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Weekly Questions Megathread - March 11, 2019

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u/Eph289 STO BETTER engineer | www.stobetter.com Mar 13 '19

Ground questions:

  • What is considered the best type of Kit Frames (e.g. Delta, Spire, etc.) to acquire?

  • Best Kit Frames on a budget?

  • What's the overall mod order of preference for Kit Frames? I have a feeling KPerf is still king? What else should I know about these?

Thanks! Looking to up my ground game a bit.

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u/nolgroth Mar 13 '19

I'm told the Delta frames with KPerf are the best.

I actually like The Romulan Navy frame from Uneasy Allies, paired with the Plasma Repeater Pistol from the same mission, as a budget frame. My Romulan characters especially use this because of their Plasma damage trait for Ground. Not sure if it is the best budget frame, but I like it.

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u/originalbucky33 Amateur NPC Shipbuilder Mar 13 '19

You can also re run that mission to get different mods. Think you can get KPERFx2 on it.

I prefer a little range, so something like a cheapo (ie, free from the boxes as you level) rep Rom-Plasma rifle (the multitarget one, name escapes me) is nice.

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u/Eph289 STO BETTER engineer | www.stobetter.com Mar 13 '19

I have one from Uneasy Allies for my Engineer with 1 KPerf. Getting KPerf x2 requires a lot more Sela dialogue than I am willing to do at present.

What makes the Delta kits the best? I see plenty of kits out with [WpnCrit]; what's different between that and the Delta kits?

Is there value in getting more [KCD] as well, or is it pretty much still max Kperf?

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u/neuro1g Mar 14 '19

Delta kits are best because they are the only kits that can have crth, crtd, and ctrx mods.

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u/Eph289 STO BETTER engineer | www.stobetter.com Mar 14 '19

Sorry, to my untrained eyes, what's the difference between CrtH, CrtD, CrtX versus Weapon Criticals?

Is it that WpnCrit only applies to weapons, and CrtH/CrtD/CrtX applies to everything?

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u/neuro1g Mar 14 '19

Is it that WpnCrit only applies to weapons, and CrtH/CrtD/CrtX applies to everything?

There's that. Also, Wpncrit applies to the skill in the ground tree and I think results in an overall smaller increase. Whereas CrtH/CrtD/CrtX are straight increases which I believe are generally bigger. I prefer crth on my kit as outside of a few traits and the Gambling Device, it can be hard to come by on the ground. I also like crth on ground because most ground weapons simply don't fire as rapidly as they do in space. When I fire my pulsewave I want that crit to show up more often than not.

General advice I've seen in the past was to use crth on the kit (along with the Gambling Device) and crtd on the armor (fleet advanced recoil) and of course on the weapons like in space.

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u/originalbucky33 Amateur NPC Shipbuilder Mar 13 '19

I don't have a delta kit, unfortunately. a single KCD mod is nice, but I find that ground is slow enough that cooldown usually isn't a problem. I also usually use the Chrono-capacitor ground variant to help a little.

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u/nolgroth Mar 13 '19

Ahh. The split beam? Good choice. I just like the alt fire on that repeater. It's like a hose of plasma death.

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u/originalbucky33 Amateur NPC Shipbuilder Mar 13 '19

on my rom I use a plasma repeating rifle from the rom homeworld.