Most of my toons have at least M12 Maco gear from before - except for the engine - I always used Borg and often used Just MACO M12 shield and borg eng and deflector + assimilated before that was nerfed("re-assigned")
So is there any point for doing PVE to upgrade to any new stuff? I mean I can take purple shield/eng/deflector right of the exchange - not a set like Aegies - and do just fine in ESTF
I might get popped once in ever 2 infecteds with that gear let alone the old maco M12
My new toons I will get it - just wondering about the old ones that are already equiped.
There is the aesthetic appeal with the Mk XII STF ground sets, but if you are talking about the adapted MACO space set, then it all depends on if you need the Honor Guard set on one of your characters. If you like the setup, then there is no need to change it. Just log on to tribble and visit the reputation vendor at DS9, test out the sets you are interested in and decide for yourself. Personally, it is not worth it to go for the Mk XII space sets since it provides only slightly better stats over the Mk X and Mk XI.
There is the aesthetic appeal with the Mk XII STF ground sets, but if you are talking about the adapted MACO space set, then it all depends on if you need the Honor Guard set on one of your characters. If you like the setup, then there is no need to change it. Just log on to tribble and visit the reputation vendor at DS9, test out the sets you are interested in and decide for yourself. Personally, it is not worth it to go for the Mk XII space sets since it provides only slightly better stats over the Mk X and Mk XI.
I have all the old Mk XII Maco space sets - so the adapted is all that is new? So basically if I want 25% torp dmg then that is the only reason?
The only new things with Omega Reputation is the Cutting Beam, Omega Torpedo, and Adapted sets. The Adapted MACO ground set is better than the Adapted Honor Guard ground set since the Adapted MACO ground set looks the same as the holographic guards from that Facility 4028 mission except its white with blue glow instead of black with orange glow and no laser coming out of the helmet.
If the new space gear is any better than the old MACO I don't see it. The new stuff is marginally better at best and certainly not worth the price of "upgrading". I was hoping that the new rep stuff was going to be a step up, but the rep system appears to be just a new way to get the old stuff which has undergone minor reworking.
The Adapted Maco XII sets are just the former KDF counterparts, they are not better, just different.
Most interesting is the Adapted Maco rifle for ground combat, and if you want the visuals (of course you want the visuals!) you need the complete set + costume unlock project.
What i noticed is that the Maco XII has a shield heal and the Adapted Maco has a Health heal instead + higher Shield cap. Should be better for most Chars but my Medic Tank actually likes the shield heal better because he has enough Health heals already anyway, one more doesn't make a difference if the shields are down all the time...
but on my Tacs and Engis i guess i will rather go with the adapted set.
And i think i've read that Borticus wants to change the Adapted Maco Pulswave to the Phaser damage type (currently damage is disruptor, but FX is phaser-orange), but then the Maco Sniper and Adapted Maco Pulswave would be the same damage type wich is not good vs. Borg, not sure if that will happen but i don't expect it to stay as useful as it is.
The Mk XII Borg Space Set... has slightly better stats, the old ones got converted to XI, i guess i will update one or two ships to it that use the full set. When i'm bored enough to bother...
The engine alone does not seem to have any differences in stats between Mk X XI and XII, on most chars i just use it for the sector space speed anyway...
don't care about deflectors, never understood the odd skills from them anyway, i just use it to complete the sets... so if i don't use the Borg shield there is no reason to update the other 2 set items on their own for me either i guess (unless the 2 set bonus is better at XII ?... i dont know).... bleh
What i noticed is that the Maco XII has a shield heal and the Adapted Maco has a Health heal instead + higher Shield cap. Should be better for most Chars but my Medic Tank actually likes the shield heal better because he has enough Health heals already anyway, one more doesn't make a difference if the shields are down all the time...
but on my Tacs and Engis i guess i will rather go with the adapted set.
Sort of - it is a heal but the main benefit is +40% melee damage - my KDF Sci/Tank uses it all the time for tanking Armek etc. and it's a really good power to have if you melee.
The Adapted Maco Shotgun is a de-facto grenade launcher. As far as I'm concerned it's required equipment for anyone fighting borg.
Just a shame it shares CD with the Tac grenade powers - if you use the shotgun it pretty much renders the Grenade Satchel kit useless (which is a shame because plasma grenades are really useful).
