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Certain traits are more useful for one particular role, such as tanking, healing, and damage. Below is a list of what various editors of this article have found to be the best trait builds for players of various roles.

Traits are now selected for you in-game but you still have a option to mix things up

Federation Trait Builds[ | ]

Damage[ | ]

Optimal race selection: Human

Ground Traits:

  • Teamwork: 5% increase in exploit damage (required).
  • Lucky: Improved ground critical hit chance and expose chance.

Space Traits:

Tanking[ | ]

Optimal race selection: Andorian

Ground Traits:

Space Traits:

  • Elusive: Decreased likelihood of enemy scoring direct hit on your ship.
  • Techie: Increased repair and recovery rate.

Healing[ | ]

Optimal race selection: Betazoid

Ground Traits:

  • Empathic: Increased team regeneration, reduced threat (required).
  • Telepathic: Increased perception (required).
  • Creative: Improve healing and damage of your kit.

Space Traits:

Klingon Empire Trait Builds[ | ]

Damage[ | ]

Optimal race selection: Nausicaan

Ground Traits:


Space Traits:

Tanking[ | ]

Optimal race selection: Klingon

Ground Traits:

  • Honorable: Increased ground damage resistance and threat (required).
  • Warrior: Increased ground damage (required).

Space Traits:

Healing[ | ]

Optimal race selection: Orion (female)

Ground Traits:

  • Seductive: Improved resistance to confuse and placate; decreased threat (required).
  • Creative: Improve ground healing and damage.

Space Traits:

Custom Race Trait Builds[ | ]

Players choosing the Custom Alien race and planning to compete in PvP/PvE may find picking 4 space or 4 ground traits useful if they plan on doing mostly only one type of mission (Mostly Space or Mostly ground)

Damage[ | ]

Ground Traits:

  • Lucky: Increases your chances of scoring a critical hit and expose.
  • Soldier: Increases your base damage and critical hit damage.

Space Traits:

  • Accurate: Increases the accuracy of your weapons.
  • Efficient Captain: Increases the efficiency of various weapons and devices including ship power levels.

Tanking[ | ]

Ground Traits:

  • Aggressive: Increases threat generation and damage dealt.
  • Peak Health: Increases maximum health and adds some resistance to toxic damage.

Space Traits:

  • Elusive: Makes your ship less likely to be hit.
  • Techie: Increases ship repair and recharge rate.

Healing[ | ]

Ground Traits:

  • Creative: Improves the healing and damage powers of your kit.
  • Peak Health: Increases maximum health and adds some resistance to toxic damage.

Space Traits:

Ship Power[ | ]

Space Traits:

  • Efficient Captain: Increases the efficiency of various weapons and devices including ship power levels.
  • Warp Theorist: Improves your warp core stat, which in turn increases your ship's power levels.

Plus two additional powers.

Liberated Borg[ | ]

Ground Traits:

  • Aggressive: Increases threat generation and damage dealt.
  • Borg Nanites: Large Increase to regeneration Hit points and shield. (required)

Space Traits:

  • Accurate: Improved accuracy of space weapons.
  • Efficient Captain: Increases the efficiency of various weapons and devices including ship power levels. (required,)
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