Where does it end?

cruisin1500

Is there a plan for the upgrades and 'loot' in this game? It seems to me as though 80% of the items in the game are not even used by players.

So as keep getting reputation systems, and expansions and more gear and fancy powers, all the rest of stuff just get left behind...seems like the game is full of a whole bunch of junk which is no longer necessary.

I am sure something will come along which will give better gear than the fleet system and the fleet system will then be obsolete.

I'm just wondering if cryptic has a plan to make gear be a more horizontal progression (vary things) rather than vertical progression as time goes by.

ashkrik23

It's common in every MMO for only a few specific items to be the most-used while everything gets tossed into the trash bin.

o0kami87

Don't know when it ends but you are right on items and gear becoming obsolete quickly in this game. I'd like to see that at the lest, slowed down. Further more why not give a purpose to the obsolete gear, like a crafting mechanism where the old gear is needed to make the new gear. I've proposed this for things such as using the Mk X Omega gear to craft Mk XI and using Mk XI to craft Mk XII to lower the resource demand of getting each tier set when once you have the higher stated set the lower grade is more or less vender trash.

coupaholic

o0kami87 wrote: »

Don't know when it ends but you are right on items and gear becoming obsolete quickly in this game. I'd like to see that at the lest, slowed down. Further more why not give a purpose to the obsolete gear, like a crafting mechanism where the old gear is needed to make the new gear. I've proposed this for things such as using the Mk X Omega gear to craft Mk XI and using Mk XI to craft Mk XII to lower the resource demand of getting each tier set when once you have the higher stated set the lower grade is more or less vender trash.

That looks like a great crafting system to me.

The one mechanism where you can trade in lower mk gear to save resources on higher mk versions, and perhaps another where you can trade in vendor trash toward making new items.

Like for example trading in 10 uncommon mk xi shields will give you a randomised rare mk xi shield. 10 batteries of a certain type to get those large batteries that only drop in STF's. That sort of idea.

o0kami87

coupaholic wrote: »

That looks like a great crafting system to me.

The one mechanism where you can trade in lower mk gear to save resources on higher mk versions, and perhaps another where you can trade in vendor trash toward making new items.

Like for example trading in 10 uncommon mk xi shields will give you a randomised rare mk xi shield. 10 batteries of a certain type to get those large batteries that only drop in STF's. That sort of idea.

Yeah, the only issue I can see off hand is it would make about 4 different crafting systems in the game.
1. Faction/career specific
2. Standard
3. Rep craft
4. Fleet craft
The idea came to me when they Dyson Rep was on tribble, lot of people like getting Mk XII right off the bat but personally I don't like waiting till t5 to finish a set. I rather get a lower grade of a set now and upgrade it as I go.

mikefl

o0kami87 wrote: »

Don't know when it ends but you are right on items and gear becoming obsolete quickly in this game. I'd like to see that at the lest, slowed down. Further more why not give a purpose to the obsolete gear, like a crafting mechanism where the old gear is needed to make the new gear. I've proposed this for things such as using the Mk X Omega gear to craft Mk XI and using Mk XI to craft Mk XII to lower the resource demand of getting each tier set when once you have the higher stated set the lower grade is more or less vender trash.

I suspect that if there is a level cap increase in the works that this is also in the works. I think when they raise the cap they will have ways to upgrade your gear. They have done this on previous ocassions, most recently with the Nukara gear/rep. I don't see an end to new stuff as this is how they make money and keep the value of dilithium alive and well which in turn sells more zen. As previous posters have mentioned, mmos live to make new and better things and if they didn't then what would be the point in the grind?

hanover

I don't mind the vendor trash loot drops. Helps me resist the temptation to actually buy equipment before I max out my rank, and is a steady source of EC afterwards. *shrug*

I would like to see some of the less-popular equipment sets awarded for "episode" missions offered to lower ranks.