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RogueIce wrote:Damn, missed the edit window.

I would like to say it's pretty bullshit I have to spend 30 energy credits to put on that Lieutenant rank I earned from the tutorial. 30 energy credits I don't have. :(
Have you tried selling anything?
I have to say that I've never had trouble with costume changes putting much of a dent in my finances - but then, I don't really spend much in STO.
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I'm around until March 12th (at which point I'll wait and see whether to renew my subscription) and you can find me as @RogueIce

I went and d/led the Deluxe Edition off Amazon (15 bucks yay) and right now I have a Tac LT-4. I also have a Tac LT-2 who I'll probably pick up now and again. Just waiting for that third character slot at 6...
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Just tried the first mission of the new series and it's really rather good. High hopes this one will be as classy as the Devidian one.

I'm generally messing around in STO under @Seffs with a VA Tac and starships named after Ace Combat things, should you feel a need for extra firepower or just a look at a few of the ships in the collection.
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Vanas wrote:Just tried the first mission of the new series and it's really rather good. High hopes this one will be as classy as the Devidian one.

I'm generally messing around in STO under @Seffs with a VA Tac and starships named after Ace Combat things, should you feel a need for extra firepower or just a look at a few of the ships in the collection.
Well, thanks for the help dude. Made those missions quite a bit easier. Plus, the Prometheous is damn sexy. Can't wait to hit Tier 5.
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On a side note, does anyone have any characters they'd still like to try the first mission of the new episode with? I'd like to run it through on my engi captain, but something tells me that trying to solo it might get to be a bit of a chore.

Hit me up either here, with a note or on @greymav!
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It's not at all bad solo. That doesn't mean that grouping isn't awesome, just that solo is pretty awesome too. It's quite nifty stuff.
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So from the latest patch (released today):
•The reward tables for Devidian Episodes 4 and 5 have been be updated to use tiered rewards instead of level-less rewards.
Booooo! I was very happy to have those. Luckily it seems that the ones I already got as a reward (and I just played "Everything Old is New" last night to get both) don't have a Mk number (seems to be IV, but I'm still a LC so dunno if it goes up in tier as you rank) so we'll see if they still level with me.

I think it's hella lame, personally. I wonder what prompted them to make that change.

EDIT: Okay, so the blue phasers are also on the Connie you buy from C-store. I wonder if they made that change to it as well? I would almost say they did it to the mission because of the C-Store, but the devs have said they'd like everything you can buy from C-Store to also be available in-game, so this would seem to reverse that. Unless they saw this method as "too easy" and will have another more difficult way to acquire them? (Dear God not emblems...)

Plus, it's the same for the phasers and rifle rewards, which AFAIK aren't in C-Store at all. So, um, WTF? Anyone know?
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Oh SHIT. :shock:

"Cutting the Cord" was freaking awesome. :twisted:
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Steve wrote:Oh SHIT. :shock:

"Cutting the Cord" was freaking awesome. :twisted:
Damn! I need to get around to doing these missions.
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The weekly series are really excellently written. At least, the Devidian and Rommie ones. the Breen one was the first and you can tell. Regardless, they're definitely worth a look, teamed or otherwise.
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Vanas wrote:The weekly series are really excellently written. At least, the Devidian and Rommie ones. the Breen one was the first and you can tell. Regardless, they're definitely worth a look, teamed or otherwise.
The first Breen mission was a bitch, at least in the final space battle where that Breen Battleship showed up. That damn thing killed me three fucking times before I put the beast down.

Now, maybe it's a result of my recent levelling to CDR 1, the fact I don't have ideal equipment on my Advanced Heavy Cruiser, or as Steve points out my less-than-optimal method of skill training, where I try to distribute between both Cruisers and Escorts, as well as ground skills and others. Or I was just unlucky, I don't know.

Speaking of which, do those promotion respec tokens stack, or would I be wasting them if I don't use them before the next rank hits?
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Y...eah. Sounds like you've got maaajor spec problems if you're trying to skill for cruisers and escorts at the same time, especially if you're trying to keep your cannon AND beam skills up to snuff.

No wonder you're getting shitcanned. :)
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Yea, word of advice Rogue..

Pick one ship class to use (Cruiser/Escort/Science ship) and ignore ground combat skills.

