Career path offers certain bonuses towards specific play-styles in space and ground, character roles are not very rigidly defined in Star Trek Online, and any character may fly any ship, wear any uniform, and equip almost any item.
Engineering officers are best suited to the Healer and Tank roles. Engineers wear the color gold for their uniforms and are ideally matched with Cruisers of Federation and Battle cruisers of Klingon Empire, which are also best suited for tanking. Tanks take the brunt of damage in battle and try to attract all enemies to them, while the DPS or Damage players do the majority of the actual firing and damage.
Roles and Unique Traits of Engineers for STO Credits
As healers, Engineers are adept at healing hull damage, although they also have strong shield healing. Their focus is primarily on survivability and resilience in space combat, while supporting their Away Team in both space and ground combat with fixed-position automated weaponry, shield and medical generators, technological buffs, and other repairs and improvements.
In ground combat, engineering kits generally involve fabricating turrets and shields, supporting your team with weapon buffs and seeker as well as support drones, and laying mine barriers and bombs.
Unique traits
- EPS Manifold Efficiency icon.png EPS Manifold Efficiency: Batteries give a secondary boost to all subsystems.
- Grace under Fire icon.png Grace under Fire: Taking damage can reset the recharge on Miracle Worker.
- Nanomolecular Architect icon.png Nanomolecular Architect: Turrets & drones gain health regeneration and slightly increased damage resistance rating.
- Shield Harmonic Resonance icon.png Shield Harmonic Resonance: Being attacked gives you +Res.
STO Credits Purchasing
In case that you don’t have much time grinding for credits, you can purchase STO credits at PlayerAuctions.com. You can also sell your credits if you have great income, earn profits using your STO credits and sell it to other players. Having good profits in credits will give you chance to purchase in-game premium items.