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teutoburger
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do you have to farm marks to spend in the reputation tab to get better gear in order to just do normal quests?
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If you're having trouble in Frozen, which enemies? Most of the fighting there is on ground. It's also definitely easier if you choose to help Obisek rather than arrest him.
The Tal Shiar Thalaron mines are definitely potent. I don't recommend rushing in with a melee weapon. Fight from range, and bring Science officers with healing abilities to keep you alive against Hyperonic Radiation.
Finally, I'd check your difficulty settings. No real benefit to playing most episodes on anything other than Normal until you really know what you're doing.
Ah. It sounds like a Build issue. If you would show us what your current Build is, then you could get a lot of help. You can do so by filling out this and then posting the link:
https://skillplanner.stoacademy.com/
A big thing people generally aren't prepared for if they haven't kept a decent track of their gear and upgrades is the fact that the stats of the enemy NPCs and difficulty curve of the missions can take a dramatic jump once you hit some of the later episodes, usually around the delta quadrant stuff. The game also doesn't do that well in explaining build synergy to people. It doesn't explain as well as it could what abilities pair well with others and doesn't always give you an idea of what works well with what. One can learn that by reading tooltips as well as trial and error, but that takes a good while and can hamper new players by trying to put too much on them too quickly.
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I know you don't want to hear it, but 1 level should not be making or breaking your ability to progress like that. A basic cohesive build with mk xii very rare gear from missions should be able to complete 95% of the content in game. For that matter mk xii greens can do well. You say you've had problems, okay fine we believe you. One's build is the most likely culprit for why they are having issues. So the logical choice is to see where you are with your build and eliminate that as an issue. If your build turns out to be fine, that's great. It means we can then move on to other things such as your strategy for approaching said foe. Are you letting them hit you with something that does alot of burst damage, are you firing on them while they have a feedback pulse up, are you firing into something like a voth reflection shield, or what have you.
If you legitimately want help, we don't care to give you that help. But if you're going to just dismiss everything we say and not even try to work with us, then there's nothing we can do. We ask you about your build not to shame you, but to eliminate that as a possible issue. We don't know what your build looks like and for all we know it could be perfectly fine. However based on our past experience with other folks who have had similar issues, the issue was usually their build in a majority of cases coupled with flawed tactics. We've all been there so we're not shaming you. If it's simple build adjustments needed, then you'll know. If it turns out to be a bug, then that means me firing a bug report up the chain to the devs so it can be fixed for everyone. However if you're not willing to work with us there's nothing we can do.
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There are chunks of the game where it's all space so a sudden jump onto a ground map can create a hurdle due to lack of gear but that shouldn't really be much of an issue if someone's at the 50+ stage for the rep grind unless they levelled up purely off eventing.
And the things that can help offset it are build and combat tactics.
@teutoburger#8864 If you will kindly fill out this link:
https://skillplanner.stoacademy.com/
Then we can help you to synergize your Gear, Abilities, Duty Officers, Skills, and suggest a Specialization Tree that will benefit what you are looking to do. We are here to help, but you have to show us what you currently have so that we know what advice to give you because different goals (like a Cannon Boat, a Torpedo Boat, a Science-Magic Boat, etc) absolutely require different pieces.