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chipg7
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What are y'all upgrading this weekend? I picked up a full set of TWOK-era ship phasers and equipped my ground team with assault phasers. Lots of work to do on those.
What are y'all upgrading this weekend? I picked up a full set of TWOK-era ship phasers and equipped my ground team with assault phasers. Lots of work to do on those.
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I'll just use my phoenix upgrades & hope for quality procs at low %s and not waste tons of dil &/or EC.
At least once you reach 15 UR the epic chance increases slightly for every 4? Phoenix upgrades you burn, so it does happen eventually.
this upgrade WE is interesting, I have finished my rom plasma build. But I'm going to stop creating builds; this game is not alt friendly at all. everything costs my 2 arms and the arms of my girlfriend.
the need of this kind of event shows that there is something wrong with this game. they should encourage players to play, and not to wait events.
Actually this game is quite alt-friendly except for certain stuff, I personally spend more time on my main, now trying to get my Delta Recruit as caught up as possible. I agree you do not necessarily need all epic but it does not hurt. I do not see what is wrong with having an Upgrade Weekend. They already encourage players to play as well as having an event going on when they are playing, lots of MMOs have events. I do not see the issue you are seeing. Thanks.
I'm with you on that approach, I no longer seek the Mk XV Epic or bust anymore. I'll do the VR Mk XV & hope, usually with no reward, for a Mk XV UR or Epic. I'm not sure if Cryptic is intentionally trying to hinder players that use a lot of "alt" characters, but there does seem to be some distance between when that, "the account is the player," statement paraphrased & now. I also think that this upgrade event was way too long coming for this rotation, at least it seemed so. There's a lot shuffling around with STO these days though so easy to lose track of time lol.
Personally, I don't upgrade anything, ever.. unless it's an upgrade weekend. The reason I do it this way though is because I tend to upgrade far more then the 'typical' player. I am always changing out builds and swapping in new gear and I like to keep everything 'gold and shiny.' I don't really blame Cryptic for the fact that I have to wait for upgrade weekends, it's pretty much a condition of my own creation. I do however, wish that these weekends were more frequent, we only seem to get one every 3-4 months and that's not quite enough in my opinion.
As for today, spent about 900 kits total.. happy with the results. I obviously did several characters and pushed the items to Gold Rarity. It's not cheap!
Have a few more small things to do later this weekend, but the big stuff is all done. At least until they change stuff around again.. so a couple weeks tops. I am already saving up for the next one.
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Core elements were the new Disco Rep EV Suit on all toons and some weapons changes to Tommy Gun, Spiral Wave Disruptors and Phaser on secodary characters. Some of the other Disco Rep gear was upgraded where it fits. On one character I even upgraded the old Omega Ground set as I got impressed by the team supporting elements for the Bug Bowl. Cool we have so many boffs that can make use of such secondary gear choices so the stuff does not consume space. That was my to do list I made in advance so I don't forget anything:
Neela: Burnham's CQC Environmental Suit, Lorca's Custom Fire Controls, Omega Armor, Omega Shield, Omega Weapon
Zarlotte: Burnham's CQC Environmental Suit
K’ris: Burnham's CQC Environmental Suit, Prevailing Fortified Warp Core, 5 x Phaser Locater, 2 x Colony Tac consoles, Gamma console, Gamma phaser turret, Terran Phaser DHC, CC Phaser Turret, Quad Phaser, Sensor Linked Phaser DC
Connor: Burnham's CQC Environmental Suit
Imp: Burnham's CQC Environmental Suit, Disco Quantum Torp, Disco DBB
Halo: Burnham's CQC Environmental Suit
Telora: Burnham's CQC Environmental Suit
Cabal: Burnham's CQC Environmental Suit, Replica Thompson Submachine Gun
Chameleon: Burnham's CQC Environmental Suit, Replica Thompson Submachine Gun
Peter: Burnham's CQC Environmental Suit, Replica Thompson Submachine Gun, 4 x Spiral Wave Disruptor Beam Arrays, Terran Dis DHC, CC cosole, CC Turret, Dis Quad Cannons
V’Nah: Burnham's CQC Environmental Suit, Replica Thompson Submachine Gun, 4 x Spiral Wave Disruptor Dual Cannons, Spiral Wave Turret, BIC, hyper cap shield
First: Burnham's CQC Environmental Suit, Lorca's Custom Fire Controls, Discovery Rep Shield, Discovery Rep Warp Core
Thanks to the recent Phoenix event and the Upgrade conditions it was not costly (and I have countelss phoenix upgraders left over) but it still took some time to do including re-rolls on the weapons.
Think after 3 hours I collapsed to bed and will use the rest of the weekend to earn some EC.
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Your list looks very similar to mine.. a lot of EV suits and Thompson Submachine Guns.
I also did some Omega sets for BoFFS.
Most costly was probably taking all my advanced phasers on my Discoprise to Mark XV Epic.. but it was worth it.
Yea, very rare guns to upgrade especially in larger quantities feels like the toughest job at that front.
I used the ultimates I had for this task here but all in all doing it now with phoenix is the way to go.
Rest assured they are best call to make for phaser beams.
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Now need to do several weapons and shield systems
- elite fleet phasers for shield tank build with phaser vulnerability locators
- a bunch of reputation shields to test out and more rep gear
- dyson rep 4-piece space set
- got a whole bunch of consoles to epic to squeeze out the ShHP, EPG, CrtH, and Dmg res since the tiny differences add up
If only Roms would have received more ships back in the day as now, I'd probably have the Rom Sci as a main, but it was rough with only the Ha'nom and Dysons for the longest time.
With all factions getting access to the very first warbird, I do wonder if over time all warbirds will become available except those faction-unique. This game's just really punishing having to select which character to unlock char-bound ships and their starship traits and consoles to.
My Romulan is actually a Sci and while I got other ships too I use a LOT the sci multi mission tactical warbird
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.'
Obvs I didn't spend a lot on Phoenix boxes, but even then I was able get shy of 200 Phoenix tech upgrades.