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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, 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. just use him when you have him) and/or
- Space Warfare Specialist: When activating Eng or Tac Boff Abilities, 20% Chance to get 10% of your outgoing damage as heal for the next 10 hits (if you don’t own Agent Nerul)
- Fabrication Engineer: Increase Duration of Reverse Shield Polarity (Only useful when using Reverse Shield Polarity!)
- Elder Malik’itan (Warfare Master, Gamma Recruit, ground slot): Increase damage vs All (if you have him, slot him!)
- Neal Falconer (Ground Warfare Specialist, Phoenix store, ground slot): Increase damage vs Borg (just get one, it’s not a mistake 😉 )
- Assimilated DOFFs like 20/22/25/27 of 47
Personal Space Traits
Here’s a list with some useful traits. Which one you use depends a bit on the mission.
Recommended
- Fleet Coordinator (free)
- Superior Beam/Cannon Training – Basis version for free, superior version obtainable at K-13
- Inspirational Leader (exchange or Infinity Lockbox)
- Duelist’s Favor (exchange or Infinity Lockbox) – more interesting for cannon builds
- Into the Breach (exchange or Infinity Lockbox)
- Point Blank Shot (Episode: House Pegh)
- Terran Targeting Systems (exchange or Infinity Lockbox)
- Context is for Kings (exchange or Infinity Lockbox)
- Adaptive Offense
Recommended race/profession-specific
- A good day to die (Exchange or Infinity Lockbox) – Great for Tacs
- EPS Overload (Exchange or Infinity Lockbox) – Kinda must-have for Engs
- EPS Manifold Efficiency (free) – Very useful for Engs
- Photonic Reinforcement (exchange or Infinity Lockbox) – Great for Sci Captains
- Romulan Operative (free) – Only for Romulans
- Infiltrator – mandatory for Remans on Warbirds
Other helpful traits
- Fluidic Cocoon (Exchange or Infinity Lockbox) – Only if you got hit by torpedos
- Give Your All (Lvl 15 Engineering R&D School) – for fluffy captains
- Repair Crews (Exchange or Infinity Lockbox) – another anti-fluffy trait
Space Reputation
- Advanced Targeting Systems (Dyson T2) +16% CrtD on Rank I or +20% CrtD on Rank II
- Precision (Romulan T2) +4% CrtH (I) or +5% CrtH (II)
- Tyler’s Duality (Discovery T4) +CrtH depending on your hull capacity
- Energy Refrequencer (Iconian T2) – more heals, awesome and i would highly suggest to use this one.
- Controlled Countermeasures (Temporal T4) +addtional DMG against controlled targets => Only for A2B Builds
- Tactical Advantage (Dyson T2) – more Armor Pen
- Magnified Firepower (Gamma T4) +5% DMG (I) or +6,3% DMG (II)
- Enhanced Armor Penetration (Delta T2) +5 Armor Pen (I) or + 6.3 Armor Pen (II)
Starship Traits
Highly recommended
- Emergency Weapon Cycle (Arbiter/Morrigu(crossfaction)/Kurak)
- Withering Barrage for Cannons (Valiant/Malem(crossfaction)/Kor)
OR - Redirecting Arrays for Beams (Tucker/Tebok(crossfaction)/Klothos)
OR - Entwined Tactical Matrices for Beams and/or Torps (Gagarin / Qugh)
OR - Superweapon Ingenuity for Beam Overload (Xindi-Primate Ateleth Dreadnought Cruiser – Lobi)
and then choose 3 of them:
- Weapon Emitter Overdrive (Vaadwaur Juggernaut)
- Cold-Hearted – Must have for A2B (Breen Plesh Tral Heavy Raider Winter 2017/18)
- Superior Area Denial – If you don’t have A2B or the raider or as an addition (Mirror Universe Engle-class Strike Wing Escort/Infinity Pack: Starship Trait)
- Vaulting Ambition (Styx Terran Dreadnought Cruiser)
- Promise of Ferocity (Thozyn/Vandros/Xechas)
- Calm Before the Storm (Cardassian Intel Flight-Deck Cruiser)
- Strike from Shadows (Shran Escort)
- Improved Critical Systems (AoY Event)
- Super Charged Weapons – if you’re using a torpedo (Kopesh Tactical Dreadnought Warbird, crossfaction or one of the other Tactical Flagships)
- History Will Remember (Support Cruiser T6)
- Improved Unconventional Tactics (Strategist Spec, Discount version if you don’t have anything else to use)
- Superior Command Frequency (Command Spec, Discount version if you don’t have anything else to use)
Gear:
Weapon mods as always, crtd or dmg, epic mod: crtd/dm. Pen is good too if you’re using crafted weapons.
