U.S.S. Proxmia

Notes

This is an unoptimized skill tree. There's about a dozen nodes I would respec if I wanted too, however I think this is a fair blend between the wants and needs of the build class and what people might want. I have several more optimized skill trees but for people starting off I think this is a fair tree to follow.

If you have a goal in mind of what you want, you can always copy the skill tree of the build type you ultimately want to end up in:

• Engineering Profession Laura - Developed for hyper optimized exotic builds

• Tactical Profession Korven - Developed for projectile damage builds

• Engineering Profession Jayiie - My all around generalist tree optimized for many different build paths, prioritizing tanking first

• Science Profession Ayjei - Developed for a combination of directed Energy Weapons and Exotic powers

• Tactical Profession Teryh - Developed for directed energy weapons

For people who are just starting their journey, here's some brief overviews of what this skill tree offers:

Engineering Skill Picks

• Improved Hull Restoration - +42.5% improved Hull Healing, effects your bridge officers as well as captain abilities, and any consoles you might have that apply direct healing (not regen)

• Improved Hull Capacity - +25.5% Hull Capacity, increases your health. Because of how the game can scale, this is often more preferable over restoration, but at low HP ships this won't have as much of an impact as out healing incoming damage will, which is why I've split these two nodes

• Improved EPS Flow - +100% power transfer rate; this is a weird quirk of how the game works, but effectively this allows you to use your weapon power more effectively than if you just increased the subsystem

• Hull Plating - +15 Damage Resistance Rating for energy and kinetic, this is a sizable passive durability increase that almost all skill trees take

• Defensive Subsystem Tuning / Auxiliary Subsystem Performance - +4.8 Shield Power, +8 Aux Power

• Improved Warp Core - +5 All subsytem power

• Warp Core Efficiency - scaling 0-10 power based on the subsystem setting (10 at 15 setting, 0 at 75 or higher setting)

Science Skill Picks

• Improved Control Expertise - This affects not only how much your controls are, but also your resistance too them. This includes holds, stuns, placates and confuses, as well as repels and pulls. This is very good to have when playing solo missions where you will often be 

  • Control Amplification - Applies -25 damage resistance rating to targets affected by controls (read gravity well for this build)

• Improved Drain Expertise - Improves the effects of power and shield drains

  • Drain Infection - Triggers with drain skills, only two power on this build that triggers this are Charged Particle Bust and Tyken's Rift

• Advanced Exotic Particle Generators - +100 skill, improves exotic damage

Tactical Skill Picks

• Energy Weapon Training - +25% Cat1 Energy Weapon Damage

• Advanced Projectile Weapon Training - +50% Cat1 Projectile Weapon Damage

• Improved Targeting Expertise - +12.75 Accuracy

• Advanced Weapon Amplification - +40% Critical Severity for Weapons

• Advanced Weapon Specialization - +4.0% Critical Chance for Weapons

• Improved Hull Penetration - Effectively -8.5 Damage resistance rating to targets

• Improved Shield Penetration - +4.25% for weapons

• Coordination Protocols - For team +5% Hull and Shield Cap for Team

  • Defensive Coordination - +5% Defense and +5 All Damage Resistance for Team

  • Offensive Coordination - +5 Accuracy and +5% Cat1 damage for Team

Note: I know running these might seem ineffective, but if everyone on your team is using these, its +20% Damage, +20 Accuracy, +20% Hull Capacity and Shield Capacity, and +20 all DRR to all team members, which is more than you can get with any other 3 skill picks

• Improved Tactical Readiness - +17% recharge speed for tactical bridge officer powers

Starship Weapons

Notes

As a starter build we are limited to what we can pull from, and mission and reputation gear offers some of the best synergy available with the set bonuses. The Morphogenic Set is really good at this teir as it can act as if we've been given an extra 12% Critical Chance and 30% Critical Damage. The Gravimetric Torp and Plasma Particle Torp are both end game staples that will serve you well so these are viable investments to make early on, and are very easy to get.

Exotic builds are pretty different in the weapon and gear choices as a majority of damage will come from your bridge officers and consoles, wanting to have consoles with active powers (buttons you can push) and good stats (like Exotic Particle Generators, Control Expertise, Aux power, and damage)

Tweaks and Notes:

Temporal Destabilization Probe is a very...ok console. It offers no passives and active is a 2 minute cooldown single instance of damage to all targets with 3km of affected foe. This pairs well with gravity well on this build but I wouldn't recommend it long term. Its an easy slot and if you would rather a stat stick the Nukara Particle Convertor is a fine use.

Notes

I know I spoke about the usefulness of the extra ensign power at the start and once you move onto higher tiers of budgets this slot is easily replaced with something like Subspace Vortex or Structural Analysis. Alternatively you can use Tachyon Beam as a single target application of your secondary deflector

Notes:

Onboard Dilithium Recrystalizer is always going to be up on this build. Using Emergency Power to Engines 1 on cooldown will always net you the buff since at rest this build is at 130 aux power.

Like all starter tier builds, these are meant to transition you to the next build, in this case its anything with a secondary deflector.