Today I learned that I can’t install fleet tactical consoles on my escort carrier because I’ve already got some engineering consoles that are made for fighters (I forget the name).

Which begs the question, in what other instances can you not install console X if you already have console Y?

I have a general idea of what I want to do with it, but no clue how to build, my damage is always low and my Durability is lacking. I would like to at-least get something advanced worthy. My budget isn't the greatest at this brief moment. Anything would do really.

I am completely willing to gut the ship and start from scratch.

# SPACE BUILD

**Basic Information** | **Data**

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*Ship Name* | I.K.S. Please Help.

*Ship Class* | Legendary Bortasqu' Command Battlecruiser

*Ship Tier* | T6-X2

*Player Career* | Tactical

*Elite Captain* | ✓

*Player Species* | Ferasan

*Primary Specialization* | Miracle Worker

*Secondary Specialization* | Commando

## Build Description

Attempting to make a kinetic torp - cannon hybrid

## Ship Equipment

**Basic Information**|**Component**|**Notes**

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**Fore Weapons**|[Dark Matter Quantum Torpedo Launcher Mk XV ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Lorca's_Ambition)||)

 |[Disruptor Dual Heavy Cannons Mk XIV ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Disruptor_weapons_(space))|)|)

 |[Rapid-Linked Disruptor Quad Cannons Mk XV ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Rapid-Linked_Disruptor_Quad_Cannons)||)

 |[Disruptor Dual Heavy Cannons Mk XIV ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Disruptor_weapons_(space))|)|)

 |[Photon Torpedo Launcher Mk XV ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Photon_Torpedo_Launcher)||)

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**Aft Weapons**|[Photon Torpedo Launcher ∞ ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Photon_Torpedo_Launcher)||)

 |[Disruptor Turret Mk XII ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Disruptor_weapons_(space))|)|)

 |[Disruptor Turret Mk XII ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Disruptor_weapons_(space))|)|)

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**Deflector**|[Elite Fleet Intervention Protomatter Deflector Array Mk XV [ColCrit][CtrlX][CtrlX][Sh/HullCap]](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Fleet_Deflector_Array)||)

**Impulse Engines**|[Elite Fleet Efficient Combat Impulse Engines Mk XIV [Pow][Spd][Turn][Turn]](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Fleet_Engines)||)

**Warp**|[Elite Fleet Isolated Protomatter Warp Core Mk XIV ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Fleet_Warp_Cores)||)

**Shield**|[Elite Fleet Adaptive Covariant Shield Array Mk XIII ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Fleet_Space_Shields)||)

**Devices**||

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**Universal Consoles**||

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**Engineering Consoles**|[Console - Universal - Disruptor Autocannon ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Bortasqu'_Cruiser_Set)||)

 |[Console - Universal - HoH'SuS Bird-of-Prey ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Bortasqu'_Cruiser_Set)||)

 |[Console - Universal - Subspace Snare ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Bortasqu'_Cruiser_Set)||)

 |[Console - Universal - Tricobalt Tear Launcher ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Console_-_Universal_-_Tricobalt_Tear_Launcher)||)

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**Science Consoles**|[Console - Universal - Sequential Warhead Loader ∞ ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Universal_-_Console_-_Sequential_Warhead_Loader)||)

 |[Console - Universal - Covert Warhead Module ∞ ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Console_-_Universal_-_Covert_Warhead_Module)||)

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**Tactical Consoles**|[Console - Advanced Tactical - Vulnerability Locator Mk XIV [Cannons]](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Fleet_Tactical_Consoles)||)

 |[Console - Advanced Tactical - Vulnerability Locator Mk XIV [Cannons]](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Fleet_Tactical_Consoles)||)

 |[Console - Advanced Tactical - Vulnerability Locator Mk XIII [Torpedo]](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Fleet_Tactical_Consoles)||)

 |[Console - Advanced Tactical - Vulnerability Locator Mk XIII [Torpedo]](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Fleet_Tactical_Consoles)||)

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## Bridge Officer Stations

**Profession**|**Power**|**Notes**

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**Commander Engineering / Command**|[Emergency Power to Weapons](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Ability:_Emergency_Power_to_Weapons)||)

 |[Auxiliary Power to the Structural Integrity Field](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Ability:_Auxiliary_Power_to_the_Structural_Integrity_Field)||)

 |[Concentrate Firepower](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Ability:_Concentrate_Firepower)||)

 |[Call Emergency Artillery](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Ability:_Call_Emergency_Artillery)||)

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**Lieutenant Commander Science**|[Tractor Beam](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Ability:_Tractor_Beam)||)

 |[Hazard Emitters](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Ability:_Hazard_Emitters)||)

 |[Photonic Officer](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Ability:_Photonic_Officer)||)

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**Lieutenant Commander Tactical / Intelligence**|[Evade Target Lock](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Ability:_Evade_Target_Lock)||)

 |[Cannons: Scatter Volley](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Ability:_Cannons:_Scatter_Volley)||)

 |[Torpedoes: Spread](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Ability:_Torpedoes:_Spread)||)

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**Lieutenant Tactical**|[Kemocite-Laced Weaponry](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Ability:_Kemocite-Laced_Weaponry)||)

 |[Dispersal Pattern Beta](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Ability:_Dispersal_Pattern_Beta)||)

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**Ensign Science**|[Jam Targeting Sensors](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Ability:_Jam_Targeting_Sensors)||)

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## Traits

**Starship Traits**|**Notes**

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[Superior Area Denial](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Superior_Area_Denial)||)

