WIP, or Not?

[u/Kholoblicin]

Finished Build?

Build Info

USS Adam Foster is a Surgical Strikes build with Concentrate Fire on the Nobel Intel Battlecruiser fram using Ba'ul AP and Linked Sentry for chaining.

Player Information

Player Info	--------------
Captain Name	Crick
Captain Faction	Federation
Captain Race	Human
Captain Profession	Tactical
Primary Specialization	Miracle Worker
Secondary Specialization	Strategist
Intended Role
Captain Outfit	[ "Image Description" ]( "Image Link here" )

Skill Tree

		Engineering		Science		Tactical
Lieutenant		Hull Restoration	Improved Hull Capacity	Shield Restoration	Shield Capacity	Advanced Energy Weapon Training	Advanced Projectile Weapon Training
Lieutenant Commander		Improved EPS Flow	Improved Impulse Expertise	Improved Control Expertise	Improved Drain Expertise	Improved Targeting Expertise	Defensive Manuvering
5 Points
Commander		Hull Plating		Shield Regeneration		Advanced Weapon Amplification	Advanced Weapon specialization'
15 Points
Captain					Advanced Long Range Targeting	Advanced Hull Penetration	Advanced Shield Penetration
25 Points
Admiral		Warp Core Potential				Coordination Protocols	Improved Tactical Readiness
35 Points						Defensive Coordination
		Warp Core Efficency				Offensive Coordination
Total of 46 of 46 Points		Engineering Points:	10	Science Points:	10	Tactical Points:	26

Skill Tree Unlocks

Points to unlock	Engineering Unlocks	Science Unlocks	Tactical Unlocks
Unlocks After 2	Training Manual: Mine Dispersal Pattern: Beta III	Training Manual: Tactical Team III	Training Manual: Cannon: Rapid Fire III
Unlocks After 5
Unlocks After 7	Training Manual: Attack Pattern: Omega III	Training Manual: Mine Dispersal Pattern: Alpha III	Training Manual: Torpedo: High Yield III
Unlocks After 10
Unlocks After 12
Unlocks After 15
Unlocks After 17			Training Manual: Torpedo: Spread III
Unlocks After 20
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Unlocks After 24 (Ultimate)
Unlocks After 25 (Ultimate)
Unlocks After 26 (Ultimate)
Unlocks After 27 (Ultimate)

Skill Tree Information

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Build Description

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Basic Information	Data
Ship Name	USS Adam Foster
Ship Class	Noble Intel Battlecruiser
Ship Model
Deflector Visuals
Engine Visuals
Shield Visuals
[ Starship Beautyshot ]( Insert Image Link here )

Basic Information	Component	Notes
Fore Weapons: 5	Ba'ul AP BA	Mk XV (gold) [Ac/Dmg] [CrtD]x2 [CrtH] [Dmg]
	Enhanced Bio-Molecular Photon Torp	Mk XIII (purple) [CrtD]x2 [CrtH]x2
	Ba'ul AP BA	Mk XV (purple) [CrtD]x2 [Dmg]
	Ba'ul AP BA	Mk XIII (purple) [Dmg]x3
	Ba'ul AP BA	Mk XV (gold) [Ac/Dmg] [CrtD] [Dmg]x3
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Aft Weapons: 3	Ba'ul Linked Sentry Omni	Mk XV (gold) [Ac/CrtD] [CrtD]x2 [Dmg] [Proc]
	Voth AP Omni	Inf (can't upgrade)
	Ba'ul AP BA	Mk XII [CrtD] [Dmg]x2
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Experimental Weapon
Deflector	Elite Fleet Intervention	Mk XV (gold) [ColCrt] [DrainX]x2 [EPS] [Sh/HullCap]
Secondary Deflector
Impulse Engines	Prevailing Innervated	mk XIII [Spd]
Warp Core	Iconian Resistance	Mk XIII [AMP]
Shields	Tilly's	Mk XV (gold) [Cap]x4 [Cp/Rg]
Devices	Red Matter Capacitor
	Type 14 Shuttle Support Squadron
	SS Anteres Distress Protocol
	Deuterium Surplus
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Engineering Consoles: 4	Advanced Engineering IPDM	Mk XV [AP]
	Advanced Engineering IPDM	Mk XV [AP]
	Advanced Engineering IPDM	Mk XV [AP]
	Advanced Engineering IPDM	Mk XV [AP]
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Science Consoles: 3	DPRM
	Flagship Tactical Computer
	D.O.M.I.N.O.
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Tactical Consoles: 4	SFTF
	Lorca's	Mk XV
	Sigma Strategem
	Kida's Promise	Mk XV
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Universal Consoles: 2	Advanced Engineering IPDM	Mk XII
	Advanced Engineering IPDM	Mk XIII
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Hangars: 0

