Science Mage

Notes

The meta skill layout would be to skip Shield Capacity, Endurance, and Armor in favor of Improved Weapon Damage, Weapon Criticals, and Weapon Penetration. I just think ground on higher difficulties requires a bit more survivability than that and haven't felt the need to change it. 

Notes

• If fighting Borg or Elachi, I keep a Mk XV TR-116B in inventory to swap out the pistols with.

• If I fully wanted to embrace the cold, either the Breen pistol (but the 2-piece is not great), or the Nukara Cryo Full Auto Rifle are options.

• The Elachi Combat Walker is easily replaced and not essential at all.

• There are better Tribbles out there, or a Gambling Device.

Notes:

• Nanite Health Monitor is an option as well for a heal. I prefer the low cooldown of Medical Tricorder

• Typical rotation is Tricorder Scan -> Anti-Time -> Paradox Bomb -> Endothermic -> Andorian Summer -> Cold Fusion Flash

• Could replace Paradox Bomb with Gravitational Juncture

• The meta kit modules are probably picking from this pool:

  • Universal: Ball Lightning, Ba'ul Obelisk Network, Gravity Containment Unit, Mudd's Time Device, Chain Conduit Capacitor, Kuumarke Drones, V'ger Probes, 

  • Tac: Trajectory Bending, Graviton Spike, Motivation, Chroniton Micro-Torpedo Spread, Battle Strategies

  • Eng: Anchor of Gre'thor, Explosive Drone, Chroniton Mines

  • Sci: Cold Fusion Flash, Exothermic Induction Field, Andorian Summer

If you want to do that on every character, be my guest. 

Meta-Focused Tweaks:

• See above

Budget Tweaks:

• The Elachi Walker can be replaced by literally anything to reduce cost. It was free for me.

Meta-Focused Tweaks:

•  Could swap Adaptive Offense for Terran Vision or maybe Serenity.

Budget Tweaks:

• Most ground stuff tends to be pretty cheap. Tricorder Analysis could be swapped for something else if you were trying to save on ground costs.

Miscellaneous