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Yeah, any of the patrols that end with an endless, timed wave of enemies will do it fast. edit: provided you don't have an utterly potato build. of course pubbies were complaining that they leveled slower because they could only kill one or two waves which . . . lol
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Do STFs not give mastery xp anymore? Tons of them are timed infinite wave bullshit and the waves respawn a fast as you can pop em
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Cyrano4747 posted:Yeah, any of the patrols that end with an endless, timed wave of enemies will do it fast. There is an amazing number of pubbies that still have complete potato builds. I was in that new event STF today and 3 out of the 4 pubbies spent the entire time just getting blown up over and over again by ground turrets and contributing literally nothing to finishing the mission.
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Feb 24, 2020 03:34
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Mondian posted:Do STFs not give mastery xp anymore? Tons of them are timed infinite wave bullshit and the waves respawn a fast as you can pop em Nowhere near as much as patrols. For quick grinding, open the STF menu, click on the ‘patrol’ tab and just do patrols until you hit Mastery 5/6. Don’t even need to leave ESD to do it anymore.
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Feb 24, 2020 03:37
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I have been playing on and off since Beta and this is the first time I've used a high level character to make gear for a low level character. I am very smart.
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Feb 24, 2020 05:11
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Mondian posted:Do STFs not give mastery xp anymore? Tons of them are timed infinite wave bullshit and the waves respawn a fast as you can pop em  The last one or two that did that at least changed it but it's still not a whole lot, 10-20ish or something insultingly low.
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Cythereal posted:Well, got a workaround that's letting me play STO again. For the moment. Defense of starbase one or other similar queues where you kill a shitload of generic ships. Space battlezones. Either the badlands (terrans) or the dyson sphere (voth) ones are best. The tzenkithi one has been a broken mess since it launched and is best avoided. The dyson one seems to always have people running it so shouldn't be an issue to complete ad nauseum if you skip zones after each completion. Oh I guess there is also the gamma quadrant hurq space battles stuff. You have to fight hurq though. Blegh. The takeaway is we'll never see the glorious ship mastery speeds of spamming delta & romulan patrols again.
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DancingShade posted:Defense of starbase one or other similar queues where you kill a shitload of generic ships. This is entirely wrong. I just unlocked a ship trait by running two patrols.
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Feb 24, 2020 12:07
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Yeah assuming you can kill ships in even a vaguely quick period of time the new post-Disco patrols will get you a bazillion mastery XP. The older ones don't though.
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Ah, that would do it. I've only ever touched post-ViL content when there's something suitably shiny like a new ship involved.
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Mondian posted:Do STFs not give mastery xp anymore? Tons of them are timed infinite wave bullshit and the waves respawn a fast as you can pop em they never bothered adjusting xp modifiers for queues so no, although the newer ones + the revamped Borg ones give decent mastery xp (patrols are still faster tho)
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Coq au Nandos posted:This is entirely wrong. I just unlocked a ship trait by running two patrols. Yeah. My go to is the one where you rescue kumarki. Forget the name, but just look for that. It plays fast and culminates in a gently caress off huge battle against klingons that respawn. I consider myself off my game if I can't master a ship in two runs of that. IIRC there's a daily bonus attached to those so you might have to just run each of the good ones once a day. Even so it's still WAY faster than grinding the old patrols. Honestly I don't really care if I only run one or two patrols a day. The reward is good enough that I master a ship every other day or so even only doing one. and frankly one or two patrols is kind of the sweet spot for me enjoying star trek pew pew space battles vs. zoning out and putting on podcasts to entertain me while I grind.
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What patrols should I be doing as a klingrom for ship mastery? Terms like "post-Disco" don't help much, because I have no idea what was added when.
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Hello Sailor posted:What patrols should I be doing as a klingrom for ship mastery? Terms like "post-Disco" don't help much, because I have no idea what was added when. The argala one and the 9th rule one, doing those two once each will complete ship mastery
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I will trade hosting the wiki on the (goon) provider I rent from in exchange for EC.
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Hello Sailor posted:What patrols should I be doing as a klingrom for ship mastery? Terms like "post-Disco" don't help much, because I have no idea what was added when. Open the PVE queue window. Select the Patrols tab. Launch literally any of the options.
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hakimashou posted:The argala one and the 9th rule one, doing those two once each will complete ship mastery
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MREBoy posted:I will trade hosting the wiki on the (goon) provider I rent from in exchange for EC. I was thinking about hosting it too, as long as we don't need it to send out emails
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For those of you who fly/have flown escorts: I’ve been having a lot of fun flying the regular and T5 Defiants versus my usual Cruiser broadsiding, and now I have a choice to make. I can get either a Fleet T6 Defiant or a Fleet T6 Magee Pilot Escort. Ever since I read about the pilot ships I wanted one and this might be my only opportunity for a long while. I’ve been comparing stats/weapon slots/stations/consoles, and except for one less aft weapon slot and no cloak, the Magee seems to have the advantage without even counting the Pilot Maneuvers, but... ...It’s just so damned ugly compared to a Defiant and I’m in the middle of a DS9 rewatch. So this is probably an obvious choice, but any advice or experience with these ships would be appreciated!
