Two years in game, the Veteran Destroyers - always good ships - get extra teeth as they now sport a Heavy Weapon socket. STO Academy needs to catch up, read more than  the build here.

The Heavy Weapon
I use a Heavy Escort Flak Shot Artillery [CrtX], Mk XIV, XR from the Competitive Wargames Reputation store. Its AoE is applied to a 45° Cone. I prefer that to the straight line applied by the free Hyper-Excited Ion Stream baby from the Dilithium store.

This ship makes my Ferasan Engineering Captain very happy. Me too. In some aspects the ship is not my usual all-beams/coolest items build. It's all fun and cool pew-pew:

A "weak" Torpedo as front weapon
The "meh DPS" Kentari Mass-Produced Missile Launcher comes with a 180° Firing Arc and fires once every 2.5 seconds.
Its Radiation DoT impacts shields as well as hull. For that I prefer it to the Lobi store Ferengi weapon.
Kemocite Explosions fire everywhere as the torpedo fires up to 3 times during the 10 second buff window.
The Super Charged Weapon Trait (Martok, Endeavour, Khopesh) buff runs at 3 stacks (Energy Weapons get up to 30% Damage, 4.5% Crit Chance, 19.8% Crit Severity) quite early and rather contineous.

Beam/Turret mix
The 2 aft turrets do nasty things when rapid fire kicks im. The ship loves chewing shields away. And this Messy Mix™ gives me focus damage even while I fly Circles, Infinity Signs or go to stop some Borg Probes at the Kithomer Vortex.

Gung Ho Power Settings
I go for nice results from the Temporal Disentanglement Suite:
I use the Shield Overload and Layered Shielding traits at this moment just to be sure not to explode more often than I am used to. May be I drop them later.

No Super Charged Weapon Trait?
If you do not have the flag ships' trait, move the great Nausicaan Torpedo into the front socket. Use the Terran Task Force Torpedo, or a Kinetic Cutting Beam, or an Omega Torpedo as 3rd aft weapon.

Beams Only or Cannons Only rulez?
Pick your Favorite Weapons. Master a Breen Chel Boalg and a Nandi. Then rotate Bridge Officer seating:



No Front Torpedo?
Pick your Favorite Weapons. Master a Breen Chel Boalg and a Nandi. My beam boat Bridge would be this:

But I want it not!

Them Numberz
ISA 40K dps, KSA above 30K dps, CSA above 20K dps.

    So i have gotten a few ppl telling me that my uniform is actually very nice despite being very simple there are no parts of the unifrom that are not already unlocked and available to all players new and old the white coloring changes based on carreer choice i have my entire crew wearing this uniform with the appropriate color to there carreer so here is a screen shot of my captain for you to get a better idea

Hi All!!
 
 Just wanted to introduce myself.... I'm Joe aka Jules Zeppo. I've been playing since 2012, but took some time off and now just getting back into full swing. I recently join the fleet and so happy to be here. My last fleet wasn't very active and honestly most weren't very helpful. Since I've been here I have been having a great time and have met some wonderful people. I've very active, mostly in the morning (eastern time) cause i work nights. Please feel free to hit me up if you have any question. 
Thanks again for allowing me to be apart of your team and look forward to playing with everyone. 


Zeppo aka Joe.

I was playing STO for more than 2 years. Then I watched a YouToube Video from one of the more active Streamers of the German player community. I learnt that AUTOFIRE also works on ground... 

Game Settings
These are my new settings for ground, they feel quite well:
Enable Autofire by right-click on your Primary Attack, make a decision on your 2ndary Attack (my Opinion: always yes for Split Beam and Full Automatic Rifles). Try it, and if you are happy how it suddenly works, love your Equipment, and stick to your Skills Setup (what I mostly do, especially as retraining always means both space and ground and traits get messed...) then the single picture did it.

Equipment
I have a proud Romulan character who wears a gold plated Romulan Imperial Navy 4-piece-set and he will never change that.

Kit
Many kits are awesome, each their own way (like those from the Fleet Embassy and Fleet Research Lab). If you want a simple solution, look for [KPerf]x3 or [CritD][KPerf]x2 or [CritH][KPerf]x2 or [KPerf]x2 [PSGRes]. What ever Modules you use, [KPerf] makes them better.


