Interesting thing to mention with the nauusican energy torpedo(or ANY energy torpedo in general) is that despite being an energy weapon that does energy damage, the mere fact this weapon is in torpedo form means that you can fire it while cloaked on any ship with an enhanced battle cloak. Couple with a DOFF build centered around torpedo reload speed and the Lukari Missile Launcher which has a 2.5 second reload, you can reload those weapons very rapidly or even chain fire them. Thanks to just DOFFs alone, I was able to fire the phaser torpedo 10 times in a row back to back to back before the second torpedo in the build even fired once. Also, energy torpedoes are buffed by energy consoles that buff the type of damage that torpedo does. so using just one energy type torpedo you can enhance its damage with the same consoles as what you use to enhance the beams and cannons(phaser relay, etc.) Also they are buffed by weapons that enhance energy damage and torpedo damage in general. Also there is the torpedo consoles that you get from the discovery reputation store and from the equipment boxes. They offer a higher torpedo base damage while also enhacing crit chance or hull capacity. Additionally there is one energy torpedo for each energy type. The Disruptor(Nauusican) and Polaron are quest rewards. Phaser and anti-proton are phoenix store havng been unlockable from events and also certain Z-store packs. The Plasma and Tetryon ones are in the lobi store. The plasma one, you have to be careful when looking for it. CHeck the info cards because there are multiple plasma torpedoes. The energy one will say it does X-Plasma damage the others will say it does X-Kinetic with X-DPS plasma burn. So, if you have the Lobi to buy the tetryon and plasma ones, and have access to the other 4 you can do a torpedo build that uses nothing but the 6 energy weapons that you can fire under cloak. Also these energy weapons do benefit from torpedo firing modes, with some having a heavy projectile when used with torpedo high yield.

Romulan Navy Armor has a sweet sweet +50% damage to secondary fire modes, might not be the meta but it's especially satisfying with pulsewave assaults and split-beams. Also I aim and crouch, yes we exist

In the Solanae Dyson Sphere arc, in A Step between Stars, you can get a decent EVA suit. Now yeah, there are better for yourself but it is easy to get several suits out of this in one mission if you pass them on to your Boffs. And they look a lot better than the stock ugly suits. So good early Space Suits and an attractive and functional suit for your Boffs. Not getting one of each type will allow you to exchange those and Lobi to get the improves versions. Both have the same stats and your biggest choice is if you want white or black. Perhaps not as worth it anymore though.

I would also add the Mission: Alliances from the Delta Quadrant episodes. The reward here is probably the best budget Science Bridge officer for Space combat, the Hierarchy officer or more affectionately known as, Mr. Potato Head. He has both the Pirate and Efficient traits. Well exceeded by SRO's, Watcher Boffs or even JH Vanguard Boffs but outside of these, probably the best you can get. Also, Blood of the ancients (Iconian Episodes) is where you get the Destabilized Resonance Beam training manuals for sci builds as well as some more more Budget disruptor gear.

You missed the USS Pastak from Time and Tide! It is *the* single most important reward you can get in the episodes related to admiralty as it's a free gold level Sci ship card, AND it has ignores SCI event modifiers, critical for doing tour assignment of levels 5 or higher if you can't afford a 31st Century bundle.

The Breen Transphasic Torpedo Cluster from the Breen Arc is a good kinetic damage weapon. Wear down enemy shields then hit them with this bad boy. It shreds Frigates and Escorts while dealing nice damage to bigger ships. The Jem Hadar Full Auto Rifle from the Lost Dominion Arc is good too. I also like the Solanae EVA Suit and the Antiproton Omni Beam.

