Storming the Spire's Rewards are too Low

hasukurobi

I have been playing a lot of Dyson missions in order to grind up the massive marks needed for the gear and trying to get the implants and I have found a notable issue with this mission.

When doing Storming the Spire (Elite) the rewards in terms of marks is usually around 20~30 at best. That is pathetic. Even normal runs of STF's (not Elite) give that much and any Elite STF will grant far more. Moreover, Elite STF's can be done far faster than this lengthy mission. So you have to do a LOT of work and get you get pretty much nothing in return. You would be better off taking several of those near worthless Dyson Sphere Space mini-missions and just pounding through them.

Now I will admit it could be due to the fact that the Voth to Allied troop count is almost ALWAYS horrible but frankly this cannot really be helped in a normal PUG Que. Even with organization you start off the mission way behind the Voth, the Voth use a lot of annoying disabling and time consuming tactics, and the CONSTANT swarms of... well... Swarmers that ONLY seem to attack us (how does that make sense?) make it altogether worse. So inevitably you will end up with a poor ratio. Even if you keep it somewhat good though and kill the Dreadnaught and stop many shuttles you still are lucky to see 30 marks. Far too low.

doffingcomrade

The Mark rewards were set early in the Tribble cycle when Voth Marks were essentially twice the value of other marks as everything cost half as many marks.

When costs became the same as everything else, markwise, these rewards were never changed, and those missions are thus badly paying, worthless TRIBBLE that you shouldn't bother playing.

tenkari

your best bets are to play breach elite, and just do the ground battlezone in between timer resets for breach. breach elite gives about 70.

umaeko

I quite agree that Storming the Spire 'underpays' for doing it.

The only instance where I'd do it is to get marks while Breach Elite is on timer. Moreover, just flying around the Battlezone doing missions would likely yield more marks for me at that.

john98837

Storming the spire is just a terrible concept, not to mention the terrible pay out. Doesn't matter how good you or your team is, your still stuck sitting there for 15 minutes waiting on it to play itself out. Its just a long, boring, and low paying queue that should be avoided. Breach isn't bad and pays well, ground is by far the best paying.

tareruntalion

don't even bother with the two space queues, they are long and boring and they give nothing, go to the battlezone gear 2 of your boffs well with omega ground sets, find a good instance and you can get if lucky 8k dil and about 500 marks in an hour and it is way more fun and challenging

rickdias5500

No , you are reward by your performance. When you let the transports get killed ,when you let the Voth get on the station ,when you let the little transports get away. You get less. Like most things now in this game. it degrades in to a "face rub on keyboard for reward" action time and time again.

hasukurobi

rickdias5500 wrote: »

No , you are reward by your performance. When you let the transports get killed ,when you let the Voth get on the station ,when you let the little transports get away. You get less. Like most things now in this game. it degrades in to a "face rub on keyboard for reward" action time and time again.

The problem here is that you are behind the 8 ball from the start and there are too few players to effectively cover both sides the entire time with all the annoying interference between the Voth and the Endless Swarmers. Add to that the fact that many ships get stuck on the structure or bug out and that people cannot work as a team to save their life in a PUG and well... You spend 15 minutes+ for next to nothing.

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fraghul2000

john98837 wrote: »

Storming the spire is just a terrible concept, not to mention the terrible pay out. Doesn't matter how good you or your team is, your still stuck sitting there for 15 minutes waiting on it to play itself out. Its just a long, boring, and low paying queue that should be avoided. Breach isn't bad and pays well, ground is by far the best paying.

That's the problem.

Besides the time-issue, the event doesn't reward performance. You can just have the whole group sit afk for the entire mission and you'll still get the implant, the commendation and almost the same amount of marks than if you were to beat it by a large margin and complete both objectives.

wolverine595959

The Dyson rep has two mark missions one that takes a commendation and the other that takes what twenty marks. TO grind rep you only have to do the spire once a day and you have enough for the rep mission that day. IF you really want to grind marks go dino hunting.