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Exploration Missions - ready for grind?

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited February 2010 in Feature Episodes, Events and PvE Content
Just a question:

I used to get 75 1st order badges per exploration mission run and 1 item was equal to 77 badges. Now I am doing 2nd order badges, each run still yields you 75 badges but a single item now takes 225 badges.... Why such a gap? Game starts to feel like a grind... As more repetitve game play becomes as more grind like it feels... :confused:
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Isn't that standard for high end loot?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    You don't like beam down, press FFFFF and beam up 15 times in order to get a crappy green stuff ? Are you kidding ? Those missions are the product of the ALMIGHTY Genesis system. You MUST love them.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    No it depends on what your buying. Some items are still 77 badges, like consoles, weps, etc..
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Maybe its the same mistake as T4 bigger than T5 cruiser turn rate is higher and they haven't adjusted it properly...

    3rd and 4th order badges equal items require 225 as well. If it was true about high end loot it would go up starting at 77 for 1st Order then say 150 for 2nd and 225 for 3rd and up. But they all cost 225 starting with 2nd order badges. Or Cryptic just decided to stall us on getting better equipment? Wouldn't be a surprise. Every MMO does that... But then again i am not seeying the pattern here. Or there is not supposed to be a pattern. Maybe they forgot to increase exploration mission reward from 75 2nd order badges to like 100 or something... Oh well, its still doable I guess we just need to grind a bit. After all on the long run is not that bad. Takes about 10-15 hours of game time to grind enough badges to get every item from there. Crafting would be even more boring imho.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Actually for weapons (and I thiink consoles) it goes the other way, t1 requires 77 and t5 requires ~60

    still get 75 per mission.

    Never bought a shield through there
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