U.S.S. Covenance Heart

Notes

Teryh's skill tree is similar in many aspects but lacks a few features compared to my engineering captains. Because tactical captains get no inherent power management, I've taken points to buff up weapon power. I've also skipped Drain Expertise, mostly because its of no important, and the other being there isn't any case for me to use Drain Scaling powers on her. There is often a case to use Energy Siphon but it doesn't normally find room in bridge officer layouts to make it worthwhile enough to spec into DrainX when the points could instead be spent on EPG or power.

27 vs 26 Point Tactical ultimate

There is some comments floating around about people moving back to the 27 points in the tactical branch for the cooldown reduction on Focused Frenzy. I maintain that this is a negligible effect and and good build should already have and maintain proper cooldown reduction chaining. Therefore the cooldown reduction from Focused Frenzy should be redundant and therefore ignored. Unless you can maintain Frenzy the entire run (in which case all members have agreed to specifically build conditions and timings before hand) this point is wasted in the sense that the extra unlock will at most times be of unimportance, Therefore 1 point can be moved for utility to Science or Engineering .

Hull Restoration vs Hull Capacity

Once again I took a point in hull restoration. While the same argument as in Jayiie's skill tree doesn't quite hold up, as a tactical captain there is a distinct lack of healing innately available to her. As such taking that last point does help in scaling healing things up.

Shield Regeneration

While Teryh's primary goal isn't to tank, this last point in science does get her to the next unlock for +10% max shield capacity. While not a massively important stat, shield regeneration is statically anomaly and adds a huge amount to shield regen in just the first point (more Information on shields can be found here). As such, I have taken the single point. If you want to take the final point of EPG or something else such as power or hull capacity feel free too do so.

Starship Weapons

Weapon Notes

Everything here is relatively easily achievable with little effort. The two reputation weapons do need T6 reputations but that shouldn’t be a huge struggle. The crafted phaser turret can be replaced with anything. If you have access to the Pahvan omni then it would be a really great fit as it upgrades to FAW1 when under CSV making it synergistic. Additionally, if you wanted to move to FAW2 instead of CSV you can slot the Terran Phaser Beam array over the Dual Cannons, the Discovery Reputation Wide Angle Dual Heavy Beam Banks, and phaser omnis of your choice. This would also require a firing extender to be purchased which would push the build out of budget tier but Entwined Tactical Matrices is pretty ubiquitous at this point.

Equipment Notes

Pretty standard here, nothing too extreme. Standard Fleet Colony deflector, competitive combat engines and discovery shield / core. The Revolutionary set would be better but again brings it too a higher build tier

Console Notes

I choose fleet phaser / critical chance consoles here for the advanced console, but you could do this with Isomagnetic Plasma Distribution Manifolds with Phaser. This would skew the build more towards energy damage and if adapted to a more tactical heavy platform might be better. I would stay away from Exotic Particle Amplifiers however as the bulk of the builds EPG / CtrlX ratings are from the two Restorative Particle Focusers. However, Exotic Particle Focusers would possibly be a good choice here as there are 3 powers here compared to 1, but have a much longer cooldown compared to Aux2Sif. I find my luck to be more with consistent rolls give higher results than the spikeyness of many but longer cooldown.

Bridge Officer Notes

As mentioned earlier, there is a version of this build that exists with FAW as the active firing mode instead of CSV but exists outside of this budget class. If you didn’t want to use KLW as a lockbox power, you are more than able to use Very Cold in Space (this might even make Exotic Focusers more reliable).

Meta-Focused Tweaks:

A Good Day to Die is a tactical captain only trait, and therefore needs replacement for other professions. Easiest choice here would be EPS Manifold Efficiency for damage or Grace Under Fire for durability for Engineering Captains. Science captains have no career-specific trait of any importance innately, therefore I would suggest something like Adaptive Offense, Pseudo-Submission, or anything else of your choice.

Budget Tweaks:

For budget players who want to save some EC, there's a few standard traits that could be used:

• Bulkhead Technician - Innate trait - this provides +10% Maximum Hull capacity and can be used as a stand in for durability consoles

• Living Hull - Episode Reward from "Surface Tension" - +15% hull regen in combat is equivalent to 3 stacks of repair crews

• Redacted Armor Plating - Episode Reward from “The Renegade's Regret” - +30 all DRR when hit from behind or sides

• Regenerative Control Synergy - Episode Reward from “Of Signs and Portents” - Grants +45% hull regen when using a control power for 10 seconds

If your after more damage instead of durability:

• Point Blank Shot - Episode Reward from House Pegh - scaling damage based on distance to target from 2km to 6km.

• Operative - Innate Trait - +1% CrtH +2% CrtD, this isn't spectacular but if you lack any offensive traits you can use it.

Starship Traits Notes

We’re making use of a few DEW / Sci interconnected traits here. Strike is overall good for any damage, Super Charged affects global CrtD/CrtH which affects exotics, ICS is also global CrtD/CrtH, and Weaponized Exotic Particles is a really decent EPG buff. Realistically with WEP you can technically drop both particle focusers, but you would really lose out on the control expertise and I think overall the build will suffer. With the trait active you sit at ~330 EPG which is absolutely nothing to scoff at.

Miscellaneous

Something that we try to teach is how to read a ship, understand what are the important parts, and then apply it to other ships so you don't need a build for your specific ship. You can either copy or adapt from another ship as needed instead if there’s one that can run the same build or is close enough. In this case, we’re looking for a ship with a DHC weapon access, with Full Intelligence Seating, and a Secondary Deflector.  Consulting Fleffle's Sortable List with those parameters entered, you get this:

• A relatively new addition, the Suurok Intel Science Destroyer is a near direct replacement, offering similar boff seating, upgrading the Tactical to a Lt.C and offering command seating, as well as an added fore weapon.

• The Ba'ul Sentry Vessel offers an improvement, getting a Lt. Command seat, as well as an added hull and shield and fore weapon, at the cost of having reduced turn and slightly less optimal power distribution. It also is limited to lockbox level requisitions.

• The Cardassian Damar Intel Science Dreadnought is very similar to the Scryer, suffering from reduced turn but has access to more intel seating potential, as well as an added fore weapon. As a science dreadnought you have access to a hangar bay; best slot here with the budget is Elite Scorpions or El;ite Peregrines

• The Legendary Caelian Intel Multi-Mission Explorer is a direct upgrade with similar turn rate. The only downside is that the engineering seating is limited to only 2 slots without using the Lt.C. This means you have to forgo Aux2SiF, but with the added ens. Science seat you can pick up hazard emitters which is a HoT instead of single heal. The Lt.C Tactical also means you can upgrade to TS2 and CSV2. As a 4/2 ship you do lose a slot. The added fore weapon should be filled with crafted [Pen] Dual or Dual Heavy Cannon, taking the place of the aft turret.

• If you wanted to dabble in a little bit of pilot with this build style then the Saturn Intel Science Spearhead is the ship, similar story, more flexible seating, added fore weapon, and high platform cost. The same layout as the Caelian above can be mirrored, however if you feel up to it you can drop intel team, replacing it with the hazard emitters and then slotting pilot team in the Ens/Pilot seat to get some more mobility.