I put Martok's console on every ship I fly, and I use the 2pc Chronometric set (usually Console and Turret) on every J'H Vanguard ship since you need to run Polaron for the wingmen ability anyway. The 2pc Chronometric set is outstanding on the J'H Vanguard carrier in particular since it's a science carrier, has wingmen, and as a full carrier, aux power determines not just your exotic damage bit also your hangar relaunch time. As to the other, the Martok Config console may not offer anything crazy, but it's just a good meat-and-potatoes buff that literally every ship in the game can make use of. Very few console buff 5 stats at once and even fewer buff 4 or more where all 4 things they buff are useful on every ship. For example, 2 of the 4 mods on the Proton Particle Stabilizer are worthless for most builds, but a lot of people slot the console since they're already using the Gravimetric torp and the 2pc set bonus is pretty good. The Martok console doesn't have that problem and is worth slotting all by itself unless you have something definitively better - which you often do, but it's just a good default thing to slot any time you don't. I will acknowledge that it's considerably more useful on larger, slower ships where both the turn rate and hull capacity buffs have more effect, but having more engine power is good on those too.

thanks for the side quest things at the end i been looking for my pirates for some time now haha

Also, the EMH Mk 1 duty officer. Great to have in yor roster, also great to have on Ground Duty.

dude this is great, thank you.

I always use the aiming in ground combat. I use the quantum phaser set, mainly because when you hit the destabilizing beam it reminds me of the Thanix Cannon on the Normandy SR2 in Mass Effect.

These are so awesome. Lvl 26 and dominating, doing better yhen all them my lvl 65's thanks so much

Thank you so much for this sort of thing. I just happened to learn about the throwing knife by accident yesterday, when I was talking about how much I enjoyed the Quark's 7 mission. I hadn't gotten it, because I did not realize that it was useful.

"SILL-uh and cuh-RIB-dis" - listen to the Police song "Wrapped Around Your Finger". 😎 Quantum Phase Catalysts set is a must have for my phaser builds. It may not be the strongest, but I love the sound of the torps firing and how a cluster of enemy shields all get knocked down at once, especially using Torp Spread III. The Quantum Destab Beam makes a nice counterpart to the Heavy Phaser Lance on my Fleet Phantom.

This video is combat gear focussed, you missed the Polaric Modulator from Delta Flight in the Iconian arc, it helps with Tour the Galaxy as it buffs slipstream turn rate

Great big video thanks for the coverage of all the great things in the missions I know what you mean about a sunrise that's one of my favorite missions in the game

Don't forget the Franklin Drake that awards you with the Snychro rifle dealing the davidians .

Thanks Stu. As a new player this experienced insight is most a welcome. Even that free T3 Constitution will be welcome since I've only just recently unlocked the Reputation system which requires ships to complete various missions(unless I've confused that with some other newly unlocked side-quest option) so any additional ship is very welcome at this stage. Not sure if this is good advice(since noob) but the very last Borg episode mission was very useful for me as a new player. It's a "Space only" mission which is nice for those that don't particularly love grindy ground missions, it's incredibly quick to complete(I think 5-8 minutes once understood) and the rinse and repeat reward options are Antiproton ship weapons which are pretty useful and for some reason ridiculously expensive from traders so even if you get fed up with them can always sell them for what appears to be 250-300K energy credits each(so can then buy something of a different flavour). Also, the Borg ships that a player will do combat with are not very difficult to destroy, a player will have an entire fleet of friendlies assisting them, and those Borg ships have some excellent mixed drop items. It's a great mission to very quickly flesh out a ship with high-end Antiproton weapons along with lots of excellent drop items from destroyed Borg ships. What a player doesn't want can be sold and that credits can be used to buy the Antiproton consoles from traders which are significantly cheaper than the Antiproton weapons.

What about the Shard Sword of Kahless from the Fek'lhr arc, a bat'leth that levels with the player?

Free Ship mission weapon > Borg Advance : Fluid Dynamics > [Antiproton Beam Array Mk XI [Acc] [CrtH] [Dmg]] I was all over the place with my build coming up, found this in a Reddit post. Load up a Beam boat! I'm sure there are better but this is so easy, mission is very short and It will get you started. Mission is 46+ and repeatable.