[Super Charged Weapons](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Super_Charged_Weapons)||)

[Entwined Tactical Matrices](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Entwined_Tactical_Matrices)||)

[Thirst for Battle](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Thirst_for_Battle)||)

[Emergency Weapon Cycle](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Emergency_Weapon_Cycle)||)

[Piercing Projectiles](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Piercing_Projectiles)||)

[Carrier Wave Shield Hacking](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Carrier_Wave_Shield_Hacking)||)

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**Personal Space Traits**|**Notes**

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[Bulkhead Technician](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Bulkhead_Technician)||)

[The Boimler Effect](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_The_Boimler_Effect)||)

[Breen Shield Tunneling](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Breen_Shield_Tunneling)||)

[Projectile Training](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Projectile_Training)||)

[Ablative Shell](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Ablative_Shell)||)

[Cannon Training](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Cannon_Training)||)

[Fleet Coordinator](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Fleet_Coordinator)||)

[Intelligence Agent Attaché](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Intelligence_Agent_Attaché)||)

[Impact Defense Specialist](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Impact_Defense_Specialist)||)

[Resonating Payload Modification](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Resonating_Payload_Modification)||)

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**Space Reputation Traits**|**Notes**

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**Active Space Reputation Traits**|**Notes**

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## Active Space Duty Officers

**Specialization**|**Power**|**Notes**

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[Projectile Weapons Officer](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Specialization:_Projectile_Weapons_Officer)|[SP]|[SP]) Chance to reduce the time to recharge torpedoes|

[Projectile Weapons Officer](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Specialization:_Projectile_Weapons_Officer)|[SP]|[SP]) Chance to reduce the time to recharge torpedoes|

[Projectile Weapons Officer](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Specialization:_Projectile_Weapons_Officer)|[SP]|[SP]) Chance to reduce the time to recharge torpedoes|

Hi Everybody,

I'd like to replace my Reverse Shield Polarity for a seventh UnCon trigger on my Noble Intel Battlecruiser.

Unfortunately, when I've tried this before, I tend to die much more often. Other than RSP, I have the DPRM and Context Is for Kings and Whole Lotta X's for defense.

I feel like there are other things I could do, but it would impact my DPS overall.

Additionally, I know I'm probably shooting myself in the foot by devoting a lot to the Maelstrom torpedo, but I do really get a kick out of using it on this build.

Build: https://imgur.com/a/srcS7YN

I'm quite sure that I'm missing some glaring flaws here, but I've been trying to make this ship at least something close to optimised. Obviously the next step is bringing up the level and quality of some of the gear, but I thought it might be a good idea to open for comments before I spend all my upgrades.

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                |   Console - Universal - Dragonsblood Flame Reactor            |   Conical fire damage. Passive exotic and disruptor damage.           

-------------- | -------------- | -------------- Hangars: 2 | Hangar - Elite Type 7 Shuttlecraft |     | Hangar - Elite Type 7 Shuttlecraft |  

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Hey stobuilds, long time no see. I recently did some testing to nail down exactly how hangar recharge times work, and found some quirky stuff that was worth sharing. I posted this on the stobuilds discord a couple months ago, but figured I'd post it here where its more findable.

Before we start talking hangars, let's talk about cooldown reduction in general. There are two types of cooldown reduction: I like to call them passive cooldown reduction and active cooldown reduction.

• Passive cooldown reduction (aka increased cooldown rate): This is an additively-stacking stat that reduces cooldowns by a factor of 1/(1+x). For example, 100% increased cooldown rate for a 30 second cooldown would result in 30 x (1 / (1+1.00)) = 30/2 = 15. Some instances of it in STO are: The Tactical/Engineering/Scientific Readiness Skills, Chrono-Capacitor Array, Endeavour perks, and the Eleos console. The game sometimes calls these "increased cooldown rate" (which is a more correct name for it than cooldown reduction), but its not consistent. An easy way to check is to look at open your Available Skills menu (default keybind P) - cooldowns displayed there will respect passive cooldown reduction.
• Active cooldown reduction: When triggered, this knocks a chunk off of an already-running cooldown. The math behind it is more intuitive - if it says it's reducing your cooldown by 50%, then it really is knocking off half the cooldown. Some instances in STO are: Photonic Officer, Boimler Effect, the Vovin console, Aux2Bat Technicians. Because this is an effect that takes place in an instant, rather than a persistent passive effect, you will not see these reflected in the Available Skills menu. ("But isn't Photonic Officer a persistent effect?" yeah okay kinda, but it's really just a series of instantaneous effects, spaced 1s apart.)

Bringing things back to hangars, we have three main sources of hangar cooldown reduction to look at:

• Aux power's innate effect
• The "Quick Deployment" mastery perk that all 2-hangar ships have
• Flight Deck Officers

Aux Power's Innate Effect

This is a source of passive cooldown reduction. It's simply a % increased cooldown rate equal to your current Aux power. 130 Aux = 130% increased cooldown rate. Easy peasy.

Quick Deployment mastery perk

This is also passive cooldown reduction, which means it is additive with the innate Aux effect. Its often documented as "20% recharge time reduction", but it actually scales with your Aux power. The formula is 20 + Aux/3. So 0 Aux = 20%, 50 Aux = 37%, 100 Aux = 53%, etc.

