One thing I forgot about from the Gamma Reputation: Ordinance Accelerator! Lowers the shared cooldown of your mines and buff projectile damage, great for a torpedo/minelayer build. Also buffs Phaser and Polaron damage so could be a good budget console for those two damage types.
Nit-pick - it's "ordnance", not "ordinance". One has to do with weapons, the other has to do with rules and laws. Funny because initially in-game, it was misspelled as "ordinance" and then corrected later.
Thank you for this video! I've been hearing about a "reputation store" for years but have never been able to figure out exactly what people were talking about. Seeing you click that "Store" button 2 minutes and 11 seconds into the video is revolutionary! Thank you for pointing out what I'd somehow missed for over 7 years.
OMEGA REP: Unlocking the Klingon Honour Guard uniform is also cool from Omega Rep. Not so much the gear. It's fine, but the "space barbie" as you guys call it. That's the real end game right?
This is a really helpful video. Even after playing STO for a couple of years, there's a lot of stuff here I had no idea about, because the game really doesn't do a great job in pointing you towards it
"the game really doesn't do a great job in pointing you towards it" Totally agree user-gh mate. I've been playing for yeeeears and I'm still grateful for channels like this and my fellow fleet mates who swap tips and build ideas.
I'm kind of surprised you didn't include the Energy Requencer. That and History Will Remember are the only healing type traits I use. With those traits, the Tilly two piece bonus set, the 2 colony consoles and 1 Lukari BO for the Restorative Protomatter Specialist trait are all the healing I have. I currently have no clicky heals so I rely on passive heals and a lot of resistance. I play as a offensive threat tank on Elite using the Inquiry Battlecruiser on both my tactical and engineer. I am not chasing DPS but I figure I'm doing around of 200K.
I use the fleet Engel strike wing escort with DBB'S and the voice of the prophets experimental weapon and assimilated 2 piece set. With how fast I drop shields, the VotP and kinetic cutting beam really get to shine well surprisingly.
God knows many of the Reps could use an update. Think i've never ever used any gear from the Nukara rep. And there definitely are too few omnis overall.
Great vid! A console worth mentioning that's great for drain builds is the Nukara Particle Convertor. It has a nice buff to DrainX and the Nukara Munitions 2 piece also give a good buff to DrainX even though drain builds are super niche builds
Making gear eats up your marks without increasing your reputation. When you get to tier 6 you don't get the account wide discount or fleet modules as a reward. You have to grind for them individually. Also, the hourly that pays 400 rep will eventually stop paying. You have to hover over the rep reward to find out.
The hardest part of the grind is getting the special consumable items for obtaining the gear. Like Borg Neural processors are probably the worse. All other reps have battlezones to get these types of items. The only way you can get borg neural implants is to either trade in marks for them or play elite borg TFOs. Others like the one for the Terran and temporal reps you can get by fighting Terrans in the Badlands. Fighting in the Battlezone can get you the items for both reputations. Lukari requires you to fight in the Gron Cha battlezone which they can be a little more difficult to deal with. Undine and Dyson reps you have to fight in battle zones in the Solonae Dyson Sphere. The New Romulus one is fairly easy by doing stuff on New Romulus and patrols in their space and has no special items to obtain its gear other than marks credits and dilithium and expertise obtaining rank 5 unlocks the Reman race for an option for the Romulan faction captain. Delta and Iconian are the special items to trade in for the gear are only obtained by trading marks for them or elite TFOs for them. The Gamma Task Force is taken over regions from the hurq in the Gamma Quadrant.
For Borg Neural processors, you need to go to Defera. The Borg are invading there in a Battlezone, but it is ground fighting only. TFO;s are the only place to get them in space.
Given the recent Jem’Hadar rerun, & having used it in the past & had it from when it originally came out in year dot, it has some features that redeem it still, like weapon buffs. A shame that most of the set is now nerfed, though it wasn’t great in the 1st place. Always felt like I was flying a ‘glass’ ship when using it. Though not a rep set, just thought it was worth a mention
It really does in comparison to the others just from the shear amount of powerful stuff in there. The weapons set, the core set, and most of the ground gear is all very useful.
