Build As You Go: Mission Rewards get you where you want to be!.. Holy massive wall of text batman! .
Anyways, this is a pretty good resource here, so post it to the general Academy section of the forums! Let more players who actually might need this see this!
Also, regarding the gear guide, I wouldn't bother too much with replaying episodes to fit our my ship everything I can fit higher marks or grind out replays for my boffs. My advice: get to 50, then replay those episodes for the gear. Then you get them at mark 11, which is the max mark level you can get from most missions.
Actually, the regrind to improve Mk Number is a vital step because you will quickly discover your Mk VII gear doesn't live up to the challenge of Mk X opponents.
However, there is another purpose in the regrind which is a kind of stealth issue: the missions alone do not reward enough exp to simply grind one's way to level 60 on a straight play-through of the missions. The additional exp earned along the way by going back to replay missions, however, eliminate that exp gap between levels 55 and 60, and allows the player to continue to follow the storyline uninterrupted by the need to grind solely for exp to get the levels one needs to begin the next mission in the story arc.
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Anyways, this is a pretty good resource here, so post it to the general Academy section of the forums! Let more players who actually might need this see this!
Also, regarding the gear guide, I wouldn't bother too much with replaying episodes to fit our my ship everything I can fit higher marks or grind out replays for my boffs. My advice: get to 50, then replay those episodes for the gear. Then you get them at mark 11, which is the max mark level you can get from most missions.
K'Nor - IKS Ch'Tang, Mat'Ha Raptor T6: http://skillplanner.stoacademy.com/?build=ikschtang_8710
However, there is another purpose in the regrind which is a kind of stealth issue: the missions alone do not reward enough exp to simply grind one's way to level 60 on a straight play-through of the missions. The additional exp earned along the way by going back to replay missions, however, eliminate that exp gap between levels 55 and 60, and allows the player to continue to follow the storyline uninterrupted by the need to grind solely for exp to get the levels one needs to begin the next mission in the story arc.