Engineering Captain Starter Build

Build Overview and Focus

One of the things we felt was an opportunity to expand our ground content was to introduce some starter builds for players just getting to endgame. The truth is, a good ground build provides easy pathways to farm any number of currencies, makes running events a lot faster, and does not need much time or effort to get started.

For our starter builds, we placed strict limits on how much we could use:

• No Fleet Gear

• No Reputation Gear or traits

• No Upgrades

• No Elite Captain token

• 10M EC maximum for exchange purchases

• No Event Items unless it's available in the Rare/Very Rare/Ultra Rare Phoenix Box

• 1 R&D school only for traits/weapons/gear (Spoiler: It's Kits and Modules)

Despite those very strict limitations, we were able to come with builds that could hit 1K in supported Bug Hunt Elite, and 500 DPS in a Ward C Solo Deathless Clear of Bird Cage Advanced. The goal here is to set up ground builds that can be easily set up by players new to endgame that will carry them through story content and easily up through Advanced TFOs, even into Elite. 

This character takes a 'purist' approach when playing the game. Often time when I see a budget build presented outside of this site, it's presented with on a character who went and did content with their high end gear. While nothing is out of the ordinary that cannot be obtained, this process makes some....interesting difficulty (read as damage check or durability checks) negligent that a new player might not face. 

As such, this character basically started with nothing. The gear I had was story and NPC drops (I was running around with a Mk III kit for a while when getting this). I will as such give some pointers along the way on what incremental upgrades to get.