• Quirk #1: Here's where it gets funky. It doesn't use your current Aux. Instead it snapshots your Aux when you enter the map. (If you check the tooltip, it will lie to you and scale dynamically with your current Aux.)
• Quirk #2: It doesn't count all of your sources of additional Aux power. (My guess is that the snapshot happens before those have loaded in, but that's just speculation.) From what I tested, it does count innate Aux bonuses from the ship you're flying, but it did not include Aux from my skill tree, or Aux from one console that I tested.

Putting It Together

STARTING_AUX: your aux power setting when you entered the map, excluding all bonuses except your ship's innate aux bonus (if any)
CURRENT_AUX: your actual current aux power level
BASE_COOLDOWN: the default cooldown of your hangar pet of choice. This is usually 30s or 40s, but there are a few outliers.

AUX_INNATE = CURRENT_AUX / 100
QUICK_DEPLOYMENT* = (20 + STARTING_AUX / 3) / 100

Hangar Cooldown = BASE_COOLDOWN / (1 + AUX_INNATE + QUICK_DEPLOYMENT)

*Exclude Quick Deployment if your ship's mastery package does not include it. I believe its accurate to say all 2-hangar ships have it, and no 1-hangar ships do

Flight Deck Officers

These are active cooldown reduction, triggered by deploying a hangar pet. Depending on their rarity, they knock 1/2/3/4 seconds off the cooldown of BOTH hangars when either hangar launches. So if you have 3x purple FDOs, and two hangars, then you're basically getting 4s x 3 doffs x 2 hangars = 24 seconds off your cooldowns each cycle. Or you would, except... here's where the quirks roll in:

• Quirk #1: Y'know all that passive cooldown reduction we've been talking about from Aux and from Quick Deployment? That all applies to the Flight Deck Officers too. Only this time instead of reducing cooldowns, it's reducing the cooldown reduction. In other words, it's making the FDOs less effective. If you have enough passive cooldown reduction to drop your hangar cooldowns by, say, 30%, then you're also reducing the FDO benefit by 30%, from 4s each to 2.8s each. Before the pitchforks come out - this is still a benefit. Just not as much of a benefit as is printed on the box. If you're reading this and starting to worry that high Aux is hurting you, then don't:
  • If your hangar pet's base cooldown is greater than the base FDO reduction (which is true for all but 2 hangar pets), then the benefit from Aux to your base cooldown is greater than the negative impact of Aux on the FDOs.
  • And for those other 2 hangar pets (Lost Souls and House Mokai Raiders), the FDOs are pushing your cooldowns below 0 regardless. It does mean that you can invest less Aux and still achieve the same result though, so that's something. Speaking of pushing cooldowns to 0...
• Quirk #2: FDOs take effect about 1 second after the hangar launches. Because of this, they can never completely eliminate hangar recharge times - they'll always be around 1s at minimum.

Hi All,

I feel like an idiot asking this, but how do I use the Dilithium Transporter off the Credence? I got it a few weeks ago, but I haven't gotten as much out of it as I expected. I parse about 40k DPS with it, though most people I've seen get or exceed 100k using it.

My current use: in ISE, I hit the Agony Redistributor, followed by the Transporter, then CSV.
Previous use: in ISE, I'd hit the Transporter before the timer ran out and we engaged the Borg.

UPDATE: As requested, this is my build: https://imgur.com/a/2nXo1XH
I'm sorry I didn't use the form, but I'm still adjusting to monocular vision, and the form was tough on my remaining eye.

As I’ve been developing my Klingon Defense Force character, one of the things that I wanted to build was a cheaper carrier. Sure, we can slap Superior Area Denial and 2 bays of Rare To’Duj Squadrons on any 2-bays of ships and call it a carrier, but doing that and funding all the relevant active console effects to boost pets gets very expensive. I wanted to do something cheaper and since I was doing it on the KDF, focus more on either neutral or KDF-themed pets. No Valors, Valkyries, or Peregrines here!

Since I went to the trouble of doing all the testing, I figured I would share my results. The tests were solo ISA (no team shenanigans!) and solo Elite Argala (Wanted). Since hangar pet testing is strictly empirical, all tests were done 3x on each map. “Hangar DPS” refers to the DPS contributed by the slotted pet itself. For Scorpions, that does include their destructible torpedoes. “Pet DPS” refers to all other sources of pet-related DPS, including Gemini Device’s active, Nimbus Pirates Distress Call, Swarmer Matrix active, Target That Explosion (if applicable), Engage the Hydra, and Repurposed Cargo Bay Hangar.

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I am intentionally not using Superior Area Denial on my planned build to keep the costs down, but since I know the first question someone is going to ask is “But what if you do have Superior Area Denial?” let me just go ahead and answer that question pre-emptively, at least for the oft-recommended Rare To’Duj Squadrons, the regular Rare To’Duj Fighters as a baseline, Elite Nausicaan Stingers, and Elite Qaw’Dun Birds of Prey which are newly unlocked. We have plenty of historical data showing Obelisk Swarmers and Elite Scorpions are not competitive with To’Duj under SAD. For these runs, Fire at Will and Superior Area Denial replaced Reroute Power From Life Support and Target That Explosion.

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The second question I expect is, what build were you using, and the team is not ready to do another big publish of the site for a while, so I can’t point you to a page . . . yet. However, I can say it’s a Fleet Orion Blackguard Carrier, and the relevant carrier-boosting items are Strike Group Command Authority, the H.Y.D.R.A. console, Relaunch and Repair, High Energy Communications Network, Wing Commander, Independent Wingmate, Fleet Power Network Array, Repurposed Cargo Bay Hangar, Gemini Device, and 4 Hangar Craft Power Transmission consoles, along with the Iconian 3-piece and 3 Flight Deck Officers for hangar bay recharge. The rest is a fairly vanilla Disruptor Cannon Scatter Volley build with passive cooldown reduction.

