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Help!! Lvl 55 and dying too fast.
m311
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I'm dying super fast on ground especially on lvl 35 missions.
I have like tier XI gears, but barely any purple. This is normal mode. Is there anyway to reduce the damage?
I'm a tactician captain with no healing abilites.
I have like tier XI gears, but barely any purple. This is normal mode. Is there anyway to reduce the damage?
I'm a tactician captain with no healing abilites.
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Asking as I have a level 54 Tac Captain and no issues with ground. Using gear and weapons, blue and green between mark IX to XI. Tac, 2 Sci and Eng for boffs, using default kits they came with, just to see how difficult ground is without tweaking kits, etc. Not finding it difficult at all.
1 engineering boff (med gen/shield gen/mortar/mines)
1 science (fill with healing abilities)
2 tacs
Between the science and engineer you'll get extra healing outside of the hypos you carry. The engie with mines and mortars will blow lots of things up quick. That's how I blew through ground battles when leveling my last engineer. Works great for my tacs to.
I'm Tac captain. I got like 1 tac, two enginneer and a science
That's generally how I go on any of my captain's away teams: 2 tac, 1 engineer (turret & generators), 1 sci-doctor
Though having a full crew of engineers with generators, 4 turrets, 4 minefields and 4 mortars can be quite fun.
What about your traits? Have you picked traits that might boost hit points, resistances, shields etc if you're having trouble surviving? What about your skill tree. Have you done anything there? On this page, after the space stuff, they list a recommended ground allocation that lots of people use https://www.sto-league.com/skilltree-suggestion/
At 55 you should be getting your reps and spec trees going. Have you got any of those passive traits yet? Any active ones you can slot to help survivability? Gear is just a small part of the equation in this game. There are many, many passive boosts for survivability from traits, skill tree, rep traits, spec trees etc.
Having seen your other posts, I feel like you're leveling far too fast. Usually at this point people would have got some fleet gear like shields, armor, weapons etc which are better than just the standard stuff. I'd also recommend you work on getting the Omega set from the Omega rep. It's a good all round ground set and particularly useful for running the defera ground battlezone.
You can then get DOFFs to increase the amount of shield/health, mortars and turret fabrications that they may spawn. As for yourself, you can use whatever weapons you like and in particular if your team can handle themselves. But if you still need that you must contribute to your team, then any split rifle will help you. There is the Dyson Split rifle or the Romulan Wide Beam rifle. But even the Lobi Herald staff and the Jemhadar minigun will aid you greatly over single target weapons.
I hope this helped a little bit.
My character Tsin'xing
Make sure the game hasn't played Trait Roulette (where everything is reset).
Go to your engineering DOFF screen to gamble on a good upgrade.
Slot your engineer BOFF with shield and healing totems.
Let your BOFFs handle some mobs. Don't try to get aggro on every mob.
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As you gradually get better, by finding ways to keep yourself alive without assistance, you should switch one to an engineering BOff and another to a tactical BOff. This will help make you team more well rounded once you've figured things out.
Also, there is a tactical kit module which gives a half-decent health heal, called Rally Cry. I put that on all my tactical captains.
To reiterate some good points that others have mentioned above me:
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2. Promote your Boffs to Commander if you have not done so.
3a. If you do not have Mk XII armor or shields by now, then buy them from the Exchange. Rare quality will be good enough and pretty inexpensive.
3b. If you free armor, then replay "The Core of the Matter" in the Yesterday's War story arc. The Neutronium-Laced Combat Armor Mk XII is pretty good.
4. Buy Mk XII weapons from the Exchange if you do not have any. At level 55 you should have them though. Rare quality Mk XII weapons will be fine if you cannot afford very rare weapons.
5. Train your Boffs with abilities that will help you stay alive or allows your team to do more damage.
6. Make sure you use your kit modules during combat. What kits modules you should have depends on your captain's career.
It's all a matter of practice. Just get some good gear and play ground missions / story missions with ground combat.
On my secondary F2P only account, my max level tactical captain have no problems playing Brotherhood of the Sword Elite (BotSE) without much problems using the above mentioned Neutronium-Laced Combat Armor Mk XII (all of my Boff have this armor) and a very rare Plasma Split Beam Rifle Mk XII [CrtiD] [CrtH] [Dmg]. Granted, BotSE is not one of the more difficult elite STF missions, but enemies can hit hard.
My max level AoY Captain has not progressed very far into the story missions; only got as far as the Romulan Mystery. Otherwise, everyone would have the Na'kuhl Temporal Operative Armor and Temporal Operative Shield. They are rewards from "The Temporal Front" in the Future Proof mission. However, if you are having problems with ground combat, then this level 60 story mission will definitely be difficult for you because the Na'kuhl uses snipers. However, the armor and shield are the best free ones that the game offers. They actually rival some reputation armor and shields.
Kit's for a tactical captain depends on personal preference. There are a decent number of kit modules you can purchase from the Exchange, but they can be expensive. My AoY captain has the following kit modules:
- Plasma Grenade XI
- Battle Strategies XII
- Micro Cryonic Warhead Mk XII - From the Winter Event
- Overwatch Mk XIII
- Mass Gravimetric Detonation - A universal kit module that any captain career can use. These generally sell for around 400k to 800k EC on the Exchange. Prices vary, I purchased mine for less than 100k EC. This causes AoE damage, but it takes 4 seconds before detonation starts so enemies can run out of the 3 random blast radius that spawns.
Rally Cry is a pretty good kit module for tactical captains who wants something that can heal them. All tactical captains should carry a decent supply of Large Hypos and Large Shield Charges. I also recommend purchasing a Tribble (ric) which gives +1.5% to damage and damage resistance for 1 hour. Or the more expensive Kelvin Timeline Tribble which does the same thing as the Tribble (ric), but with a 2% bonus. I remember when these sold for between 10k to 15k EC... not anymore. Good thing I bought them en mass for all my non-Klingon captains and all my non-Klingon Boffs in my primary and secondary STO accounts when they were cheap. Tribbles do not like Klingons (Fed or KDF factions) so they do not get buffed by Tribbles. The exceptions are Tribbles purchased from the C-Store and the Winter Tribble (bred during the Winter Event) and the Risian / Lohlunat Tribbles (bred on Risa for the Summer Event).
^this
also crouch, aim, make sure your sci boff have healing skills slotted and/or engi have a medical generator. Hell, use hypos too if you want.
Level 35, that puts you against Romulans (30-34) or Cardassians (35+).
Romulans use plasma based weapons so a cheap armor from the exchange. Best option is either energy dampening or energy harness.
Cardassians use disruptor weapons, but the biggest problem is usually the grenades they throw. Make sure you avoid those.
A cheap personal shield from the exchange with [pla] or [dis] should suffice. If you can find a cheap one with [ene] on top of that you're solid.
Tactical characters hit like a truck, but usually have poor survival. Make sure you carry hypos, power cells and shield charges and have those ready for use.
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Consumable/Non-food#Standard_ground_consumables
My character Tsin'xing
Thanks, that explains it more. I'm doing Cardassians and I'm surviving fine. But Romulan Mystery they do like over 100+ damage per shot on Normal. I can't even kill a single Romulan in groups of 3-4 without dying. I managed to finish Roman Mystery by dying a lot on certain missions.