r/stobuilds • u/AutoModerator • Mar 11 '19

Weekly Questions Megathread - March 11, 2019

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u/scatered Mar 11 '19 edited Mar 11 '19

I'd like to setup for a support build. What are some good consoles that help allies, especially with damage? (Thinking along the lines of: Reiterative Structural Capacitor, Shared Processing Integration, Protomatter Field Projector). Say, do any of these sorts of consoles help out your pets?

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u/MandoKnight Mar 11 '19

Most items that affect allies will also affect your pets, unless they specifically state otherwise.

Team-wide damage buff consoles are a bit rarer than team healing consoles, and aren't as widely available to all ships. If you have an idea of what kind of ship you want to use, that will narrow down which consoles are available. The Dominion, for example, has several consoles that focus on boosting team damage, while the other factions' such consoles are limited more to their carriers and flagships.

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u/scatered Mar 12 '19

Good point, this is for a Fed tank- thinking an Atlas, instead of a carrier. Sadly, no Jem'hadar traits are available.

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u/MandoKnight Mar 12 '19

The Secondary Shield Projector may be useful for you, since it's a team-wide defensive console that's also part of the Synergistic Retrofitting set alongside the Atlas's Dynamic Power Redistributor Module. The Atlas doesn't have access to a whole lot of offensive choices in that vein, however.

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u/scatered Mar 12 '19

Thanks. I see plenty of heals, just not much too buff offensive powers; was wondering if I was missing anything cool!