Conclusions

Without SAD, Elite Stingers > Elite Obelisk Swarmers > Elite Scorpions = Rare To’Duj Squadrons >= Elite Qaw’Dun Frigates = Rare To’Duj Squadrons

Of course, you have to expend Fleet Ship Modules or buy a C-store ship for Stingers, but they’re quite capable pets. I would expect a similar ranking to hold true for the two Federation equivalents, where Elite Valkyries = Elite Stingers, Peregrines = To’Duj.

Scorpions were swingy between ISA and Wanted, because so much of their damage comes from High Yield Plasma Torps, which are great on unshielded targets and much less so against shielded Kazon Cruisers and Carriers.

This changes appreciably with Superior Area Denial, or so the conventional wisdom goes. We’ve all seen it: “Slot Rare To’Duj Squadrons with SAD!” Well…it’s still true! They were 7K higher on ISA and nearly 20K better on Argala. As far as the difference between them on the different maps, I have some thoughts on that.

Time for some informed speculation! To’Duj Squadrons have disruptor pulse cannons and micro photon torpedoes. Pottsey and I have previously discussed the latter, and the micro photons do not benefit from Concentrate Firepower. Nausicaan Stingers lack a firing mode, but come innately with Emergency Power to Weapons, Torpedo High Yield, regular Photons, and both beams and cannons. Parse analysis showed that at least half of the Stingers’ damage on ISA was actually from torps, not their energy weapons. I also have a shield offline console (Chronophage), which when used on juicy targets, means that my pet torps are hitting a lot harder on ISA with its higher number of unshielded targets, whereas To’Duj are more consistent with energy DPS.

The Qaw’Dun Birds of Prey pets sadly are just not up to snuff; even on runs where the overall DPS was decent, they weren’t contributing nearly as much as the other pets.

TL;DR

• Best non-SAD pet for a carrier was Elite Nausicaan Stingers (probably also true of Valkyries) of those I tested. Obtainable via fleet ship for “free” using Fleet Ship Modules from reputations.

• Elite Obelisk Swarmers best non-SAD pet obtainable without buying a ship.

• Elite Qaw’Dun Birds of Prey were not great. I occasionally noticed them flying off to Narnia instead of shooting.

• Best SAD pet for a carrier was still Rare To’Duj Squadrons of those I tested. Elite Nausicaan Stingers were the runner up. The regular Rare To’Duj fighters are much worse, make sure you use Squadrons.

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I have a list of universal consoles I’ve acquired, I wanted to know which ones are must haves and which ones I can live without. Any advice is appreciated.
Edit: any consoles I should add? I forgot to add reiterative structural capacitor to the list.

1. Fleet power network array
2. DPRM
3. Immolating phaser lance (for universal design trait)
4. Subspace fracture tunneling field
5. VAQ console
6. Micro-quantum torpedoes phalanx array
7. Agony redistributor
8. Adaptive emergency systems

9. Genesis seed

10. Broadside emitter array

11. Gemini device

12. Proton eruptor module

13. Krenim cronophage

14. Particle conversion matrix

15. Evolved

Looking for improvement suggestions. Noted weakensses: Boffs and Doffs. will get watchers or SROs eventually suggestions for DOFFS Chronometric set.. considerin morhogenic 2 pc

Considering dropping one of the focuser and using a bellom generator, same EPG, CtrlX is still above 400 i pick up 1.6 crit chance EDIT Warp Theorist replaced by Enlightened

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    Hoping to unlock someday when fleet gets around to promoting me. Suggestions?
Assault Formation Theta | Attack Pattern Omega, Decloaking grants Torpedo High Yield, Weapon Crit Chance, Turn Rate |  
Subspatial Warheads | While slotted, damage caused by your Torpedo: High Yield Torpedoes and Torpedo: Transport Warhead will cause an Isolytic Tear to form near the damaged target. This anomaly will chase down the nearest foe, causing physical damage and draining engine subsystem power to any enemies it encounters.. |  

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Did a quick run of Wanted Elite for 169,977 DPS

I’m returning to the game after a long break and I’ve been researching builds for the Typhon Escort Carrier. Currently leaning towards phaser cannons and fighters.

The issue: I’m trying to find a single source to compare builds that are: f2p, budget, having access to a fleet and without access to a fleet.

Quick question. I’m working on a carrier and am gonna use the obelisk 4 piece set which means I need to use the experimental antiproton omni. I like my weapon energy types to match so what’s considered the best antiproton options? I’ve a lot of ba’ul ones, both dual banks and dual heavy cannons. I also have a lot of the set piece ones with partial to complete sets to match. I’m using the jem vanguard carrier so only 6 slots and the experimental AP omni has already claimed one of the aft slots. What do you guys think? I could run phasers too as I’ve a good variety of them but then I’d have one AP things throwing off. Polaron could be fun too since it’s a jem ship and I love being on theme when possible/viable. I don’t have twinkling lights but could probably grab it if enough people recommend it. Thoughts?

I’ve got a lot of things for it already but among what I’m missing are two I’m trying to decide on which to get first. I’ve only got the credits for one for the moment and was hoping you guys could offer some advice.

The first option is the final console for the Obelisk 4-piece set that acts almost like an extra little hangar for obelisk swarmers.