If you remind about Doom's torp for leveling of new players you forget to notice about Ancient Omni-Directional Antiproton Beam Array from Sphere of Influence missions (and maybe about Warp Core). This items haven't Mk gradation and scale with character level.

I would also think of mentioning the Alliances mission from the Delta Quadrant arc. If you're not in a fleet (or don't have a lot of Fleet Creds and Dil), this rewards a pretty decent Sci Space Boff with Pirate and Efficient abilities. Obviously they are worse than Lukari/Kentari/Rom Ops, but on a budget they outshine most random drops.

Thanks Stu!

The Sol Defense set from 'Midnight' is good too.

From what I understand, Temporal Ambassador is now a way to get 2 free ships (At leas if you have Cross-Faction unlocked) with the second run letting you get and use the other ship. Unfortunately, neither Ambassador nor Kamarag class ships are, currently ones that are very useful as more than admiralty cards and occasionally breaking out low tier just to fly around...nothing really scaled for it. Also, there is the Jem'Hadar ground set from Lost Dominion...it's a pretty good option for a budget build, and even later it's rather good for a Boff (Such as the Jem'Hadar one you get in the same set of missions. As a side note, with the Knife, on thing it can be very good with for assault wielders who are using the Sompek one from the Phoenix box (Decent weapon to get with phoenix tokens anyway because it's a reclaim unlock for all of your characters along with the Shield and Gloves so you can use the set...the rifle isn't an unlock, which needs to be changed there).

You should cover the beam array and ground set I always put on my Jem'hadar. It comes from the episodes where DS9 is under attack from a fleet the wormhole diverted in time. It's a pretty cool set to put on a Boff for ground missions.

I Absolutely LOVE the Ambassador ship as it may only be a Tear 3 ship 4 ten levels BUT it will also be +1 Admiralty ship and you NEVER have enough Admiralty ships, as i never use the throw away tokens, I just thro 1 ship at a 15 min mission and the Ambassador does get the job done fairly often even if alone

Great Vids! .

Stu you forgot one of the hidden missions, Boadly they Rode, Where you get the Dominion Polaron weapon, In beam or dual cannons. Its not much and its a free Polaron weapon that offers up a dual debuff.

You skipped a really good shield in one of the Terran arcs. It gives your ship some insane survivability your missing at fresh 65.

Great video! I've bene playing on and off since launch and I either didn't know about some of these or I forgot. This is really helpful as I just started a new KDF character.

Polaric modulator, trillium- D armor, temporary shielded data core are all decent free mission rewards that can be useful until reps are unlocked

Hey I wanted to bounce something off of you I've already commented I love this video that still stands for you is this the leks throwing knives you said that the boards can't adapt to those my question is recently I ran redshift to one of my alts and it gives you an option to use a knife and just out of curiosity I used it on the board and it seemed to work pretty good it killed the borg and it seemed to kill them pretty fast even faster than the phaser now I didn't have time to mouse over and see what the stats for have you noticed this at all? Or is that just lucky

What about the 4 piece space set from the episode Melting Pot?

you forgot the trellium hull armor console from temporal war & the patrinic shield from the guardian of forever, the solenae ship consoles are also good along with the ship set from the final iconian war mission

I have the Solane set from episodes but the set warp core I can't get. Is it part of a C-store ship you have to get? Such as one of the Solane sphere ships I am assuming?

we may focus first on getting this stuff in particular over the high end, right?

Excellent video for all range players !

KDF get a free T3 ship from Temporal Ambassador as well called the Kamarag, which is a D7 variant. This is a great vid for newer players to reference when leveling. Well done!

you missed the TOS type II phaser, which is completely meta for the ground space barbie builds.

