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Stop STO for a Long Time and Wanted to Get Back
shehchao
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Hi all, I have stopped STO for a few years and now wanted to get back (I think 2+yrs). Just wanted to ask what I need to do or where I can start. I remember I had a Presidio Command Battlecruiser. Then remove all torpedoes and uses positron beams. Not sure how much have changed.
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Most of the level-up content content has been improved, so even if some of it will be familiar you'll also see a lot of new things.
I'm leveling up a new Romulan captain right now and the Romulan story is quite good.
The thing with STO you have to remember is 'best' is very, very subjective....especially nowadays. ANY energy type is viable, you just need to equip consoles which synergise well with that energy type as well as spec'ing your character to what you intend to use it as.
You have alot of choice these days, and there are virtually no 'must haves' left.
The Presidio is a nice bird to fly. And yes, it's all subjective, as far as what "The Best" is. IMO, "The Best" is what ~you~ enjoy using. The trick is using equipment that will compliment your energy weapon type, researching those, and building around it.
And knowing is half the battle!
21 'til I die!
Since most activities in game involve shooting stuff my suggestion would be that the first thing to do is to work on potent ship and ground builds. Game is very easy when you surf on the latest waves of power creep and really tough and limiting when you don’t.
If you like check out the build and guide sections of the STO League homepage.
https://www.sto-league.com/
By doing so you will always be informed by the best players in game what works well.
As for your question about AP. All energy types you select will get you through the content just fine. In the upper end we have always a winner though. At the moment it is even a clear one with spiral wave disruptors where cryptic wanted to ensure that the most expensive gun is simply the best (additional & reroll-able mods).
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Welcome back!
It's great that STO lets you play anything except Elite content without forcing you to fall into cookie-cutter min-maxing. If you want to climb the DPS charts then you might need to follow the herd, but outside of that you are free to choose any energy type you like (picking it by visuals is fine), use a torpedo so it feels more Trek-like, use beams or cannons, "waste" a slot on the Tholian mine layer.
Almost anything that makes it fun for you can be made to work.
1) Starting a new character helped immeasurably with relearning the game. That was my rommie, to about 20, before I went back to my klink.
2) I did not try to be perfect. I learned things one at a time, and just ignored other things while having fun.
3) The level curve from 60-65 was brutal for me. A ship that was fine at 60 needed real upgrades and intelligent tweaking to get it working, as did my ground game. This really hurt my fed, who I leveled from 50->65 solely on admiralty/doffs.
-Jeff
Also creating a new toon helps.
Well sure you are right with that. Think it always boils down on what you like to do in game in the end. Peeps often tend to associate all DPSer with min/maxer who all want to climb up the DPS laeaderboard. Others use the term e-pen comparison. But that’s not what it is for me at all.
Even though I somehow entered top 10 by now doing so was never really on my personal agenda. DPS for me simply means independence in STO. The freedom to be able to play the content I choose and do so with the people I choose. That includes both high end players as well as casuals or even low end players.
Worst time for me in game was DR when all of sudden my fleet could not handle PvE anymore in light of the difficulty increase. Fleet-mates were looking for me with guidance and help and all I could do was to begin to select with whom it’s not too risky to run PvE and who is better left behind. God, those thoughts were so awful and exactly the reason why I tended to DPS. Each K I bring others don’t need to and each K I pull secures me from becoming an elitist and having to select out of the performance capabilities of others.
When the metal league formed in 2015 I ran into @felisean rather soon from whom I got so much knowledge, so much help, so much encouragement. With him and the other admins a completely new level of play I got introduced to in STO: Team play! It is highly addictive and raises the entire worth of Star Trek online to another level I only experienced on few occasions before.
No idea what the OP is after. Only thing I know is that I like to share my experience with him so I pointed him in the same direction.
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Beyond a certain point new toons can become a liability if you want to bring them up to par - over a dozen reps to complete, active duty doffs, fleet credit and dilithium costs for extra slots for starship traits, ground and space active rep traits, and reputation gear, grinding out Tier 6 mastery traits from existing or new T6 ships, genetic resequencers, admiralty for specialization points, etc. I realize that the definition of a new toon's "state of completion" can vary and that some of the things I mentioned weren't around 2+ years ago.... just plan carefully as a new toon is more than just a significant investment of your time.
It's still a great game, and as a previous player you can learn all you need to bring yourself up to speed with an existing toon(s) by just playing the game, asking some questions, and a little reading up and practice.
None of which is needed to do normal and advanced content. Also, you can combine some of that: doing one Borg red alert gets you 65 reputation marks (2 days of rep daily costs) plus a decent amount of mastery for a T6 ship, plus XP for specialization points, plus a little dil (480? + 340 x 2 from the reputation dailies). When you finish the rep you get another 32,000? dil.
I look at new characters as a chance to try different careers (tac, sci, eng) with their skills and ground kit powers; see the different faction stories; fly different ships (tac, sci, eng) with different boff powers; create a new themed captain and crew like my mirror universe defector who escaped with his Paradox ship and holo-Leeta boff.
Of course if you just want to play a Fed tac captain flying a cruiser then there's not much point in creating more captains just like that.
I agree that playing all disciplines is a great way to learn the game. As far "none of which is needed to do normal and advanced content" I did mention... ...and haven't any idea of what type of content the OP wants to play or what his standards for game play are.
To rephrase - new toons can be fun but also a fair journey to get to maturity, depending upon the destination desired. I hope your journey is a pleasant one. Mine has been for over 7 years
p.s. welcome back