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Cardassian Revamp, Skill Points and the Delta Quardrant Missions
ilithyn
Member Posts: 903 Arc User
Ever since I saw the revamp of the Cardassian missions I've been torn between joy - because damn it was overdue and the new ones look good - and trepidation. The trepidation comes from the level gate in the Delta Quadrant mission.
I just made a new captain last week and she hit the Delta Quadrant level gate today. She's just shy of level 56 and the next mission available is The Dragon's Deceit which is a level 56 mission.
Now the gap between her and the next level isn't insurmountable, so I'll live with it and just go mark hunting, patroling and stuff until it happens, but it'll get worse as there are only two level 56 missions which is no where near enough to get her to 57 where the next missions are, and so on and so forth until she hits level 60.
Now, 3 levels and change isn't that much to slog through, even in at the high 50s, so I will most definitely survive it even without bonus xp weekends and whatnot, but what worries me are characters made after the Cardassian revamp hits where something like 14 missions gets cut own to 4. That's about 10 missions worth of skill points that the characters will be lacking by the time they hit the Delta Quadrant and therefore they will hit the level gate much sooner and much harder than I have.
So I wonder, have anyone heard if this is anything Cryptic have considered in their revamp? And if so, how? (First idea that comes to mind is lowering the level gate for the Delta missions so you don't have to be 60 until somewhere in the Iconian arc)
I just made a new captain last week and she hit the Delta Quadrant level gate today. She's just shy of level 56 and the next mission available is The Dragon's Deceit which is a level 56 mission.
Now the gap between her and the next level isn't insurmountable, so I'll live with it and just go mark hunting, patroling and stuff until it happens, but it'll get worse as there are only two level 56 missions which is no where near enough to get her to 57 where the next missions are, and so on and so forth until she hits level 60.
Now, 3 levels and change isn't that much to slog through, even in at the high 50s, so I will most definitely survive it even without bonus xp weekends and whatnot, but what worries me are characters made after the Cardassian revamp hits where something like 14 missions gets cut own to 4. That's about 10 missions worth of skill points that the characters will be lacking by the time they hit the Delta Quadrant and therefore they will hit the level gate much sooner and much harder than I have.
So I wonder, have anyone heard if this is anything Cryptic have considered in their revamp? And if so, how? (First idea that comes to mind is lowering the level gate for the Delta missions so you don't have to be 60 until somewhere in the Iconian arc)
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
I'm not quite obsessed enough to go check what the current skill point total of the missions that are going are and then compare to the total of what we're getting, but I hope you're right.
That said, they still have a problem in the Delta missions. Maybe not as much of one as I fear it'll be, but still a considerable one. And given that we now have the Iconian missions too, which are all behind a level 60 gate don't really understand why they don't lower it for the Delta missions.
For example, I have a Delta recruit lv 56 who has finished the Romulan Mistery arc, thanks to doffing, some Red Alerts and STF's after hitting 60 (I have 3 T6 ships, plus 3 free ones... I'm hunting for the traits XD) and the story missions.
On the other hand, a player with only one char who makes it today will find a low, low progression, specialy if he doesn't think about the doffing system.
Where is the bar? counting the use of the doffing system, or assuming you will llevel without using it much? Cryptic has decided to count with the use.
I have doffed on this character since she was able to do so, which granted was Wednesday last week very few hours after I made her.(Obsessive? Who? Me?) So she gives a realistic picture of what can be expected when there aren't all sorts of xp bonus weeks/events/ect going on. And yeah, it's slow once you hit 50 and after you hit the mid-50s it's really, really slow since you constantly run into the level gate where the missions are concerned. Not sure I'm going to give a damn about the story missions until I'm 60
The Numbers were already crunched. Currently we have 13 Cardassian Missions with the Federation storyline and it's being replaced with 4.
And working on the Alts to get the Cardassian Accolades before they are removed, it took me 3 days on each character to fullly go through the arc. But with the revamp on Tribble, I literally was done with the content within 2 hours. So while we may get the "same experience we lost", its rushing even faster to endgame and that wall of grind.
Personally, some of those missions need to stay. Even if it's not part of the main storyline.
I do know that a 1st run mission gives more experience and skill points than they do when they are replayed.
So your saying if you add up all 13 1st run missions skill and experience points and compare them to the new 4 missions they will come out the same.
I highly doubt that.
Anyone know what the 1st run experience and skill point are?
I can only see what the replay value is.
- 2,186
- 2,256
And I highly doubt people will bother doing replays. Because the last four years have made that all too clear.
You are totally missing the point, the original post was referring to new players or new characters. Once again, if one were to start a new character will the four new missions give the same amount of skill and experience points as the soon to be removed 13 missions?
And those patrols are easy compared to the delta patrols, so they will not drag as much.
How about you get a calculator and run the numbers. Because from where I stand, that would be a no.
Which is funny given people still complaining about hitting level walls with Delta Rising content, nearly a year after it launched. So it really doesn't make sense to remove content based on that alone. But hey, at least you can get done with the new revamped episodes in an hour.
Hmm, I wonder if Caustic Plasma can be upgraded to gold...