pattern" skills, which give several buffs or debuff depending on attack pattern. Some variants drop the cooldown on "Evasive Maneuvers" which means higher defense and turn rate.
"Astrometrics Scientist" variants can add extra heals when using "Hazard Emitters", which is an ability every ship should have slotted anyway.
On a side-note, if you like Gravity Well, the Dyson Reputation has a torpedo that creates them on critical hits.
The prices I see for a purple Gravimetric Scientist don't seem worth it to me relating to Gravity Wells. 10% chance for a fourth modifier at 10 times or more the prices of blues. Blue version is just working out fine for me and I paid 350,000 EC for it. One or two nights of Admiralty. And I could do just fine in the game without the blue one as there is only 25% chance for the first modifier gets kicked off. I focused my time, energy and funds on Control Expertise and EPG related components, captain traits and ship traits to make Gravity Well strong as well as having decent weapons for backup and lots of set bonuses to back those two up. Doffing is just something a little extra.
From what I see playing this game, doffs are just small pieces of the build, not adding much to it. They don't make a huge difference on a build, just a small one. Boffs and how you set are them up and use them as well as the synergism you have between the space and weapon components along with captain skills and your own piloting skills are the most important things for a build. Of course having everything between XII and XIV doesn't hurt either, preferably purple.
Energy weapons officer that offer extra critH or critD or boost shield power are very good because you can stack three of them, some doffs stack and others are one only. The crit buffing ones are really expensive now, they are genuine difference makers if you've got 35m+ spare each just for blues, loading up with those can give you up to an extra 10% dps, find another doff that can do that.
Cooldown boosting doffs are obviously more useful if you've not got a lot of other cooldown boosts running, or if you do have boosts and want that bit more so a single copy of a power hits global. On an arbiter its nice to have epw3 and enough cooldown to keep it up.
The arbiter is cursed with an commander eng slot, rsp + doff is a good option for that, the alternative commander power is probably auxtosif for which there is no really good doff.
I stopped with the extra grav well doff as stuff would usually be blown up.
Quartermaster battery doff can be good if you spam batteries trying for perfect runs with those +20% damage batteries. Maybe not an everyday item but useful for peak deeps.
I've long like the aux2damp doff, matter-anti matter specialist which lengthens a2d and adds bonus energy resistance, the arbiter has 4 eng slots to fill and with cooldown reduction an extended a2d has very high up-time. I'd recommend having one of those on the roster even if not using it for a particular build.
If using the trait that adds damage boost to brace for impact, you'll be spammin B4I in which case adding the hazard system doff adds some damage resistance - not great but there is synergy.
I haven't tried the K13 doffs that can boost ship skill stat, suppose they are like a poor man's Inspirational Leader.
Tractor repulsor pull is a long time favourite of dpsers as it bunches spheres for more deeps, but is expensive, produces aggro and prompts replacing grav well with repulsors.
Deflector ability recharge doff can be good if you've loaded up with grav well and dsrb, these synergise well with an arbiter running dbb, faw and maybe kemo. That higlights the issue of boff seats trade-offs, either you get deflector abilities by going sci with the universal or go more tac/intel and lose grav well, if they'd only had a ltcomsci and ltcomeng and ltcomuniv it would have been perfect.
People used to load up with WCE and DCE to maximise eptx, this has become redundant with Leech, literal power creep and cooldown boosts, we'll see if its quite so redundant after balancing.
The game does a really poor job of teaching that. It used to be a lot worse. Power creep has allowed people with even poorly set-up builds to perform decently enough to get through content, these days. But in the past if you just did whatever* (the game never told you "that might not be a good idea"), you could have a really hard time with content and probably be the cause of most queued mission failures.
* As a fleet leader I actually still get the occasional newby that didn't realize that using beams of all different damage types and using the console that boosts beams was worse than choosing one damage type and using consoles specifically for that. (As well as other equally crazy build issues.)
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The guy that makes Reverse Shield Polarity last longer looks really good. I'll probably use the doff that reduces cooldown on GW...but I have little experience with other offensive Sci abilities so I'm open to suggestions.
Maybe the cooldown reduction for Emer Power to Weapons to work with Emergency Weapons Cycle. I also have Temporal Ally, Invincible, and Supremacy...but I don't know which traits are best to use either.
I have a Na'kuhl doff that has a chance of applying hull heal for my damage, triggered by using Tac abilities.
When I looked at doffs a couple of years I ago I somehow came to the conclusion that doffs who buff Torps were better than the ones that buff Energy weapons and this was way before I tried my Torp build.
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Took me quiet some time over the weekend but I already adjusted my 10 builds. Glad I can put all those expensive doffs I got the past years to work again.
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This old and does not allow for other sources of cooldown reduction.
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Peak Efficiency trait could really help lessen the cost, but that requires your ship be at least at 80% health. The comes from the Vonph lockbox ship, currently going for a min of 150m EC, this could jump in price.
Given the reduction to Attrition Warfare and Plasmonic Leech, I can see this becoming an attractive choice again. It's certainly a good basic tactic, especially if you've got a big cruiser with multiple Lt / Lt Cdr eng slots.