I already have one on the Phoenix store. It was before the store was revamped, but the items that are good in there hasn't really changed. Dil and Lobi store could be good idea too, I'll add them to the list!
hunh, surprised at how little you mentioned ground stuff. Certain rep kits are crap, but some are uniquely overpowered abilities that redefine ground builds in general. Honestly, the best ground thing from Nukara is the sword. used to be the best melee weapon in the game, and if you want a pseudo-light-saber? it's not bad. One unique thing from Romulan rep are consumables that summon allies to help you. Undine rep kits are... specialized... too specialized in that they have stats that are only really good vs Undine. although this variant of sonic Pulse actually does RADIATION damage instead of physical.... if you somehow want more of that. Delta Rep has Neutronic radiation variant modules. These are nice since they have a bigger AoE than their basic counterparts(photon grenade, hyper radiation, and Quantum Mortar) but they also give enemies hit by them a damage reduction debuff. Iconian rep has non-variants. Photonic barrier generator(Eng) is a pretty powerful defense turret. Photonic overload(sci) is another rad ability, but not really damage oriented, more of a debuff, though it does blind and reduce enemy damage. Photonic overcharge(tac) is a weapon damage buff. Terran TF tac: microtorpedo, works like a grenade, but it's not one it's a heck of a lot faster. Eng: override shield safeties... is weird. give you shield resist buff for a few secs then damage any enemies near you. Metaphasic rejuvenation(Sci) this is a pretty unique kit in that it's an AoE that rezzes other players in the AoE. Also it heals whoever is there too. Temporal rep: Anti-Time thingy(Sci) a pretty nice space magic damage power on ground. Bio-harmonic emitter(eng) one of the best health heals on ground.. invaluable for pet spam engineer build as it heals your TURRETS and assimilated enemies. Chron-microtorp(tac)... it's another microtorp, BUT this is a cone attack. Two of the Lukari mods are electrical, and are DoT effects. Tac gets a grenade, Sci gets an electric AoE attack,. Eng gets a drone that is a portable heal AoE. Doesn't heal fabrications though. Flare Mortar from comp rep.... is the most useful of the Comp rep kits... and is for Eng. Flare Mortars in TFOs do weird shtuff. The trick is that they are an AoE effect that reduces enemy perception..... IE it BLINDS every enemy in the area. BUT it also gives your allies a dodge bonus, so even if the enemies do attack you, it's less dangerous to you. The Science one is that weird power pole gimmick where it has lighting that damaged things that pass between the poles... really hard to use. tac is a pseudo grenade that makes a bubble around the enemy that will damage them if they try to leave. But the AIs will just hhold still and force you to MAKE them leave, and well.. it's not that great for damage. Gamma has a decent mine variant for Eng, Sci is a.. special hypo for resistance to physical and kinetic damage. It also clear debuffs applied to the target... if you care about that. Tac is a pretty nice TEAM buff. Bonus damage and run speed that has the duration extended by killing enemies. Probably stacks with motivation too. And well you talked about the disco stuff. But yeah, some are niche, some suck, but some are REALLY good. :D
I wanted to keep this more generalized. a lot of the ground stuff is very career specific. the tholian sword is not bad, but it's certainly not something I'd call a must-have. the Mind Meld Device is far better for a melee build. The Photonic barrier is good for survival, but with the Mudd's Time Device coupled with Na'kul shield, survivability shouldn't be a problem. This is really only useful for Invasion Simulations on the fleet colony. The Micro Torpedo doesn't really do much damage. Flare mortar is more annoying than anything else. Override Shield Safeties is shields. You know how we feel about shield buffs here. Bio-harmonic emitter is heals. Again, you can do just fine with Mudd's and the Na'kul shield. The video is called "Must-have reputation rewards" so why would I talk about the things that are just meh?
