Thank you for this video! I've been wanting to look into a phaser build and here it is 😍

I'm really digging your STO education series. I started playing as a beta tester back in the Before Time but, after a few years, I started drifting away and the last real point where I played extensively was the Gamma Quadrant expansion. This game is pretty complex and I was never big into build crafting so these sort of videos help a lot.

Thank you for the walkthrough. Your comment about an effective build across all energy can be done with the right consoles and all that needs to be done is change out the energy weapon type and related tactical consoles resonated with me as I have two ships with the same consoles. One is Tetryon on my legendary odyssey and the other is phaser on my Yamato Dreadnought. I can swap out the weapons and tactical consoles and still be effective. It took me a long time to accept that I don’t have to have a complete set of consoles as a three piece bonus for example may not give me the returns I want as opposed to it’s two piece offering. It’s the completist in me that had a hard time letting that go. Once I did my ship builds became much more effective. Your walkthrough only solidifies that I’m going in the right direction.

Another reason the Kobayashi Maru is useful, especially with the "Strike From Shadows" trait, is that it draws a lot of threat and enemies will almost always target it, even while you're shooting them.

The subspace field modulator - the mission it is available on is "Skirmish". Available tab>"Spectres">accept mission, go to location, and accept again, and the select "Skirmish". The aliens are Devidians. I use a similar build, and this works even better. Thank you for the video and help.

An exellent vid! In depth, but still very clear and concise. I have been away for a year or so, like many others im sure, so I am still trying to get back up to speed with gear and builds. Your guides are making it much easier, cheers mate!

@MCStu

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Love the zhat vash disruptors. My romulan ship also has a cannon and romulan plasma torp. Love the dots fire torpedos and zoom away.

Great video, keep em coming

hey MC great vids keep em coming !

Things I'd specifically like to see, what you're doing but from alien ships like the Klingon, Romulan, and Dominion ships.

my fav doff to use with my science ships are beam overload proc 360 beams and the skill as well as the doff that causes the enemies hit with beam overload to take 30% more damage. This combined with drain sickness and the traits/torps that reduce energy levels by 25% and the torps like the piezo torps/quantum entanglement torp they reduce the shields each hit as well, basically you debuff them to death continuously with every hit!

I'm using a Bellum accelerator with hull healing at 26.1% on it. I use the DPRM also. I don't use the Zero point nor the disruptor induction coil console. I only run 2 chance consoles from the Spire. Some day I would like to see my DPS but as long as the enemy explodes fast enough I am not going to worry about it :)

really like these Stu. only request if I may - is it possible to leave the cursor over the items equipped a bit longer?

@genebryant8800

3 жыл бұрын

Is it possible to list the items, too? Find myself going back and forth quite a bit to jot down notes.

@rudeboy12270

3 жыл бұрын

Pause the video

@Cyb3rFck

Жыл бұрын

Google it after acquiring the name?

Cheers!

If I might make one humble suggestion; if you switch to an omni, consider the House Martok. If you replace the RCS accelerator with the House Martok Defensive Configuration, the 2-piece gives you +2.5% CrtH and the console gives you a little Hull boost. The downside is that you would lose a little turn rate. Just a suggestion and not one that's going to completely change your game.

@MCStu

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed 100% I just haven’t run that mission yet LOL, It’s on the list.

I was just starting about trying to get my skill up in understanding

Thanks for these guides Stu, the last one and this one really helped me learn. I just started a pc account after years of playing console, doing a good job with the knowledge you gave. Do you have any recommendations on fleets to join? I don’t have anyone to team up with.

@MCStu

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, check these guys out, they have fed and kdf fleets psb.shivtr.com/

Hey! Speaking as a user of this 'program' who has 'several' "level 65" characters, as well as having a LIFETIME SUBSCRIBER status. I STILL don't have the FIRST FREAKIN' CLUE on how this 'program', works!

@MCStu

3 жыл бұрын

Give me some more info and I will put something together specific for you; very new, not level 65, don't know how to navigate to next mission..........? Just stated playing, have no idea what is going on? Your feed back will help me put together a new basics player guide.

Should be noted that if you are fed and want the DPRM, its almost impossible at this point. You cant buy the console from the exchange, you need to either get it from the lockbox or buy the ship on exchange which as it stands is currently 1.1Billion EC. You can get it in an infinity prize pack but you would need to get a premium t6 ship choice reward from the event campaign which costs like 10,000 zen if you havent started it when the 5th part comes out. I dont know if its character bound, the only alternative would be a way to somehow move ec to a klingon account as its only 300mil - then transfer it over, however if its character bound then that is a waste.

New to your videos, and loving them so far. One specific question, where do those specific Energy Weapons Officer DOffs come from? I have plenty of EWOs, but none with that active trait and the Exchange wants an extraordinary amount. I checked Rep Stores & Lieutenant S'stas (KDF) - where else do they come from?

