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As I replay the Delta story arc on my AOY
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I am reminded that this was the best expansion every and I love it!!
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l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
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Fleet Admiral Stowe - Dominion War Vet.
On a new character if you do a little doffing or admiralty you should only need to run the patrols once, and they ARE fun if you aren't grinding them.
Agreed the tweaks to the level requirements made a huge difference. Not convinced about the patrols personally. Some were alright but there were some horrible ones in there too, at least IMO
As for Delta... I won't be surprised if it gets Cardassian treatment at some point in the future -- it is long and messy for the same reason Cardassian arc was long and messy: it was the only piece of story content in the endgame, and devs tried to pad it out for all it's worth...
But (unlike the original Cardassian arc) the basic story is actually quite good, Gaul is my second "favourite" villain in the game, and they even mostly got Neelix right -- he's a "regular guy" entangled in matters that are way in over his head, but in not too annoying way such characters tend to be.
Some missions are exceptionally good ("Mindscape") some are very good ("Takedown" where we do proper admiral stuff, for a change, before beaming down.) and the rest are at least OK.
Pare down patrol wrappers, and, maybe, get rid of "The Reunion" (There's little you actually do in it, and the only thing it lacks to make it the most anvilicious set-up for the later events is Tuvok saying "They're all security ensigns two days from retirement and reunion with their fiancées.") and Delta arc would be an actually great piece of storytelling.
If I remember right, the Solanae missions are primarily an introduction to the Sphere adventure zone and they're mostly "Fly over there, talk to whoever, maybe do a 5-minute miniquest." There are maybe three full-sized story missions (Sphere of Influence, A Step Between Stars, and Surface Tension) in there and the devs may not have felt that was enough to justify a reward box. Not sure why the Iconian arc isn't included, though, since so much of the Time War stuff is tied to decisions made during that war.
They added some different interesting challenges. Especially if you upped the difficulty.
There is a mission there that actually does that, when you are contacting and helping various allies. That should be done for all those patrol missions.
Oddly, I replayed those recently and found Mindscape boring and buggy, Takedown horrendous, and Reunion reasonably relaxing (I actually do it now and again for the unbound rewards).
You mean Alliances? The mission that's just "fly here and kill stuff" several times? I replayed that recently, and it doesn't even work properly. After doing the last system, it kept giving me the option to warp to the same system and refused to complete. I had to warp out (abort) and repeat the last system to get it unstuck.
Haha, I just went through there on an alt and felt the same way. I'm dreading getting there on my AoY.
The Replay of 'Our Chance for Peace' went from about 750 XP before the releveling to 1 XP.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
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I'm so happy it's over, it was painfully awful.
For now I just wanna mostly ground pound to grind marks and elite marks. I actually would prefer to do Undine Infiltration Elite vs. Undine Battlezone; 67% (4 of 6 recent attempts has failed) of the time that queue pops, it failed because some noob does not know how to search for clues to do the interrogation process correctly... that's before combat begins. Undine Battlezone does not reward salvage.
UIE is easy if you don't PUG.
My character Tsin'xing
Even with a good DPS set up, it's still really hard to kill a group before the group behind you respawns. If it wasn't for the last 2 missions that give Daily Elite Iconian marks, no one would ever go back there.
I believe it's the most poorly designed area in all of STO. I hate the patrols too, but the Kobali Front is the worst of the worst. And I normally enjoy ground combat.
My character Tsin'xing
Yeah, that's true. If you can team up it's not so bad, but if you're trying to get through it Solo it's pretty tough. I have bad luck finding people on the same mission as me and ended up doing most of it solo. It wasn't fun, but I got through it.