@@Stu1701 Heh, Some of these are much more useful than lockbox kit modules. Yeah I covered the entire list, and some are not worth using. But some are things I use a LOT in builds. Bio-harmonic is something I like a lot because it doesn't care about range, and for that reason I use it in.. not every eng ground build but more than one.... and it's usually the only heal in the build. One of the important parts is that you can use it to heal other players on the other side of the map! Also it used to be one of the kits that would turbocharge the CD reset on Mudd's. Enh. Like you say they're not "essential" for general builds.. but.. a few are killer in the right build.
I believe with many of the special weapons you get a better version of them if you get to at least rank 5? I haven't grinded through these Reps for a very long time. I have rank 6 in all of them.
Not necessarily a better version, just a different version with a different damage type. Like the dual beam bank from the Discovery rep, you get the phaser version first and get a disruptor version at tier 6. Beyond the difference in damage type, they're the same weapon.
Honestly, you should do all the recruitment events once. It really helps that they're finally at a point where they can run each one once a year now so newer players can get those rewards.
@@Stu1701 i started playing sto when the delta recruit was on, a couple of months ago, lucky me, without knowing a thing about the game, i chose it...got the tos as well, and today, after 20h playing the jem'hadar got the jackpot from both. been using this video as a guideline, have to thank you for making my head hurt a litle less!
What I am interested in is more a vanity thing what do I need to get to change my ships warp effect to sound like the warp effect from Discovery? I know it's out there I here it from other ships all the time or is only on a specific ship?
For the most part, warp effects are faction exclusive. To get the Discovery warp effect you need to play a Discovery-era character. There are a handful of ships that have their own unique warp effects, but even then, those are exclusive to those specific ships.
You mist something critical!!! Romulan reputation has the best looking shield in the game. The Reman Covariant Shield Array has been the best looking shield in the game since forever. Just put it in your vanity shield slot not in your actual shield spot unless you want the set bonus.
So I feel you skipped over carrier or swarm builds in your review. I just found out about the lukari shield heal capabilities - which may not be meta- is nice when you have hanger pets or in a jem'hadar ship. There's also the really high DPS scorpion pets from the romulan rep system. Again they may not be meta and I may be an old hat but it's an easy way to get heavy hitting pets when you're not kdf aligned.
Hey man,. tons of good info, but I'm having to rewind over and over ;cause you're cutting thru this wayyyyy too fast! Dunno if you're talking fast to keep the video in a certain time, or if that's just how you talk... either way, dude, pls, for us slow pokes, slow down a bit! LOL
One thing I forgot about from the Gamma Reputation: Ordinance Accelerator! Lowers the shared cooldown of your mines and buff projectile damage, great for a torpedo/minelayer build. Also buffs Phaser and Polaron damage so could be a good budget console for those two damage types.
What tier does it open please. Thanks again for your awesome video's. Also do you have a text version of this. My ADHD can't keep with you. 😂
Nit-pick - it's "ordnance", not "ordinance". One has to do with weapons, the other has to do with rules and laws. Funny because initially in-game, it was misspelled as "ordinance" and then corrected later.
Its an older video but I want to say thanks. You are helping me out a lot.
I think you forgot a ground activated for gamma: one little ship. Must have for LOL factor
Thank you for this video! I've been hearing about a "reputation store" for years but have never been able to figure out exactly what people were talking about. Seeing you click that "Store" button 2 minutes and 11 seconds into the video is revolutionary! Thank you for pointing out what I'd somehow missed for over 7 years.
I’ve outfitted my whole away team with the Voyager phaser rifle. Because space barbie always wins.
Omega Rep: MACO Engine > Assimilated for Sector Space travel. Pair it with the Gamma Rep Warp Core and you have double speed in Sector Space.
At what omega rep tier does it unlock? I need a good engine for tour the galaxy. I cant finish beta quadrant in 15 mins lmao.
@@emti29impulse engines are generally tier 3 rewards
OMEGA REP: Unlocking the Klingon Honour Guard uniform is also cool from Omega Rep. Not so much the gear. It's fine, but the "space barbie" as you guys call it. That's the real end game right?
He asks me he tasks me RNG is true endgame
Set looks like feudal chinese or japanese outfits
yeah... but terran lab coat from terran gambit arc is way way more barbie.
