Engineer Ground DPS META Build | Star Trek Online

[@Stu1701]

Okay, I guess we can all forget about Auggie's Ground Support build video I plugged because he privated it for some reason. If you're curious about the Ground Support build, go bug him about it. Sorry for the confusion.

[@coloneljanson2189]

I loathed ground combat, especially when I got it doing randoms. Always died. But then I watched videos from multiple people, invested in the kits, Shax Cannon, and traits and now I can survive in Elite Level Ground. Now I don't mind ground combat. It really does change if you make a good build. Thanks Stu!

[@Ulkomaalainen]

While I lack the energy, time and (in-game) money to really get a meta build of any kind, yeah, I can certainly second the gist of this. I hated ground and was sad about it after all the Space Barbie I did on it (or should that be Ground Barbie?). Mostly pressing 1-2, little use for kits and similar. But, as Stu said in the beginning, educating myself helped. Understanding the game better already makes a huge difference not only in DPS but also in fun. And I can at least pick out some stuff I can easily get (I love doing the summer event, so the 1000 lolnuts on the kit frame were cheap for me) and pay what little I have for that which would benefit my play style most made my ground build a lot better, arguably better than my space build, and made me enjoy ground a lot more.

[@davidfleming3022]

There's no excuse for people to leave rude comments. If they don't like meta no one is forcing them to play it. I appreciate your videos.

[@QuantumNova]

Meta is extremely bad for any game. From dev's point of view those players are ignoring 98% of the (8000+) items in game in favor a few (aka like 6). If that ever happened in my game, I'm nerfing all 'meta' items into oblivion! From a player's point of view, meta is doing too much so damage - other players may not get a chance to do damage. See Dyson zone V-rex. Most players can't even get off a shot or even reach the V-rex... Meta play is *CANCER* in STO or any game that was meant to have many options to gameplay. Normal players have the right to be mad. There's a reason for the anger and rudeness. Now you know...

[@DarthShebs]

I usually run a fabrication/Crowd Control AOE Death field build on my Engineer. Basically Chains of Grethor to drag everything in one place and then kill them with The Floor is Lava and/or Ball lightning, the other three slots go to the Nanite medical generator from one of the reps because it gets rid of debuffs, a mortar, and the last one is a either a beam turret/flame thrower or a fun slot for whatever I'm messing with at the time. My Risian weather witch build is also super fun to use once in a while.

[@krafka]

Gravitational Juncture vs. Anchor of Grethor. Seems like Anchor does more damage and the pull activates faster.

[@juangutierrez8977]

Does more damage, has a wider radius to pull from, and cool down is about half. No question, this is the one to use.

[@valerie93_]

In general play the anchor is better because of the damage, in DPS meta runs we use grav juncture specifically because it does NOT do damage but instead debuffs the resists on the enemies. By making sure all the enemies get pulled in alive, then your 5-10 mines that are in the bubble will each singly hit every enemy pulled in, so if you only pull in one enemy that's 5-10 explosions of 5000-10000 damage each. Stacking the mine damage like that is why engineers are so OP on ground

[@MBroam]

Anchor of Grethor is also an excellent Engi Kit module, doing high damage and offering control. It's fairly easy to get as it is from the Winter Event store.

[@Lordborgman]

I Wish to hell that thing was Universal, I like using mines on engineer, but Anchor is very good for move and shoot, which is the opposite of mines.

[@MBroam]

@@LordborgmanYeah I have at times tried using the suckbox to pull them into the mines but that does not always work.

[@QuantumNova]

@@Lordborgman There's a temporal ground ability that pulls targets to the center. That's universal.

[@D2SProductions]

My first STO character was an Engineer, because I have a real life interest in Engineering. Back when the max level was 50, I was only level 45 at the time and some Tactical Captain who was level 50 challenged me to a private PVP match. I don't remember what I was armed with besides the Engineering Enemy Neutralization Kit (again, before they had separate kit modules, each kit had built-in module-like abilities that couldn't be changed.) The Enemy Neutralization Kit had Chroniton Mine Barrier, Transphasic Bomb, Fuse Armor, and Weapon Malfunction. This Tactical Captain was 5 levels above me and I ruined his day, he didn't get a single kill on me and ended up rage-quitting before we could finish the match. That Enemy Neutralization Kit was pretty awesome, that was also before the Nerfed the Chroniton Mine Barrier, back then its damage completely ignored shields and did a lot of damage on top of that, I had a lot of one-hit-kills with it.

[@joshbennett5119]

Finally, Eng getting some love!! TY!

[@sterio2235]

Great video as always, glad to see that your murdering skills are as finely tuned on ground as they are in space

[@timothyhiggins8934]

i love the ground combat. my main character is an engineer too. to be honest, i don't use anything that takes time to operate, like mines or pets. i like to keep moving, so i use Sabotage, Anchor of grethor and Torment of hell, along with mudds time device on a spam bar. i also keep the ball lighting and Hurricane wave device on handy. if that don't work, then i bring out my old trusty Disco full auto rifle. i don't think i can mess with that record build even with support but i do good for myself. great video

[@PirateScumGaming]

Great vid Stu and congrats on the new record! Glad to have been able to help out! I jeed to fine tune Chorog so you, me and Mikey can have Top.10 records. Engineers FTW!