Armor
The ground euipment vendor at the Fleet Star Base has a cool thing for you, called Advanced Recoil Compensating Amor at MK XII. Fed with upgrades you get:


Shields
Play the Temporal Front mission twice for a Nakuhl Shield and Nakuhl Weapon. The Nakuhl Weapon, just as it drops, gets into your 2nd weapon slot to give you the 2 pieces set bonus (+2% Critical Chance, +30% Critical Severity). With love and Dilithium you get:


Weapon
Use your most favorite weapon. Or find it. Some samples (I love them all) are:
Also have a TR116B ready and equip that if you are planning to see the Borg.

Skill Setup
The most painful change to do (especially as retraining always means both space and ground skills and traits get messed...), and only if you want. The old DPS League setup was All Weapons & All Kit. They changed their mind a bit recently and went to:


And Now...
Be back, and shoot them all

Hello, everyone. Thank you for the invite into the fleet, and the warm welcome in-game chat. I have been playing STO off and on since launch. If there is anything I can do to help, let me know. Peace and long life.

Zarathustra is the name, Synergy is the game!
For this ship I picked Specialization, Space Set and Traits, even Weapons, with the idea to be scientifically evil. Picking Polaron beams to weaken foes and to profit from high Drain Expertise was just the begining. Look, what the innocent Science and the boring Engineering Team abilities can do and how cool the weak-reputed Tactical Team can be:

Who is feeding the Secondary Deflector today?
When you look on it, the nasty Deteriorating Deflector does not show the Abilities that trigger it's bad bad bad Radiation damage. BUT... the Radiation damage it does appears in the list of effects displayed when you inspect a Bridge Officer's Ability (here: Energy Siphon 1, Destabilizing Resonace Beam 2 & Structural Analysis 3).
This is my current BOff loadout.

Power Settings & Stats
Weapons are not my primary source of damage, and default balance I did not love either. Be they good nor not, here are my power settings:
The offensive Stats are Ctritical Hit 20% (+50% on GW & DRB), Critical Severity 148% (+32% on GW & DRB), Control X 233, Drain X 264, EPG 323.

ISA Combat Log, just Numberz!
Your way to success and fame: only the best results shall be posted.
SCM - Infected [LR] (S) - [03:05] DMG(DPS) - @edarta: 11.27M(64.31K) @raven_zero: 9.89M(59.55K) @NickiHeat: 7.26M(42.41K) @glr457: 4.04M(22.87K) @giotariz: 1.83M(10.60K)
This however is the best log ever I got for a Science ship, the best log I got since Season 13 started (though my Tacticians do fine) and it is one of the rare ISA split runs I had that succeeded w/o the presence of an unspeakable 120K+ dps abomination.

Tyken's Rift Variant
When I replace the Gravity Well 3 by a Tyken's Rift 3, the Rift slows foes in a 3km range by draining their engine power, but is clearly weaker in Crowd Control. The Destabilizing Resonance Beam and Structural Analysis lose the bad mama that pulls extra targets into range.
For a Tyken's Rift loadout

• replace the current Gravimetric Specialist DOff by Mariah Kilara Marr(courtesy of the Phoenix box event)
  
• replace the Assimilated Module by a Zero-Point Energy Conduit
  
• replace the Tachyokinetic Converter by a Nukara Particle Converter
  
• replace the TDI Deflector by a Solanae Deflector
  

Though not so nice in the most Borg STFs, this setup looks very promising against Tzenkethi.

Experiments & Paperworks to do...
Less CD reduction?
Currently I run the ship with massive Cool Down reduction, especially on Science. As Duplicate CD is a value you can not undercut, I may change some Bridge Officers or some Consoles.
Less heal, one 2min CD less, more offense?
The Solanae Deflector Array is a nice offensive option. Also replacing one or some [DrainX] by [CtrlX] modifiers might be cool.

The Domestic Public Picture	The German Translation Pic

What do the story tellers try not to tell us? Is it a Ghost? Is it a Hologram? Is it a Delusion? WE DON'T KNOW!