You'll be alot more fight in space for it.
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But I like being able to switch between cruisers and escorts every so often, as it's much more fun that way. :(
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Then don't come crying to me when you get blown up a lot. :P

And the respec tokens stack.
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RogueIce wrote:But I like being able to switch between cruisers and escorts every so often, as it's much more fun that way. :(
So fly one class with your main and make an alt to fly the other. Duh.
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The caffeinated-beverage production device speaks the truth. A proper spec is for one type of ship and as tight a spread of weapon types as possible. I recommend restricting yourself to phasers, quantum torpedos, and maybe tricobalt devices at high level if you really want to hear Mithaw scream. With the way the skill system works, the other weapon types are either demonstrably worse or just way, way too expensive. Maybe antiproton weaponry too, although again, really expensive skill-wise. Also important are the various Efficiency and Performance skills. Basically, the Efficiency skills increase your power levels for any subsystem settings below 75, giving you more power the lowe rthe setting is. The Performance skills increase your power setting for that subsystem regardless of power setting. Accordingly you'll probably NOT want weapon efficiency, because that should very, very rarely ever be under 100 in the first place, but the rest are really good to have.
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Steve wrote:And the respec tokens stack.
Excellent.
Mr. Coffee wrote:So fly one class with your main and make an alt to fly the other. Duh.
But then I gotta level that bum up, too. :|

Which I'll likely do eventually, but getting out of LT is a bit of a grind.
White Haven wrote:The caffeinated-beverage production device speaks the truth. A proper spec is for one type of ship and as tight a spread of weapon types as possible. I recommend restricting yourself to phasers, quantum torpedos, and maybe tricobalt devices at high level if you really want to hear Mithaw scream. With the way the skill system works, the other weapon types are either demonstrably worse or just way, way too expensive. Maybe antiproton weaponry too, although again, really expensive skill-wise. Also important are the various Efficiency and Performance skills. Basically, the Efficiency skills increase your power levels for any subsystem settings below 75, giving you more power the lowe rthe setting is. The Performance skills increase your power setting for that subsystem regardless of power setting. Accordingly you'll probably NOT want weapon efficiency, because that should very, very rarely ever be under 100 in the first place, but the rest are really good to have.
I see...

Well, thanks for the advice one and all. I'll likely start specializing when I hit higher levels, although with stacking tokens I should build up what, 6 free respecs when I hit VA? Which is not to say I won't start spending my points more wisely now, I'm just not gonna respec just yet.

I guess for now I'll live with getting blown up every so often (oddly enough, when I faced the Breen Battleship in the next mission it wasn't so bad; but then it wasn't crapping out transphasic mines at me, which is what really killed me the first time).

I play on Normal so dying isn't more than a minor inconvenience anyway. :D
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I've never had a problem with splitting it up between Cruisers and Escorts. Admitedly most of my weapons skills are indeed beams, phasers, torps and Quants but having a set-up split over two types of ship has never bothered me in the slightest.

I've not levelled both classes of ship per level though, admittedly.
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Rogueice wrote:I see...

Well, thanks for the advice one and all. I'll likely start specializing when I hit higher levels, although with stacking tokens I should build up what, 6 free respecs when I hit VA? Which is not to say I won't start spending my points more wisely now, I'm just not gonna respec just yet.

I guess for now I'll live with getting blown up every so often (oddly enough, when I faced the Breen Battleship in the next mission it wasn't so bad; but then it wasn't crapping out transphasic mines at me, which is what really killed me the first time).

I play on Normal so dying isn't more than a minor inconvenience anyway.
If you're having problems with mines and tricobalt devices and whatnot, you'd be best served by picking up a tactical officer with some variant of fire at will. It tells your beam weapons to kill EVERYTHING within their radius. Basically it's the space point defenses.

It also looks pretty.
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Coaan wrote:If you're having problems with mines and tricobalt devices and whatnot, you'd be best served by picking up a tactical officer with some variant of fire at will. It tells your beam weapons to kill EVERYTHING within their radius. Basically it's the space point defenses.

It also looks pretty.
Ah. I actually have that with my Tactical Boff. I just didn't know to use it that way... :oops:
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Fire at Will is useful for two things. Against single targets, it's a flat DPS increase through increased rate-of-fire. Against enemies using fighters/heavy torpedos/mines/boarding shuttles, it's a great area point defense, and it gets greater the more beams you get on larger cruisers. I always keep at least one around; against the redesigned Romulans in the Series 3 arc, I keep two different copies so I can more or less perma-run it.
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Finally got around to doing 'Cutting the Cord' last night. I'm going to have to echo Steve up there.

Excellent. Well written, satisfying boss fight and then holy shit everything's just become even better.

Definitely worth playing.
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