My primary issue is with space sets as I hardly do any ground. I was looking at some of the romulan stuff - 500 romulan marks - ouch I must be doing something wrong as I can get thousands of Omega marks pretty quickly but Romulan marks is like pulling teeth - when the winter epohh doff thing is done it will be a nightmare - 18 marks for running Azura nebual rescue during bonus hour with some going to a few fleet marks?? You got to be kidding me - who do you get 500 marks for all these weapons and things?
My primary issue is with space sets as I hardly do any ground. I was looking at some of the romulan stuff - 500 romulan marks - ouch I must be doing something wrong as I can get thousands of Omega marks pretty quickly but Romulan marks is like pulling teeth - when the winter epohh doff thing is done it will be a nightmare - 18 marks for running Azura nebual rescue during bonus hour with some going to a few fleet marks?? You got to be kidding me - who do you get 500 marks for all these weapons and things?
I've been breeding Epohhs since day 1 of the winter event. I've been able to finish Tier 5 and got the Zero Point conduit and unlocked all of the Mark12 space and ground weapons and still have 3k Romulan Marks left. It helps that you get 750 marks for finishing Tier 5. I'm considering maybe getting the torpedo launcher to compare it to the Omega one, but it's very unlikely I'll use all of those marks.
Anyone that started playing late or started the event late has my sympathies. Romulan marks are a bit of a pain to get without those epohhs. But anyone who's been playing during this event and ignored breeding the epohhs of their own free will, well kinda your fault.
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Other than a new costume, i find the new assimulated maco to be very unoriginal and show the devs have no originality other than to make it a clone of the kdf sets. If the same holds true for the kdf honor guard assimulated set than what a waste of time and money for nothing more than a fancy uniform.
I prefer the look of the Adapted MACO over the MACO look. I prefer the look of the Adapted Honor Guard Weapon over the Honor Guard Weapon. If the Adapted Honor Guard had the look of the KDF Photonic Tactical Bridge Officer with those spikes, then it would be cool, but it is meh. The main point of the adapted sets is that people can get sets that were previously only available for the other faction. The look is merely secondary.
There Adapted MACO is just the Klingon Honor guard set for the federation. There is NOTHING new about it. I am not surprised the DEVS did this, no originality whatsoever.
The only thing i see added that is "new" is the Omega Torpedo (garbage) and the Romulan Hyper plasma Torpedo (not to bad), along with the romulan console set including plasma beam and the omega cutting beam.
Now as far as the "new" Romulan Space set, it is an almost exact clone of the Reman set that has been in the game forever!! Its old and outdated with no sector transwarp bonus. The stats on both set are THE SAME (except for the minor stat change on the engines of both sets), even the set bonuses are the damn same.
These dev's obviously do not have the ability to create anything new....very disappointing to me . Ive actually started playing star wars TOR f2p again...and i hate that game.
I really was hoping that when i spent all that time and resources to reach tier 5 and after staring at countdown timers for weeks on end that the this new Adapted MACO and Romulan space set was going to be something new and original..I was so sad when I saw that the Adapted MACO was nothing more than a clone of the KDF Honor Guard set and the Romulan set was a re colored version of the Reman gear (that sucks anyways)...Good one PWE, u got me.
I am really worried they are going to add more to this worthless reputation in the future and when they do, I will be gone permanently. I do not like sinking resources into these stupid projects, spending tons of dil, XP and expensive commodities to buy gear that I was able to obtain with luck and STF farming in season 6....if anything they made it more difficult, and we actually have to PAY for these drops we used to get for free from simply spending our time doing STF's!!!
I have all the old Mk XII Maco space sets - so the adapted is all that is new? So basically if I want 25% torp dmg then that is the only reason?
Unfortunately I have to agree. Dev's sought to change Maco and Omega gears and for what? So we can get new toys?? No no no no no. . Wrong direction as far as the space set goes.
I still rely on the old Borg/Maco space gear setup, with a large difference now however since they now use the "Universal Borg Console" for the Omega set, now I can no longer use the Borg Engines and Universal Console as I once did. Now it's 2 parts Borg IE; Deflector and Engines, and pre S7 Maco Shield.
I don't know why they decided to make the Maco/Omega shields Fed side Covariant, I like the Resilient allot better, over all the old Maco/Omega gears are still better in most respects space wise anyway.
I am going to keep my opinions of S7 to myself as most of you have probably already heard too much of the negative about it. Still the new Maco/Omega space sets are joke, and they just keep piling trash on top of trash :rolleyes:.
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I have all the old Mk XII Maco space sets - so the adapted is all that is new? So basically if I want 25% torp dmg then that is the only reason?
