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Hey Cryptic you might want to take a look Fed leveling ?
grazyc2
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Leveling Fed is a hell, did klingon before the Fed you even were Lower Admiral before the mission Paradise Lost. After that did a romulan and same story. Now doing a Fed just became Captain before I hit Paradise Lost and before you start at it I did all the patroll misions....
Without the patrol mission you running around as a commander. So is leveling a Fed realy that worse or is it just me and am I doing something wrong ??
Without the patrol mission you running around as a commander. So is leveling a Fed realy that worse or is it just me and am I doing something wrong ??
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"Coffee: the finest organic suspension ever devised. It's got me through the worst of the last three years. I beat the Borg with it."
"Coffee: the finest organic suspension ever devised. It's got me through the worst of the last three years. I beat the Borg with it."
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Doffing can get you over half a level with one complete 'bank' of 20 Assignments. Each Episode would almost get you a Level. The thirties are fast. I have had it where I got to 50 sometime into the Wastelands, and others into the Cardassian Arc. Probably depends on XP Bonuses.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
Since this was the third or fourth time I was leveling a Fed char and it had been a long time since I had previously done so, I was not in a hurry once the Delta Recruit Event was over. I was able to go from 50 to 55 with just DOffing. Of course I wasn't trying to power level at this point. I was achieving a level every two or three days depending on the DOff mission rewards.
Some people who play this game can level a Fed char to sixty in a weekend. Thankfully for both my sanity and my patience I am not one of those people. lol
Sorry, it is you. Levelled a new Fed alt to 60 in 3 weeks without any problem. Run SB24 solo if you want a quickish XP boost at early levels.
"Coffee: the finest organic suspension ever devised. It's got me through the worst of the last three years. I beat the Borg with it."
Levelling really is bad for Feds. There are quite a few instances, where you'll be left without missions, as you're still to low to start the next one and - what's even worse - there is nothing to guide you on what to do next. For example, while levelling normally, without having skill boosts or an XP-weekend, I reached Level 8 after finishing "Task Force Hippocrates". The next mission in the arc, "Skirmish", doesn't start until Level 11, neither does doffing, and there is no "wrapper mission" to guide you towards patrols, the old exploration missions don't exist anymore and the XP for replaying episodes is negligble.
Sure it's easy for me and anyone else who has played for a few years and is levelling alt #10, to simply send a character 100 million EC and buy him gear, skill boosts and a roster of purple doffs to quickly bridge those gaps, but for players who are new to the game, who don't have the rescources, it can be a huge pain in the TRIBBLE and frustrating.
I think it's well worth bringing back "Where's Sulu?" so newbies will know to do the patrols... Which need a minor reward boost on top of that.
Yes, I agree. This should be very clearly explained and made automatic whenever char level < next mission min level. A pop-up with Sulu (or whomever) should come up that says something to the effect that "The Admiral has further missions in mind for you but considers you need more combat and diplomatic experience before assigning you to these missions. Go to XYZ place and do ABC" (which are essentially patrol missions).
Hear, Hear!
I'd like to say that is a good idea, but tutorial pop ups are annoying, in any game, even if you are new to it.
To the OP: Leveling is easier on Klingons and Romulans as an incentive to get more people to play characters of those species. That being said, leveling as a Fed, at this point in the history of STO is insanely easy. If you're 'following-the-program', playing through all the episode arcs, you should be well past lvl 50 and at least approaching lvl 60. After that, you've got some work to do to get spec trees filled out. Don't expect them to hand you awesomeness, just because.
"Coffee: the finest organic suspension ever devised. It's got me through the worst of the last three years. I beat the Borg with it."
Fed's however can't as their story level requirements are all over the place, you run into a gap between missions at level 9 with the next mission being level 11, basically each arc hasn't been calculated properly.
The new Cardassian arc requires you to be level 35 but doesn't give you enough XP to get to level 42 to start Second wave, yet neither Rom nor KDF have that issue as their requirements for all of the Cardassian/Dominion missions is 35.
Correct I have this problem also with my other fed
"Coffee: the finest organic suspension ever devised. It's got me through the worst of the last three years. I beat the Borg with it."
If you really are missing some exp, do some regular doffing, that should help (if you don't do so already)
This would be a massive QOL improvement and might jump the games rating up a few stars.
I have 4 Fed, 2 KDF and 2 Rom (1 Fed and 1 KDF), and I have always found Fed levelling way easier than KDF or Rom. I don't mean to insult you, but you seem to be under the impression that if you're not level 60 with-in a week, then it's too slow. The main issue is that levelling is INSANELY FAST! Getting to level 60... 3-4 weeks. Maxing Specializations....3 months. Sorry, but becoming a Fleet Admiral with only a few weeks experience in game is wrong. It should take at least 3 months to hit level 60 with some daily play (2-4 hours a day). It's the equivalent in game of giving someone a Black Belt in Martial Arts after only a year of training (with no experience), when it actually takes 4-5 years to make a decent Black Belt.
So I'd guess if they boosted episode and combat XP by about 5% it would be solved.