Thoughts or Advice on Current build?

bcstar · November 2020

Currently my character is lvl 31, aside from the having the Torp from the science ship for the full set of Polaron from Time and Tide, I could use some friendly opinions on my current build. My character is also a science class. overall I think I am done. Oh I will need one engineering console not 100% what to put there. The ship is pretty nice IMO small but wow it can pack a punch now. Thanks! Oh and trying to figure out how to post the pic, so if I mess up sorry lol,

Edit: Sorry for the last link this one might work lol

https://flic.kr/p/2kabXkr

tom61sto · November 2020

Looks decent, mixing cannons and beams should be avoided at higher levels (without a very specific reason,) but don't sweat things much until probably about level 50 when you start to have access to more stuff and things start getting harder. Most people don't even bother until after all the missions are complete, when you'll have been at the level 65 cap for a while, but there's some gotchas in there like the Vaadwaur and the rising difficultly can hit less prepared players hard even besides that arc.

bcstar · November 2020

tom61sto wrote: »

Looks decent, mixing cannons and beams should be avoided at higher levels (without a very specific reason,) but don't sweat things much until probably about level 50 when you start to have access to more stuff and things start getting harder. Most people don't even bother until after all the missions are complete, when you'll have been at the level 65 cap for a while, but there's some gotchas in there like the Vaadwaur and the rising difficultly can hit less prepared players hard even besides that arc.

I was kind of wondering about the cannons, maybe ill run Time and Tide again for the beams see how it does in that slot. Thanks!

protoneous · November 2020

More power to weapons

bcstar · November 2020

protoneous wrote: »

More power to weapons

Bahaha!! but After just running Time and Tide... Again, I am thinking replacing the duel beams with beam banks instead.

protoneous · November 2020

bcstar wrote: »

protoneous wrote: »

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More power to weapons

Bahaha!! but After just running Time and Tide... Again, I am thinking replacing the duel beams with beam banks instead.

Beam arrays for sure! Polaron is very well supported in-game and you already have a lot of the good pieces.

bcstar · November 2020

protoneous wrote: »

bcstar wrote: »

protoneous wrote: »

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More power to weapons

Bahaha!! but After just running Time and Tide... Again, I am thinking replacing the duel beams with beam banks instead.

Beam arrays for sure! Polaron is very well supported in-game and you already have a lot of the good pieces.

I just need one more beam array, then I will post a pic of the loadout!

bcstar · November 2020

Ok so this is the new loadout I like it a lot more for sure!

https://flic.kr/p/2kad7Mk

EDIT: one question does beam placement make a difference? should they all be in a row or how it is currently set up??

tom61sto · November 2020

Since you seem to be running autofire, they'll fire off in the order you right-clicked them. The fire order shouldn't matter much for you at the moment and only rarely does on beam boats in my experience. Only things that might matter for order is if you're running a weapon more powerful than the rest - like the Terran Task Force weapon [project only, not the drops] would potentially do better with maxed weapon power by being the first to fire, or you need things to fire off in a certain order like having auto-fire on for a torp build where certain torps handle things like Torpedo Spread or High Yield better.

bcstar · November 2020

tom61sto wrote: »

Since you seem to be running autofire, they'll fire off in the order you right-clicked them. The fire order shouldn't matter much for you at the moment and only rarely does on beam boats in my experience. Only things that might matter for order is if you're running a weapon more powerful than the rest - like the Terran Task Force weapon [project only, not the drops] would potentially do better with maxed weapon power by being the first to fire, or you need things to fire off in a certain order like having auto-fire on for a torp build where certain torps handle things like Torpedo Spread or High Yield better.

AHH ok thanks that makes more sense.

bcstar · November 2020

westmetals wrote: »

As for placement.... if you did not click the autofire into place (some people forget that new ships have come with it automatically active for the last several months).... the default order is left to right.

My advice is to place the most powerful energy weapons to the left, just in case you have power issues (though that shouldn't be a problem), and if you are also using torpedoes, you should only use one and it should be in the far right slot. This is because (a) shields eat torpedo damage, and in this slot you have a slightly higher chance of hitting an unshielded target due to your energy weapons having just fired, and (b) torpedoes have a shared cooldown, unlike energy weapons, so having more than one can impact their firing speed.

Also.... you CAN use two omni beam weapons, you just need the second one to not be part of a set (so probably an R&D produced one).

Yeah I have it set now the torp is to the the right, and as for the omni R&D that is my plan once I hit fleet Admiral, My JH can craft them.