The D7, in my opinion is one of the most iconic Klingon ships. When I first saw it in the movie, Klingons suddenly became cool!
If you are asked: That is what the 70s gave us - Cool Klingons!

The (partially thanks to my pilot spec) highly agile vessel with battle cloak and a great ship trait is all fun. This is my build with 2 Engineers, aft Torpedo for set bonus. I do not use the Ominous Device that comes with the ship any longer, but it helped survival until I got the consoles I prefered. The vessel now is a hefty brawler.

You actually want to use the Nausicaan Engery Torpedo, not just have it for the set bonus? Another pic first, as I can not resist the brutal beauty:

See the same ship in a build with 2 Tacticians, front Torpedo, it is as powerful as the all-beams front build. For Captain Skills (not necessarily so), Traits and Specilization, see the 2 Engineers build that is linked above. By the sound of a Nausicaan Torpedo Spread, the ship is even cooler

I built this shuttle during the recent Shuttle Weekend Event and had a lot fun. I had read this reddit post, many build suggestion are here (I have found that today. Now it's too late for trying these, but future shuttle events will see me. The GIFTZWERG will stay as she is, but I have mannnnnny toons...)

The little buzzer can fly circles around its own plasma tropedos but should not do that In fleet alerts she was AWESOME:

Account Name: @Pailorzan

Character Names: Gai'Lai'nia

Your Current Rank: 60 / Dahar Master

Time Zone: GMT +1 (CET)

How did you get into Star Trek Online? - By a good Friend

How long have you been playing for? 2,5 years.

What would be your best piece of advice to a new STO player? - Find some good introduction vidoes on YouTube.

What’s your favourite career type (Engineering, Science or Tactical)? Tactical

What’s your favourite ship? Arbiter

What’s your best and worst STO moment? My best STO Moment was I managed to stay alive attacking the Borg..
My worst Moment was I kept on dying attacking the Borg.

What are some of your other interests? Sci-FI TV-Shows, Bar/Restuarant visits, Spending time with family and good friends

What’s your favourite band? Tiesto, HeadHunterz, Jean Michel-Jarre (I listen to all kind of music) - Especially Electronica

Anything else you want to say? (See below)

The beginning:

First of all I would like to thank all of you, giving me the feeling of being very much welcomed into your fine fleet. Thanks to MoM for getting my KDF a new home

I have never felt this much welcomed and being taken care of as a new person in a fleet. *APPLAUSE TO EVERYONE* Even though I have played this for 2 years, I still learn new stuff and thanks to all for your great advices.

My Person:
I was born in the fabulous decade of the 80’s (‘81 to be exact).  
I live in the most happiest country (Denmark), though this year we managed to be listed on 2nd place (Got beaten by Norway).. If you're curious click on below:

Happiness Report 2017

I live in our city-capital together with my girlfriend (6th year now) and our 2 annoying cats – Annoying in the sense that we get woken up (being jumped on) every morning as they want their food.

Kids, we don’t have (as my work and her spirits) aren’t aligned to be parents yet.. But who knows what time will bring..

I describe myself as a very outgoing and kind person, I love to hang around with good friends, good food and just having fun. Either in the privacy of my home or at a restaurant/café.
I love watching movies, tv-shows etc (sci-fi especially, well dahhhh!!!) - And of course when time permits I play STO with all you good people.

If you are online and you see me there, just ping me and say hi, don’t be shy. Maybe we can go on a quest or STF together.

Fun facts:
For people that haven’t heard or know stuff about Denmark, I’ve made a small list (“Fun” Facts about Denmark”):

• The lovely fairytale “he Little Mermaid” is written by a danish author (H.C. Anderssen).
  
• LEGO is a danish invention – The word LEGO is two words put together (LEG GODT) – meaning LEG=Play GODT=well/good.
  
• Denmark was the first country in the world legalizing pornography… (Apparently something a lot of danes are proud of).  
  

This was just some of the facts
If you're still curious about Denmark undefined and more facts go here: Fun Facts about Denmark

See you all in Game