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Leveling Guide: How to Get to the "Fun" Levels Fast!

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited September 2023 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
This probably has to do with how much exploration I did in Open Beta. It took me about 20 hours to reach LtCmdr - mostly due to exploring as much of the map as possible.

For those who don't know, space and ground combat start picking up at that point. The game shines from level 11 (Lt Commander 1) and onward. I can only imagine what the upper echelons are like.

I'm not terribly looking forward to grinding back up to LtCmdr. and anything to expedite the process would be great (aside from those dubious services you see floating around).

My questions to the community are two fold:

1) Has anyone started writing a guide?

2) Does anyone feel similarly about the Lt. rank?
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Darren_Kitlor wrote:
    This probably has to do with how much exploration I did in Open Beta. It took me about 20 hours to reach LtCmdr.

    For those who don't know, space and ground combat start picking up at that point. The game shines from level 11 (Lt Commander 1) and onward. I can only imagine what the upper echelons are like.

    My questions to the community are two fold:

    1) Has anyone started writing a guide?

    2) Does anyone feel similarly about the Lt. rank?

    I must agree that the game picks up at this point, and I've been really enjoying it since.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Dont bother with quickness in this game.. There isnt much for you once you hit Rear Admiral
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    And it took you 20 hours to get to 11? That is extremely slow, I hit 11 within the first 3 hours of playing.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    MLEdelen wrote: »
    And it took you 20 hours to get to 11? That is extremely slow, I hit 11 within the first 3 hours of playing.

    I think i smell... yep that's Bull**** alright!

    3 hours of play? what did you do find cheat codes or what?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    jonnyd84 wrote: »
    I think i smell... yep that's Bull**** alright!

    3 hours of play? what did you do find cheat codes or what?

    Exploit fleet action perhaps?!?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    jonnyd84 wrote: »
    I think i smell... yep that's Bull**** alright!

    3 hours of play? what did you do find cheat codes or what?

    Heh - no. It's possible.

    Not for me, mind you. I am still a LT lvl 8 and solo most of my missions. Get a team of 3-4 or 4-5 and go balls to the wall for 3-4 hours and you CAN make lvl 11+. Especially in the PVP zones.

    But I don’t like to powergrind. I like to take my time and enjoy the missions….

    As for Vash achieving Admiral rank. Woot! Good for you. Now do the same with Klingon and you’ll be set for PvP no matter what! LOL

    And yes, a strategy guide would be great. Especially if it details power trees, etc. for all three base classes (Tactical/Science/Engineering)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Ghartan wrote:
    Exploit fleet action perhaps?!?


    And this, of course....
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I just like taking my time and actually getting to enjoy and play the game rather than rushing past everything and not enjoying it. Has anyone noticed that the only people that are really complaining the most are the power levelers? they just rush through and say, "Well i beat the game, might aswell ***** about how fast i got there and how dissapointing it was to get here this fast." Go play EVE or go back to WOW.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Darren_Kitlor wrote:
    My questions to the community are two fold:

    1) Has anyone started writing a guide?

    I read some guide called sto mastery (http://www.stomastery.com/) but it didn't go into too much detail about leveling. I'd definitely like to see one though as I'm a slow leveler ;) Maybe someone of higher level wishes to share some insight?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Someone mentioned it before and its what I did to get through Lt Commander.

    Hit up the Defend missions and keep changing instances till you find one over half done. Kill off the easy targets, those that have one hard one or 2-3 easy targets till done. Find another instance with over half done. Rinse and repeat. Or get 4 friends together to pound out DSE together.

    Not sure on the PvP leveling since the queue is always to long for me.
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