Other gear used: Colony deflector, Competitive Impulse Engine, Discovery Reputation Warp Core and Shield.
Cannons:
Weapons used: Quad Phaser Cannons, Prolonged Dual Cannons, Terran Task Force Dual Heavy Cannon, Targeting or Sensor-Linked Phaser Heavy Cannons, Trilithium Turret, Gamma Rep Turret, Targeting or Sensor-Linked Turret. Instead of Colony Consoles you could use Spire Consoles too. If you like a Torpedo, use the Discovery Reputation Dark Matter Torpedo.
Weapons used Advanced Piezo Polaron Plasma Cannon, Altamid Plasma DHC/DC, Altamid 3 piece Altamid Turret and Biomatter Turret (Lobi).
Weapons used are Terran Task Force DHC, Spiral Wave DHC/DC, Targeting Linked Turrets.
Instead of Competitive Engine and Discovery 2 piece you could use a Combat Impulse Engine [Spd]x4, a Deuterium Stabilized Core (both crafting) and the Crystal Matrix Shield (Episode: Para Pacem) or a regenerative or resilient elite fleet shield. In addition, Locator Consoles could be used instead of Colony Consoles or even for the first start normal Polaron Phase Modulator consoles. Cannons are from Lukari Rep, 2x Dominion DC (reward from 2600er story arc), Morphogenic Set from Gamma Quadrant Arc, Turrets from Gamma reputation.
Beams:
Basic beam setup. Exchange one of the Advanced Phasers with a Wide Angle DBB if you want a bit more forward firepower and the nice 2-part bonus from Lorca’s Ambition.
This is almost the same build, only with one torpedo.
Dual Beam Banks:
This build uses Vulnerability Locator Mk XV [Beams] to support a mix of different damage types. A Wide Angle Dual Heavy Beam Bank, 2 Spiral Waves, an Advanced Isolytic Plasma DBB (great with overload), Terran Taskforce, Trilithium-Omni, Cutting Beam and Sensor- or Targeting-Linked Omni. The Warpcore is a crafted Deuterium-Stabilized Warp Core Mk XV [Bat] [ECap] [W->A] [W->S] with -15% Weapon Power Cost.
The ships can be used for any faction and profession.
Feel free to comment below or ask us directly via discord or in-game.
Under beam builds, the console between assimilated and bio-neural what is that?
Also same builds what is the console between DOMINO and Tachy?
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Console
that one could help you in the future to answer these questions 😉
between assimilated and bioneural => weaponized helicial torsion (from the glen)
between domino and tachyo => altamid (lobi store)
Thank you! Figured the weaponized helical but I didn’t want to assume 😝 and the Altamid I haven’t used yet but going to get it to give it a go! Thank you so much y’all are great!!!
I was looking forward to hearing the final word on hangar pets 🙂 As far as I can tell you just leave the ones that the ship comes with, except for the two beam builts where you use elite peregrine fighters. How much of a difference does it make between elite peregrine and the normal tactical flyers? Is there something to minmax here even?
if you use superior area denial => advanced peregrines or advanced jem’hadar fighters
if you dont use superior area denial => elite peregrines
if you have others available, aeon timeships are pretty strong too, especially in combination with superior area denial
Can you list all the the consoles including the universal ones. thanks in Advance
whats the console in the beam setups the last in the sci slot?
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Synergistic_Retrofitting_Set#Console_-_Universal_-_Dynamic_Power_Redistributor_Module
thank you i spent like 5 hours going though the pages and couldnt find it
It somehow felt counter-productive (to me) to use cannons on the legendary defiant, so I switched her to beams and was looking for a new home for some phaser dhc’s and found that home in this beauty, cannon spec and this beast are a match made in heaven, thanks 🙂