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Trait: Carrier Wave Shield Hacking

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Carrier Wave Shield Hacking is a player character space Starship trait .

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• Game description : Using advanced Artificial Intelligence modeling inspired by the Sphere Data, you can use connections to the enemy ship caused by Tractor Beams or Intel Powers to calculate another ship's shield's modulation frequency. When your ship uses a Tractor Beam or Intel Power on an enemy, it knocks an enemy's shields offline for 5 seconds. You also gain 30% bonus Tractor Beam Damage when this trait is active.

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Activating Tractor Beam, or any Intelligence Bridge Officer Ability takes enemy Shields offline for a brief duration. Additionally, your Tractor Beam benefits from increased damage.

Activate Tractor Beam or Intel:

• Shield Offline for 5 sec
• +30% Kinetic Damage with Tractor Beam

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• [Starship Trait: Carrier Wave Shield Hacking]
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You can find a full definition on our build types page. 

Energy Builds

Energy builds use beams, cannons, or a mix of the two for their primary DPS sources. Sometimes they include a single torpedo. These builds are subdivided based on the primary firing mode and energy flavor (e.g. Phaser):

Beam Overload (BO) is a single target beam firing mode

Cannon Rapid Fire (CRF) is a single target cannon firing mode

Cannon Scatter Volley (CSV) is an AOE cannon firing mode

Exceed Rated Limits (ERL) is a single target firing mode that applies to all energy weapons and causes very fast attacks

FAW or Fire at At Will (FAW) is an AOE beam mode

Surgical Strikes (SS) is a single firing mode that applies to all energy weapons and does more damage with greater critical chance but attacks slower

Reroute Reserves to Weapons (RRW) is a single target firing mode that applies to all energy weapons and causes very fast attacks at the cost of engine power

Exotic Builds

Exotic builds primarily focus on weapons, abilities, traits, and consoles that scale with the Exotic Particle Generator skill.

Exotic or EPG builds use exotic-scaling torpedoes alongside their other exotic abilities for their primary damage source. This is the main variety of exotic builds.

DEWSci builds mix energy weapons and exotic abilities for more sustained DPS

TorpSci builds mix kinetic torpedoes and concepts with exotic abilities 

Projectile Builds

Projectile builds focus on damage dealt directly by torpedoes and mines

Mixed builds use a variety of projectile flavors like photon and quantum. This is the main variety of projectile builds

There are builds that focus specifically on a single subtype like Photon or Quantum . These are a small subset.

Minelayers are extremely niche. While most mainline mixed builds will incorporate mines, using them for primary DPS requires some shifts in focus and build.

Carrier Builds

Carrier builds are focused on amplifying and boosting hangar pet damage. Some capability should still be retained from the launching craft, but the emphasis is on boosting the pets.

Support Builds

Support builds are AOE energy / DEWSci builds that are built to debuff enemies and amplify their allies into dealing as much as damage as possible. They are not needed for general play and are mostly used to help others set DPS records. We subdivide these into Anchor Supports more focused on control and having Gravity Well III and Spotter Supports that emphasize having a Commander Tactical Seat for Attack Pattern Beta III along with more debuffs.

Tank Builds

Tank builds are Fire at Will builds that additionally emphasize drawing enemy attacks onto themselves away from their team and thus additional survivability as well

Heavy Tanks attempt to draw as much fire as possible while also surviving and dealing as much damage as possible. 

Support Tanks are also built to draw fire and survive, but also devote considerable build space to adding consoles and traits that will debuff enemies and amplify the capabilities of the rest of the team.

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This table reflects scores on the Infected: Space Elite (ISE) or Hive Onslaught Elite (HSE) maps for the following performance metrics:

All builds but especially damage builds are evaluated for damage-per-second (DPS). We list the record maximum DPS

Tanks are evaluated for the percentage of total enemy attacks they draw for the team (% atks)

Supports are evaluated for the team's highest debuff percentage (% DB) as well as the number of team personal best records that were achieved alongside that build (PBA). 

You can find more detailed performance metrics on the individual build pages, including on other maps.

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Traits Guide

September 14, 2019 Guides | 21

A brief guide for people to view what personal, reputation and starship traits that are commonly used in the DPS League Builds. These are for builds designed specifically for energy weapons.