The other is the Hivebearer starship trait from the hur’q assembly multi-mission science vessel which spawns up to 8 hur’q swarmers.

I already have the Typhon trait among some of the other good carrier traits (don’t have the king of superior area denial but I’ve some other good options). Personally I’m leaning toward obelisk set but was curious if anyone could tell me if one of these two was considerably better than the other. Thanks!

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I think I've gotten this as good as I can, but I'm probably missing a trick or two. The goal is just to be a little more comfortable with when random TFO's pop up with Korfez Elite. Special thanks to PuzzledBowler4044 for recommending maramakescontent's fawoverlord build, the beam overload takes out targets and the faw saves me from torpedoes.

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This writeup will cover Singularity Cores, which are the special cores exclusive to Romulan warbirds used instead of regular Warp Cores. The legwork on this was mostly done by Tilor, with some light editing/clarification from myself.

As a reminder, Romulan ships with singularity cores have a mere 160 power to allocate to subsystems instead of the usual 200 for ships with warp cores, and they gain singularity core abilities instead. That’s a lot of subsystem power to lose, so what are we getting in the tradeoff?

Basic Mechanics

Singularity Cores have Singularity Abilities that can be used at different levels, which are driven by singularity power. Using a Singularity ability at higher level results in a more effective ability, but it takes longer to ramp up.

• Singularity Level scales from 0 thru 5, with 5 being the max.

• Singularity Power - 0 thru 100, with every 20 increasing Singularity Level by 1. Bleeds off at a rate of about 1 per second out of combat (~95s from 100 to 0). When in combat, gain 20 per 12 seconds. This equates to 60s to from 0 to 100.

Once a Singularity Ability is used, the Singularity Lockout is triggered. After using a Singularity Power, the Singularity system goes on a 60s cooldown during which you cannot gain any Singularity Power or activate any Singularity abilities. Using Singularity abilities at lower ranks will make for a shorter Singularity Lockout.

Singularity Uptime Mechanics

Okay, now we understand that Singularity Power increases in level during combat, scaling up our Singularity abilities. Once we use a Singularity ability, it goes on cooldown. Just like we can modify bridge officer, captain ability, and console cooldowns, we can also reduce the cooldown of Singularity abilities. We’re going to broadly group all of the effects that modify Singularity Core Abilities (SCA) uptime together and talk through them.

• Singularity Specialist Personal Trait - Adds the equivalent of 1 whole Singularity Level as a proc with a 20s lockout. The proc chance is 10% at 0 Singularity Power, reduced by 0.1% per Singularity Power (so 2% per Singularity Level: 8% @ 1SL, 6% @ 2SL, etc.)

• Singularity Stabilizer Universal Console - Not only does this generate 2 Singularity Power per second (total 30SP), it also resets the Singularity Lockout upon activation.

• Singularity Inverter Universal Console - This provides a little resistance, but as long as you are taking energy damage, it builds Singularity Power extremely fast. May not be as strong in teamed content, but in solo content, it resulted in a filled Singularity Meter in a matter of seconds. Self-damage does not build any Singularity Power.

• Singularity Distributor Unit Universal Console - Scimitars Only! Decreases penalty from cloaking by 50%... whatever that means.

• Focused Singularity Modulator Universal Console - Locked to Ar’Kif’s only! 50% Singularity Charge rate.

• Enhanced Singularity Circuitry Starship Mastery - Takes about 52 seconds to gain 100 Singularity Power, similar in effectiveness to a SingA Mod. Sets Singularity Lockout to 51s, similar in effectiveness to SingC Mod.

• Warp Core Engineer Duty Officer - Romulan only! 15/20/25% chance to reduce Singularity Lockout by 15s on use of EPtX, chance increases by DOff rarity. These are extremely rare DOffs.

• Energy Weapons Officer Duty Officer - Romulan only! Per wiki since none on exchange, increases charge rate but doesn’t stack with anything. Rate up to 5% with rarity. These are extremely rare DOffs.

• Projectile Weapons Officer Duty Officer - Romulan only! Per wiki since none on exchange, having this officer on duty will allow torpedo weapons to gain a chance to build Singularity Charge. 4/6/8% chance: +10 Singularity Charge when attacking with torpedo weapons (Uncommon/Rare/Very Rare). These are extremely rare DOffs.

• Gravimetric Scientist Duty Officer - Romulan only! Per wiki since none on exchange, having this officer on active duty will allow any accumulated Singularity Power to decay at a slower rate while under the effects of any Cloaking Device. 15/20/25% reduction, scales with rarity. This means being cloaked and out of combat will cause your accumulated Singularity Power to bleed off slower, so very niche. These are extremely rare DOffs.

Singularity Core Modifiers

Singularity Cores have some unique modifiers that substantially affect their behaviors.

At Uncommon, Singularity Cores can benefit from the following mods, with the bottom 3 significantly more impactful to usage of the core:

• [GG] is a CtrlX mod (Graviton Generators a LONG time ago)

• [EPG] is a, you guessed it, EPG modifier increase.

• [PI] is a DrainX mod (Power Insulators a LONG time ago)

• [EPS] is a Starship EPS mod

• [SingS] Singularity Mod - Increases bleed off time while out of combat to ~120s instead of ~95s

• [SingA] Singularity Mod - Takes 54s to gain 100 Singularity Power instead of 60s, so effectively 10%. When combined with ship mastery, takes 46s to gain 100 Singularity Power.