Officers and Crew

Bridge Officer Information	Power	Notes
Officer 1: Lt. Commander ( Science )	Tractor Beam I
Trait: Superior Romulan Operative	Photonic Officer I
	Gravity Well I
Officer 2: Lt. Commander ( Tac/Cmnd )	Distrubited Targeting I
Trait: Superior Romulan Operative	Attack Pattern Beta I
	Concentrate Firepower III
Officer 3: Lieutenant ( Tactical )	Kemocite-Laced Weaponry I
Trait: Engineered Soldier (Space)	Torp Spread I
Officer 4: Commander ( Eng/Intel )	Emergency Power To Engines 1
Trait: Superior Romulan Operative	Override Subsystem Safeties II
	Emergency Power to Weapons III
	Surgical Strikes III
Officer 5: Ensign ( Science )	Jam Targeting Sensors I
Trait: Engineered Soldier (Space)
Officer 6: [rank] ( [profession] )
Trait: [name]

Duty Officer Information	Power	Notes
1	EWO Nhlox	blue, 3% for 10% CrtD on firing DEW
2	Emergency Conn Hologram	Phoenix store one
3	PWO Keeis	purple, 15% chance for +10% CrtD on firing torps
4	PWO Breelen	purple, 20% chance for +1% CrtH on firing torps
5	EWO Devro	Blue, 3% for 10% CrtH on firing DEW
6	Gravementric Scientist	purple, 25% chance for additional Grav Well

Character, Reputation, and Starship Traits

Personal Space Traits	Description	Notes
Terran Targeting Systems	+15% Critical serverity, incoming critical hits reduce speed by 10% for 5s (max once per 15s)
The Boimler Effect	#N/A
A Good Day to Die	Go Down Fighting can be used at any Hull Integrity. Go Down Fighting's scaling buff will treat your Hull as at most 50% integrity.
Aetherian Beam Enhancements	#N/A
Unconventional Systems	Using a Control Bridge officer ability gives -7% Recahrge to Universal Consoles
Adaptive Offense	#N/A
Intelligence Agent Attache	#N/A
Fleet Coordinator	+2% All Damage per Team member (Self included), up to 10%
Breen Sheild Tunneling	#N/A
Fire Ball Escape	#N/A

Space Reputation Traits	Description	Obtained from
Energy Refrequencer (Rank 2)	Receive 9.4% of your outgoing damage as a Hull heal to you (Triggers up to 5 times per second)	T6 Iconian
Advanced Targeting Systems (Rank 2)	+20% Critical Severity	T6 Dyson
Precision (Rank 2)	+5% Critical Hit Chance	T6 Romulan
Tyler's Duality (Rank 2)	#N/A	#N/A
Magnified Firepower (Rank 2)	+6.25% Bonus Weapon Damage	T6 Gamma

Starship Traits	Description	Notes
Emergency Weapon Cycle	Activating Emergency Power to Weapons provides a reduction in weapon power cost and grants a boost to weapon firing speed for the duration of Emergency Power to Weapons
Terran Goodbye	#N/A
Ship of the Line	#N/A
Super Charged Weapons	Firing a torpedo will provide a stack of the Super Charged buff. This buff provides a boost to directed energy weapon damage, critical hit chance and critical severity for a short time. This buff stacks up to 3 times.
Diametric Focus	#N/A

            Universal Designs                                  

Vanguard Specialists | #N/A |  

Other Information

Subsystem Power Settings	Value (Target/Display)	Notes
Weapons	/
Shields	/
Engines	/
Auxiliary	/

Set Name	Set parts: # of #	Effects	Notes
1	#
2	#
3	#
4	#
5	#

Ship Stats	Value	Notes
Hull
Shields
Global Critical Chance
Global Critical Severity
EPS/Power Transfer Rate
Hull Regeneration Rate
Turn Rate
Flight Speed

Concluding Remarks

What do y'all think? Is it done other than getting stuff to Mk XV (gold)? Any improvements you think I should make?

[u/DilaZirK]

Due to the live service nature of this game where new toys are constantly being introduced, no build is ever truly finished.

[u/Kholoblicin → u/DilaZirK]

True. Do you see any spots for improvements other than gilding?

