#I Thought I Saw a Pussy Cat

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sour sun
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Themed character - Caitian

Full Tholian space set (including Interlacing > Pahvan) is a theme choice and fits the Tetryon weaponry the ship originally comes with.
Away team is full Caitian too, bridge is 100% Watcher (might be relevant to gauge the viability of the Locators).

Would fly RATFOs, maybe RETFOs, if I'm satisfied with the performance on advanced.

All reps on T6.
7th ship trait slot unlocked
5th space rep slot unlocked
6th Doff slot unlocked

Main questions:

  • Would Terran Goodbye and/or Universal Designs (wildly) outclass any of the current ship traits?
  • How effective is SAFG as a defensive tool on a single-target build and waht alternatives come to mind?
  • Infinity- and Promo-box ship consoles aside, I probably have all relevant bundles for additional consoles to replace SAFG and/or any other consoles that are expected to underperform on this build
  • Lorca console as a standalone valuable (replacing a Locator)?
  • Are the Reputation and Lobi weaponry to be considered an upgrade over regular Diffusive DBBs and/or do they need a 2pc to really make a difference?
    • Hyper Dual-Refracting Tetryon DBB (Nukara rep)
    • Advanced Diffusive Tetryon DBB (Lobi)
    • if "yes" for any of the 2pc => where to fit that in?
    • (mixed weapon visuals are no issue, the goal is as much punch as this themed build can get within the theme boundaries)
  • Any more beneficial distribution for the Energ Weapons Officer Doffs? As in take one with CHC instead of the second shield pen for example.
  • is there a tetryon-flavored experimental weapon at all?

TIA for the feedback 🙂

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sour sun
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Solo ISA parse

Barely reaching 150k at the peak; one nanite thing repaired itself while the cube nuked me 2x :/, so only 135k are listed.

Survivability not satifying. Thinking of exchangin 2 locators for colony TAC

📎 Solo_ISA_Bagheera_2026-02-13_01.52.log
tulip adder
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-> i'd say UD and TG outclass SotL, TT, and Ruin. (Ruin likely won't stack up fast enough on a single target build).
-> Lorca standalone is quite good. Likely superior to a locator
-> why Locators over Isomags? 4 Mags + 1 coltac > 5 locators. (even more so with caitians and all those juicy crit traits)

sour sun
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Bridge is complete Watchers tho

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Locators over Isos probably because with +3 TAC over ENG I thought locators would definitely win regardles.

tulip adder
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and 4 mags vs 5 locators goes to mags

sour sun
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I see.

I'll start with gettign UD and TG on the build.
From the three outclassed mentioned - which to keep?

tulip adder
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TT or SotL probably (since ruin takes ages on single target - unless there's some multi target kill collect i'm missing)

sour sun
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At the best, Distributed Targeting and the one console - Automated heavy Tetryon Emitters (which has a 20s duration AoE beam thingy

tulip adder
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considering you're not running SFTF (hence not 100% fpna uptime), i'd say keep TT

sour sun
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What about SAFG?
That one i remember being less viable/useful on multi-target builds. If i was to exchange that for SFTF?

tulip adder
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safg has a chance to proc per shot, so fewer shots mean fewer procs. probably still decent shield heal - how much HPs did you get?

sour sun
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HPs?

tulip adder
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typo, meant HPS. heal per sec. but i see you posted the full parse

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so answering my own q: 8k hps from safg on your run

sour sun
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Can't say if that is good

tulip adder
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it's a huge chunk of your survivability.

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sour sun
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I'll take that as a "yes, good for your current state"

tulip adder
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i'd say definitely keep SAFG. maybe add some shield hardness tho, as you're not running PCM. Nanoprobe Field rep trait comes to mind

sour sun
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PCM is generally available. Can slot that, but would have to take something else out obv.

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In general, I can also go full Krait and would ahve the 4 Iso slots free for stuff

tulip adder
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maybe IPL? that's not tetryon anyway, and you can keep up UD/PFA with CPM

tulip adder
sour sun
tulip adder
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mainly krait plus a handful of coltacs would probably work quite well.

sour sun
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"Handful" reads like 5 ^^

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So maybe 2xProtomatter - PCM - SFTF - Mirco-Quantum Phalanx?

tulip adder
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i mean, if you wanna go really tanky you can.

sour sun
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Doesn't need to tank the whole board. Just enough that I don't explode

tulip adder
sour sun
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I can use a chronophase too. already thought about ditching Immolating

tulip adder
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speaking of shields - how long do enemy shields usually last against your weapons? because those shield pen doffs kinda only are of any use as long as enemies have shields

sour sun
tulip adder
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looking at your parse, it appears your main BO attacks don't really encounter much shielding. most of your shield damage is HBL, Gemini, and multi target stuff.
i'd say there's a high chance a CritH EWO and some other doff may be more beneficial than the shieldpen ones

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ofc that heavily depends on what your budget is on that char

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doffs are deep in minmaxing territory after all, and the ones that are better than the shield pens are kinda expensive

sour sun
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Apart from the CHC EWO - what comes to mind?

tulip adder
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unaffordable borgs, second of nerul/dal r'el [provided you own that bundle]. not too much tbh

sour sun
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I can have 2 Nerul?

tulip adder
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not 2 nerul, but i'd expect nerul and dal r'el might be possible to use together

sour sun
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I do have some packs appearing to have Dal r'el in them, but the description contradicts themselves

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Dal & Nerul should be possible together.
Nerul is a Shield Distribution Officer, Dal a Conn Officer.
Only one Conn place used for ECH, so Dal should fit in my understanding

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That is the contracicting description I meant. Hope you understand my confusion here ^^

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Wiki claims Dal is a Human Augment, so none of those actually fit.
The "Conn Officer" on the Zero pack would fit tho

tulip adder
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This is... Weird. Probably worth asking in for clarification #ask-questions-here , high chance that's a common bug

sour sun
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I just put up a bug report post in STO Discord ^^

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High chance tho NONE is actually Dal ^^
given I get perfect matching name7descriptions from what is on the exchange

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5mil isn't all that much. Got one, indeed Dal inside.

sour sun
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Overhauled, but not yet combat tested.

Will follow after I slept. originally, I wanted to go lie down about 4,5-ish hours ago ... then hyper-focus caught me ...

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sour sun
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Crap. even worse than before :/
Died 4 times to god-knows-what. One second, 50% shields, 100% hull - blink - dead. "No significant damage recorded" says the in-game log ...

📎 Solo_ISA_Bagheera_2026-02-13_15.20.log
tulip adder
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looks like incredibly bad luck on SAFG tbh. a third less procs and half the average heal compared to the other parse