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Feb 25, 2020 05:24
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Get the one that looks cool and you’ll actually enjoy.
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Longbaugh01 posted:For those of you who fly/have flown escorts: I’ve been having a lot of fun flying the regular and T5 Defiants versus my usual Cruiser broadsiding, and now I have a choice to make. So, my advice is to get the Magee. Full pilot ships are a ton of fun to fly, and since you (apparently) missed the free one this summer, this is the only one that doesn't cost zen or come from a lockbox. Then save up for the fleet Defiant. And post your full in game name. I think I have a couple of FSMs taking up space in my account bank that I could mail to you.
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So, y'all weren't kidding about patrols being good xp. I'd picked up one of the jem'hadar boats on a whim, and it only took about an hour of patrols to go from zero to tier 6.
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I ran one on the event ship and got most of the way to 3, they are crazy stupid.
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Thanks for the advice all. I think I'll go with the Magee for "do a barrel roll" fun and then get the Defiant when I have more Fleet creds and modules (modules seem to be the real choke-point) and so...g0del posted:And post your full in game name. I think I have a couple of FSMs taking up space in my account bank that I could mail to you. Thanks! Grayson@longbaugh01#4908
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Longbaugh01 posted:Thanks for the advice all. I think I'll go with the Magee for "do a barrel roll" fun and then get the Defiant when I have more Fleet creds and modules (modules seem to be the real choke-point) and so... And remember, though it does take awhile, you can eventually get enough modules for two free fleet ships per character by getting all the reps to T6.
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You guys weren’t kidding. Did one of each 9th Rule, Rescue, and Argala Wanted and fully unlocked my new Magee’s mastery. The Ship Customizer is such a buggy tease sometimes. It made it seem like I could use Shran stuff with no Zen indicator and let me hit Apply, but once I got to space, Nope. g0del posted:No problem. I'll send them when I get home later tonight. Thanks again!
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new TFO event again for this year starting with a rerun of Snorefest at the Binary Stars: https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11377343-return-to-the-battle-at-the-binary-stars%21 The Grand Prize for Event Campaign II will offer players a choice as to what they receive, between the two following options: Option 1: Z-Store Coupon for 100% Off a single Tier-6 Starship 200 Lobi Crystals Option 2: 1,000 Lobi Crystals This choice is only made once per Account, upon claiming the prize. event reward is a support drone module/vanity pet
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Are there any must have lobi ships as far as skills, consoles, etc go?
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New event thing announced: https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11377343-return-to-the-battle-at-the-binary-stars%21 This time you get to choose between a free zen store ship or 1000 lobi crystals (one time claim only)
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Lol, dil farmers get absolutely hosed https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11377303
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Blacula posted:Lol, dil farmers get absolutely hosed https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11377303 I'm surprised it took this long, honestly. This is going to kill admiralty farming for dil. greasythepirate posted:New event thing announced: Note that 1k crystals is enough for any single lobi ship in the game.
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Cythereal posted:I'm surprised it took this long, honestly. This is going to kill admiralty farming for dil. loooool. RIP farming. WTF even is fleet voucher dill? Dill for donating to fleet projects only? Note that this should probably also crater the zen market. Less dill floating around means it should be worth more compared to zen. So if you're holding any zen sell off before this happens.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Are there any must have lobi ships as far as skills, consoles, etc go? Our wiki had an article on starship traits that said Supremacy was one of four "must haves" for both cannon and beam boats. It comes from a lobi ship. So, assuming it hasn't been powercrept into obsolescence since the article was written, go for that?
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Cyrano4747 posted:loooool. RIP farming. it also means RIP Dyzon BZ again, it will be camped to kingdom come
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Supremacy has been powercreeped down from "must have" to "fine" it does come with a perfectly good dong-ship though.
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Doing an escort cannon build for the first time in a long while, is there a better rear weapons slot option than turrets?
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Man I wish they added the Kelvin T'laru to the Lobi store. Oh well, guess I'll have to make due with one of the sixteen other neat ships.
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Jxforema posted:Doing an escort cannon build for the first time in a long while, is there a better rear weapons slot option than turrets? Apparently not from the advice/gear I’ve gotten from vets. If I have a third aft slot I might slot in some projectile. With 4 cannons (hopefully dual heavy) fore and 2 turrets aft, you’re bringing 6 weapons to bear on a target provided you have the power since turrets are 360 degrees. Pilot spec skills (and pilot ship maneuvers) can help a lot in keeping all 6 on target. Just my thoughts from my limited experience flying them a lot for the past month. (Though I probably shouldn’t admit this, for a short bit I switched to a canon ((cannon)) Defiant with fore 2 phaser dual cannons, phaser array, quantum torp, and rear phaser array and quantum torp. You know...for fun!) Longbaugh01 fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Feb 26, 2020 |
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Cyrano4747 posted:loooool. RIP farming. It's also going to make gearing up alts a lot more difficult - buying rep and fleet items and upgrading them can burn a lot of dil.
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