Most interesting is the Adapted Maco rifle for ground combat, and if you want the visuals (of course you want the visuals!) you need the complete set + costume unlock project.
What i noticed is that the Maco XII has a shield heal and the Adapted Maco has a Health heal instead + higher Shield cap. Should be better for most Chars but my Medic Tank actually likes the shield heal better because he has enough Health heals already anyway, one more doesn't make a difference if the shields are down all the time...
but on my Tacs and Engis i guess i will rather go with the adapted set.
And i think i've read that Borticus wants to change the Adapted Maco Pulswave to the Phaser damage type (currently damage is disruptor, but FX is phaser-orange), but then the Maco Sniper and Adapted Maco Pulswave would be the same damage type wich is not good vs. Borg, not sure if that will happen but i don't expect it to stay as useful as it is.
The Mk XII Borg Space Set... has slightly better stats, the old ones got converted to XI, i guess i will update one or two ships to it that use the full set. When i'm bored enough to bother...
The engine alone does not seem to have any differences in stats between Mk X XI and XII, on most chars i just use it for the sector space speed anyway...
don't care about deflectors, never understood the odd skills from them anyway, i just use it to complete the sets... so if i don't use the Borg shield there is no reason to update the other 2 set items on their own for me either i guess (unless the 2 set bonus is better at XII ?... i dont know).... bleh
Sort of - it is a heal but the main benefit is +40% melee damage - my KDF Sci/Tank uses it all the time for tanking Armek etc. and it's a really good power to have if you melee.
Just a shame it shares CD with the Tac grenade powers - if you use the shotgun it pretty much renders the Grenade Satchel kit useless (which is a shame because plasma grenades are really useful).
I've been breeding Epohhs since day 1 of the winter event. I've been able to finish Tier 5 and got the Zero Point conduit and unlocked all of the Mark12 space and ground weapons and still have 3k Romulan Marks left. It helps that you get 750 marks for finishing Tier 5. I'm considering maybe getting the torpedo launcher to compare it to the Omega one, but it's very unlikely I'll use all of those marks.
Anyone that started playing late or started the event late has my sympathies. Romulan marks are a bit of a pain to get without those epohhs. But anyone who's been playing during this event and ignored breeding the epohhs of their own free will, well kinda your fault.
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The only thing i see added that is "new" is the Omega Torpedo (garbage) and the Romulan Hyper plasma Torpedo (not to bad), along with the romulan console set including plasma beam and the omega cutting beam.
Now as far as the "new" Romulan Space set, it is an almost exact clone of the Reman set that has been in the game forever!! Its old and outdated with no sector transwarp bonus. The stats on both set are THE SAME (except for the minor stat change on the engines of both sets), even the set bonuses are the damn same.
These dev's obviously do not have the ability to create anything new....very disappointing to me . Ive actually started playing star wars TOR f2p again...and i hate that game.
I really was hoping that when i spent all that time and resources to reach tier 5 and after staring at countdown timers for weeks on end that the this new Adapted MACO and Romulan space set was going to be something new and original..I was so sad when I saw that the Adapted MACO was nothing more than a clone of the KDF Honor Guard set and the Romulan set was a re colored version of the Reman gear (that sucks anyways)...Good one PWE, u got me.
I am really worried they are going to add more to this worthless reputation in the future and when they do, I will be gone permanently. I do not like sinking resources into these stupid projects, spending tons of dil, XP and expensive commodities to buy gear that I was able to obtain with luck and STF farming in season 6....if anything they made it more difficult, and we actually have to PAY for these drops we used to get for free from simply spending our time doing STF's!!!
Unfortunately I have to agree. Dev's sought to change Maco and Omega gears and for what? So we can get new toys?? No no no no no. . Wrong direction as far as the space set goes.
I still rely on the old Borg/Maco space gear setup, with a large difference now however since they now use the "Universal Borg Console" for the Omega set, now I can no longer use the Borg Engines and Universal Console as I once did. Now it's 2 parts Borg IE; Deflector and Engines, and pre S7 Maco Shield.
I don't know why they decided to make the Maco/Omega shields Fed side Covariant, I like the Resilient allot better, over all the old Maco/Omega gears are still better in most respects space wise anyway.
I am going to keep my opinions of S7 to myself as most of you have probably already heard too much of the negative about it. Still the new Maco/Omega space sets are joke, and they just keep piling trash on top of trash :rolleyes:.