Skill Revamp - Skill Planet - Impact on Boffs

Better late then never.
With the upcoming skill revamp it is required to respect your toons.
To prevent wasting respect tokens there are a few useful toons and some important info below.

Star Trek Online - Space Skill Planner
STO Skill Calculator
Tribble Skill Revamp values for each bridge officer power affected by skills : stobuilds

I personally see these tools as a good way to prevent wrong skill choices. Infact the skill player web tool shows way more information about the impact of your choices than the stuff you can see in the game.

to be honest
i dont know yet

with yesterdays tribble patch again changes to the skill system were made and probably this is not even the final state yet

From what I could read did the skill revamp have a major impact on the ship performance.

Nearly everyone is reporting heavy increases of DPS with the new skill system.
Also other aspects of the ship (speed/turn/hull/etc) seem to be much better meanwhile.

It is adviced to use Intelligence as primary specialization and strategist as secondary.
Below is a small summary about which skills are adviced by the DPS League.

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Our recommended skilltree can be found here.

This little breakdown provides an overview about the different skillpoints and how you can customize our recommended skilltrees.

46 skillpoints are available. It is necessary to spend 27 points in
tactic to get the tactical ultimate ability and it’s necessary to spend 3
points in “Long-Range Targeting Sensors”.
Because of that 30 points out of 46 points are already allocated and 16 points are left.

Engineering:

Hull Restoration (2 points)
Every ship is using some kind of hull heal e.g. Hazard Emitter,
Hull Capacity (0-1 points)
Tacticals focused on DPS should avoid
that skill because it’s harder to get a 0% gdf with more hull capacity.
Other careers can spend a point there,
Electro Plasma System Flow (2 points)
Very important. It’s necessary to spend two points there,
Full Impulse Energy Shunt (0 points)
Based on the old driver coil skill. There are better skills available,
Impulse Expertise (1-2 points)
Speed and turnrate are important. One point is nice, two are better,
Hull Plating (0-1 points)
High-end: Not needed. There is the combat performance fleet boost,
Mid-/low-end: it should be considered to spend a point there,
Don’t bother to spend a point in “Energized Hull Plating” or “Ablative Hull Plating”,
Damage Control (0 points)
Defensive und Offensive Subsystem Tuning (1 point each)
Energy is always important,
Shield / Auxiliary / Weapon / Engine Performance (0-1 points)
It’s
hard to say if a point should be spent there. It could be considered on
a Warbird, even if it isn’t needed there. Other factors are plasmonic
leech, core, nandi trait, energy siphon etc,
Warp Core Potential (2 points)
2 points should definetly be spent there. All subsystems are benefiting from that,
Warp Core Efficiency (0-1 points)
Warbirds are profiting more form that than other ships. They should spent a point there, others could,
Engineering Readiness (0-1 points)
In general it’s not recommend
to spend a point there. If you are flying a cruiser without expensive
krenim bridge officers or cooldown reduction duty officers, you can
think about to spend a point there. But there is still the problem that
you are not really having enough points for that and “Frenzied
Reactions” (from tac ultimate ability) is also helping to reduce
cooldowns,

Science:

Shield Restoration (0-2 points)
Warbirds are having the valdore
console. All others can spent a point there. Two points are only making
sense for supporters (e.g. extend shields),
Shield Capacity (0-2 points)
Borg are draining shields empty quickly. Not that important for non warbirds,
Control Expertise (0 points)
Spending points there is only interesting for supporter,
Control Amplification (0 points)
Spending points there is only interesting for supporter with active controll abilies,
Drain Expertise (2 points)
Really important for plasmonic leech that will save you some points in the engineering part,
Drain Infection (o points)
Useless,
Shield Regeneration (0 points)
Shield regeneration has always been pretty low. It’s pointless to spend a point here,
Shield Hardness (0 points)
Quite useless against Borg and there are better skills available,
Exotic Particle Generator (1-2 points)
Important for exotic damage abilities. The third point in it, is too weak,
Long Range Scanner (3 points)
Really important. You lose less damage if you are farther away from the enemy,
Scientific Readiness (0 points)
With “All Hands on Deck” it isn’t
needed. For everyone else it is luxury. “Frenzied Reactions” (from tac
ultimate ability) is also helping to reduce cooldowns. Furthermore a
deflector with [SciCdr] does the same like a skillpoint in “Scientific
Readiness”,

Tactical:

It’s not necessary to list every tactical point here, because you need most of them anyways for the tactical ultimate ability.

Coordination Protocols (3 points)
On the first look only
interesting for carriers. But it’s defense and offense part are teamwide
and they add teamwide. Because of that it is a must-have.
Tactical Readiness (0-3 points)
Here you need to ask yourself if
you want potentially to fly with a torpedo. If you want to do that spend
those three points in torpedos and not in here.

Please remember that you need 27 points in tactical for the ultimate ability.

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This is the skill tree adviced for Romulans:

This is for Fed/KDF chars:

By using one of these skilltrees you will get some passive unlocks.
You can chose them in the progression bar at the bottom of skilltree.
You’ll
get two engineering unlocks, choose “Battery Expertise” and “Maximun
Hull Capacity”.You’ll get one science unlock, you can choose there what
you want more “Sector Space Travel Speed” or “Transwarp Cooldown
Reductions”.
You’ll get all four tactical unlocks, you should choose
“Hangar Weaponry”, “Projectile Critical Chance”, “Energy Critical
Chance” and “Accuracy”.

Furthermore the tactical ultimate ability “Focused Frenzy” will be
unlocked and all three enhancements of it. Make sure to choose them.
“Focused Frenzy” is a really strong ability. In ISA it can be used on
the transformers, the gateway and the tactical cube. A team should
coordinate the usage of it.

This one is for ground:

It is possible to choose passive unlocks here, too.
Some of them are only allowing you to craft training manuals others will improve the character’s performance on ground.
Feel free to decide which training manuals you want to be able to craft. From the unlocks which are improving the performance the following ones should be choosen:
“Device Expertise”, “Improved Aim”, if you play melee choose “Fatal Fists”, if you don’t play melee you can decide if you want “Furious Footwork” instead of it, “Improved Flank Damage” and “Offensive Mastery”.

How to use Threatending Stance:

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This specialization will now be recommended instead of pilot as
secondary specialization. Intelligence will still be the recommended
primary specialization.

Strategist highly depends on the new “Threatening Stance”. We are
recommending to switch the “Threatening Stance” during combat.
“Attrition Warfare” reduces bridge officer recharge time once every 20
seconds after a captain or bridge officer hull heal has been used while
threatening. After the hull heal has been used, threatening can be
disabled. Make sure to enable threatening before you use the hull heal
to reduce cooldowns.

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Ok meanwhile I managed to do my first own test.
The most fucked up ISA run ever.

I messed up the start... I forgot to enable my alpha strike... I got stuck for 30secs near the transwarp hub coz of a tractor beam.... I died once coz of getting stuck... the nanite spheres healed the right transformer

.... and still i got 74k dps on this totally messed up run
certainly not my highest result but based on everything that went wrong I would have expected like ~40k