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What is the deal with the ultra-rare rep gear?
dykeras
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I have 3 characters (including a temporal agent) and I thought I read that if I get all my characters reputations to 5 then any gear I get from the rep will be XIII ultra rare?
I now have all my characters reps to 5 but I am still getting the usual XII gear when I complete a rep gear project?
Did I not understand correctly?
I now have all my characters reps to 5 but I am still getting the usual XII gear when I complete a rep gear project?
Did I not understand correctly?
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Once your recruit claims it, log out then log back in again.
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.'
All your other toons can unlock enough temporal marks to completely do the Temporal Rep (with sponsorship).
Monday night was "unlocking day" for me and it. was. fun!
Only the AoY agent needs to max all reps, then claim the reward, then your non-AoY toons claim the reward for them to get it.
Ahhh, but remember, you need to max the reps to have access to all the projects anyway.
So, if you want your alts able to get lots of Mk XIII UR gears, then keep uppin' them reps...
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For the purpose of the OP's question only the AoY agent needs to max out all reps to get the ultra rare mk XIII acct unlock.
100% chance of you getting UR before you run out of upgrades and Dilithium at least
Dunno. I wonder whether you wouldn't be investing more time and energy into finding out what you want, what you could possibly want on a different build, and what you don't want, and how much you have to get and then invest for that, than if you just would run a few battlezones/queues and complete all reps (or sacrifice a bonus mark thing or two). Plus getting a nice dil bonus at the end of each rep doesn't hurt either.
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Game's certainly playable at that point, but I've gotta say after spending the last upgrade weekend making all of my non-rep gear and weapons XIV, oh man does the game get easier. My Vengeance's new operational profile is "anything with a red nameplate less than 9.99 kilometers away CEASES TO EXIST." You can't even call it 'shooting at them'. They cross the event horizon and evaporate...
Which is exactly why I haven't upgraded anything. Because the game is too asterisking easy already.
To me what would be fair is having all existing rep gear on the account upgrade freely to UR if it isn't there already in addition to having all subsequent purchases be at UR.
About the game being too easy with mk xii vr, I'm assuming that's min-maxed. My half-main rom-sci who has most of the expensive traits, doffs, boffs, but only mk xii vr gear (corrosive plasma dhc) on a T6 Scimitar still takes a long time to destroy even a Vesta in mirror invasion advanced. All my toons are specced heavily into tac tree but still have good sci skills (EPG, control), and defense (minor regens, shield hardness, some subsystem power boosts) so that could explain the difference.
At that point and time I would just be bored as hell. But then I always prefer a challenge over easy mode. I'm actually starting to turn away from sets on my main. I'm working on building all custom. Other than a few of the unversal console from the reps. The only other one that i want for my main is the one that reduces transwarp times.
DHC on a Scimitar? Dunno, if you don't have a lot of traits/consoles/skills boosting your turn rate, you're not going to get too many hits. Sure, you make them count if you get them.
How many HP does a mirror vesta have in advanced?
Sure there are niceties and rewards for doing so.
One of my toons maxed out all, my AoY toon is finishing his last, and the others maxed out all but the newest.
My character Tsin'xing
1. All reps must be completed on your AOY character and you must either claim the reward via the temporal beacon thing or visit Philip Cray/KDF counterpart.
2. Every non AOY character will need to visit Philip Cray or KDF equiv to claim the reward.
3. Once you have unlocked the reward DO NOT queue any rep gear projects on any character until you speak to Cray or his KDF counterpart and claim the unlock. Any queued rep projects before speaking to Cray/KDF will not change to mk
13. It only applies to new projects slotted after claiming the unlock from Cray/KDF
4. Enjoy cheaper upgrade costs to mk 14 Ultra Rare Thank you Cryptic
Easily fixed.
The Scimitar has the Romulan Battle Cloak, a lot of people somehow forget that cloaking gives you a huge turn rate bonus. You use the cloak strategically to position yourself and then let rip with the cannons. The Battle Cloak alone gives +11.8 to turn rate. You couple that with the pluses from Pilot Specialization, running high engine power, and maybe a Conductive RCS for good measure and you can easily pull off Cannons on a Scimitar.
Yes, it's a little more work then beams, but still pretty easy to do.
There's nothing 'punishing' about having already had that advantage for months if not YEARS.
This gives newer accounts a way to catch up and an alternative to older accounts who haven't pushed every piece of Rep gear past that point. Yeah, I'm quietly amassing another 4.5k Nukara rep to refit my Tarantula that runs the full space and space weapons set, but I'm not being 'punished' for choosing to do that instead of trying to level up the purple XIIs and XIIIs I have on it now. If you're sitting on XIVs and feel it's too much work, DON'T DO IT. If it is worth it, how can it be punishing? They didn't block you from keeping your old gear and continuing to try to rarity-bump it.
And if it means your older character is inspired to play old content again to gather marks, that's considered a WIN by the developers, not 'punishment'.
For instance, my main has the Undine rep ground gear mk XII VR. My AOY has the Temporal set mk XIII UR because I bought it after the unlock. Despite the main now having the possibility to get the Undine mk XIII UR, there's no way, I'm spending again all that's needed to buy the new version.
I'm not complaining, but obviously that I would like a process to automatically bring the mk XII VR to mk XIII UR that is now unlocked.