Personal Space Traits

  Fleet Tactician (Exchange or Infinity Lockbox – Tactical only!)

• +125% flight speed
• +125% turn rate
• +100 immunity to slow

Using EPS Power Transfer your weapons gain an additional effect for 30 sec based on Which Power Level is highest at the time of activation:

• If Weapons: 2% Crit Chance
• If shield: -20% Weapon Power Cost
• If engines: +20% Armour Penetration
• If Auxiliary: +20% Crit Severity

• Your Photonic Fleet ability summons an additional ship

• +2% All Damage per Team Member (Self included), up to 10%

Chance to increase your skills: (Stacks up to 3 times)

• 10% Chance: activating any bridge officer abilities grants
• +10 to most starship skills for 15 seconds

Each second while in combat: (Stacks up to 10 times)

• If you did take damage in the past second: +3 All Damage Resistance Rating for 10 sec
• If you did not take damage in the past second: +1% Bonus All Damage for 10 sec

• 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

Whenever you or a teammate kills something: (Stacks up to 3 times)

• +5% All Damage for 10 sec
• +5 Accuracy Rating for 10 sec

• +15% Critical Severity
• Incoming Critical Hits reduce your speed by 10% for 5 seconds (max once in 15 seconds)

• Receiving Kinetic Damage, 5% chance to increase all outgoing Energy Damage by 5%
• (Stacks 5 up to times)

• Defeating an enemy de-buffs nearby enemies damage resistance rating by 7 per rank of the downed enemy
• (Lasts 8 seconds)

• On outgoing Critical Hits, your energy weapons and projectiles gain +50% Shield Penetration for 10 sec
• (Can trigger once every 45 sec)

• To self: +0-10% Bonus Energy Weapon Damage, based on Distance to Target
• Maximum bonus when less than 2km, no effect beyond 6km

• While Stationary, gain 1 stack of Anchored every 5 sec (Stacks up to 4 times)

Per stack of Anchored: +5% All damage Bonus and -5 All Damage Resistance Rating

*only useful when maintaining a stationary position over time

• While in combat, gain 1 stack of Repair Crews every 5 sec (Stacks up to 5 times)
• +5 All Damage Resistance Rating
• +5% Hull Repair Rate

• +7.5% Bonus Cannon Weapons Damage

• +7.5% Bonus Beam Weapons Damage

Personal Ground Traits

• For every 6 seconds in combat (Stacks up to 5 times)
• +1.5% All Damage Bonus
• +6% Critical Severity

• Gain +2% Damage Bonus for each teammate within 20m
• Bonus is doubled if teammate also has Hive Mind

• Activate Ability: (Lasts 10 seconds)
• +50% All Outgoing Damage
• -100 All Damage Resistance Rating

While you remain stationary, gain 1 stack of Introspection every 5 sec (Stacks up to 5 times)

• +5 Bonus All Damage
• +5% Health Regeneration
• -5 All Damage Resistance Rating

• Being Critically Hit reduces speed 10% (max once in 15 seconds)

• +5% Bonus All Damage per foe within 5m
• (Stacks up to 5 times)

• +10% Kinetic Damage Bonus
• 2x Distance for all Non-Weapon Knockback effects

• 40% chance: chance for +2.5 critical chance when attacking
• (Stacks up to 3 times)

• +5% All Energy Damage
• +10% Critical Severity

• +3% Critical Chance
• +10% increased chance to Expose

• +30 Kit Performance
• (Improves All Kit Modules)

• -10% Kit Recharge Time

• To self: +100 Kit Performance
• (Improves All Kit Modules) for 8 sec
• (May occur once every 24 seconds)

Starship Traits

• Activating Auxiliary Power to Emergency Battery or any Pilot Bridge Officer Ability:
• -9.1% Flight Speed for 15 sec
• -10 All Damage Resistance Rating for 15 sec
• -2 to Current and Max All Subsystem Power for 15 sec
• 5 stacks max (from all sources)

• When activating Beam: Fire at Will or Cannon: Scatter Volley:
• Grants Fire at Will I and Scatter Volley I to your hangar pets
• Upgrades your energy weapons for 20 seconds: (Does not stack)
• -30 All Damage Resistance Rating for 5 sec

• On Emergency Power to Weapons:
• -50% Weapon Power Cost for 30 sec
• 20% Firing Cycle Haste for Energy Weapons for 30 sec

