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whats the end game? x1
jericho447
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i'm lvl 20 something. i'm wondering what the end game is cause what do i do after i hit max rank and do all the story missions? do i replay story missions till i get bored are there pve raids? do i farm dilithiam for zen and lockboxes?
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Then there is the Foundry which allows anyone to create new missions for others to play through. However, it might be a PC only feature that will never be available for the Xbox One. Microsoft allowed Fallout 4 mods on the Xbox One so it is possible that the more popular Foundry mission could be imported to the Xbox One.
Sadly only few do it.
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Getting space rich, playing exchange ferengi
The long/expensive quest to gold your favorite loadout
PvP if you've got a few loose screws
PVE/Battlezones with fleetmates friends.
Space Barbie and RP (if youre into that)
Accolade hunting
Visiting every system on every map
Crafting and selling high priced items
Starting an alt army to rake in resources for your main...
Zone chat troll pvp, and jokes..
Plenty to do
And don't worry about paying for an end game T6 ship, you'll get one during the upcoming winter event.
The most recent summer event freebie T6 Vorgon, is an amazing and very capable escort. You can soak a lot of DPS out of it with a f2p build.
Really wish they allowed foundry on consoles. Not creating them, just bring over the top rated ones from pc. Really kills the longevity not having them .
By the time research and crafting get added I'm sure many will have moved on
You get gear for your ship and character.
Wanna know the best part? Endgame pve is made up of many different "raids" against different types of enemies. The raids reward their own kind of reputation marks based on the enemies you fight. The marks are needed to buy gear that helps you improve your performance against each specific enemy type in each specific raid. Once you max out your reputation and get all the gear that works best for a specific raid, you have no need to do that raid ever again. The epic gear you can earn is only useful to you before you earn it.
Or try a different specialty. They do play differently, to the extent that my roommate (who plays a Tac exclusively) became confused watching me play my main (a Sci).
When you need a break, load up an alt and play another faction for a bit of a change.
The end game is way more than just STFs and Rep. There is even a difficulty setting that you can change when you rerun missions to make them more difficult, just like the levels of STFs.
Mission Replay is definitely part of it. For instance, say you want the complete Kobali Set for your ship. You have to run that mission one time for each item.
I mean essentially all of these things turns into a specific type of "grind" but from a gameplay perspective I say take them all bit by bit. Do what is fun. And don't try to do it all at once or you'll burn out. A great example is DOFFing. My main has two DOFF trees yet to complete (Trade and Recruitment). And I'm slowly working on it. I'll get there. Eventually.
I recommend finding a few people in game you like to chat with and fly around with. And I recommend finding a few activities or missions you really like doing. And that way you can log in each day and at least do that.
My rec is the Star Trek Battles channel. They're good people.
Some of the things I do are as follows:
- Play queued end game STF missions
- Play Adventure / Battlezones
- Play the Exchange from time to time to earn a bit of EC
- Use said EC to purchase upgrade accelerators; spent around 250m EC on accelerators during that past 3 weeks.
- Upgrade gear, but waiting for the Double Tech Point Bonus Weekend to get the best bang for the buck.
- Replay some of the old missions if they have gear that I would like to have. Whether for myself or to upgrade and post on the Exchange.
- Play Foundry missions (PC only) which are community created missions. Some are good, others are at best average.
- Play special events that Cryptic runs from time to time like the current Junior Duty Officer Appreciation Weekend. I received a very rare Damage Control Engineer for my AoY captain yesterday who is also an engineer.
Basically, yes. The bright side is that unlike most other MMOs, the gear you spent months grinding to get doesn't immediately become garbage and you don't have to start over every 18 months, you can upgrade what you have if you want to and still stay competitve. The upgrade system is a bit of a pain itself, but nowhere near the pain that WoW players go through every time they launch a new expansion.
Very inaccurate. For instance, the 8472 counter command ground set gives a lot of tox resistance, which is very strong on delta alliance reputation missions that feature the bugs. That's not the only overlap, there's plenty.
It's pretty much this hard to keep just one timeline intact. ♪
This is way overgeneralized and inaccurate. My Iconian space set is viable in all STF runs. My Adapt MACO set is also useful in many ground STFs, not just against the Borg. I can't think of anything I've gotten from rep that I felt like was at a dead end by the time I hit lvl5 for that rep...and I have lvl5 rep in all reputation lines.
The character storylines you have are:-
1. Fed
2. Romulan-Fed
3. TOS-Fed
4. KDF
5. Romulan-KDF.
Just when you think you have done 'everything', you will find something else hidden in the game somewhere. Despite lack of actual exploration, explore everything everywhere. You also have accolades hidden too for little 'bonuses'.
Despite this game being free to play, it still has way more content than the majority of purchased games out there!
Probably you will. But you can get cheap and buy "only" a Fleet Upgrade and then T5-U. Not quite the same, but a good ship it still will be. In the long run you will be missing out, though, since toying with boff abilities of the Intel or Temporal or Pilot kind is a lot of fun, too.
I'd say "a few million", but it shouldn't be that much of a problem to gather them. TdG, some foundry missions, opportunistic behavior at the exchange and it's yours. Or you can craft it or get it from mission or rep gear. Heck, if you play enough, you can even deck out a decent loadout by using drops alone.
First sentence is very important. Having a second (or thirty-seventh) character who may have parked and only done doffing may give you a nice surprise when you try content geared for lvl 50+ in MkIV gear. (Been there, done that, hurts). But you only need gear for four bridge officers, since you'll never take more with you, and except for a few very select circumstances it'll probably be the same four anyways. Also, drops will make you able to outfit everybody with (sooner or later) green+ MkXII gear. Reps help get the weapons on overkill, shields and armor not so much though. But there really is a lot of time for that.
The training you can get from the boff trainers is usually enough (and costs 10k for a commander ability). When you set your build you may want to improve on it by looking for the few craftables (you can craft them yourself if you were patient with R&D 6000 XP assignments), like a Grav Well III instead of Grav Well II for your Sci ships. Many will fill higher slots though, changing your build. The few "exchange only" items (basically meaning lockbox or other prices) are sometimes very nice, but expensive - and not really that necessary.