This is a really helpful video. Even after playing STO for a couple of years, there's a lot of stuff here I had no idea about, because the game really doesn't do a great job in pointing you towards it
"the game really doesn't do a great job in pointing you towards it" Totally agree user-gh mate. I've been playing for yeeeears and I'm still grateful for channels like this and my fellow fleet mates who swap tips and build ideas.
I'm kind of surprised you didn't include the Energy Requencer. That and History Will Remember are the only healing type traits I use. With those traits, the Tilly two piece bonus set, the 2 colony consoles and 1 Lukari BO for the Restorative Protomatter Specialist trait are all the healing I have. I currently have no clicky heals so I rely on passive heals and a lot of resistance. I play as a offensive threat tank on Elite using the Inquiry Battlecruiser on both my tactical and engineer. I am not chasing DPS but I figure I'm doing around of 200K.
Heh this is the one time I appreciate ho fast you speak. Lots of info and I get bored easily. This was excellent.
Great video. Most comprehensive overview I’ve seen. I’ve been playing almost since launch and I learned a few new things from watching 👍🏼🖖
The Gamma warp core is the best for Tour the Galaxy. I've hit transwarp speeds around 47 I think.
You're right! I totally forgot to mention that
I use the fleet Engel strike wing escort with DBB'S and the voice of the prophets experimental weapon and assimilated 2 piece set. With how fast I drop shields, the VotP and kinetic cutting beam really get to shine well surprisingly.
I’ve been rocking the borg reputation stuff since it came out.
AWESOME VID!!! Would love to see something similar about Fleet Asset gear :D
it's on the to-do list :)
Well, that's my focus on the DISCO stuff vindicated :P
God knows many of the Reps could use an update. Think i've never ever used any gear from the Nukara rep. And there definitely are too few omnis overall.
Great vid! A console worth mentioning that's great for drain builds is the Nukara Particle Convertor. It has a nice buff to DrainX and the Nukara Munitions 2 piece also give a good buff to DrainX even though drain builds are super niche builds
that's a good call. the particle convertor would be good for a drain build
I'm surprised you didn't mention the Gamma warp core for tour of the galaxy
i did forget that here, but I do talk about it in my tour the galaxy video
How are there no comments yet? ALL HAIL THE TOP HAT.
because I have everything set to held for review and I slept in lol
Making gear eats up your marks without increasing your reputation. When you get to tier 6 you don't get the account wide discount or fleet modules as a reward. You have to grind for them individually. Also, the hourly that pays 400 rep will eventually stop paying. You have to hover over the rep reward to find out.
The hardest part of the grind is getting the special consumable items for obtaining the gear. Like Borg Neural processors are probably the worse. All other reps have battlezones to get these types of items. The only way you can get borg neural implants is to either trade in marks for them or play elite borg TFOs. Others like the one for the Terran and temporal reps you can get by fighting Terrans in the Badlands. Fighting in the Battlezone can get you the items for both reputations. Lukari requires you to fight in the Gron Cha battlezone which they can be a little more difficult to deal with. Undine and Dyson reps you have to fight in battle zones in the Solonae Dyson Sphere. The New Romulus one is fairly easy by doing stuff on New Romulus and patrols in their space and has no special items to obtain its gear other than marks credits and dilithium and expertise obtaining rank 5 unlocks the Reman race for an option for the Romulan faction captain. Delta and Iconian are the special items to trade in for the gear are only obtained by trading marks for them or elite TFOs for them. The Gamma Task Force is taken over regions from the hurq in the Gamma Quadrant.
For Borg Neural processors, you need to go to Defera. The Borg are invading there in a Battlezone, but it is ground fighting only. TFO;s are the only place to get them in space.
Given the recent Jem’Hadar rerun, & having used it in the past & had it from when it originally came out in year dot, it has some features that redeem it still, like weapon buffs. A shame that most of the set is now nerfed, though it wasn’t great in the 1st place. Always felt like I was flying a ‘glass’ ship when using it. Though not a rep set, just thought it was worth a mention
Hands down, Disco Rep still feels op
It really does in comparison to the others just from the shear amount of powerful stuff in there. The weapons set, the core set, and most of the ground gear is all very useful.