@MCStu

3 жыл бұрын

These Doffs come from the C-Store Reinforcements Duty Officer Packs and the Elachi Survivor Officers Doffs packs. sto.fandom.com/wiki/Specialization:_Energy_Weapons_Officer#Beam_weapons_variant

Do I have to master another ship,to obtains that ships Traits?

You break my immersion putting disruptors on an Odyssey. :P

@MCStu

3 жыл бұрын

lol I know

What I find the most troublesome when deciding build when coming back to this game is there are lots of gears I don't know, like reputation, lobi store, event, chests, there are too many items I have no way of knowing unless someone told me where to find or I look through some of the build videos, especially for new players

@nolgroth

3 жыл бұрын

I think a lot of people have the same problem. There are just so many options. One thing that helps me is to do an internet search for the characteristics you want in the console and follow the link to the Wiki. It's not always correct, but the Wiki still has a wealth of information.

this build is really helpful. I'm running a rom sci officer on a tx fleet d'deridex retrofit (my favourite ship in the series). I was wondering what your view of the nausicaan disruptor set is on this build. the torp does disruptor damage and the 3 piece set boosts disruptor damage by another 26.6% with a +50 hull pen. also, what about the martok omni beam and console into this fit?

@MCStu

3 жыл бұрын

I would not use the Nausicaan set, the 3 pc is not worth the 26% Cat 1 disruptor boost. How ever, I would definitely recommend the martok 2 pc, martok omni beam and console for the crit.

@blaircunningham5740

3 жыл бұрын

@@MCStu I'll keep that in mind. thanks. it's been a while since I've played. was on a 3 year hiatus and came back to people melting tac cubes in seconds.

Hi. I'm a solo flier, so don't have access to a fleet. Everyone seems to be using the Elite Fleet Intervention Protomatter Deflector Array, is there a non-fleet deflector array that you would recommend in place of this for a tactical energy or torp build. I am looking at the Counter-Command Deflector Array and the Omega Force Tachyon deflector. Thanks.

@MCStu

3 жыл бұрын

There is nothing else like it. You can be in fleet and still fly solo, non-issue for 99% of the fleets out there.

@nolgroth

3 жыл бұрын

Not much that's going to boost crit levels. Any other deflector I would slot would be primarily for set bonuses. Some examples: 4-piece Stamets-Tilly; good for both survival and dps output. Don't underestimate Mycelial Lightning or The Power of Math. 3-piece Sol Defense; all around good survival set. 4-piece Bajor Defense; DPS, debuffs and just enough survival to be a fantastic budget through intermediate set. Those are not all of the options. I just threw a couple out, off the top of my head.

@deputymccahillxbox4132

3 жыл бұрын

@@nolgroth Thanks for replying. I have the Sol, Bajor and most of the mission sets. Have got some reps up to t6, so am looking to upgrade and generally improve things. Will look at the 4-piece Stamets-Tilly. Many thanks.

I accidentally purchased the wrong Fleet deflector. I got the "prevention" version rather than the "intervated" (thinking I could re-engineer) to get the weapon specialisation but can't. Is it worth keeping the one I have or buying another one?

@MCStu

3 жыл бұрын

I would just use it for now, crit is the main reason for using this deflector.

Is the breen ship trait still good? I use that one still over strike from shadows.

@nolgroth

3 жыл бұрын

Are you referring to Cold-Hearted? The two traits are used in almost opposite circumstances. Strike From Shadows is used to reduce Threat while Cold-Hearted is commonly used in Tanking builds. As to which one is better, I would say that it depends. Cold-Hearted works when activating Pilot boff abilities or, more commonly Aux2Bat. It works best when paired with Controlled Countermeasures. You get a nice chunk of Target Resistance debuff, Target Slow and (with CC) a very nice Cat-2 damage boost. Strike From Shadows relies on the enemy not having you targeted. It works really well with AoE weapons because it can hit a lot of them at once. You get Bonus Damage, extra CrtH, Target is Placated and Threat is reduced. Personally, I would boils it down to DPS (Strike From Shadows) or Tank (Cold-Hearted). Of course, that is a very simplified way of looking at it.

Great vid Stu. I’ve noticed that in the Romulan and Nukara reps don’t have special items to get like the others like Gamma has the Germanium carapace fragments. Is this true or am I missing something? It makes me think I did something wrong because the upgrade spaces on those two are usually grayed out. I can advance normally however.

@nolgroth

3 жыл бұрын

Nukara and Romulan reps do not have a special currency like other reputations. You just need Marks, Dilithium, and EC to buy stuff from them.

@josephtremel5392

3 жыл бұрын

@@nolgroth cool, thanks for the info. Was starting to think I was missing out on something.

Does the (over) proc lock out BO? FAW? SS? Itself?

