As part of the latest major patch, Star Trek Online is giving its skill system a massive overhaul, designed to make the skill functions more transparent and encourage a bit more variety in skill setups. The space skill revisions have already been previewed, but the ground skills have only just seen the light of day in the latest entry of the Path to F2P blog series. In some ways, the revisions are much smaller than those made to space combat; in other ways, the changes are bigger.
Ground skills now have two skill tracks -- one set of skills that's shared among all characters and one that's unique for each career. The shared line of skills provides straight buffs to general abilities, such as damage and shield values, while the unique line of five skills buffs career-specific abilities such as pets for Engineers, healing for Science, and buffs for Tactical. Players should peruse the full list of updates to get a sense of what ground skills will look like after the change -- they're simpler, but there's still a great deal of room for differentiation.
Reader Comments (4)
Posted: Dec 21st 2011 9:47PM Saker said
I just want a classic "tos" enterprise to play, and a classic klingon ship (and yes maybe a classic romulan ship), and I want them NOW!
Posted: Dec 22nd 2011 7:48AM mysecretid said
@Saker
There's already a tos enterprise (Constitution-class) ship in the game; and a tos ship interior; and tos uniforms -- you can buy them all for a few bucks in the C-Store.
Cryptic actually gave away the tos starship for free to Federation players as a Christmas/Hannukah/Eid/Your Holiday Here gift -- but I think you've missed the window of opportunity.
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There's already a tos enterprise (Constitution-class) ship in the game; and a tos ship interior; and tos uniforms -- you can buy them all for a few bucks in the C-Store.
Cryptic actually gave away the tos starship for free to Federation players as a Christmas/Hannukah/Eid/Your Holiday Here gift -- but I think you've missed the window of opportunity.
Posted: Dec 22nd 2011 2:22PM dudemanjac said
@Saker Been there since the game came out. I got it as pre-order.
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Posted: Dec 22nd 2011 8:17AM syberghost said
My god, it may actually become possible to tank now.







