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khazlol
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all other guides i find requires fleet weapons and Tier 5 rep rewards ><
need to gear my ship a bit before i hit the pve queues
no idea what to get, but i assume i get can most of it off exchange.
need to gear my ship a bit before i hit the pve queues
no idea what to get, but i assume i get can most of it off exchange.
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Eh, save your money. Repeat some missions. For example do the misison over and over to get a set of the blue XI quality plasma/disruptor cannons. Kill some random stuff to loot some tac consoles for the damage type. Use the panateric shield reward or do the big ugly orange mission to get the solanae purple shield etc set. Jem h mission set is also still nice to start out.
There is an entire thread on free gear and where to get it somewhere, so take a look, farm the missions for the gear, supplement with a couple of exchange purchases. Then start working on rep and fleet stuff
Don't get suckered into buying purple rubbish for millions a pop. A few purple weapons and gear are cheap but mostly it is overpriced. I can fill my bags daily with purple junk just doing crystal over and over (taking first of course) and people do pay hundreds of thousands for that stuff, but the why escapes me. Its not worth a bunch of money.... use blues, dont pay over 100k for anything and most of it should be 10k or less.
Start your rep grinds NOW. They reward gear! Do normal STFs if elites are too much.
http://hilbertguide.com/#PvEscort
IIRC all of the alternate equipment listed in the guide can be obtained from missions. You can replay missions as you level up to get higher levels of the gear. A full list can be found on the wiki
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Episode_replay
I wouldn't bother with the exchange at all. By the time you're at level 50 you will have completed the old FE series that have a couple of different sets of gear, plus the gear from missions will easily get you a build you could take into ESTFs and other qued missions.
with all of the different cannons available in the game right now why would the guide recommend a FAW spamming beamscort for PVE?
I think those links are all years old, useful but dated.
2013-12-30: updated sections for the Escort and PVEscort builds
looks like it was updated only 5 months ago at this point, so still "relevant" even if it's not S9 info... it's not a "bad" arrangement(it's one of the few ships I recommend for a beamscort) I just don't understand suggesting that to new players
im not in any fleet because i sometimes cant play for a long time and then i get kicked for inactivity
then to get the most out of the wing cannon, load up on all phaser enhancing tac consoles, and make sure all energy weapons are phasers. since anything that boosts phaser damage also boosts the wing cannons. if you got the patience, you can dil grind a set of Mk XI andorian phasers, so all your weapons will match in color.
To get consistent gear (matching items) you would want to get stuff from the Exchange, for this you need Energy Credits (EC). To get EC, you sell all the drops you don't want on the Exchange by selling them a little lower that what other items are being sold for.
Some Episode Replay (http://sto.gamepedia.com/Episode_replay) rewards can get you a good amount of EC on the Exchange.
The Omega reputation system will get you some good end-game Shields, Deflector and Impulse engines. To get those you need to do anything that gets Choice of Marks or Omega Marks, work the reputation up the levels and eventually be able to get the stuff from the Omega store/projects. At level 45(?) you can start doing STFs, even just Normal ones, to earn Omega Marks.
SCE ADVISORY NOTICE: Improper Impulse Engine maintenance can result in REAR THRUSTER LEAKAGE. ALWAYS have your work inspected by another qualified officer.
As has been said the guide is a little old. I've used the PvE build for my romulan alts and done pretty well. If you want to do cannons it's not that hard to switch things around and get a good build together.
The OP was looking for a solid PvE build to do qued content. I'm assuming they mean reputation missions. The guide maybe a little dated- and not updated for season 9- but it's still a good foundation.
Feel free to pop into the "tenforwardforum" chat (no quotes) in game. They are an awesome group of casual players who welcome anyone to their fleet. If you don't login for a couple of years, you don't have to worry about your characters being kicked out of their fleets. You can usually find JC in the chat along with many others.
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