EDIT: So now that I have the build I want its a debate for me between these 4 ships on what to main, Personally however, it is more between the Miracle Worker, The Titan, or My Little Romulan ship. I am in the process of grinding out there traits. but. When I T6X the MW and titan there will be so many console slots to fill... I honestly cant decide LOL

https://flic.kr/p/2kabXf2

foxrockssocks · November 2020

I need to point out you may not realize that the game is pretty easy at your level. You're starting to get into more difficult content due to the scaling, but you're going to feel the game being very different once you get past 50. You also then have reputations to deal with. If you want to stick with polaron, though, you'll want to look at Lukari and Gamma reputation equipment.

bcstar · November 2020

foxrockssocks wrote: »

I need to point out you may not realize that the game is pretty easy at your level. You're starting to get into more difficult content due to the scaling, but you're going to feel the game being very different once you get past 50. You also then have reputations to deal with. If you want to stick with polaron, though, you'll want to look at Lukari and Gamma reputation equipment.

Oh ok thanks for the tip!

nixie50 · November 2020

Just as an FYI, STOAcademy.com has a build tool, so folks can see not only the build but traits and skills, boff placements.. all of it

bcstar · November 2020

nixie50 wrote: »

Just as an FYI, STOAcademy.com has a build tool, so folks can see not only the build but traits and skills, boff placements.. all of it

any chance you have a link? i cant seem to find the tool for it. thanks!

peterconnorfirst · November 2020

bcstar wrote: »

nixie50 wrote: »

Just as an FYI, STOAcademy.com has a build tool, so folks can see not only the build but traits and skills, boff placements.. all of it

any chance you have a link? i cant seem to find the tool for it. thanks!

https://skillplanner.stoacademy.com/

think you can make an account for it here:

https://www.stoacademy.com/account/join.php

bcstar · November 2020

peterconnorfirst wrote: »

bcstar wrote: »

nixie50 wrote: »

Just as an FYI, STOAcademy.com has a build tool, so folks can see not only the build but traits and skills, boff placements.. all of it

any chance you have a link? i cant seem to find the tool for it. thanks!

https://skillplanner.stoacademy.com/

think you can make an account for it here:

https://www.stoacademy.com/account/join.php

Awesome Thanks! here is the latest picture then, ill work on the planer. but I think I am done collecting gear now. Now its a matter of upgrading it all.

https://flic.kr/p/2kawV5D

peterconnorfirst · November 2020

bcstar wrote: »

peterconnorfirst wrote: »

bcstar wrote: »

nixie50 wrote: »

Just as an FYI, STOAcademy.com has a build tool, so folks can see not only the build but traits and skills, boff placements.. all of it

any chance you have a link? i cant seem to find the tool for it. thanks!

https://skillplanner.stoacademy.com/

think you can make an account for it here:

https://www.stoacademy.com/account/join.php

Awesome Thanks! here is the latest picture then, ill work on the planer. but I think I am done collecting gear now. Now its a matter of upgrading it all.

https://flic.kr/p/2kawV5D

I understand. Most peeps have the habbit to focus on gear as it is so expencive to upgrade. Important to make the right call and from the looks you are on the right track. With boffs/doffs and traits its just one part of it all though though.

No idea how much you like to min max. In your build I see two directions. One more of a EPG, the other more of a energy weapon path. This works ok unless you aim for top DPS at which point you would need to prioritize.

Feel free to look up the universal building guidelines from the league. Here is the one for beam builds which also has a polaron example given.

https://www.sto-league.com/beam-ships-in-the-current-century/

bcstar · November 2020

peterconnorfirst wrote: »

bcstar wrote: »

peterconnorfirst wrote: »

bcstar wrote: »

nixie50 wrote: »

Just as an FYI, STOAcademy.com has a build tool, so folks can see not only the build but traits and skills, boff placements.. all of it

any chance you have a link? i cant seem to find the tool for it. thanks!

https://skillplanner.stoacademy.com/

think you can make an account for it here:

https://www.stoacademy.com/account/join.php

Awesome Thanks! here is the latest picture then, ill work on the planer. but I think I am done collecting gear now. Now its a matter of upgrading it all.

https://flic.kr/p/2kawV5D

I understand. Most peeps have the habbit to focus on gear as it is so expencive to upgrade. Important to make the right call and from the looks you are on the right track. With boffs/doffs and traits its just one part of it all though though.

Feel free to look up the universal building guidelines from the league. Here is the one for beam builds which also has a polaron example given.

https://www.sto-league.com/beam-ships-in-the-current-century/

Awesome and Thanks, and that is part of what I plan to do work on Boffs, Doffs, Ship traits, Rep, etc etc. it is interesting however that all that changes depending on your ship. But I have about 20 ships to get all their traits for. so bit of a grind to go yet!! Oh and upgrading them all Woo!

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