Having just done disco 0-5 for the first time, I'm glad I get my marks worth out of leveling it up so high. Lota of goodies to buy
Omega forced me to take a borg bridge officer I didn't want, but it was the only project available to me.
5:41 I miss those days.
thanks alot i have been loking for a guide like this
Its feels like 4ever since we got a new rep, with all the new stuff, Mirror Borg and such u'd think sum new reps wuld b added.
Cool video. Could you do a video like this for all the stores, lobi, dilithium, Phoenix box rewards thingies
I already have one on the Phoenix store. It was before the store was revamped, but the items that are good in there hasn't really changed. Dil and Lobi store could be good idea too, I'll add them to the list!
@@Stu1701 cool going to look up the video 😎
great vid a must have for any STO player
hunh, surprised at how little you mentioned ground stuff. Certain rep kits are crap, but some are uniquely overpowered abilities that redefine ground builds in general.
Honestly, the best ground thing from Nukara is the sword. used to be the best melee weapon in the game, and if you want a pseudo-light-saber? it's not bad.
One unique thing from Romulan rep are consumables that summon allies to help you.
Undine rep kits are... specialized... too specialized in that they have stats that are only really good vs Undine. although this variant of sonic Pulse actually does RADIATION damage instead of physical.... if you somehow want more of that.
Delta Rep has Neutronic radiation variant modules. These are nice since they have a bigger AoE than their basic counterparts(photon grenade, hyper radiation, and Quantum Mortar) but they also give enemies hit by them a damage reduction debuff.
Iconian rep has non-variants. Photonic barrier generator(Eng) is a pretty powerful defense turret. Photonic overload(sci) is another rad ability, but not really damage oriented, more of a debuff, though it does blind and reduce enemy damage. Photonic overcharge(tac) is a weapon damage buff.
Terran TF tac: microtorpedo, works like a grenade, but it's not one it's a heck of a lot faster. Eng: override shield safeties... is weird. give you shield resist buff for a few secs then damage any enemies near you. Metaphasic rejuvenation(Sci) this is a pretty unique kit in that it's an AoE that rezzes other players in the AoE. Also it heals whoever is there too.
Temporal rep: Anti-Time thingy(Sci) a pretty nice space magic damage power on ground. Bio-harmonic emitter(eng) one of the best health heals on ground.. invaluable for pet spam engineer build as it heals your TURRETS and assimilated enemies. Chron-microtorp(tac)... it's another microtorp, BUT this is a cone attack.
Two of the Lukari mods are electrical, and are DoT effects. Tac gets a grenade, Sci gets an electric AoE attack,. Eng gets a drone that is a portable heal AoE. Doesn't heal fabrications though.
Flare Mortar from comp rep.... is the most useful of the Comp rep kits... and is for Eng. Flare Mortars in TFOs do weird shtuff. The trick is that they are an AoE effect that reduces enemy perception..... IE it BLINDS every enemy in the area. BUT it also gives your allies a dodge bonus, so even if the enemies do attack you, it's less dangerous to you. The Science one is that weird power pole gimmick where it has lighting that damaged things that pass between the poles... really hard to use. tac is a pseudo grenade that makes a bubble around the enemy that will damage them if they try to leave. But the AIs will just hhold still and force you to MAKE them leave, and well.. it's not that great for damage.
Gamma has a decent mine variant for Eng, Sci is a.. special hypo for resistance to physical and kinetic damage. It also clear debuffs applied to the target... if you care about that. Tac is a pretty nice TEAM buff. Bonus damage and run speed that has the duration extended by killing enemies. Probably stacks with motivation too.
And well you talked about the disco stuff.
But yeah, some are niche, some suck, but some are REALLY good. :D
I wanted to keep this more generalized. a lot of the ground stuff is very career specific.
the tholian sword is not bad, but it's certainly not something I'd call a must-have. the Mind Meld Device is far better for a melee build.