• [SingC] Singularity Mod - Reduces Singularity Lockout to 54s, effectively 10% reduction to lockout. Combined with ship mastery, reduces Singularity Lockout to 45s.

At Rare, Singularity Cores gain a modifier that buffs one of the five possible Singularity Abilities (more on them below). This costs you the standard [X->Y] power transfer buff that warp cores get.

At Very Rare, you get a capacitor mod similar to [WCap], [SCap], etc. which dumps power into the system for 10 seconds and repairs the subsystem if offline. This has limited utility, as do the other special capacitor mods out there like Trajector Jump, which is a 5 km teleport. Singularity Weapons/Shield/Engines/Aux Capacitor drains all Singularity Power, but does not trigger Singularity Lockout

At Ultra Rare, the notable mod is [CON], a Singularity Core Mod that grants 2% chance when hit with Energy Weapons to gain 1 Singularity Level. No lockout, there was one occasion where this proc’d back to back and I gained 2 levels in quick succession.

At Epic, you’ll get the same [W->S] modifier that warp cores get.

Singularity Core Abilities

Let’s lead with the most notable one:

Singularity Overcharge - This is essentially a unique firing mode that makes weapon damage much higher, but independent of weapon power. Increasing ranks of the singularity ability increase duration: 4/7/10/13/16s. This has a 30 second cooldown and triggers a 5s shared cooldown on Singularity Abilities.

Activating Singularity Overcharge will lock out other Energy firing modes as long as it is active: Surgical Strikes, Fire at Will, Scatter Volley, Beam Overload, and Rapid Fire, Exceed Rated Limits and Reroute Reserves to Weapons. However, if you activate Exceed Rated Limits or Reroute Reserves to Weapons first, they do not lock out Singularity Overcharge. This means you can get the benefits of Haste and Singularity Overcharge simultaneously! In order to use this benefit, you’ll want to activate ERL/RRTW and THEN Singularity Overcharge. Since ERL/RRTW merely add Haste and not specific firing mode changes, they will stack with Singularity Overcharge.

Clever readers may want to use Torpedo Spread and Entwined Tactical Matrices to get Fire at Will and Singularity Overcharge, and this will appear to work, but they’ll overwrite each other to no benefit.

Using Isomags and OSS to supercharge Weapon power ends up not being necessary under Singularity Overcharge. This means a consideration would be switching back to Locators/Exploiters much more beneficial, especially given the 20% CrtD from the [SingO] mod. Each Singularity ability has a modifier that buffs it at Rare on the core, and [SingO] is a nice CrtD boost while Overcharge is active.

This whole time we’ve been talking about Singularity Overcharge, but how good are the other 5 Singularity powers? Yes, there are 6 lights powers.

• Singularity Jump is at least situationally useful, both significantly reducing accuracy and teleporting 5km when activated. If you are doing something with PvP, this might have utility, especially with the [Jump] mod to further reduce accuracy. However, that’s a stretch. Burning your Singularity charge for a 5km jump and a small 2km AoE debuff is not very good.

• Quantum Absorption is a really weak heal for how often it’s up, especially considering even 30k Temporary Hull will go fast due to temporary hull not having any resistance. [Res] adds some resistance overall, but it's not enough considering singularity uptime.

• Warp Shadow has a solid uptime as a defensive tool, and the [Shad] modifier makes for some great utility against certain enemy types with High Yield torpedoes. When I tested this power, however, my 100k+ hull generated a bunch of ~10k hull warp shadows that all disappeared very quickly on Normal content. It suffers from a similar problem to Deploy Countermeasures - paper thin hulls pulling a taunt. Regardless, if you’re not using Singularity Overcharge, you’ll likely either use Warp Shadow or Quantum Absorption for defensive purposes.

• Plasma Shockwave is hardly worth talking about - a single shot from a Mk XV plasma cannon does more damage than Plasma Shockwave - its scaling simply hasn’t kept up with the times. [Wave] doesn’t help this either as it’s a 20% chance to disable a subsystem, and Aux and Engines won’t help much at all so it’s closer to a 10% chance of being at all useful, and then the disable is often cleared much faster than the duration it says.

• Finally, Singularity Capacitor (also known as Battery Capacitor) is the final Singularity Power based off the Very Rare modifier and was discussed above. This consumes all of your singularity power to give a boost to subsystem power. With a long fixed cooldown, the application of this is pretty minimal. It is interesting to note that using the Singularity Capacitor drains all of your Singularity Power, but does not lock out the Singularity system.

Maintaining Singularity Abilities

There are three factors when trying to maximize Singularity Overcharge uptime. We’re going to assume you have Enhanced Singularity Circuitry since as far as I can tell, every T5U or T6 with a Singularity Core has this mastery. First, you have to gain 100 Singularity Power. Second, after the first usage of Singularity Overcharge, you have to deal with Singularity Lockout before gaining any Singularity Power again between uses. Third, you have a cooldown on Singularity Overcharge itself.

Using Singularity Overcharge, then Singularity Stabilizer and any other Singularity charging methods is ineffective. Firing weapons while under Singularity Overcharge drains off Singularity Power for the duration. Only once Singularity Overcharge is off can you gain Singularity power again. This means optimal use is to use Singularity Overcharge, wait 16s duration (Rank V), then use Singularity Stabilizer and Singularity Inverter in quick succession. This does mean that your Singularity Stabilizer will be on cooldown longer, but this can be mitigated with Universal Cooldown capabilities.

