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Now that the bonus weekend is over...
daqhegh
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...how far did everyone get? With or without DIL? Was the bonus actually worthwhile? And will anyone still be crafting now without the bonus, or will you be waiting until the next R&D weekend?
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Will continue to do the 6000/day research projects, until my 8 characters have cross-pollinated multiple schools and can craft lots of stuff concurrently.
Will probably run the 1000 dil craft support missions pretty often, as those seem to drop an acceptable number of materials and components for the cost.
Will save the rest of materials and Dil for when I get to a decent level for success at crafting worthwhile stuff for use/sale. In about 3 months. Just like everyone else.
Will likely get lost in the deluge when the majority of the crafters peak, and when the leading edge have already done enough to make the items I make relatively much less profitable.
Will hope that collecting materials will not be completely in vain.
It seems the vast majority of your most active players (forum regulars) hate the idea... and while that's a small subset of the playerbase, I think it's an important constituency.
THE PLAYERS DO NOT WANT THIS.
Is it worth while, BIG NO once I noticed tier XI items (or compoents) cost dilithium it's not woth it to use as a new 50 captain booster. Worse it needs 'advanced materials' for even level X items, so I'm doubting the usefullness to new players. (Advanced queue drops for basic gear??). You get can get better XI stuff at 100% drop rate for free in game.
Some one else can rate the XI+ stuff vs fleet gear vs rep gear.
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The drop rates for the VR mats was stupidly low. I think all told I wound up getting more VR's out of the BONUS boxes than I did from the normal queue boxes. Considering you get 3 from the queue boxes and only 1 from the bonus box, it was pathetic. Needless to say, I didn't get enough of anything to craft any single component.
Plenty of commons, uncommons and rares.
I did get about half a dozen of the +10 catalysts though from running missions.
Since the only R&D XP I got was from the 20 hour projects, I wound up about where I expected. No where close enough to start reliably crafting MK XI+ gear for my level 50's.
Oh sure, I could blow a ton of EC (since I'd have to buy the VR stuff since it almost never drops for me) and Dilithium to craft a bunch of stuff, but if I'm using that amount of resources, I want a better than average chance of walking away with at least rare items. Add in that even if I got lucky enough to GET rare items, the modifiers I'd get would probably be utter junk and I'd end up putting them on the exchange. I'll just have to wait until I hit lvl 15 in the schools to even consider chancing that.
Even then, considering the Dilithium cost involved, I probably won't bother then either.
Truthfully, the only reason I'm continuing to level the crafting schools at all is that I'm holding out a shred of hope that the Devs will make the system more appealing by dumping the Dil cost and reducing or eliminating the amount of VR's needed on anything MK XI and lower and allowing specific mods to be chosen.
Yeah yeah, not likely to happen but I'm trying to remain optimistic.
And now with news of the new expansion not only raising the level cap but the GEAR cap as well (to MK XIV), I'm not going to craft ANYTHING above MK VIII until I have more information on what's coming. Waste resources now when in 2-3 months I'd probably need twice as much later to craft things for lvl 60?
Pass.
Losing faith in humanity, one person at a time.
Good grief, how many boxes did you hoard and how many queues did you run over the weekend to get 91 VR's, let alone 91 of a specific VR?
I went back through and counted all my VR's on all my characters I use for running the various queues. There are 8 of them, mostly so I can just run a queue, switch and do it again without waiting on the timer. I came up with a total of 62 VR's, and those included EVERYTHING I've gotten since 9.5 went live. And I run around 10 elites a day!
If this is what other folks are getting then perhaps drop rates are fine and the RNG just hates me.
Losing faith in humanity, one person at a time.
honestly I sell all my VR mats, except Trellium, which isn't worth selling.
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I think you misunderstood what he wrote. The z-particles are not VR's, they are simply rares, which combined with the uncommon and common materials is what was mostly given out during the weekend. The drop rates for VRs were deeply diminished during the bonus weekend, contrary to what everyone was hoping and grinding for.
Oops, my bad. I suppose I would have noticed that if I were looking at everything instead of just the VR's. I figured I just didn't get any and wrote it off as that.
Now I'm curious as to how many rares I may have gotten. No way to really tell since rares are kinda common. :P
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I hoarded a lot of boxes too before the weekend. VR mats and catalysts rained on me when I mass opened them.
You know, the only VR I got prior to the event was Trellium-K. NONE of the other boxes gave me VRs.. And I opened a good number of them before the event was announced. I guess I have ****ty luck.
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Sorry so late getting back on the personnel R&D doff missions. It would seem they were productive through the bonus weekend and would seem to remain one of the more useful solutions in obtaining those elusive purple mats at least for me.
I was Klingon before Klingon was cool.
the event played like the R&D system would be at it's best math, sad to see it "drop back down to" a below average number, (not just the drops) almost got lvl 15 in 3 schools the normal way now. -the bug release 20h quests.
"me no do cash hookz"
I plant to max out everything eventually as long as I can do it without jumping through hoops getting materials, which is what stopped me getting far in the last crafting system.