Category Ship Builds

Legendary Command Dreadnought Cruiser

(Screenshot by @Rurinnfane, dont miss more awesome pics >here< )

Hello everyone,

here is our suggestion for the latest version from the Federation Flagships, lead your following Captains to victory!

Skilltree:


Boffs:

For Beam Overload:

For Fire at Will:

For Fire at Will + Torpedo:

Doffs (for all builds):

  • 3x Technician: Auxiliary to Battery CD Reduction (required, could be obtained via B’tran Cluster chain for free or via commendation ranks store)
  • Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTH (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
  • Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTD (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
  • Emergency Conn Hologram: CD Reduction for Evasive Maneuvers (phoenix store, just get one!) and/or
  • Shield Distribution Officer (Agent Nerul): Attack Pattern Beta restores hull when fir...
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Legendary Command Exploration Cruiser

(Screenshot by @Rurinnfane, dont miss more awesome pics >here< )

Hello everyone,

here is our suggestion for the latest version from the mighty Galaxy-Class. Follow the steps from Picard and write your own Story!

Skilltree:


Boffs:

For Beam Overload:

For Fire at Will:

For Fire at Will + Torpedo:

Doffs (for all builds):

  • 3x Technician: Auxiliary to Battery CD Reduction (required, could be obtained via B’tran Cluster chain for free or via commendation ranks store)
  • Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTH (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
  • Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTD (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
  • Emergency Conn Hologram: CD Reduction for Evasive Maneuvers (phoenix store, just get one!) and/or
  • Shield Distribution Officer (Agent Nerul): Attack Pattern Beta restores ...
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Legendary Kelvin Timeline Intel Battlecruiser

(Screenshot by @Rurinnfane, dont miss more awesome pics >here< )

Hi everyone,

here is our suggestion for the legendary Kelvin Timeline Intel Battlecruiser. The builds are focused on using Cannons but Beams could work decently too.

Skilltree:


Boffs:

Here they are for Cannons:

For Beam Overload:

For Fire at Will + Torpedo:

Doffs (for all builds):

  • 3x Technician: Auxiliary to Battery CD Reduction (required, could be obtained via B’tran Cluster chain for free or via commendation ranks store)
  • Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTH (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
  • Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTD (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
  • Emergency Conn Hologram: CD Reduction for Evasive Maneuvers (phoenix store, just get one!) and/or
  • Shield Distribution Officer (Agent Nerul): A...
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Legendary Temporal Flight-Deck Carrier

(Screenshot by @Rurinnfane, dont miss more awesome pics >here< )

 Hi everyone,

here is our suggestion for the legendary Temporal Flight Deck-Carrier. The builds are focused on using Cannons but Beams could work decently too.

Skilltree:


Boffs:

Here they are for Cannons:

For Beam Overload:

For Fire at Will + Torpedo:

In case of survivability issues, replace Construction Shuttle Wing 1 with Emergency Power to Weapons 1 and replace Emergency Power to Weapons 3 with Reverse Shield Polarity 2.

Doffs (for all builds):

  • 3x Technician: Auxiliary to Battery CD Reduction (required, could be obtained via B’tran Cluster chain for free or via commendation ranks store)
  • Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTH (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
  • Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTD (expensive, ...
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Science Ships in the Current Century

Due to the high demand for science ship builds, here is a brief overview of what is currently en vogue. One fair warning: only read on and recreate one of the builds if you want to invest hundreds of millions of energy credits, piles of Lobi and thousands of Zen.

Science ships are able to dish out incredible amounts of damage to groups, especially in elite queues.  Unlike cruisers or escorts their main sources of damage are:

  1. Bridge officer skills
  2. Clicky abilities from consoles
  3. Secondary deflector
  4. Weapons

The following builds are based exactly on this order. 

Captain class
A common mistake is to link the captain’s profession to the class of the ships when it comes to terms of maximum efficiency. This might work in other MMOs, but in STO it’s Tactical > rest...