• Extend duration of Cannon: Scatter Volley by 4 sec

• Once per sec while Beam: Fire-at-Will is active, receiving Any Damage grants 0.33 sec Duration to Fire-at-Will (15 sec total duration)

While in Combat gain 1 Calm stack every 2 sec:

• Each stack of Calm gives +5 All Damage Resistance Rating
• +33% Firing Cycle Haste for Energy Weapons
• Bridge Officer abilities recharge 33% faster
• (Stacks of Calm can’t be gained while Storm is active)

Activating Pilot or Tactical bridge officer abilities adds: (Stacks up to 5 times)

• Per stack: +4% Bonus All Damage with Starship Weapons for duration of combat
• Max once per 4 sec, all stacks lost if combat ends

Links Energy and Torpedo firing modes together

• Applies Fire at Will I and Scatter Volley I to self
• Applies Torpedo Spread I to self

When damaging a foe that doesn’t have you targeted for 30 seconds:

• Decreases Threat generation by 60%
• +5% Critical Chance
• +5% Bonus All Damage
• (Placate can only occur once per 60 seconds per foe)

When using a Beam or Cannon Bridge Officer ability, For 20 sec:

• Increases weapon power drained by 50%
• +10% Critical Chance to Directed Energy Weapons
• +50 Accuracy Rating

• +175% Critical Severity vs foes below 20% health.

Super Charged Weapons (from the FED: Tactical Star Cruiser, KDF: Martok Tactical Battlecruiser, ROM: Khopesh Tactical Dreadnought Warbird in C-Store)

• +10% Damage for 20 sec
• +1.5% Critical Chance for 20 sec
• +6.6% Critical Severity for 20 sec

Reputation Space Traits  

+20% Critical Severity

• +5% Critical Hit Chance

• +6.3% Bonus Weapon Damage

• +4.9% Bonus All Damage (based on Auxiliary Power Level)

Your directed energy attacks heal you for a portion of the damage dealt:

• Receive 3.1% of your outgoing damage as a Hull heal to you
• (Triggers up to 5 times per second, capped at 150 per healing)

• +2.8% Critical Chance based on Hull Capacity (Max +7.5 at 200,000 Hull Capacity)

• +9.4% Bridge Officer Ability Recharge Speed

• +9.4% Bonus Energy Weapon and Projectile Damage against Controlled targets

Reputation Ground Traits

• +6.3% Bonus All Damage

When Activating a Captain Ability:

• +18.8 Kit Performance

(Improves All Kit Modules) for 15 sec

• +12.5% Bonus Damage While Aiming

Your energy attacks heal you for a portion of the damage dealt:

• Receive 6.25% of your outgoing damage as healing to you
• (Triggers up to 10 times per second)

When reduced to less than 30% health:

• +75% All Damage for 7 sec
• +3,125 Stealth for 7 sec
• (Can occur once every 90 seconds)

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21 comments to Traits Guide

Props on the effort!

This might be the proper thread, but I wondering… I have the Vengeance and ranked really good in s13 with FAW build.

With all the changes (been away for almost 2 years now). What C-store Fed cruiser would be able to outclass the Vengeance ? I’m look at the miracle worker tact cruiser for the trait. Just wondering if there a better option.

PS: Will be more active since new dps standards are making me want to compete again 🙂

vengeance is stil a good ship. another cheap one for feds with zen would be vanguard warships and (if you prefere a fed visual) gagarin. other good ships would be promo ships so yea 😉

I think the vengeance remains the best federation cruiser when it comes to dps, because it suits both cannons, beams, its boff flexibility is great and it’s hard to compare it with anything else but the fleet shepard, which would be on par with the vengeance, but loses on cool-points 🙂 so from two ships who perform similarly, ofc you pick the cooler one. Which is still the vengeance.

Hi, I have a query, I’m running a FAW build in the fleet Sheppard. Have entwined tactical matrices trait and boff abilities torp spread I and mixed armaments synergy III. Do you know if I trigger the mixed armaments synergy prior to torp spread will it buff the FAW I that entwined tactical matrices triggers?

Entwined Tactical Matrixes is triggered by activating TS, MAS is triggered by actually shooting a weapon, so you have to fire the torpedo to boost FAW. Now add in Super Charged Weapons and have fun.