[@Stu1701]

thanks for hosting on your stream!

[@valerie93_]

lmk when you guys are going again, I'm always down to run support!

[@PirateScumGaming]

@@valerie93_ planning on another ground night Tuesday and i want to try to get Chorog a better record

[@valerie93_]

@@PirateScumGaming I'll be there!

[@focusonrevenues]

Thank you for sharing this wonderful information on this great build. I thought I was doing great with 2500 DPS on elite bug hunt but I have some ways to run.

[@valerie93_]

Honestly unsupported 2500 is REALLY good. If you had a competent support team behind you, that same build should be good for 5-7k dps at least

[@Adamniezgodzki]

Congrats on the record! I know ground isn't popular in the community but I really enjoy it. It is a shame more don't take the time to learn about ground builds because compared to space combat the bar for advanced or elite capable builds is so much lower. A decent ground set can be put together for just a bit of EC.

[@valerie93_]

Same! I'm very happy that ground seems to be undergoing a bit of a renaissance right now. Like half of the top runs have all been done in the past three months or so. Its a good time to be an enjoyer of ground ^,^

[@kailimyee7253]

And you have those moments of another Engineer present in the TFO and you're both pulling and tugging mobs with both of your Anchor's of Grethor or Gravitational Juncture and screwing with each other's ability to rack up DPS.

[@rifleman2c997]

I am a simple engineer. I just bunker.

[@Evohunter7]

I’m a simple engineer, I run a full engineer away team.

[@rifleman2c997]

@@Evohunter7 away team of all engineers is hilarious. Especially when you have all the pets

[@Evohunter7]

@@rifleman2c997 And all of them with a version of weapon malfunction. You don't need heals when no one can shoot at you.

[@short72hp1]

Have a great weekend💯👍

[@MaddawgMikeyGaming]

Great job Stu! Congrats on your record! Very through explanation on the build, I will definitely be putting it on my ENG and will take my spot from you! Lol

[@Stu1701]

How dare you use my own videos knowledge against me! lol

[@sterio2235]

@@Stu1701 That's LITERALLY what I already do with your Lexington build, silly ;P

[@silversabith]

As a fellow engineer, i loved it when the dyson warzone was current content

[@stegic-storeinc.3011]

Stu the reversed shield polarity you mentioned at the beginning of the video is called feedback pulse IV =)

[@Stu1701]

oh shit, did i say reverse shield polarity? oops. yeah, i meant feedback pulse.

[@darkghost0523]

Great video Stu, thank you. Good pointers on how I can improve my builds.

[@user-ih5pz3sd7u]

im not a fan of ground combat, but I get the need in the game... its away missions. a major part of Trek in General.

[@tenalpoen]

Engi makes the ground game super easy if you use your own personal army of robots. Every attack an enemy directs at one of your robots does 0 damage to you.

[@valerie93_]

Great video, Stu! When we were doing runs with JB I had no idea you meant to make a video, but I'm glad you did. That was an amazing run!!

[@luisrodrigues8343]

Interesting, i get bored with a tactical, never played one for long, i prefer science magic in space and engineer building on ground. My main is an engineer, always on a carrier, it's what i like, it's what i play (i use the science one for easier events). Never used the mines much tho, might give it a try, thanks for the info and your amazing build :)

[@AugmentedDictatorGames]

Thanks anyway, Stu. Love ya.

[@deadbird3144]

The new meta seems to be tholian tech suite on tacs, and it at least is a very strong competition to mines. Currently it has a higher bhe than mines afaik. Bad timing^^

[@CoronisAdair]

My Engineer ground build isn't too different, however what I tend to do is use Anchor of Grethor to pull enemies into a central point, then run in and place my mines at that point. Boom.

[@kailimyee7253]

Same, but I go in and deploy mines first and then Anchor of Grethor into the central point. Drop a Ball Lightning for extra power if needed.

[@penguinmaster7]

Engineer always felt best as a support class to me. instead of doing the fighting yourself, you make constructs to do the majority of damage for you.

[@stonewbie5981]

I like playing as an engineer. Good video.

[@Blackinterceptor999]

I’ve never really had an issue with my engineer

[@Kyusoath]

TBH this looks and feels the same as most of the times i queue for BHE. the worst thing that can happen is that the npc dies at the end as everyone was so focused on the spawnmother they didn't stop the little spawns meleeing him to death.

[@timfogelson7076]

awesome presentation....thanks.

