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hydraface
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Hello again all
I want to boost some items and want to use the Tech Upgrade system to do so. What I find hard to find are the accelerator components. What is the most efficient way to acquire these bits, as well as the other (ideally top-of-the-line) tech upgrade components?
The upgrade system's here, may as well embrace it!
Any advice is appreciated, thanks.
I want to boost some items and want to use the Tech Upgrade system to do so. What I find hard to find are the accelerator components. What is the most efficient way to acquire these bits, as well as the other (ideally top-of-the-line) tech upgrade components?
The upgrade system's here, may as well embrace it!
Any advice is appreciated, thanks.
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Accelerators are tied to R&D boxes in the Zen store.
Even if it is completely broken?? seriously guys. I will never understand why people complain in these forums about bugged released content, if you guys cant even wait until it is fixed. Sometimes i think all of these guys are 10 years old kids lol. And i am not calling kid to anyone but it is the behaviour i see most of the times (dont get me wrong, i wish i was again 10 years old LOL).
er......because its not completely broken.
Parts of it, the vast majority of it actually, works just fine.
Is it perfect? Far from it, but its not completely broken.
A system that is not 100% working as intended is a broken system. Period.
So, you must be another one that think the loadout system is working as well. Right?
I will never be surprised about the lack of quality control STO has. Not with players like you lol. Seriously.
A LOT of items still cant be upgraded, others will be upgraded with wrong procs or stats, others will dissapear. So, in your words, "works just fine". And people wonder why this game is worst day after day lol.
Been seeing them drop in Crystal Catastrophe [Elite], on occasion, as well.
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Crafting level 10 tech upgrades is probably the sweet spot. The level 15 superior tech upgrades are what you want to use but to make them you do have to have a considerable supply of a VR material (which can be difficult to come by without very targeted PVE grinding). With the level 10's you only need uncommon matierals which are easy to come by, in just about every part of the game besides battlezones and adventure zones, and reasonably cheap on the exchange if it comes to that. They also sell well and that's the key point.
For about half a dozen Rare Tech Upgrades sold on the exchange you can buy a Very Rare Tech upgrade and, when all is said and done, for fraction of the work.
ISE and VCE too. I think superior tech upgrades have been added to the standard loot table of a lot of PVE's.
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Bubblebafle, you might want to lower the bar a little. Its not working as intended.
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Accelerators are currently only available via the R&D Crafting box from the C-Store (Z-Store) and from the last two and this weekend's Upgrade event (only 1 major boost per toon). According to the dev blog here, http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/7005783-gear-upgrade-system, accelerators will also be rewarded in certain missions.
I'm pretty sure it isn't (unless they axed it within the last week or so.)
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At this point there's actually not that much to getting 15's. The trait and weapon project are nice and the superior upgrade project helps burn off any of a given type of VR resources you have lying around but in terms of profit the price of the more particular R+D matierals is nearing the same as the superior upgrade. When upgrades were first introduced the price difference was a LOT bigger so as a level 15 crafter you could make a lot of EC but now its only a marginal amount comapred to just selling rare and very rare resources directly.
Certainly keep those 20hr projects going, but don't make it a special effort to get a level 15. It helps, but it helped the most a couple weeks ago.
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You forget the supply will go on a nosedive once people want to get their gear to epic.
In another note, was there a thread merge I wasn't aware of done because there seem to be 2 different topics going on here at the same time, and the other one doesn't really contribute to anything.
Nope.
What you've done there is use a definition of broken, so broad, it applies to virtually everything on the planet.
And, you've smartly sidestepped my original criticism of your original comment.
You said, completely broken.
Not a bit broken, but completely.
You are quite obviously wrong in this application of hyperbole because I was able to craft a Mk XIII UR Plasma Sniper rifle from scratch.
Therefore, the system does work, at least some of the time.
So, attack me on a new front, one I've never even commented on in the fora, to distract from my criticism of your hyperbole.
You really are gaining a interesting reputation on these fora.
Interesting but not what you might call trusted.
Again with the ad hominem.
STO does have issues with quality control and I've been as vocal about that as anyone.
But I avoid hyperbole, because it undermines any credibility there is in my original position.
You may well find that you are able to convince more people, have your voice heard more clearly, if you'll avoid the ad hominem and the hyperbole.
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And yet all I have ever seen from you is ******** like a little girl. Do you ever have anything positive to say, do you even like or play STO? I cant see why you would, you seem to DISLIKE everything about it so why are you here really?
Hmm. The vendor used to sell upgrades but the store option has not been available since the first event weekend. Same thing on Romulus. I just went came back from both vendors just to make sure. Not sure about the Fed side however.
The Upgrades can be crafted or bought from vendor(whites) or exchange, and drop randomly I have had 2 purple Upgrades drop while doing Tau Dewa sector patrols in the past few days. Accelerators will be drops (After DR release?) or can be aquired from Csrore boxes.
It's still around. I never do it because how many of those do you need?
Only once was I ever guaranteed to get the Tech Upgrade, because it dropped when I was doing a Foundry mission. This only occurred once out of over 40 foundry missions; I play these missions on a regular basis.
Its good ec for a doff mission when you vendor the torp. Critting a marauder raid gives more, so would the contraband missions, but its not a bad one by any stretch.