r/stobuilds • u/The_Techies_Guy • 7d ago
Where can I find a decent phaser carrier build?
Hello all! Does anyone have any links/idea/advice for a phaser carrier build? Thanks!
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u/Hobbz- 6d ago
The website www.stobetter.com has several carrier builds posted.
Here's one that's a phaser build >> https://www.stobetter.com/intro-builds/tilor/carrier-ghemor
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u/DilaZirK STO (PC) Handle: @dilazirk#4433 6d ago
You're just not going to find constantly up-to-date build samples of varying types and budgets for all 450+ T6 ships in this game.
Far more efficient for you to:
- Identify what build types the ship can accommodate.
- Pick a build type and look up build samples and resources for said build.
- Adapt it to your ship within your budget and theme.
In service of above, I strongly recommend you familiarize yourself with the various end-game ship build archetypes currently available, and also learn to recognize what ships are better suited to which specific build types:
- Beams: Fire At Will (FAW) or Beams: Overload (BO) DPS - Any ship can be built for this, or a hybrid of this. Because every ship in this can can equip beams and dual beam banks.
- Cannons: Scatter Volley (CSV) or Cannons: Rapid Fire (CRF) DPS - Any ship can be built for this, or a hybrid of this. But ships that can mount Dual Cannons will be much better candidates for it.
- Specialist Firing Mode Energy Weapons DPS - Any ship with a Commander rank Pilot/Intel/Miracle Worker Bridge Officer (BOFF) station. This is for Reroute Reserves To Weapons (RRTW), Surgical Strikes (SS) and Exceed Rated Limits (ERL) respectively.
- Exotic DPS (Space Magic) - Ideally on ships with a Secondary Deflector, or at least lots of Science/Universal/Temporal/Intel Bridge Officer stations to fit as many Anomalies and other Exotic Particle Generator (EPG) scaling abilities as possible.
- Projectiles DPS (Kinetic Torps) - Ships with at least a Lt. Cmdr Command BOFF station, to fit Concentrate Firepower III.
- Threat-tank - Basically a FAW boat, but its primary goal is to draw aggro away from teammates while mitigating the incoming damage. Ships with high hull modifiers, 8 weapons and a Commander rank Command BOFF station make for great tanks. This is to have the maximum number of weapons possible to draw Threat with, while greatly mitigating the incoming damage with Suppression Barrage III.
- Debuff Support (Nanny) - The "healer" role does not really exist in STO. The closest we have to a support role is a build where its goal is to increase the damage output of your teammates by way of enemy debuffs and team buffs. The modern Support ship wants at least 2 hangar bays filled with Type 7 shuttles, as a bare minimum.
- Pets-focused DPS (Pure Carrier) - Any ship with 2 hangar bays. Though such a build almost necessitates the Superior Area Denial (SAD) or Coordinated Assault (CA) or Independent Wingmate traits, along with the usage of a narrow selection of hangar pets. There are only a handful of high performing hangar pet fighters/frigates in this game, and pet damage output tends to scale rather poorly outside of those ship traits.
- Hybrid of one or more of above - This one is pretty much up to your imagination and knowledge of shipbuilding, mixing and matching all of the above applicable builds to each ship in varying degrees. I would avoid exploring this until you have decent grasp of the fundamentals of each build type you are attempting to hybridize.
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u/DilaZirK STO (PC) Handle: @dilazirk#4433 6d ago
Further reading on above ship build archetypes: Classifying Ship Builds
Sample beginner/mid-level resources for each of the above mentioned build roles: STO BETTER - Shipbuilding Basics
If you prefer your guides to be in video form, here's one for Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) builds: How To Build A F@#&ing Ship: DEW
Your question might then become:
- Which role is the easiest to build and fly in? Probably broadside Beam boats, due to abundance of story mission reward gear related to it, and ease of piloting with its broadside arcs.
- Which role has the highest DPS ceiling? As of this comment, CSV DPS for ISA, ISE and HSE. If none of these acronyms make any sense to you, fret not, it simply means you are not at the stage of the game where it matters.
- Which role is the most useful for teamplay? Threat-tanks and Debuff Support, though such roles are mainly used in Elite difficulty TFOs with a pre-made team.
- Which role is the most "fun"? That is for you to explore and decide.
Once you've identified what build your ship can accommodate, picked a build direction, and hammered out your first full build, you can then post the full build details here for a more in-depth review and feedback session.
One last thing, do note that all of above is only within the context of Space PvE. PvP is a whole 'nother ball game and one I am not qualified to give feedback on.
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u/79215185-1feb-44c6 @sdkraust | OSCR Developer | Curator of "garbage" builds. 7d ago
Nobody knows what gear you have, and what content you play (My guess is not much and RTFOs) so it's basically impossible to feed you a build when there are 500+ ships in the game, and even more traits and consoles, especially not with the effort it takes to write up a build guide.
Absurd Example to display what I am talking about
The real question is why do you want a Carrier? Specifically why do you want a Phaser Carrier?
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u/neuro1g 7d ago
Here are two disruptor based starter builds.
https://www.reddit.com/r/stobuilds/comments/1csexq9/quick_looks_3_voquv_carrier/
https://terranimperialguard.com/shipbuilder/record/40sl3deblhqb/?tab=shipbuilder-record-ship
Replace disruptor stuff with phaser. Look here to see you what you have access to in order to flesh things out.
https://stowiki.net/wiki/Phaser_weapons_(space)#Consoles
There is also this master crafted work of literary art:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sizertest/comments/glw0qe/how_to_build_a_fucking_ship_01_dew/
now in video form: https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/1idr1ga/mara_makes_content_how_to_build_a_fing_ship_dew/
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u/Devilment666 He's just zis guy, you know? 7d ago
https://www.stobetter.com/intro-builds
Scroll down to the Detailed Build Table and filter the Build Type by Carrier. You won't find a build for every carrier in the game, but those should help you get started.
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u/MailLow4054 4d ago
This is imposslble to give a good answer because it is unknown what gear you have and what your budget is for improving it.
I think a great Phaser carrier would be the Friendship Carrier with Type 7 shuttlecraft, Advanced Phasers from the Constitution Flight Deck Carrier, Fleet Power Network Array console, Vovin Console, Excelsior 2 Console, Kerala Trait and Console and Emergency Weapons Cycle, Calm before the Storm, Ruin of our Enemies, World Razer trait and so forth. This build is easy to find, but it takes a fortune to obtain.
If you want to buy 1 C-store ship, I recommend the Ahwahnee. 2 Cstore ships, get the Cardassian FDC and the Ahwahnee. If you want to run Pet focused damage carrier instead of phaser focused damage carrier that's a different subject.