The Photonic barrier is good for survival, but with the Mudd's Time Device coupled with Na'kul shield, survivability shouldn't be a problem. This is really only useful for Invasion Simulations on the fleet colony.
The Micro Torpedo doesn't really do much damage.
Flare mortar is more annoying than anything else.
Override Shield Safeties is shields. You know how we feel about shield buffs here.
Bio-harmonic emitter is heals. Again, you can do just fine with Mudd's and the Na'kul shield.
The video is called "Must-have reputation rewards" so why would I talk about the things that are just meh?
@@Stu1701 Heh, Some of these are much more useful than lockbox kit modules. Yeah I covered the entire list, and some are not worth using. But some are things I use a LOT in builds. Bio-harmonic is something I like a lot because it doesn't care about range, and for that reason I use it in.. not every eng ground build but more than one.... and it's usually the only heal in the build. One of the important parts is that you can use it to heal other players on the other side of the map! Also it used to be one of the kits that would turbocharge the CD reset on Mudd's.
Enh. Like you say they're not "essential" for general builds.. but.. a few are killer in the right build.
I had to play this video at 3/4 speed just to understand everything that was said. Of course, I could just be slow, lol.
I believe with many of the special weapons you get a better version of them if you get to at least rank 5? I haven't grinded through these Reps for a very long time. I have rank 6 in all of them.
Not necessarily a better version, just a different version with a different damage type. Like the dual beam bank from the Discovery rep, you get the phaser version first and get a disruptor version at tier 6. Beyond the difference in damage type, they're the same weapon.
@@Stu1701 +5% more damage on every set weapon on tier 6
Super useful information! Thank you.
Tip to new players. Get a delta character when it's up. Your other characters can get thos rep points 2
Honestly, you should do all the recruitment events once. It really helps that they're finally at a point where they can run each one once a year now so newer players can get those rewards.
@@Stu1701 i started playing sto when the delta recruit was on, a couple of months ago, lucky me, without knowing a thing about the game, i chose it...got the tos as well, and today, after 20h playing the jem'hadar got the jackpot from both.
been using this video as a guideline, have to thank you for making my head hurt a litle less!
What about the alliance hyper something another door the experimental weapon slot
Thanks for this video
Jim Sterling? Just wondering
What I am interested in is more a vanity thing what do I need to get to change my ships warp effect to sound like the warp effect from Discovery? I know it's out there I here it from other ships all the time or is only on a specific ship?
For the most part, warp effects are faction exclusive. To get the Discovery warp effect you need to play a Discovery-era character. There are a handful of ships that have their own unique warp effects, but even then, those are exclusive to those specific ships.
You mist something critical!!! Romulan reputation has the best looking shield in the game. The Reman Covariant Shield Array has been the best looking shield in the game since forever. Just put it in your vanity shield slot not in your actual shield spot unless you want the set bonus.
and you can fortunately get it early from a mission :D
Great vid
So I feel you skipped over carrier or swarm builds in your review. I just found out about the lukari shield heal capabilities - which may not be meta- is nice when you have hanger pets or in a jem'hadar ship. There's also the really high DPS scorpion pets from the romulan rep system. Again they may not be meta and I may be an old hat but it's an easy way to get heavy hitting pets when you're not kdf aligned.
So if you, and my you i mean me, recycled a teir reward and did realize until it's too late. Can you get it again later or is it gone forever?
If you accidentally deleted a piece of reputation gear, the project should show up again in that reputation allowing you to make it again.
What can i get from events reptutation? i somehow don see this tab from you.
Event reputations? what are you talking about? do you mean a video for must-have even rewards?
Hey man,. tons of good info, but I'm having to rewind over and over ;cause you're cutting thru this wayyyyy too fast! Dunno if you're talking fast to keep the video in a certain time, or if that's just how you talk... either way, dude, pls, for us slow pokes, slow down a bit! LOL
it's a bit of both. I try to slow it down because you're not to the first to say something, but its a hard habit to break.
Just change the vids' Playback Speed via the cogwheel at the bottom of the vid. 0.75 works the best. 0.5 and he just sounds drunk!