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Wow Cryptic stuck at lvl 52
jarfaru
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Is this a joke Cryptic? I was enjoying the flow of the story and now i can't advanced and have to grind up a lvl to move on? Talk about killing game flow. The story was really fun but i don't like grinding for little xp and i refuse to buy xp boost because i shouldn't have to.
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Lvl 50- Normal mode - Did first two DR mission and one FFA to get to 51.
Lvl51 - changed to Advanced Mode - Did next two missions, made it to 52.
Lvl 52 - Advanced Mode - Did the one level, Half way to 53, have done another FFA and replayed the final Patrol mission (Kobali) from "Enemies in all the Usual Places". Still not 53 yet, but I think it'll bump on the next PvE or Patrol.
Bumping the general difficulty helps leveling faster and I don't think I'm ready for Elite yet, but Advanced isn't too bad.
Been playing STO since Open Beta, and have never regarded anything as worse than 'meh', if only due to personal standards.
Ever since i got to 52 I have been lucky to advance 1/2 level after finishing all missions for that level.
I just finished all missions for 55, and I sill got 3/4 level left to get to 56.
Given how little XP I get for anything I do and how insanely boring it is to repeatedly grinding the same stuff over and over again, I expect it to take me a days just to get 56.
I could probably go through all the story missions for all areas and still not advance more then 1-2 levels.
If they expect me to spend money buying Zen so I can buy XP boosters, they are sorely mistaken, unfortunately too many people will do just that which I suspect is exactly what they want us to do.
Having played the game on and off since Beta, there have been times when I didnt get enough XP to get a full level, but usually it was enough to just do a deep space encounter or red alert event to get enough to advance.
Now however its the complete opposite, I get a little bit of XP and then have to spend the rest of the day grinding to the next level.
It does not make me want to buy XP boosters, it makes me want to just log off and do something else.
I don't feel like running these DR missions again. I have to run them 3 time for each Officer (FED, ROM, KDF) that's enough for me. The adventure zone my KDF was level 53 he's only need 14K more for level 54. My FED is already 54 heading for level 55. ROM I haven't got him past level 53 yet. It's a lot of work no matter how you change the game settings.
Adventure Zone if you darn to go up into the mountains and there are more tougher soldiers and there leaders are mean and tough. I found a way using my FED Sci Officer to take them all down and complete the Final Task doing that left me with 23K left for level 55.
I know everyone plays differently..
Time will only tell!
I've used it regularly, and never needed to grind at all during the story missions.
Been playing STO since Open Beta, and have never regarded anything as worse than 'meh', if only due to personal standards.
Doffing is working out pretty good for me too.
Not to mention I earned and sold 6 million ec worth of crafting mats from doffing alone yesterday.
Yeah, I've got a couple characters who I haven't done any DR content on yet who are already 51. And that's just refreshing their doff missions once a day.
Are you talking 1-50 or 50-60 ... hard to believe you got to 60 within 4 days of Doffing and playing stuff on normal ...
as someone who did that OP, let me tell you, you'll start HATING DR(i hope you like to fight heavy artillery vessels with 950k hp and absurd shielding).
And if you think 4 days to lvl 60 is crazy, you should have seen the ones who got to lvl 60 3 hours after DR's launch by doing Elite stuff
Been playing STO since Open Beta, and have never regarded anything as worse than 'meh', if only due to personal standards.
That's something I can understand, but it doesn't work for me with just Doffing (+DQ Missions) ... still stuck pretty much every Level ... with 20/20 Assigments all the time ...
That being said, there are numerous other patrols to go through, rather than just the story ones. Perhaps you might try them?
Been playing STO since Open Beta, and have never regarded anything as worse than 'meh', if only due to personal standards.
Are we to believe you leveled up with the actual content or that you powerleveled in the queues?
Except doing Patrols in the DQ is a horrible waste of time ... the XP/Time ratio is way better in Tau Dewa ... besides I don't consider "Shoot 5 Waves of ..." actual Story Content, that might have been the misunderstanding here ...
... I was under the impression "Doffing" was supposed to be a big part of your XP-progress, though ... not Patrols
PS : Afaik pretty much every Patrol Mission is tied into the "Story" -> ~40 DQ Star Systems total -> 5 Wrapper Missions including 5 Patrols every time = 25 ... + ~10 Story Missions +2 Hubs ... not much Star Systems left here ... so please enlighten me ...
It's not about the "quickest" it's about "tolerable" ... I wouldn't mind leveling from 50-60 for the entire next year, if there were interesting Missions to play ... but just shootin Waves of Enemies 75% of the time ... meeeeeh no thanks ...
oh i understand that. DR has been very lackluster so far. cryptic should look up the terms 'expansion' vs 'patch', because that's all this is playing as.
Rushing has nothing to do with it.
It dont matter how long you take to do the missions, they dont give more XP if you take longer to do them.
They give the same amount no matter how long you take.
I have been doing some DOFFing on and off even before DR, but it was never really my thing.
I feel that I am being forced to do something I do not find enjoyable just to progress, can anyone here give me a good reason why I should do something I dont like or dont find enjoyable just to progress?
I also tried doing the patrols outside the missions, and they give a minimal amount of XP, at best I can get 1 bar filled, and having to repeat that 10 times just to get to the next level is not something that falls into my category of fun and enjoyable gameplay.
That some people have been able to do it easily and quickly is great, its nice to know that some people can do it, unfortunately that does not change the fact that some people will and are struggling.
Not everyone here are able to run every mission on elite, find DOFFing enjoyable enough to do it, or want to or even can afford to buy XP boosters, there should be alternatives other than doing massive boring grinds.
I got stuck later than most people because I like to doff and run a little pve que games and do a couple dailies ... but I got stuck none the less. It doesn't matter when the story is interrupted for you, at 51 52 53 whatever. The fact that it was interrupted at all is complete junk.
__worst__ decision ever
I am just about to hit lvl 56 and I have only done a couple STF's and went back and did "A Step Between the Stars" since I somehow missed it.
FA Dion - Romulan Engineer Officer
FA Zophie Delwynn - Fed Science Officer
if it's too high level for them, make the quest entry in the log yellow or red to indicate difficulty
let people try it, and if it works great, they have a sense of accomplishment
and if it doesn't people get the message and go out and level
if I make another char that's exactly what I'll do
but
really
this issue won't ever come up again ... I'll be level 60 before I get past the 20th mission, far before ever hitting delta content
It gave me two bars on the EXP bar, and then I'm told to sod off until level 54.
I'm now standing outside the generals office on Kobali prime, and the plaza is crowded. I can see about 6 other captains all standing around with guns drawn and a "well what the hell do I do now?" air about them. I don't think anyone expected this.
In the games default difficulty setting, there's not enough XP/SP to keep levelling with the story. If you up the setting to elite you make enough XP, but for the more casual player this becomes not enough reward for too much effort (and probably frustrating on top of it).
If you set it at easy, then you either have to grind patrols, pay for an XP boost or doff. Leaving the zen option out for the moment, grinding and doffing are poor excuses for content. Content we are paying for with upgrade tokens and new ships.
The default difficulty set by the game should give enough XP to level with the story. If that means they need to add content to these new missions to provide that XP, then so be it. But not to do that is just lazy production and design.
Now, the caveat may be that when you start a char from scratch, you won't have this issue. But at least provide some sort of XP boost for existing chars, so it makes the experience between 50-60 more enjoyable.
Cheers!