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This is fine, and my comments weren’t to critique you, but as a fellow fleetie you also now have the right to melt your targets with little effort and maximum fun instead of just being a shiny discoball, and that’s where your fleet comes in. Any blame is with Cryptic as they don’t explain the mechanics of the game in any way leaving us players to figure it out ourselves.

And my UI comment was about that huge chat window that was blocking your screen in your youtube video. But hey, if it works for you, roll with it. 🙂

The Tarantula is a wonderful dreadnought (I have one too) which will serve you well, and I must first compliment you on the all-epic kit you have equipped it with: that must have been some serious dilithium investment.
You have however overspecialized in tanking and except two tactical consoles nothing in damage. The Tarantula can have a good balance between firepower and survivability.

What follows is a vanilla build, meaning I won’t include traits/rep gear or exotic powers for now.

First of, you have to run a “Drake” build; alternating 2 copies of Emergency Power to x, where x can be Shield, Weapons, Engine or Auxiliary power.
Support these two engineering powers with 2-3 Damage Control Engineers duty officers that reduce EPTx power.

If you have the Doffs use EPTS (Shields) and EPTW (Weapons). If you don’t have the DOffs use 2 identical EPTS (for tanking) or 2x EPTW (for damage).

Ideally you put these EPTx in a keybind, either one you already have (programmable mouse/keys, software) or by using the Hilbert keybind.
If you haven’t already use that one: it’s a very old site but it still works, Just copy -paste the .txt file there and follow the instructions and you’re STO experience just got a massive boost.

Your bridge officer setup needs some tweaking by retraining some of your Boffs – you can find the manuals at the Bridge officer trainer on ESD (under Adm Quinns office). It should look something like this:

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LTN Tac – Tac Team 1, Atk Pat Beta 1
LTC Tac – Tac Team 1, Fire at Will 2, Beam Overload 3
LTC Sci – Hazard Emitters, Science Team 2, Gravity Well 1
Ens Sci – Tractor Beam (unchanged)
CDR Eng – Engineering Team, Emergency Pwr to Shields 2, Emerg Pwr to Wpn 3, Reverse Shield Polarity

Keybind: Tac Team, EPTS2, EPTW3 Tac Team (try to keep this running 24/7)

Power setting: Weapons.
Pets setting: Attack.

Attack:
1 – Consume Auxiliary Battery, Gravity Well
2 – Brace for Impact, Tac Team, Atk Pat Beta, FAW or Beam Overload.
(keep that keybind running)

Heals:
Hazard Emitters – plasma cleanse (HE1 is fine, higher is a waste)
Science Team + Reverse Shield Polarity (Shield heal/buff in combo with EPTS)
Engineering Team (Hull heal)
Evasive Maneuvers (keep moving in/out of 10km range)

Consoles:
With the above heals and buffs, you can reduce your tanking consoles. Move the 2 Tholian consoles to Engineering, and keep 1 RCS and 1 armor of your choice in there.
Replace 1 (preferably 2) science console with a Console – Science – Graviton Generator: this will increase the pull power of your Gravity Well.
Tactical consoles should be ALL Phaser Relays – you cannot have too many tac consoles, ever.

Quick word on console stacking, in STO 1+1+1 does NOT equal 3, but 2.5. There is a diminishing return for using identical consoles with the exception of Tac consoles, since moah damage is always bettah.

If you use these tips you will notice an improvement in your build.

Btw this setup (the keybind, Bridge officer powers etc etc) also works on your Khopesh Scimitar.