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Storming the Spire's Rewards are too Low
hasukurobi
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I have been playing a lot of Dyson missions in order to grind up the massive marks needed for the gear and trying to get the implants and I have found a notable issue with this mission.
When doing Storming the Spire (Elite) the rewards in terms of marks is usually around 20~30 at best. That is pathetic. Even normal runs of STF's (not Elite) give that much and any Elite STF will grant far more. Moreover, Elite STF's can be done far faster than this lengthy mission. So you have to do a LOT of work and get you get pretty much nothing in return. You would be better off taking several of those near worthless Dyson Sphere Space mini-missions and just pounding through them.
Now I will admit it could be due to the fact that the Voth to Allied troop count is almost ALWAYS horrible but frankly this cannot really be helped in a normal PUG Que. Even with organization you start off the mission way behind the Voth, the Voth use a lot of annoying disabling and time consuming tactics, and the CONSTANT swarms of... well... Swarmers that ONLY seem to attack us (how does that make sense?) make it altogether worse. So inevitably you will end up with a poor ratio. Even if you keep it somewhat good though and kill the Dreadnaught and stop many shuttles you still are lucky to see 30 marks. Far too low.
When doing Storming the Spire (Elite) the rewards in terms of marks is usually around 20~30 at best. That is pathetic. Even normal runs of STF's (not Elite) give that much and any Elite STF will grant far more. Moreover, Elite STF's can be done far faster than this lengthy mission. So you have to do a LOT of work and get you get pretty much nothing in return. You would be better off taking several of those near worthless Dyson Sphere Space mini-missions and just pounding through them.
Now I will admit it could be due to the fact that the Voth to Allied troop count is almost ALWAYS horrible but frankly this cannot really be helped in a normal PUG Que. Even with organization you start off the mission way behind the Voth, the Voth use a lot of annoying disabling and time consuming tactics, and the CONSTANT swarms of... well... Swarmers that ONLY seem to attack us (how does that make sense?) make it altogether worse. So inevitably you will end up with a poor ratio. Even if you keep it somewhat good though and kill the Dreadnaught and stop many shuttles you still are lucky to see 30 marks. Far too low.
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When costs became the same as everything else, markwise, these rewards were never changed, and those missions are thus badly paying, worthless TRIBBLE that you shouldn't bother playing.
The only instance where I'd do it is to get marks while Breach Elite is on timer. Moreover, just flying around the Battlezone doing missions would likely yield more marks for me at that.
The problem here is that you are behind the 8 ball from the start and there are too few players to effectively cover both sides the entire time with all the annoying interference between the Voth and the Endless Swarmers. Add to that the fact that many ships get stuck on the structure or bug out and that people cannot work as a team to save their life in a PUG and well... You spend 15 minutes+ for next to nothing.
That's the problem.
Besides the time-issue, the event doesn't reward performance. You can just have the whole group sit afk for the entire mission and you'll still get the implant, the commendation and almost the same amount of marks than if you were to beat it by a large margin and complete both objectives.