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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:
- Leadership: Increased space repair rate (required).
- Accurate: Improved accuracy of space weapons.
Tanking[ | ]
Optimal race selection: Andorian
Ground Traits:
- Acute Senses: Increased stealth detection (required).
- Aggressive: Increased ground threat generation.
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:
- Astrophysicist: Improved starship operations training.
Klingon Empire Trait Builds[ | ]
Damage[ | ]
Optimal race selection: Nausicaan
Ground Traits:
- Physical Strength: Improved melee damage (required).
- Pirate: Improved exploit damage (required).
Space Traits:
- Accurate: Improved accuracy of space weapons.
- Warp Theorist: Improved ship power levels.
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:
- Astrophysicist: Improved starship operations training.
- Warp Theorist: Improved ship power levels.
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:
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:
- Astrophysicist: Increases your operations stat.
- Warp Theorist: Improves your warp core stat, which in turn increases your ship's power levels.
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,)