Thanks, Will give that a go.

Has power creep knocked Romulan Operative off the list of personal traits? Or are my Romulan/Aliens still worthless?

Given the amounts of exceptional new traits, the Romulan Operative doesn’t really justify that slot.

You could go with any other as a replacement or even slot a defensive trait. It suits you better as an overall bonus at the end game build setup.

if you have romulan operative as a trait from your rom toon you could use that one too. technically a rom/alien is better than a rom/rom

How about the faction-specific traits from the temporal warships, like Heart Of Sol for a phaser build?

Heart of Sol is definitely a good trait, quite on par with Strike from Shadows.

Heat of Sol? Sounds like a T’Pau song 😬

Does targeting lock battery help if activated after activating fire at will?

So … , two questions :

1) The last update to thie page was on September 14, 2019 . Update needed ?

2) I have Faw 3 and TS 2 on multiple ships . Will Entwined Tactical Matrices do anything for me ? I’m asking because I don’t see what Faw 1 or TS 1 will do for me in the long run ?

not much changed since then, but you might wanna check out our “how to beams” guide 🙂

in addition, your faw will run for 10 out of 20 seconds. you use ETM to have a faw running for those 10 seconds you dont have your faw 3 running for a 100% uptime of faw. in addition, another torpspread is better than no torpspread 😉

in case you want to know more, feel free to join our discord and ask us there directly 🙂

could you explain why you never use rending shots in any of your builds ?

Rending shots would have been a great trait when we were around 30% crit rate. But now we have more than 90% which means just one in ten shots is not a crit. Which makes it rather rare to get more than one stack from rending shots.

But anyway, this guide needs an update.

Calm Before the Storm starship trait, comes from Cardassian Intel Flight-Deck CARRIER, not Cruiser

It was called “Flight Deck Cruiser” at release.

https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10911443-jem%E2%80%99hadar-vanguard-and-cardassian-intelligence-starship-stats-%26-abilities

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SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot developments in Season 5, Episode 1 of “ Star Trek : Discovery,” now streaming on Paramount+.

By the end of the episode, however, the mission has pushed Burnham and her crew to their limits, including slamming the USS Discovery into the path of a massive landslide threatening a nearby city. Before they risk their lives any further pursuing this object, Burnham demands that Kovich at least tell her why. (MAJOR SPOILERS FOLLOW.)

Kovich’s explanation evokes the classic “ Star Trek: The Next Generation ” episode “The Chase” from 1993 in which Capt. Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) — along with teams of Romulans, Klingons and Cardassians — learn that all humanoid life in the galaxy was created by a single species that existed billions of years earlier, and seeded thousands of planets with the DNA to pass along their legacy. (Along with presenting a profound vision of the origins of life, the episode also provided an imaginative explanation for why almost all the aliens in “Star Trek” basically look like humans with different kinds of forehead ridges.)

Kovich tells Burnham that the Romulan scientist was part of a team sent to discover exactly how these aliens — whom they call the Progenitors — made this happen; the object they’re seeking winds up being one part of a brand new “chase,” this time in the 32nd century, to find the Progenitors’ technology before it can fall into the wrong hands. 

“I remember watching that episode and at the end of it just being blown away that there was this huge idea where we all come from,” Paradise says. “And then they’re going to have another mission the next week. I found myself wondering, ‘Well, then what? What happened? What do we do with this information? What does it mean?’”

Originally, Paradise says the “Discovery” writers’ room discussed evoking the Progenitors in Season 4, when the Discovery meets an alien species, the 10-C, who live outside of the galaxy and are as radically different from humans as one could imagine. “As we dug deeper into the season itself, we realized that it was too much to try and get in,” Paradise says.

Instead, they made the Progenitors the engine for Season 5. “Burnham and some of our other characters are on this quest for personal meaning,” Paradise says. Searching for the origins of life itself, she adds, “feels like a big thematic idea that fits right in with what we’re exploring over the course of the season, and what our characters are going through.”

That meant that Paradise finally got to help come up with the answers to the questions about “The Chase” that had preoccupied her when she was younger. “We had a lot of fun talking about what might’ve happened when [Picard] called back to headquarters and had to say, ‘Here’s what happened today,’” she says. “We just built the story out from there.”

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