There is one Singularity Core at Dil Mine and Fleet Spire that has [CON][Oload][SingC], which is the best combo for maxing Singularity Overcharge.

TL;DR

Sorry, there's a lot of ground to cover here.

• Singularity Cores trade subsystem power for abilities that ramp up in combat

• Singularity Cores require power build-up to use and have a lockout after they are used before power can be gained again

• The [SingC] mod is the best way to mitigate the lockout.

• The [CON] mod, and Singularity Stabilizer/Singularity Inverter consoles can help rebuild Singularity power faster after the lockout is used, making these better choices than [SingA].

• Singularity Specialist (personal trait) for Romulan/Reman captains can also help build charges

• Expensive/Rare Romulan doffs can help reduce lockout and improve charge rate; we were not able to test these due to their rarity

• The Singularity Overcharge ability locks out most energy firing modes but can be stacked with Exceed Rated Limits or Reroute Reserves to Weapons if you activate these before the Singularity Overcharge.

• The optimal way to maximize uptime is to use Singularity Overcharge, wait 16s duration (Rank V), then use Singularity Stabilizer and/or Singularity Inverter in quick succession.

• The best mod combo for a Singularity Overcharge build is at the Dil Mine and Fleet Spire with [CON][Oload][SingC]

• If you’re not using Singularity Overcharge, you’ll likely either use Warp Shadow or Quantum Absorption for defensive purposes.

Hello Fellow Jellyrides :)

With the Cnidarian Defender being on sale this year and me looking around the internet for tips and tricks, I found that most builds are old and/or miss key improvements to the Jelly.

So I thought, why not pen down what stuff I found and encourage people to add their own improvements if they find some, this way people can mix and match with what they have on hand and improve their Cnidarian Defender.

Disclaimer: Jelly does not work in all TFO's the ones i noticed so far.

• Battle of Korfez: The Mines will delete you.
• Counterpoint: Terran Cruisers will use unstable warp bubble and kick you out of form, in phase 3+4.
• Battle of the Binary Stars, you can't turn on Jelly mode.
• Battle of Wolf 359, you can't turn on Jelly mode.
• Gravity Kills (you cant make particle runs but defend the ship)

Try having an Alternate ship ready or a Jelly layout with more traditional Weapon/console layout.

Now to the actual "build part", Jelly is quite simple, turn it on~ and watch the numbers fly, but to improve numbers, we can add some passives and actives.

Cursive Text are added Informations thanks to fellow Redditors~

Skills

An EPG-focused build with a backseat in weapons would be optimal for Jelly since we don't want to use our weapons, as most tactical points only boost weapons, which we are not using; however, for normal questing, one might want to set up a more traditional weapon layout since being immobile and hitting like a wet noodle outside "the mode" loses appeal fast for episode content.

In general, since respecing costs money/limited resources, I would recommend not doing it; just keep your daily driver spec that fits the vessel/play style you have used before Jelly and works as your backup.

Specialization

A specialization that works well is Miracle Worker Primary, adding a flat 30% damage to jelly mode with No Risk, No Reward. + all the healing and other boosts.

Personal Space Traits

• Fragment of AI Tech, will increase Jelly mode DPS with a maximum of up to 300 control
• Duelist Favor, adding 15% flat dmg.
• Anchored adding 20% flat dmg. (does work with Pedal to the Metal)
• Fleet Coordination adding 2-10% flat dmg.
• Intel Handler, 4% crit
• Operative, 1% crit and 2% crit severity.
• Unconventional Systems, Teleport CD management)
• Boimler Effect, Boff CD managment

Starship Traits

• Five Magicks 15-34.5% electrical dmg (maxes with 130 Engine Power) (also Disruptor for traditional weapon layout)
• History will Remember, 30% flat dmg (you want to get shot at)
• Improved Feedback Pulse 1-10% crit and 5-50% crit severity, within the first 15 sec than 15 sec linger with a continuous uptime between the two. (you want to get shot at, a lot...)
• Pedal to the Metal 10/20/30% dmg boost while throttle is full (does work with Anchored)
• Ship of the Line + 20-50% crit severity. (cycle between 2 emergency powers)
• Voth Carrier Synergies + 10% dmg when using a Tactical skill (attack patterns)
• Non-Linear Progression - Selfheal if we don’t use Pedal to the Metal (crazy but i put it here)
• Improved Gravity Well - Gravity well for 40/40 sec uptime - may extend reach if placed tactical.
• Unconventional Tactics - 15% Dmg for 15/60 sec
• The Ruin of Our Enemies 3-300% all dmg
• Confederation Furor, if you for some reason find no other way to add 18 weaponpower to reach your maximum
• Digital Compilation, Killing enemies in turret mode will spawn Probes.

Space Reputation

• Advanced Targeting Systems + 20% Critical Severety
• Tylers Duality +7.5% crit at 200k hull
• Precision +5% crit
• Auxiliary Power Configuration ~2-7% all dmg (scales with aux power cant validate the min and maximum)

Space Station

• Attack Pattern Omega I +15% all dmg (feels like more!)
• Attack Pattern Delta I +Dmg Resistance and enemy debuff , we can use ADAK'UKAN Doff for addition threat generation.
• Feedback Pulse . (See Improved Feedback Pulse starship trait)
• Emergency Power to Engin/Shield/Aux, Weapon power should be set to max without needing boosts. Engin Power max if we have Five Magicks Space Trait. Otherwise we max aux second and insure the other 2 values are at 75+ in combat for the warp core 3.3% all dmg for every subystem over 75, every captain has to fine-tune this himself, but should reach the 13.2% extra dmg from the warp core
• Reverse Shield Polarity III , we have no shield healing build in, and this one does numbers.
• Uncon+ Uncon triggers will improve Vovin teleport if you have it, otherwise fill up with skills you want.
• Gravity Well I- with our 300 control we can pull enemies up to 7.5km~
• Kemocite-Laced Weaponry I, one of the few Ensign Tac powers useable in Jelly

Devices

• Kobayashi Maru - Buff machine including dmg
• SS Antares - +10% dmg can be combined with Maru
• Advanced/ Battery Hull Patch - if enemy dmg outdoes our passive healing.
• Reactive Armor Catalyst - if enemy dmg outdoes our passive healing.

