[Thad.enjin]

Pretty close to what I came up with on my own. The only science skills I put into were for shield healing. There's two of them.cant remember the names. Also remember that your boff traits help too. Having human boffs helps hull regen (leadership trait). For my captains traits, since I avoid ground combat like the plague, I went with all space traits. You have enough slots for all space traits at VA. Since science and engineering abilities are very limited on escorts, be careful on your boff abilities. Good ones to look at are transfer shield strength and hazzard emitters for science and emergency power to shields and reverse shield polarity for engineering. The science and engineering team abilities have shared cool downs with tactical team, of which you should have two instances of and be running all the time so those are out. Hazzard emitters helps negate the plasma proc and in a pinch can be used to heal a buddy. Same with transfer shield strength. Some people swear by having emergency power to weapons but since you should be running at 125 weapons power at all times, I find it useless.

he was right with focusing on one weapon type. I typically run 4 fore dual heavy cannons and two aft turrets with the kinetic cutting beam in back as well. If you do the math on weapon power usage, having over 6 energy weapons usually just hurts because your weapon power goes down too much. So be careful with that.

generally its a good idea to run with base energy levels at 100 weapons, 30 shields, 50 engines and 20 aux. With the power level skills and good gear, you should have enough buffs to power to make up the difference. This will be different with each build, but it gives you a base to play with.

there is a ton of info out there for escorts, but they all say the same basics. Focus on weapons, turn rate, and shield capacity.

I could go on for a while, but its a pain to post from a phone....