Since "Scylla and Charybdis" is a bit obnoxious to play through a good alternative to Bajor Defense might be the Quantum Phase Applications set from the episode "Stormbound" which is easy enough to pick up all three pieces in about an hour, even with a low level character. The bonuses are rather generic overall and the 3-piece ability is pretty bad but the set should not be overlooked, especially if running a science ship. It is, sadly, lacking a Warp Core but, for budget players, Bajor Defense might as well be lacking one itself so that isn't a huge issue.

Hey Stu Brad here I was trying to play the second new TFO mirror universe episode the mission keeps glitching on ps4

The problem with some of those phasers is the colors are off. Space barbie is important enough that it needs to match up with either the blue TOS phasers or the orange phasers. Any other phaser color could drop off a freighter of lusty Orion princesses with every shot, and I would still refuse to use them.

Is that Pokémon trading card game music?

A lot of true noob perfect gear was skipped over.. speaking as a true ultra new noob, the gear from jabberwocky is amazing for ground, the solenee eva suit from across the stars is amazing as is the 3 peice to a set you can get from that mission, the ancient obelisk peices from sphere of influence is also worth getting both of for a brand new player. These dont require getting past the delta quadrant and can massively help in getting through the vaadwar fights which are the first real challenge i encountered in the game.

Where do i get the Dab emote from? Edit: Youre not MC Stu are you? The other STO KZfaq channel guy.

The Trellium-D Console from Ragnarok is also useful if you want to put some basic damage resistance armor on you ship or just play the Procyon 5 TFO without the constant environmental damage to your ship. There is also the Temporally Shielded Data Core console from the mission before that which may help a science character as it buffs control expertise and gives you some resistance to Kinetic damage.

sil'-uh and kuh-rib'-dis. Two sea monsters from Greek mythology that existed on opposite sides of a narrow waterway, between which characters such as Odysseus needed to sail. Avoiding one would result in encountering the other, spawning various "lesser of two evils" idioms such as "between a rock and a hard place."

In the sidequest section, look for "Spectres - Spin the Wheel". It has the Synchronic Proton Distortion Assault Rifle, which is a must-have for a Ghostbusters theme build., as it looks like a proton thrower. Also in sidequests, "Lost Dominion - Facility 4028" will give you a purple Jem'Hadar tactical BOFF that can be great for kinetic builds, as it comes knowing torp spread 3 and mine beta 3.

In multiple videos you seem to forget one disruption set from the iconion war. Wondering why

Nice idea for a vid. 👍

That free t3 ambassador ship was super helpful for me at level 65. I have a t6 Galaxy variant that didn't have saucer separation, but low and behold here comes the Enterprise C with just the console I needed!

I'd also put forward the kobali regenerative circuitry set.. I think it's a late delta or early iconian episode.. good deflector/shield/engine set with nice survivability bonuses

Rom Navy set has great health Regen on top of the crit+ and plasma boosting. I use it on one of my senior captains: kit+armor from Rom Navy and shld+weapon from Nakul. Also, I always use aiming and crouching. You get dmg buff from aiming and crit buff from crouching. I also do this on my science ground even though I am not firing a weapon. The crouch +crit from Rom Navy applies to everything.

I was looking for those Na’Kuhl shields

Also worth getting is the Quantum Phase weapons set. It is also a good starter set.

For budget Disruptor builds, I'm going to suggest the Resonant Presever set from Blood of the Ancients. It has both cannon and beam array option and the torp has a decent AoE proc. The 3-piece is good for those budget Tanks out there, granting Weapon Cycle Haste from incoming attacks. Combining this set with Entoiled Tech and the House Martok 2-piece is the foundation for a very successful budget Disruptor build. It's also the one instance where I would slot a rear facing torp. Works great with the Bajoran space set, though for Tanking I'd lean more towards the Bajoran 2-piece (impulse/core) and Kobali 2-piece (shield/deflector). Once you get into Fleet and Rep gear, I'd switch over to Stamets-Tilly 3-piece and Colony Proto-matter Deflector. I'm also going to add that, after Skirmish, do the Alhena system patrol/mission to unlock the Deuterium Surplus batteries. You will be right there and Deuterium Surplus will grant a nice burdt speed to make up for the lack of Competitive engines. Tanks gotta stay with the group or they're going to be less effective at their job.

my ship runs on those things

I have a dumb question. If I have a weapon in the second ground slot, do I get the set bonuses from that weapon when I’m using the other weapon?

