Guide: Suggested trait builds

Certain traits are more useful for one particular role, such as tanking, healing, and damage. Below is a list of what various editors of this article have found to be the best trait builds for players of various roles.

Traits are now selected for you in-game but you still have a option to mix things up

Damage
Optimal race selection: Human

Ground Traits: Space Traits:
 * : 5% increase in exploit damage (required).
 * : Improved ground critical hit chance and expose chance.
 * : Increased space repair rate (required).
 * : Improved accuracy of space weapons.

Tanking
Optimal race selection: Andorian

Ground Traits: Space Traits:
 * : Increased stealth detection (required).
 * : Increased ground threat generation.
 * : Decreased likelihood of enemy scoring direct hit on your ship.
 * : Increased repair and recovery rate.

Healing
Optimal race selection: Betazoid

Ground Traits:
 * : Increased team regeneration, reduced threat (required).
 * : Increased perception (required).
 * : Improve healing and damage of your kit.

Space Traits:
 * : Improved starship operations training.

Damage
Optimal race selection: Nausicaan

Ground Traits:
 * : Improved melee damage (required).
 * : Improved exploit damage (required).

Space Traits:
 * : Improved accuracy of space weapons.
 * : Improved ship power levels.

Tanking
Optimal race selection: Klingon

Ground Traits:
 * : Increased ground damage resistance and threat (required).
 * : Increased ground damage (required).

Space Traits:
 * : Improved accuracy of space weapons.
 * : Increased repair rate.

Healing
Optimal race selection: Orion (female)

Ground Traits:
 * : Improved resistance to confuse and placate; decreased threat (required).
 * : Improve ground healing and damage.

Space Traits:
 * : Improved starship operations training.
 * : Improved ship power levels.

Custom Race Trait Builds
Players choosing the Custom Alien race and planning to compete in PvP/PvE may find picking 4 space or 4 ground traits useful if they plan on doing mostly only one type of mission (Mostly Space or Mostly ground)

Damage
Ground Traits: Space Traits:
 * : Increases your chances of scoring a critical hit and expose.
 * : Increases your base damage and critical hit damage.
 * : Increases the accuracy of your weapons.
 * : Increases the efficiency of various weapons and devices including ship power levels.

Tanking
Ground Traits:
 * : Increases threat generation and damage dealt.
 * : Increases maximum health and adds some resistance to toxic damage.

Space Traits:
 * : Makes your ship less likely to be hit.
 * : Increases ship repair and recharge rate.

Healing
Ground Traits:
 * : Improves the healing and damage powers of your kit.
 * : Increases maximum health and adds some resistance to toxic damage.

Space Traits:
 * : Increases your operations stat.
 * : Improves your warp core stat, which in turn increases your ship's power levels.

Ship Power
Space Traits:
 * : Increases the efficiency of various weapons and devices including ship power levels.
 * : Improves your warp core stat, which in turn increases your ship's power levels.

Plus two additional powers.

Liberated Borg
Ground Traits:
 * : Increases threat generation and damage dealt.
 * : Large Increase to regeneration Hit points and shield. (required)

Space Traits:
 * : Improved accuracy of space weapons.
 * : Increases the efficiency of various weapons and devices including ship power levels. (required,)