U.S.S. d'Alembert

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 avalible to her. As such taking that last point does help in scaling healing things up.

Shield Regeneration

While Teryhs 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

Meta-Focused Tweaks:

As this is aimed at being more of an energy weapon support build. As such the Iconian Set is used to provide a +30% team wide energy buff. For use on torpedo aspected supports the Gamma Set is equally valid, as seen on my Glenn.

For HSE, you might also opt to bring something like a Colony Deflector and Discovery 2pc for the hull regen for some more duability and plan on having a second support run the Iconian set.

Meta-Focused Tweaks:

I've normally seen people run more controls than I do here for unconventional systems. However the ones available generate placates which can mess up threat tables and screw up aggro. This is harmful to both maintaining FAW with redirecting arrays and the primary purpose of this ship being a tank.

Cooldown Reduction

This build uses 3 sources of cooldowns; Aux2Batt, Boimler Effect, and the cooldown reduction from strategist secondary specialization Attrition Warfare II.

Meta-Focused Tweaks:

For tactical captains Coordinated Targeting Solution is available to them, however with Intelligence Agent Attaché, cooldowns on Fire On My Mark aren't exactly hard to find.

Budget Tweaks:

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

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

• EPS Manifold Efficiency - Engineering Captain innate trait - this provides +10 all subsystem power for 30s when using EPtX or batteries. A useful filler.

• 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

• Nanite Repair Matrix - this can help keep you alive. Unfortunately there's not much in the way of support orientated traits available for free, so anything that increases durability or damage would probably help.

• Advanced Rapid Support - Temporal Recruitment - reduces cooldown on captain fleet abilities. This would be especially great on tactical captains who run this build and don't have IAA

Meta-Focused Tweaks:

    This is about as meta as you get for support. The two big -DRR traits, SAD and Cold Hearted, are both present as is the +power and team healing trait Greater than the Sum. I would imagine most meta support tanks don't run EWC but I do just because dealing damage is still an essential part of threat, and makes controlling the amount of damage this ship does by changing the weapon power a very controllable variable.

    Some traits to consider in place of Unified Engineering:

• Cooperation Is The Dominant Strategy - From the Friendship Command Flight Deck Carrier, this grants a +10% Bonus Damage to non-hangar allies when you cast a BOff power or universal console on them. This can easily be achieved at 100% uptime with engineering team or science team.

• Test Them - From the Praetor Command Warbird Battlecruiser. This has some interesting interations with marking targets and granting teamwide buffs:

  • They Are Weak I (activated by marking and defeating Frigates): Self and Allies receive +15% Increased Damage and +10% Hull Capacity

  • They Are Weak II (activated by marking defeating Cruisers): Self and Allies receive +20% Increased Damage and +15% Hull Capacity

  • They Are Weak III (activated by marking defeating Battleships): Self and Allies receive +25% Increased Damage and +20% Hull Capacity

  • They Are Weak IV (activated by marking defeating Dreadnoughts): Self and Allies receive +30% Increased Damage and +25% Hull Capacity

Budget Tweaks:

Most people will have Entwined Tactical Matrices, which is a fine substitute in place of Redirecting Arrays if you don't want to buy another C-store trait. There's more information found over on the Support Basics page.

For those looking to pick up more Defensive Traits:

• The Best Defense - +25% Healing when using APB, APO, and APD - not hugely relevant on a build which heals via regen or incoming classes healing (protomatter consoles) but its free from the episode "House Pegh".

• Going the Extra Mile - +Hull cap and +healing - free from completing Miracle Worker Specialization

• Carrier Wave Shield Hacking - Really only useful when used with tractor beam on supports, this turns the power from a mule to a target specific shield shutdown.

• One Impossible Thing at a Time - reduces team captain cooldowns when using self captain powers. Tactical captains have such quick reloading captain powers this can really help the rest of the team.

Miscellaneous

Any ship with commander command seating will work here. Obviously the higher the hull mod the better. The problem with porting 1:1 will have less to do with the ship bridge officer layouts and more with the unique consoles now un-locked from the Odyssey and Flagship lines. However lots of other ships have unique consoles that let you deal more damage or run more support (team damage buffs or target debuffs).

In order of highest to lowest hull mods:

• Hur'q Vedcrid Hive Dreadnought Carrier - 4/3 but with 2 hanger bays and a 1.7 hull mod this could be an incredible platform for tanking.

• Legendary Ross Command Exploration Cruiser - From the same pack this 1.55 hull mod ship is better suited to a support role than heavy tank (damage) role, mostly due to the Cmdr/Lt.C engineering seat. Its also a Galaxy so it gets some style points.

• Fleet Cardenas Command Dreadnought Cruiser - 1.54 hull mod so very beefy, and gets access to a decent seating layout. No lt.C tactical means it wont be able to get FAW3 for the role of a super heavy tank but it is very possible to do it on this, but is also better suited to support tanks. The KDF counterpart is a duplicate of its stats if you wanted to try something non-fed.

• Voth Rampart Command Flight Deck Carrier - 1.47 hull mod and probably the closest to the Verity in terms of boff seating. Access to MW and very flexible seating would definitely make this a contender for the heavy tank role.

• Kelvin Constitution Heavy Command Cruiser - 1.45 hull mod, access to both command and temporal as well as versatile seating (lt.C uni) means this is flexible in both support and heavy tank roles.

• Merian Command Science Dreadnought - 1.45 Hull Mod, Cmdr Science ship with a hanger bay. This platform is more suited for support tanking but it could be very potent with the access to a secondary deflector for the purposes of heavy tanking.

• Legendary Vor'cha Command Support Battlecruiser - 1.45 hull mod, very very very good ship, many roles this can fill from DEW DPS to tanking to torps.

• Styx Terran Dreadnought Cruiser - 1.45 hull mod, More than capable of being both a heavy and support tank, and possible attempt to fill both roles at once with access to APB3 hanger pets. See here for EPHs build.

• Presidio / Ty'Gokor / Vastam Tactical Command Battlecruisers - Lower hull (1.375 Hull mod) but not as expensive as a platform as a the others on this list, can fill both heavy and support roles as seen here.

• Endeavour / Martok / Khopesh Tactical Flagships -  Any of them will work as they share the set powers and roughly the same layout, but will suffer having access to only Lt.C command powers.