I like Core of the Matter's Neutronium enhanced ground armor... really tough armor item, not a set just an armor, but pretty good. Also it's one of the most amazing ground maps in the game.

Super :)

Great suggestions here I'd also like to add the sol desperate defences set from the last episode of the iconian war. With 2 pieces it gives +35 kinetic And +25 energy resistance and the 3 piece adds on the discharge nanites ability that heals you and allies ships around from 3km away. I used this set for really long time on my sovereign and defiant classes and varients. it's Just a great all-round set for survivability that almost any build can benefit From especially in TFOs and the story missions.

I'm using the opreative set atm on 1 char I really like it just wish I had the Krenim doff that helps with ambush would be better. BTW don't forget the Catalysts ;)

I use still use the aiming mechanics!

You do an amazing run down of what to do, but you take it for granted that we can absorb all of what you are telling us in a short period of time and that is a lot!! any chance you can dumb it down for us?

It makes me sad that the Zero Point Defense System isn't in this conversation.

blue shift,quarks lucky 7, temporal front and beyond the nexus will be aquired.

Theres a ground armor either from cardassian arc or rom arc that gives an armor that has 40% crit severity boost. Borg arc the final mission into fluidic space if you wanna role with antiproton keep rerunning that episode as much as you want, then the beginning of the dyson arc will provide the rest for AP wpns.

Lay off the damned CAFFEINE! Ease up on the damned RED-BULL!

So I am guessing they removed the continuation of "Yesterday's Enterprise" where Tholians abucted the Enterprise C when it ended up overshooting it's return by a century? Lame. Coming back after 5 years and was warned that they trimmed a LOT of content.

Wow, no plasma anything...

One thing you forgot to mention about the Pahvo crystal device... it lets you heal team mates from across the map. Yeah... it's a TEAM heal that ignores range and LoS.

Silla and Kha rib dis from the story of Ulysses who had to choose between a mulit-headed sea monster and a whirlpool that would claim the entire ship.

Not exactly an episode reward, but it is a mission reward: Once you complete the "Skirmish" mission in the "Spectres" arc, you can do the daily mission in the Alhena system to get deuterium surplus. Additionally, the first time you complete the Alhena mission, it also unlocks the ability to craft the deuterium surplus.

You say that the Torment Engine is good for science builds but it specifically says non-hazard dots, am I misinterpreting something?

I couldn't help noticing that you said you'd be talking about must-have rewards, but talked down about a lot of (most of?) the items. That was disappointing.I was expecting to learn why I'd want some hidden gem items not why they're "meh."

I aim. Now you know someone. We go way back and stuff.

You skip a lot of good stuff like Point Blank Shot from House Pegh, The Temporal Disentanglement Suite from Butterfly, Destablizing Resonance Beam in Blood of Ancients, The Doctor Doff from All That Glitters and the Hierachy Boff from Alliances (Pirate for Fed Chars)

Did you really skip the butterfly mission from the iconian arc!? Shame shame shame.

You're trying to pronounce "Silla and Carrib-diss"

It's pronounced 'Sill-ah' and 'cuh-rib-dis'.

Not being pedantic, but because you commented on it: Charybdis is pronounced kah-rib-dis.

Lol yes maybe in a year or "more" this video might be out of date but I won't count on that.

they dont do episode gear rewards no more they lazy an takin money like genshin impact

Why do all the star trek content creators always gotta have some cringe outfit lmao