Help Improve My Character

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I have one federation character and one klilngon and both seem very weak against other players, so I am asking the community:

1) Best weapons and skills (ground and space) for a VA tac officer who pilots a dreadnought cruiser?

2) Best weapons and skills (ground and space) for a LC3 tac officer who pilots a bird of prey?

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The word best doesn't exist in the STO dictionary. Building your character is a lot more then choosing equipment/skills and using it.

You are in a cruiser so you should have mostly beam weapons. Some people suggest all beam weapons, I prefer one torpedo fore and one torpedo aft with the rest as beams. You might also want to improve your ship's speed so any equipment and skills that do that would be helpful. Since you have a lot of beam weapons you may run out of energy quickly so anything that can boost your energy will be useful as well, specifically your weapon energy. Having a few healing skills to help other players and yourself is a good idea as well. You'll also need to respec in order to get the most out of your weapons and skills.

I can't be much help with the KDF side but I will tell you that birds of prey are fast ships with weak shields and hull. Anything that can boost shields and hull as well as repair them are good. You should also use turrets and cannons, no beams.

As for ground, its really your preference. I prefer a sniper weapon and a melee weapon.

Hoped this helped at least a little.

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I have one federation character and one klilngon and both seem very weak against other players, so I am asking the community:

1) Best weapons and skills (ground and space) for a VA tac officer who pilots a dreadnought cruiser?

2) Best weapons and skills (ground and space) for a LC3 tac officer who pilots a bird of prey?

If you mean PvP wise check out the PvP fourm. There are some good threads stickyed and if you post what you need help on you will find many folks willing to help. You will need to post your Class and what you want to acheve in comabt ( DPS,Healer etc..)
As the the poster above stated there is no best.
But in PvP due to the way skilling up works most (not all) people chose ether Space Combat skills or Ground Combat skills to specialize in.

I'm not a big FED guy but for the bird of prey the key is to have your Tac buffs up within the effective range of your weapons as you decloak and deliver your strike.
And be ready to, after 5-10 seconds, leave the battle area to cloak back up. Use an engine battery then your evasive manuvers at LtC. Do not cloak while under fire, get away first. You lose shields as you cloak making you an easy target with your light hull.