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Good way to farm Starship Traits quickly?
zebulander
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So in the course of getting builds and all I've been needing to farm starship traits quite a bit, which was fine back when I could use the red alerts to do it as it went pretty fast with those. Now not so much. Anyone know a good place to level ships quickly now?
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If you complete the patrol, it goes on cooldown though. There are 5 waves of enemies, just defeat 4/5 and then warp out.
For most players, the most efficient way is to set the difficulty to Advanced. This gives you more XP then Normal, but still doesn't take too long. If you're using a powerful ship and can dispatch enemies quickly then up the difficulty to Elite, but personally I still find this less efficient. It doesn't make it harder, just makes it take longer.
In my experience, Argala advanced is the quickest level for starship traits. Just remember not to finish wave 5.
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Spawn rate depends on numbers and unless you travel with a group those can be fairly sparse. The group also means you won't be killing or damaging them enough even with the mindless FAWing option.
Could be wrong but I'm not sure that BZ's actually scale up to 65 which would drop the mastery xp they give as well.
For argala look for the kazon, most xp for enemies with no toys like tractor beams or shipfarts.
My character Tsin'xing
That's probably true, use Advanced if you are using a high end ship, otherwise use normal. If your ship is pretty well built then Advanced Enemies seem to pop just about as quickly as Normals, but otherwise Normal is probably faster.
As for Battle Zones, I'll take people's words for it.. but from my perspective they are terrible for leveling ships. Even when you get a high concentration of enemies, the amount of XP that enemies offer in Battle Zones is minuscule at best, at least for me. I can level a ship from zero and unlock the trait in Argala in roughly 10 min, I have done 2 or 3 loops in Badlands and barely gained one single level on my ship.
The upside is Battle Zones are more fun, and if you do Badlands you get better loot. If you're just in a hurry for the trait though, Argala is the place.
My character Tsin'xing
I managed to gain one mastery level in one Queue, I feel that might be slower than Argala. But if you also need Marks and Dlithium, it might be more interesting.
lol.. a few hours.
Leave it to you pryor.. the question has long been answered but here you come once again with even more bad advice.
At least you're consistent.
Or you just take the ship, straight from the store and into argala and find thats those kazon are still a cakewalk with markX weapons.
And for him, time just flies by in Ker'rat
It just shows that everyone gravitate toward different things in the game.
And STO accommodates...what ever.
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This has been known since delta rising, if it were an unintended exploit they'd have patched it years ago. Games are games, "legit" is really not a term that can go with gaming in general regarding game-mechanics/flaws, it's not like anyone is using a third party tool to cheat.
It is not reasonable to deduce Cryptic necessarily intends for something to happen simply because A) it has been public discussed many times in their presence; and
He wanted the fastest method, we gave it to him. If they want to battle this method, the obvious best method is to make traits account unlocks. Until then, we will use whatever method we can find to lessen this ridiculously tedious process and if Cryptic has a problem with that then they can say so directly.
Otherwise, this is the best method and we will continue to use it and advise others to do the same.
There are only 2 bugs/exploits they care about: ones that cost them money & big ones in new content.
Sometimes I think a Kickstarter page is the only way to get Cryptic to pay attention to old bugs.
Something like...
"Hey guys! Cryptic Dev here! Here's a list of bugs in STO. [Insert 10 pages of bugs here] If we can raise $X we will hire a team of good programmers to come in and fix them!"
And you know what, I'd give serious consideration to donating to it, if the bugs I hate are on the list.
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Technically it could be seen as exploiting the map for the sole purpose of the xp it gives in comparison to other maps. Where the patrol was designed to be a filler between Feature Episodes when the xp gap wasn't big enough to allow you to play the next feature episode in the chain. (Which now with Delta has been addressed). By going to 4/5 you are farming the map for an unintended purpose that the game allows.
With the further changes to the Borg and Tholian Red Alerts now being made weekend Events, Battlezone capture points needing a good player population to spawn lots of enemies to generate the xp to be worth the time to level SSM and TFO's having 30 min cd's, the game forces you into xp farming of patrols.
Personally I've decided what ship my character is going to use as her main, I don't want to spend hours upon hours hitting TFO's or battlezones in 5 other ships I only purchased for the Trait and have no interest once unlocking ever setting foot in again. Cryptic can take offense to this but levelling a ship for a trait is dumbass move and an even bigger dumbass move by limiting the available methods to obtain the trait in a reasonable time.
So patrols could be thought of as an exploit to quickly level up a trait, but honestly there's no way i'd even bother with traits if Cryptic suddenly decided oh yeah it is an exploit. Hell if they ever went down that route that would be me finished from ever buying another ship from the C-Store/Lobi store or gambling on lockboxes/doff/r&d promotions.
Traits should be automatically available at purchase or at least be account unlocks so I don't have to farm them again on alts.
Hello rubber banding my old friend, time to bounce around the battlezone again, where are all my bug reports going?, out of love with this game I am falling, As Cryptic fail to acknowledge a problem exists, Shakes an angry fist, And from Support all I'm hearing are the sounds of silence.