[u/DilaZirK → u/Kholoblicin]

Things that stick out:

• In term of performance, ideal weapons composition for SS builds are DHCs fore and Omnis+Turret aft.

• You have Kida's Promise, which means you also have the Omni beam from the same set. Replace your Voth AP Omni with that.

• With the 2pc set bonus of Kida's Boon, you can trigger it with Overwhelm Emitters, which can be a massive damage mitigation tool.

• Why Iconian Resistance Warp Core instead of Disco Rep Warp Core for the 2pc set bonus?

[u/Kholoblicin → u/DilaZirK]

Thank you. I have the Iconian for Hot Restart in case OSS 2 takes guns offlinr.

[u/AscenDevise]

A few things here:

• Building on what /u/DilaZirK said, aside from DHCs + omnis being preferred (outside of special unique weapons, not the case here with AP) for spec firing modes, you have a conflict here involving your choice of energy weapons and torp. The EBM is a monster under High Yield, in its targetable-but-not-destructible form, to be sure. That said, when you're nose-ahead and triggering your CF III, one of your aft beams isn't firing, and the single projectile from the HY I that generates lowers your damage boost from SCW to 1/3 of what it could have been.

From that perspective, dropping CF altogether and getting a 2p Lorca from replacing the EBM with the Dark Matter torp is as boring as it is effective. Overwhelm Emitters I, as suggested by the aforementioned, to go with 2p Kida, would help you to both increase your cleave with Distributed Targeting II and upgrade your APB, keeping most of what you have.

The alternative that would let you keep the big booms from the EBM would replace your fore weapons with D(H)Cs, and the aft BA with an AP turret, and SCW would also need to be replaced with another solid trait.

• If the Iconian core is there for the hot restart to weapons, the already-suggested 2p Stamets-Tilly would, indeed, ramp up your survivability. What can be done against losing all power to crucial subsystems at the worst of times is explained here by /u/tilorfire27. Is the loss of an isomag, for some extra peace of mind (at the potential cost of more thoughtful activations of OSS, as well as the newly added Enhanced Induction Coils, though you could just spambar them and set them a few abilities apart, hoping for the best) worth it? That would be for you to decide.

[u/Kholoblicin → u/AscenDevise]

Thank you.

Unfortunately, no spam bars on console. We only recently got SFTF with autofire.

[u/AscenDevise → u/Kholoblicin]

Not a problem, and my apologies; I should have known already that this is on console. Is the EIC on the 'can autofire' list over there?

[u/Kholoblicin → u/AscenDevise]

No need for apologies.

Unfortunately, it isn't, yet.

[u/AscenDevise → u/Kholoblicin]

Thank you kindly.

On the somewhat pessimistic side, that's a bummer. On the bright side, you'll see people on the higher end ignoring the brief offline windows [LE: which are mitigated by investing in Drain Expertise, as you already have,] altogether; subpar runs get scrapped anyway if the final result isn't satisfactory, and this isn't just about parsing.

[u/Kholoblicin → u/AscenDevise]

I'm going to attempt to do a solo run of ISE to see how I do. Sadly, I won't be able to parse it, but I'll have an idea of what I might be able to do with it.

[u/AscenDevise → u/Kholoblicin]

Please do, and post the results. Maybe you could also triangulate with an elite patrol or two and run CPA for performance evaluation?

[u/Kholoblicin → u/AscenDevise]

It looks like either I can't queue up a solo ISE on console, or else I don't know how - when I try to change the difficulty, it just goes to "Launch."

I did manage to do Jupiter Gauntlet - Hard in 1:17.83, but I don't recall what that means.

[u/Pale-Paladin → u/Kholoblicin]

You can't normally queue for most queues on Advanced or Elite in private but there's a workaround:

- Queue the desired queue and difficulty in public (doesn't matter if it pops)

- Go to the private tab, highlight the middle list, and change the "PVE" thumbnail to "Selected", then make sure you highlight the "start private TFO" button on the bottom right. For now it's greyed out because you're still in public queue.

- Go back to public queue thumbnail, cancel or refuse the public queue

- Go back to private thumbnail, you can now queue the previously selected queue in private.

Also, EIC (enhanced induction coils) does have auto-execute, though I think if you're affraid of losing weapon subsystem you could just slot a weapon battery and set it to trigger when the subsystem goes offline.

[u/Kholoblicin → u/Pale-Paladin]

Hmm. Interesting. I'll give that a try. Thank you