Active Space Doff

• Adak'ukan: +100% threat during Attack pattern delta (stack3)
• Gravimetric Scientist + Aftershock grav wells
• K13- Skill increase doffs when using Bridge officer abilities (skip on the commander ability one)
• Diplomat Allina - chance to heal max hull when using Reverse shield polarity and Feedback pulse

Active Space Boff

• Watchers
• SRO's

---Equipment---

Consoles

• Isomagnetic Plasma Distribution Manifold (Isomags-) Maximum Weapon power will boost the jelly mode dps, so we are after the +weapon power and + max weapon power, the third value can be used to gain up to 300 control for Fragment of AI tech or simple +power for subsytems. to reach 75+ for the warp core passive. - we want to fill all available slots with those.
• Hull Image Refractors - 20% damage and overheal that works with our jelly mode passive heal to grand us a full hulls worth of secondary hull.
• Dragonsblood Flame Reactor - +20% Bonus Electrical Damage (also Disruptor, good for Disruptor weapons if traditional weapon selection)
• Bio-Electrical Wave Capacitor - +39,9% Bonus Electrical Damage
• Ionic Deflector Inversion - +28,5% Electrical Damage
• VHF Disruptive Transmission - +17,1% Electrical Damage
• Subspace Fracture Tunneling Field - 20KM teleport Mobility on 30 sec CD, without it you will be stuck in place
• Micro-warp Bubble Shockwave - 15KM charge towards facing- hard to use since we have no turn rate, 2 min CD
• Interphasic Instability, +5% dmg +7.5% max hull (a cheap/good phonix-store placeholder)
• Lorca' Custom Fire Controls - +3.9Crit 7.9weapon power and 3 piece set bonus.
• Scatterpacks and Weasels, summon 4 personal tanks, good to take the edge off if enemy dps outpaces our heal.
• Temporal Disorder, summon 4 personal tanks, good to take the edge off if enemy dps outpaces our heal. - Large Hitboxes of Jelly clones makes targeting an ally behind them for Vovin Teleport a bit Tricky~
• Ominous Device +20% all dmg
• Subspace Jumper - Second Teleport 1min CD 10KM range

Deflector

Elite Fleet Preservation Protomatter Deflector Array - we want the crit here, i use the one with a smidge of EPG bonus and max hull/shields

Impulse

• Discovery Reputation for 3 Piece Setbonus Mycelial Lightning (large electrical hit once per enemy, works in jelly mode)

Warp

• Discovery Reputation for 3 Piece Setbonus Mycelial Lightning (large electrical hit once per enemy, works in jelly mode)

Shields

• Discovery Reputation for 3 Piece Setbonus Mycelial Lightning (large electrical hit once per enemy, works in jelly mode)

Weapons

while you can use regular weapons for possible out of jelly time, if you JUST want to boost your jellymode dmg then set bonuses are the way to go.

• Discovery Rep - Lorcas Ambition 3/3- torpedo, tactical console and wide angle beam bank +25 Crit Severity and + ONE torpedo per second, works in jelly mode
• Mission Reward - House Martok Skirmisher Configuration 2/3- Omni and Torpedo, + 2.5% crit and 15 Accuracy Rating
• Dyson Rep -Protonic Arsenal 2/3, Torpedo + Proton Weapon, +3% Crit.
• Phoenix Store Acc Unlock- 2/3 Prolonged Engagement Set 2/3, Torpedo and Beam/Cannon +7.5% Recharge on Boff Abilities.
• Lobi Store (400) Delphic Applications Set - 2/3 Torpedo and Beam bank, +1.3% crit and 12.5% crit severity.
• Mission Reward - Preserver Resonant Technologies 2/3 Torpedo Beam/Cannon, + 3.8 weapon power.

going through all sets those are the only ones that add Jelly-mode applicable bonuses that i could find, im using the first 4 since the 400 lobi one, on every jelly flyer is a bit rich for me.

Quality of Life tips

• Using Competitive Reputation Engines in your VISUAL slot will add little "fins" to your jelly (cloaked texture in jelly mode) allowing at any point in time to verify your orientation with a glance.

There i hope this gathering of Information helps you fine Captains out there with your jelly. <3

Hey all, im looking to make build around beams and I have a question what are some good episode based beams sets that I can farm for? Im looking to use rather phaser, AP, or trey, but honestly im open to anything as I dont really use beams alot as most my ships use cannons, so you anyone can give me some advice for (non pay for) sets that be great for a beams build I'd be thankfully, Qa'pla commanders!

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Thinking about Twinkling Lights. I can get to 3 by replaceing th second omni with Disruptor, Considering breaking the Lorca 2 pc for a fourth flavor, some sort of heavy turret Also looking to replace person, not going Uncon at this time

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