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Alliance Battlecruiser

(by @minerk, thx a lot)

Hi everyone,

here is our suggestion for the latest Event Ship, the Kithomer Class Alliance Battlecruiser T6. We show you some Cannon and Beam builds for this ship. Enjoy!

Skilltree:


Boffs:

Here they are for Cannons:

For Beam Overload:

For Fire at Will + Torpedo:

Doffs (for all builds):

  • 3x Technician: Auxiliary to Battery CD Reduction (required, could be obtained via B’tran Cluster chain for free or via commendation ranks store)
  • Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTH (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
  • Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTD (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
  • Emergency Conn Hologram: CD Reduction for Evasive Maneuvers (phoenix store, just get one!) and/or
  • Shield Distribution Officer (Agent Nerul): Attack Pattern Beta restores hull whe...
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Legendary Temporal Operative Escort

(Screenshot by @minerk, thanks for it!)

Hi everyone,

here is our suggestion for the legendary NX. Like the Ferang Build, it we will use Screenshots to show the builds. They are focused on using Cannons but Beams could work decently too.

Skilltree:


Boffs:

Here they are for Cannons:

For Cannons+Torp:

For Beam Overload:

For Fire at Will + Torpedo:

In case of survivability issues, change Directed Energy Modulation to Reverse Shield Polarity.

Doffs (for all builds):

  • Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTH (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
  • Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTD (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
  • Emergency Conn Hologram: CD Reduction for Evasive Maneuvers (phoenix store, just get one!) and/or
  • Shield Distribution Officer (Agent Nerul): Attack Pattern Beta resto...
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Legendary Miracle Worker Assault Cruiser

(Screenshot by @flocki3)

Hello everyone,

here is our suggestion for one of the best looking ships in the game in a finaly really useful version 🙂

Skilltree:


Boffs:

For Beam Overload:

For Fire at Will:

For Fire at Will + Torpedo:

Doffs (for all builds):

  • 3x Technician: Auxiliary to Battery CD Reduction (required, could be obtained via B’tran Cluster chain for free or via commendation ranks store)
  • Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTH (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
  • Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTD (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
  • Emergency Conn Hologram: CD Reduction for Evasive Maneuvers (phoenix store, just get one!) and/or
  • Shield Distribution Officer (Agent Nerul): Attack Pattern Beta restores hull when firing (delta operations pack, 12k zen pack...
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Legendary Pilot Warship

(Screenshot by @tiberiusjp, thanks for it!)

Hi everyone,

here is our suggestion for the legendary Defiant. Like the Ferang Build, it we will use Screenshots to show the builds. They are focused on using Cannons but Beams could work decently too.

Skilltree:

Boffs:

Here they are for Cannons:

For Beam Overload:

For Fire at Will + Torpedo:

In case of survivability issues, replace Eng Team 1 with Emergency Power to Weapons 1 and replace Emergency Power to Weapons 3 with Reverse Shield Polarity 2.

Doffs (for all builds):

  • 3x Technician: Auxiliary to Battery CD Reduction (required, could be obtained via B’tran Cluster chain for free or via commendation ranks store)
  • Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTH (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
  • Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTD (expensiv...
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Fek’Ihri Fe’rang Dreadnought Carrier

(Screenshot by @radioactivitii)

Hello everyone,

here are our suggestions for the latest Event Ship, the mighty Farang Dreadnought Carrier! This time to publish it a bit faster in text/picture form. The Builds are focused on Cannons but could be easily adapted to utilize Beams as well.

Skilltree:


Boffs:

Here they are for Cannons:

For Beam Overload:

For Fire at Will + Torpedo:

In case of survivability issues, replace Eng Team 1 with Emergency Power to Weapons 1 and replace Emergency Power to Weapons 3 with Reverse Shield Polarity 2.

Doffs (for all builds):

  • 3x Technician: Auxiliary to Battery CD Reduction (required, could be obtained via B’tran Cluster chain for free or via commendation ranks store)
  • Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTH (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
  • Energy...
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