STO Academy

Tools for Star Trek Online captains.

Originally stoacademy.com, with guides, tools, and walkthroughs — including the skill planner a lot of captains had bookmarked. It's back as the STO Academy Build Planner, rebuilt from the ground up and kept current by the community instead of one person alone.

• Build Planner — Plan skills, ships, equipment, officers, and traits — then save and share your build.
• Combat Log Reader — Upload a combat log and see your DPS and performance stats.
• Fleets — Browse the fleet directory, or create a profile and private area for your own.
• Guides — Practical guides for getting more out of Star Trek Online.

What STO Academy is

STO Academy is a free resource for Star Trek Online captains who want to understand their characters and ships, not just copy a build from a forum post. It started years ago as a site of guides, tools, and walkthroughs, and today it is built around two tools that work together: the Build Planner and the Combat Log Reader.

Use the Build Planner to lay out your skills, ship, equipment, bridge officers, duty officers, and traits in one place, with the game's own rules built in so you cannot slot something that is not legal. Then fly the build, upload your log to the Combat Log Reader, and see what it really does: your DPS, your peak DPS, your critical hit rate, and a breakdown of your damage by ability. Change one thing, run it again, and compare. Both tools are free, and neither needs an account to use.

Featured guides

• Getting Started: Your First Build A walk through every section of the Build Planner, in order, for building your first character.
• Using the Build Planner to Improve Your DPS The core DPS stats to look for, then how to plan a build, record a real fight, and use the Combat Log Reader to find what to change next.
• Choosing an Endgame Ship What each ship class is actually for, what T5-U and T6 mean, and how to match a ship to how you play.

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