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unikon
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This expansion has drained all of my will to get to level 60.
The grind is starting to hurt my brain. At this rate I'll NEVER push any other of my characters through to max. I think that I'm officially done until something is changed about the exp gain. All of the nerfs to bar users from moving forward quickly, just cements that fact for me. If they don't want me to get there, then fine. I'll go somewhere else until they change their minds. Happy hiatus everyone!
The grind is starting to hurt my brain. At this rate I'll NEVER push any other of my characters through to max. I think that I'm officially done until something is changed about the exp gain. All of the nerfs to bar users from moving forward quickly, just cements that fact for me. If they don't want me to get there, then fine. I'll go somewhere else until they change their minds. Happy hiatus everyone!
Fix your TRIBBLE Cryptic. ~Omega X
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My main is level 60, but my 3 alts are leveling via doffing. Not doing Dr with them, save for special items.
They have a lot of balance work to do as currently it's not really close to any semblance of balance or pacing.
"You don't have to do something again and again and again repetitive that doesn't have much challange, that's just a general good gameplay thing."
Every other mmo I have played has had the requirement that to access new content you needed to grind, getting exponentially greater as you get higher up in the game, STO was weird in that it hadn't upped level cap in a long time, so people became complacent. But what difference is there between this and grinding for the reps? 50-60 took me a few days of intense gaming, whereas the reps take at least 30 days unless you have sponsorships from alts and, for example to purchase all the items for omega rep..... that takes an insane amount of repeatedly doing stfs and defera.
The difference with DRs level expansion and rep systems is you can level however you want, granted it takes some time for those that cannot play as often as some, but access to anything in any game requires some sort of effort.
Wouldn't it be far worse to log in on launch day and be finished with all the new content and have nothing left to do in the course of an afternoon? MMOs are built to last, to take time, otherwise they wouldn't last for years
Even with japori intact it's still pointless - it's not just the artifical stalling and wasting your time.
If you take a look at the 60 levels, not to level 60, but the 60 levels, the 60 passives you will notice they are all most or less completely useless and only 2 actually have an animation.
That's how the expansion and after nerfs all over the places going on 2 years, the entire game, feels like now.
A few million dil to re-buy gear I bought years ago?
That's what they trying to pass off as content now? Well hell I can't wait to see what they come up with next.
How about instead of an upgrading system with a button to start draining your dil, we make a system where it's just a button to remove your dil, so you have a reason to keep playing, awesome right !!!1
STO expansion and the current direction is like the low point of gaming and the low point of STO; it's hard to imagine it can get much worse but they did raise that bar weekly for 2 years now so
At this point I am just waiting on them to nerf the final thing not entirely useless to players namely contraband and then I will be on my merry way
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The old STF Elite were a bit of a joke as how easy they were, we used to take out newbie fleet guys in and help them skip straight to Elite gear. I mean even back then, I think I did 2 or 3 normal STFs before moving into Elite with okish gear and still had little to no problem beating them.
As for leveling extra toons, well I am just building my tac atm, but when that is done. I will either finish off one of my other toons or I am thinking of rolling a Rommie and probably finish off my Kling next, before finishing off my Engie fed.
As for how the game has changed, honestly I think it is for the better. I wish they would fix bugs that have been around since launch and some of the new ones, like the tray bug etc etc.
I do hope you don't give up and perhaps find your love again for the game, as I did.
When did that mean I am having fun...
I am painting you a picture, that EVERYTHING in the whole game has been either deleted or nerfed to uslessness over the last 2½ years - except contraband.
Exploration, doff upgrinder, reputation passives, deleted mirror event etc etc etc
It's saying that, in replying to the OP, the problem is that it takes long to get to 60, or to get the 60 pointless passives (they too are a problem though) but the problem is the content drought in conjunction with straight up deleting all the features we were using.
For example, if mirror event had not been deleted OP might find himself logging on daily for those 1 hour events and playing all his characters.
If map specific drops hadn't been removed people might be playing all the maps.
If reputation passives hadn't been killed people might be playing reputations.
If exploration hadn't been deleted... etc etc etc etc
Get the picture now?
No could you say that again pretty sure half the bads on here can't read
It sometimes feels like I'm being punished for wanting to try out different classes various play styles.
The grind really has gone above and beyond the realm of acceptability for players that like to create ALTs.
One would think that Cryptic would like to encourage this type of commitment to their game by incentivizing players with multiple characters by offering more account wide discounts in the same line has the Winter and Summer events have been in the recent past.
For Example these new research tiers should be account wide IMO, meaning that each character that you have should be able to contribute to one account wide research table that's progress applies to all level appropriate Characters on the account.
Account wide resource materials and commodities would be nice has well.
It's the Korean way...
"You don't have to do something again and again and again repetitive that doesn't have much challange, that's just a general good gameplay thing."
Six other toons have not been touched since DR. I was going to DOFF with them but they were all built for PVP combat and its depressing to relegate them to menial labor like that, so I just dont log them in.
At the moment, I have my characters doing the Kobali Prime missions and mini missions. Those missions seem to be the closest to Trek than the patrol grinds. Plus, for me, I feel like my characters are really doing something. The payout is not overwhelming the best, but it pushes my characters forward--a tad faster than a crawl.
If you need a break from the game, take one. Don't waste your energy, money, or time on something that doesn't bring fun into your life. Play what you like and when you want. Unless you are into PvP, you will not need all of those max gear. Again, get what you want, and play your way.
Yep. All four of my characters are level 52 and I'm in no rush. They'll level as I play which isn't often. I still haven't done a single DR episode but level through the mirror event and other things here and there like doffing. No rush.
It will be doable. It will be done. Not today. But if you could swallow playing STO for so long, the ultimate way to get to level 60 or beyond is doing what you always did - play STO. And if it's get boring - do something else. Getting you back is Cryptic's problem, not yours. You just need something for your past-time that is fun to you, you don't need STO to get bread on your table.