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the pve ques are not very consistent, not much variety there either
the lag has been tough on them, some of that was fixed but it seems back a little with risa
anyone have any ideas for leveling ship mastery, for the traits generally
some patrol that works well or something?
the lag has been tough on them, some of that was fixed but it seems back a little with risa
anyone have any ideas for leveling ship mastery, for the traits generally
some patrol that works well or something?
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Also, Borg & Tholian Red Alerts are pretty good since those are XP Boost Zones.
The regular missions take too damn long. The queues are actually quite horrible for leveling your ships.
I mastered my ships by not paying attention to mastery, and enjoying having new ships. In battlezones, mostly. No hassle, lots of targets to attack. They were unlocked before I knew it.
Both are target rich environments where you can blast enemies for as long as your trigger finger can stand, before pulling back to some restful spot to park up while you visit the head, grab a drink from the replicator, and assign some duty officers to mundane tasks.
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^- Best way I've found to level up ships quickly. Get some dilithium and marks to boot along with whatever loot you can get. It's a little bit of everything really. I'm partial to the Undine space area since there tends to be enough people in the area in general to spawn more enemies.
That's fine if you're working on a ship the character is reasonably well set up for, but if I'm, for example, trying to get through the Kobali cruiser on characters built for cannon escorts, that is something I want to get over with as fast as possible.
For me I find that Tholian red alerts are best. Argala is also quite good. Then there are other patrols like Tau Dewa.
Borg red alerts are very very hit or miss since they were nerfed, and I don't bother if I don't get in at 0/4. It is really frustrating to jump in one and see it is filled with 15 people beating on B'ger who dies before you fire a shot or can warp out, and you now have half an hour of time out despite getting nothing.
They changed it to a 30 min cooldown between runs, so what I do is fight the first 4 waves then warp out before finishing off the flagship.
If you do that, you can just run it over and over again. I usually just do that to level my ships. Red Alerts and things works, but they're sporadic and can be hard to find.
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I'm sure your DPS is great, but as Kahless said, "a petaQ with high system mastery is still a petaQ." (Well, he should have said it...!)
I understand where you are coming from, but depending on playstyle, personality, preference, etc - not every ship is going to be all that fun for any given person. Sometimes, when leveling up for a ship trait it's just ok, or surprising fun, or a real drag because for some weird reason I'm not enjoying the ship.
so in the cases when it's a drag, perhaps because I don't have the gear to make the ship work well or whatever, I'd rather it go quickly
I understand that too. My "younger" Romulan character flew D'Khellra for a while just for the mastery, and it was a bit of a drag: slow, sluggish, and cumbersome. Something, that the character the ship was bought for and build for doesn't experience.
Still, I tried to have some fun, or I'd go crazy
Curiously, does anyone know how many XP it takes total to level up to Mastery on any given ship? Does it vary depending on the ship or is it X amount regardless?
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After I set it up, I went to Tau Dewa to shake down the build and see how it performed. I ran the 6 systems that spawn 5 groups of one enemy. While I was doing the circuit, a Tholian and a Borg Red Alert both spawned, so I did those. I got my a$$ kicked by the Tholians, so I made a few changes and moved on.
Then I went to the Solanea Sphere and ran the Supply Depot Daily (Just for the Marks) and then popped into an Undine Battlezone. The instance I got into had only one point captured and had 10 people in it, so it must have just started. I ran the entire mission right through the Voth Fleet attack at the end (now I have so many Isomorphic Injections you'd think my character was a junkie...
When I was done that, I ran Argala for the marks and then the last 2 Kobali missions also for the marks. The last one doesn't help your ship any, but that is my usual circuit to get marks and dil.
When I was done about 2.5 hours later, my brand spanking new T6 was already at Mastery level 4 and about 1/3 of the way to level 5. And I got the build nicely tuned.
Don't know if that would work for you, but it's a place to start
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Yep, this is what I do. Quick and easy.
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How do you set set up a solo run of that?