[@jlalejos]

I use drones on my engineer, Nomad and Methuselah from fleet stores, SOONG drones, d0t 23 engineering for electrical damage for constructs Ba ul and ambush turrets. Its fun but I dont think its meta by any means

[@SampoPaalanen]

I'd love to see how current build would do when properly supported I normally do randoms and don't tend to parse so I have no idea to be honest

[@williamwalker4600]

Thank you for this, I am very curious about one change which is to use Engineering Kit Module - Anchor of Gre'thor as the aoe pull. It has the benefit of being cast in first person shooter mode without anytime, wherever you want to place it with no enemy target required. (On top of mines for example). Has a very fast recast too.

[@juangutierrez8977]

Yeah, I saw a guy doing this in Elite Minor Instabilities and most of us had nothing to do. He killed everything really fast. Plant both sets of mines in one spot, place anchor on them when enemies spawn, boom, they're gone.

[@valerie93_]

In general play the anchor is better because of the damage, in DPS meta runs we use grav juncture specifically because it does NOT do damage but instead debuffs the resists on the enemies. By making sure all the enemies get pulled in alive, then your 5-10 mines that are in the bubble will each singly hit every enemy pulled in, so if you only pull in one enemy that's 5-10 explosions of 5000-10000 damage each. Stacking the mine damage like that is why engineers are so OP on ground. Counterintuitively, the stronger pull module (anchor) for general play will severely nerf your overall dps in record runs because everything is dead before it gets to the mines

[@Sky14714]

I am curious, why Gravitational Juncture vs Anchor of Grethor?

[@short72hp1]

that how I learned from you Spencer and everybody never are good as you all are☹

[@seanmason4170]

They need to let us have the ability to save ground and space specializations.

[@bigtiddyhimbo]

Semi unrelated, what outfit top piece are you using? Looks really nice! Space barbie!

[@RedneckRepairs]

Most of my characters are engineers because I can't imagine playing without heals...space and ground

[@Wyrrlicci]

How about a ground build for Engi that uses more than ONE engi exclusive Kit mod?

[@Stu1701]

I used two, and suggested a third as an alternative for the Obelisks or Agony Field. And one of the Personal traits is exclusive to engineers.

[@dgrm7559]

Would be cool if you also show what your skill tree looks like.

[@Stu1701]

my skill tree has not changed since this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppWrmoetrN6podksi=SO3uuMoYdYmI_9sI

[@ryankelly8783]

Engineering builds automatically mean "drone build" for me lol

[@Stu1701]

Honestly, same. I love drone builds, I have a video for one on the channel. But this is where the DPS power is.

[@JohnLee-pr2qc]

k, are there 2 differnet risian kits, because the one i bought for 1000 favors from event store cannot be reengineered

[@timothyhiggins8934]

hey stu if i may ask: your character's hat, i believe, comes from the abraham lincoln suit. i recently bought that, but all i got was that silly small hat which i despise. was there something extra i needed to do to use it? cause i don't even see it in my stock. thanks

[@Stu1701]

The top hat is in a different category in the Head menu, that's probably why you're having trouble finding it. Start at the Head customization menu, click the Category pulldown, and there you'll find Top Hat.

[@EmperorRyu1]

What do you think of the Kit Module: Delegated Devastation?

[@QuantumNova]

I use it all the time for my team. You can't fire weapons, but you can still use kits.

[@EmperorRyu1]

@@QuantumNova There is a Ground Doff who removes the Weapon Lock from you.

[@QuantumNova]

@@EmperorRyu1 O_O thanks! I'll try to buy one. (Gimped myself for no reason all this long time.)

[@JohnLee-pr2qc]

nevermind, git it sorted ty fir vid

[@short72hp1]

my best ground build are due to you all💯👍

[@WrwfOriginal]

So tired of Bug hunt elite, storm chasers is alot more fun for me

[@QuantumNova]

*To all so called Meta players:* Remember to use aim and zoom on priority targets. it grants 20% all damage for everything, even for kits. "No one aims is the dumbest thing I hear people say. Stop saying it please.

[@setadoon]

But nobody aims...lol (I still do sometimes if it's multiple waves) 😅 The problem is people are lazy and to be honest the way the game is now, that 20% doesn't matter. Most of these builds just melt everything either way..

[@deadbird3144]

It matters.

[@MrOppy678]

I am a lifetime member and I love this game , tho to me SCIENCE is way better in survivability in ship and on ground, plus you actually can use real math to solve problems, lol Anyways I am off and on with this game because of the PAYWALL they have behind the certain science ships that I need for new episodes. Yeah, you can do missions to probably get the ship in question....but the (REAL GUILDS) who run those missions are NEVER looking for players.

[@davidkaye8712]

I mostly make Tac's and they all are strong on ground with massive dps, and like the majority of players I just dont like ground, STO is a space game :)

[@cliveklg7739]

No reason to go full 6 DPS modules 99.99% of targets are down with 2-3 modules, and no more than 4 on elites, and the cooldown decrease and survivability of Mudd's Time Device is too good to pass up, keeping those 5 up even more often.

[@short72hp1]

thanks, teacher