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indyshark
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I am having fun playing with my Klingon recruit, but I find the requirement for 2500 kills for melee damage and cloaked kills way too high. I'd like to complete the recruit bonuses, but 2500 will take over a year! Could we have a buy out option? I'd be happy if there were some kind of way to reduce this amount.
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I felt it the other way around: melee was easy, but ambush did grind my gears.
In the end i ended up cloaking and upon leaving cloak i released every AoE console i had (ion storm and neutronic eddy were efficient).
With the 2500 ambush behind me I'm back to regular tanking and stealth bombing. I still cannot believe that stealth bombing with the enhanced battle cloak did not work for the ambush count.
I definitely encourage using debuff and rooting kit mods during melee. My Eng has been a big fan of Fuse Armor, my wife on Sci is using Electro Gravitic Field.
You don't need to complete it tomorrow or something. Yes, it's a lot of kills. That's the idea, having some long-term objectives with a fancy progress bar to keep players busy.
At least you can work on it while playing the game, at your own pace and while doing tons of things. It's not like they're asking you to play ISA or Defense of Starbase one 2500 times or fill a project and then wait 20 hours until you can do it again.
[3/25 10:41][Combat (Self)]Your Haymaker deals 26187 (10692) Physical Damage(Critical) to Orinoco.
Or you can just ignore the objective if you think it's not worth the effort. Simple as that.
The moment people start asking for a buy out option that will allow them not to play the game, they need to seriously ask themselves why they're still playing. Or at least why they care about this objective.
[3/25 10:41][Combat (Self)]Your Haymaker deals 26187 (10692) Physical Damage(Critical) to Orinoco.
It's not that hard to figure out. I like the other objectives and have no problem grinding for them. I don't like these objectives but like the reward. I'd be willing to pay zen to complete them and focus on other things that are more fun.
Clicking on the recruitment device shows current progress. The numbers get smaller surprisingly fast for these two even just playing the game casually.
But I greatly despise MELEE as a playstyle; yet that's my own preference despite being a Klingon or having a few of them.
I'm gonna have to try that, I didn't know that aoe tagging from cloak ambush worked.
For ground kills, get the dual nanopulse mek'leths and go to nimbus. You can farm the respawning scorpion things all day long and they're easy kills.
The Ambush requires a bit more effort. If you're not using a ship with an Enhanced Battle Cloak, it's a lot harder. But, I got through a huge chunk doing the missions. I admit, I did finally get irritated and just ran the opening of Home a bunch of times to finish it off - but I'm terrible at the cloaking/ambush mechanic. I probably would have finished quicker using FAW rather than CSV. Also, the new doff that they reward extends the window, as do some other mechanics.
Ambush: install the infiltrator boff as well as two blue male rom tacs from embassy. Replay the opening of home. You have it in no time.
Melee: get the nanopulse mekleths and replay the second stage of home. Remove offensive capabilities of boffs. Easy and fast kills if u try to keep the hur’q captains alive for ongoing spawns.
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So if someone as lazy as me can get this to over 1000 kills on both it shouldn't really take a year and obviously I couldn't start before the event started.
Oh and do noted that You don't have to use the recruit BoP or the recruit Bat'leth, any ship or melee weapon will do as long they're your kills (though it has to be a melee weapon a slug thrower won't do).
EDIT: though said tribble might protest
You can spend years completing the recruit's objectives. They do not expire.
I'd like to know that as well.
On the mission 'Partisains' you come to the part where Madran is in that Energy Cage in the middle of the room. Your captain has to go to 4 different stations and deactivate power while fighting swarms of enemies.
Those enemies spawn endlessly until you shut down the power at that station. To afk it, you put your Bridge Officers on Passive so that all they use is heals, and you equip a fast melee weapon like the Mek'Leth's. Walk over to the spawn point and enemies will begin to spawn. Target one, and right click on your primary attack to turn on auto attack. Your captain will start swinging wildly and all the spawns and as he/she kills them, they just respawn.
Basically right click, then walk away. If you want to maximize efficiency, bring 2 Engineers and 2 Science Officers and just equip them with things like Healing and Shield Generators, Medial Tricorder, Vascular Regenerators, and Nanite Health Monitors. You can stand there swinging all day.
Or you can actually have some fun with it and.. I don't know.. Play the game.
Seems like it would be easy on any character - I use the Nanopulse Mek'leths, and I just spam "1" continually. No need for any kit powers. /shrug
It's just tedious and boring.
edit: but yeah, don't have a buyout. If you don't like the task, don't do it. It's not like most of the Klingon recruit missions unlock anything particularly amazing.
I actually explained it kind of wrong.
Before the battle, right click on your attack #1 this sets it to auto attack. Then when the creatures spawn, jump into the fray and press 1 one time to start the auto attack. Your captain will then jump from target to target automatically attacking the closest enemy over and over until you have all the melee kills you need.
Personally, I never had the need to do the afk method.. I actually enjoy ground combat with the Mek'leth's, so I just played missions and TFO's and got all the kills I needed quite quickly.