@MCStu

2 жыл бұрын

Don't quote me but I do not believe it does.

How current is this build? Recent update focuses more on haste? So I would just change procs?Just came back from a long hiatus and I need to update my builds. Edit: thanks for making this content available for the community. Was watching a bunch of Auggie's content but as I can barely remenber how to fire weapons, that was way too advanced.

@MCStu

2 жыл бұрын

It is still a very viable build. Its meant to be a good starting place with a variety of directions you can take it.

Do you know anyway I can get lobi crystals free other then events for the lobi consoles you showed in the video or do I have to just wait for a event? I don't really want to use master keys because its a average of 5 lobi per lock box according to the wiki and I could be wrong but I remember the consoles each costing about 200 lobi so it would cost a ton of EC.

@MCStu

Жыл бұрын

Event campaign and lockboxes are the only way to get them

@LavaDa1shi

Жыл бұрын

@@MCStu ok I guess I will just have to wait for a event, thanks for responding your videos are a great help to a newbie like me, keep up the great work.

Any plans on updating this build?

Hi

IM LVL 65 still have no clue what im doing a im 5 days in

@MCStu

3 жыл бұрын

Start by taking a look at this play list. Has most all the basics. kzread.info/head/PLXRniClXbLvMzBFRSKsPX9EekEWjh2sIv

No nausicaan set?

@nolgroth

3 жыл бұрын

If I were to guess, I'd say that Stu wouldn't want a second torpedo in the build. To get the most out of the Nausicaan set, you need all three pieces. The extra CrtD from the Lorca set beats out the +50 Hull Pen and Cat-1 damage boost from the Nausicaan. That said, I would run it with the torp in the back and get both set bonuses. Also useful, under spread, for those annoying Hurq swarmers. But I don't build for the meta either.

@sleepysounds90

3 жыл бұрын

@@nolgroth you'd just drop the lorca torp surely? A stacking critd buff upto 15% is great, but nothing on the bonuses youd get from the nausicaan set

@nolgroth

3 жыл бұрын

@@sleepysounds90 I wouldn't say that either one is that much better than the other. The ~53% (console + set) Cat-1 boost is nice and extra Hull Pen translates into bypassing an extra 5% enemy resistance. Those are certainly nothing to sneeze at. The Disruptor Net, if it procs, is also nice. But it has to proc. In the other corner you get a stacking crit severity. With that, in turn, adding to the larger Crit Severity amount, it's not something I would overlook. I'm assuming that the Lorca console is being used no matter which other way you go. Either way would probably be close to the same dps output. I might give a slight edge to the crit severity but either one would serve. Given a limited tac slot ship, I'd go Nausicaan over the Lorca torp. The Nausicaan set gives roughly 1.75 damage consoles worth of Cat-1 damage and whatever sources of Cat-2 and Crit Severity you have need a good foundation to build on.

@sleepysounds90

3 жыл бұрын

@@nolgroth great reply! I think its safe to disregard the disruptor net, it doesnt proc enough to worth taking into consideration. Id say that the extra dps from the cat1 buff combined with the eps boost tips the nausicaan set over the lorca set. On my bo boat, i run terran, nausicaan, nausicaan torp and the rest spiral wave. I used to run the lorca torp and still run the console. At the same time i switched a few boff powers around and all told i added roughly 25k to my dps. Not sure what made the biggest difference, but im pretty sure that nausicaan 3 piece helped more than the 2 piece. At the very least, if i was set on running the lorca torp, id consider the console from the nexus mission. The one with the big boost to eps (apologies, cant remember the name of it)

@nolgroth

3 жыл бұрын

@@sleepysounds90 Reinforced Armaments.

I never really got how dill to zen works because it never made sense to as much Zen as they pump into the system to get dill why anyone would buy it in bulk. I though it was Cryptics way of lowering the dill amounts in the system and keep free to play players grinding. I have not been playing in years when I left the market was about 300 to 1. now it is at the 500 cap and I have had in for 3 days and still have not cashed out dill in years. I have has my dill holding for 4 days and no movement. I am mostly free account and have been playing off and on sense pre Romulan characters I even know personally one of the Romulan ark writers most my T5 ship and almost all my T6 ships are paid by dill I have 8 65s most were leveled off of XP boost and doff missions while playing other characters I call it deep space paper pushing methides it takes about 3 to 6 months but it is low effort

Lower your resolution or zoom in please. Everything is far too small to read.

How is this a free to play account when you've spent thousands of zen to get some of this stuff... these traits weren't free

@MCStu

2 жыл бұрын

The only zen I used was for account bank and that came from exchanging dil for zen. The rest came from events and in game giveaways over the past few years. I have never put IRL $$ in to this account.

Bro you took 5 mins just to introduce what this video will be about, just get into it.

Deleted comment as it came across as really elitist lol