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Why does it take so long to heal ground shields/health?
jkwrangler2010
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When doing the endeavors, I hate it when "heal shields ground" or "heal health ground" pops up. I'll go to Nimbus, make my away team stay at one location and then make my way towards the crashed ship where all the baddies are. I'll trigger the baddies to make them fire at me and then pop a shield or health generator. While I can easily take damage, it takes forever for the health/shield to regen numbers to fill the endeavor. You would think that if you're being fired upon by three to four enemies, that it would only take a couple minutes for the generators to refill your progress bars. But not, it's more like "3hp, 2hp, 5hp, 1hp, 4hp". I'm not talking about the health/shield bars themselves being filled, I mean enough being counted for the endeavor. Really annoying.
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But when doing the mission Cutting the Cord, it only took me several minutes to fill up a 3-star shield repair endeavour (18,000 shields) using one of the fires in the final ground portion and only the innate shield heal every Engineer gets. The endeavour counter went up by 100-150hp each second and continued to rise even after my shields had fully repaired.
Health should be just almost fast in Cutting the Cord, though I haven't tried it yet.
Using the mission "Home" for that or Nukara in the acid pool. Just what is the most convenient at the time.
The last time the "shield heal (ground)" was in the biggest slot I went through the mushroom network followed by three and a half cycles of the dyson ground battlezone before it was checked off (the second highest endeavor was "kill voth (ground)" and the minor one was "kill undine ships" which made the sphere the obvious choice or I would have tried the nukara acid route, though going that long in solanae did result in a tidy sum of dilithium so it was not all wasted time).
On a sci, I'll stand in the acid and pop nanite health monitor and any other heals I have handy for health.
I did health on a tac by taking a bunch of large hypos, taking his shield off and going after tholians on Nukara. When he was done with a group, pop one and onto the next group. Didn't take too awful long that way.
Its a bit faster than just jumping off the upper level on ESD and hittting Med Tricorder, but still takes a bit of time.
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That's why I take off my shields on Nukara when I'm going for health healing. The tholians don't do that much damage unless they gang up on you.
You'd like that wouldn't you?
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That's pointless hyperbole.
Lets be real here. Any other do x damage or kill x or heal x in space endeavor can be done in one STF or combat heavy mission, typically. The shields and health dynamic on the ground, though, completely preclude that from being possible in my experience.
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This is what I do. When it's shield/health, just take an engi to Nukara and stand in the acid with healing/shield fabs and pop shield recharge.
for straight health I take off my shield altogether so health drops faster.
This is what I always do as well with my ENG/SCI. Or you can always use a pass token if you have one of those.
I have plenty of pass tokens, I just don't see the need to pass on healing ground health or shields when it's stupid easy to do on Nukara.
I generally pass on doing two or three TFOs in the same Endeavor, depending on what they are. Others are according to how I feel on that particular day. Most of the time I try not to pass any up. Which means I have quite a lot of tokens.
Thing is, the more endgamey your toon is, the more damage and quick kills he gets, increasing the speed of getting those endeavors. At the same time, your damage resistance and similar increase, reducing the damage you get and thus your healing opportunities in normal gameplay. Also, in space almost everybody has some kind of heals at the ensign levels, which you can just pop now end then even if not really needed, while competition for abilities on ground is much tougher - 5 modules and your innate abilities. I normally don't use them for heals, since there's so much more that can be done.
This is IMO an intrinsic property of how advancing in abilities and gear will affect this, but no need to change anything, after all, they should be endeavors, not log-in bonuses, although they sometimes tend to be. After all, they're intended to make you do stuff you normally don't do, change builds and/or played content.
I still get pretty good results during normal gameplay though just with my boffs. Shield recharge on an ENG or Medical Tricorder on a SCI, play a mission with prolongued ground combat, and the bar will will. Leaving boffs behind as the OP did IMO doesn't help.