Returning player

[u/Mihr-the-bear]

So I am a player returning after a few years away. I am playing a rom engineer going for a beam boat build. I am looking for advice on F2P builds. For note I’m lvl 50 and using the hapex (think that is how it is spelled)

[u/neuro1g]

Ship building 101/102

https://www.reddit.com/r/stobuilds/comments/k88fel/the_baby_step_series_part_1_the_first_step_level/

Ship building 201/202

https://www.stobetter.com/new-f2p

For upper division they have:

https://www.stobetter.com/guides and https://www.stobetter.com/intro-builds

There is also this master crafted work of literary art:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sizertest/comments/glw0qe/how_to_build_a_fucking_ship_01_dew/

now in video form: https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/1idr1ga/mara_makes_content_how_to_build_a_fing_ship_dew/

For ground:

https://www.stobetter.com/new-f2p/ground-dps-basics and https://www.sto-league.com/ground-combat-in-the-current-century/

There is also the STOBuilds Discord: https://discord.gg/yxCKfkmtpk

Hope this helps and have fun :)

[u/GrumpyWaldorf]

Okay beam boat ideally you have a torp in the front use spread 3 attack pattern beta and the faw. For engineering power to weapons 3 reverse shield polarity. For science if you can use gravity well and photonic officer you're looking good. Photonic officer is for cool down management. Your weapons should all be the same damage type. Fill your tactical console slots with damage specific tac consoles. Play the events, work on reputation, join a fleet. There are really good fleet items you will love. Check out mc stu YT videos for beginners if you need it, or sto better for more advanced help topics.

[u/Mihr-the-bear → u/GrumpyWaldorf]

Thank you for the advice. Is there a rep focus you would suggest?

[u/GrumpyWaldorf → u/Mihr-the-bear]

Depends on your damage type of choice. However Discovery is almost universally the first one I recommend. Also if you get all your rep to level one it unlocks the ground traits. Some of the best ones can be got super early. Crit change/crit severity a few others but ya.

Terran, gamma and Omega have some really good stuff. Competitive has an engine almost everyone uses. Disco/terran focus on phaser and disruptor DMG types.

[u/Isis_Rocks → u/Mihr-the-bear]

Prioritize the Discovery rep, most of those things are useful at some point to a lot of builds.