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thoughts (likes/dislikes) about klink recruit event...
keepcalmchiveon
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what are all your thoughts?
my dislikes thus far are the 50 endev points and the random queues with the other mandatory queues.
the rest im good with.
my dislikes thus far are the 50 endev points and the random queues with the other mandatory queues.
the rest im good with.
meh
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(And I'm not going to do the randoms one at all - I barely do any TFOs, and only the few simple/straightforward ones that I'm familiar with. So I've never used the Random TFO system on any character, and don't anticipate that I ever will.)
The melee & ambush kills are a bit tedious, but I'm getting through them. The rest will either just take time, or are waiting to get to the level they unlock at.
Overall, this recruit event feels a lot more 'repetitive grind' than previous ones. I have to wonder if they actually intended it to attract "new" players (as opposed to getting current players to play more KDF and/or other game aspects they think are underused - like melee, cloaking/ambush, random TFO's...), since it doesn't feel like it makes STO look attractive?
aut vincere aut mori pro imperio
either to conquer or to die for the Empire
One thing I haven't been enjoying has been the last Assassination Target, aboard the Batlh. He appears above or below the deck, and I had to restart that part of the mission three times before he would show up somewhere that I could fight him. Hopefully that particular bug can get squashed soon, and with extreme prejudice.
It changed when they threw another 150 perks to earn at us.
10% more XP is nothing to sneeze at here and some of the reward boxes hand out aditional perk points. Havent done any math but from gut feeling the recruit will shave off a moth of the perkpoint grind for me. god knows how much more if they keep on adding more.
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The rewards are also a double edged sword, on one hand its nice that they aren't amazing so I don't feel pressured to grind through all those randoms right away, but on the other hand they are lackluster so playing that many randoms/doing that many endeavors on the recruit is meh
You're misunderstanding, see "this task just totally undercuts that." In other words, the nice thing about endeavors was that you could do them on any character, especially useful for damage endeavors. However we are strongly encouraged to do them all on the recruit now, not just for the recruit tasks but because of their bonus perk XP.
Right. I think that is the point. The person is saying endeavors were nice in that you could share completion and do them on any character. For the Klingon recruit you can't do that if you want progress toward the recruit goal.
Personally, I don't see that or the other recruit goals (TFO, melee, ambush) as a big deal since I don't have to complete them during the event. But that is because I plan to keep playing my recruit and am ok with seeing some of the things as longer term goals. I know others don't see it like that and so it is a much more immediate grind which can sap the fun out of it.
Ultimately that XP bonus does get spread across the whole account. It is a bit of a drag, and if you don't have the means to build several ships for different damage types and have weapons for the ground damage, its more of a drag.
Realistically though this particular one will mostly be affected by the player doing it. Someone like me, who's well off on resources and previous event rewards won't have as much of an issue. Someone just starting out who doesn't have all that, will have more of an issue. And we have everyone everywhere in between those two poles.
So making a whole pile of "6 beam arrays + 3 damage consoles" for every damage for my recruit - and buying a some extra bank space, because that stuff takes a pile of it - isn't normal for me. When a "do 100k polaron damage" Endeavor comes up, I pull out one of my Polaron characters, I don't reequip my main's ship.
(mostly with these Recruit characters, I've done their recruit tasks, then stuck them in my pile of "extra alts, for when we do things that can use extra alts", rather than Just Playing Them and Recruit Tasks Eventually Get Done. So I expect that the KDF recruit will end up being the one with the least finished tasks. By a long shot. Doesn't help that I play less these days. And the recruit tasks aren't compelling enough to get me to play more.)
I did my first rainbow build with my Klingon recruit and it works quite well. Damage endeavors are nothing for a rainbow build. For ground, all you need is a few different Mk XII guns of different damage types in your inventory readily available and you're good. Easy peasy.
wait, dont you need to be level 50 or so to do endeavors?
You can get those damage endeavors easily on all sorts of builds with a single patrol. And if you're doing any of the TFO goals, you'll have the marks quickly enough.
Lets look at the Hegh'ta, the heavy bird of prey. It had a crew of 100 plus. Multiple weapon ports, and size to suggest it carried ample torpedoes. Hence the words Heavy bird of prey, with the description it brings everlasting death to the enemies of the Empire.
The new bird of prey for the recruitment. Looks and feels more like a heavy bird of prey, a ship designed to take on any enemies of the empire.
This is just my thoughts. I really don't get this obssession with the a B'rel.
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.'
The B'Rel has been around longer than just 20 years. In one form or another its been around at least 100 I'd like to say. The earliest sighting of the B'Rel type was back in the 2280s I wanna say with Kruge's BoP at Genesis. Like the K'Tinga, the B'Rel has been upgraded over the years. Its as Iconic as the K'Tinga/D7 design.
As for the ship from Generations, I think Worf said that was a D-12, which could just be the variant. One he said had an exploitable weakness in its design. Other notable B'Rel type BoPs include the Rotarran, Martok's BoP, and General Chang's modified BoP with an Enhanced Cloak.
Basically for the Klingons... if it ain't broke, don't fix it. And clearly the B'Rel design ain't broke. For me though... what I don't understand is the obsession over the K'Vort, which is an upscaled B'Rel as a Cruiser rather than a Raider.
I've been visiting Defera for my melee kills over time. Lets just say my Bat'leth is so sharp, I can vaporise enemies. lol
I should have realized by reading the thread title that it's only for dislikes and started my own thread. My bad.
I do think it's a shame that most of the helpful information about the 2255 KDF recruitment event is buried in similar threads.
A thread that is unconditional would be refreshing at this point