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Nearing the 100,000 Honor Mark
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I'm nearing the 100K Honor mark.
Should I spend it on Captain Beverly Picard, Kahless the Unforgettable, Legendary Citation or Legendary Behold or should I spend it on neither?
I wish there were better characters to chose from than the above. Does anyone else agree?
What is the largest amount of honor that anyone has saved up, before deciding to spend it?
Thanks.
Should I spend it on Captain Beverly Picard, Kahless the Unforgettable, Legendary Citation or Legendary Behold or should I spend it on neither?
I wish there were better characters to chose from than the above. Does anyone else agree?
What is the largest amount of honor that anyone has saved up, before deciding to spend it?
Thanks.
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Exactly what you should do really depends on who you would be citing and who else you have. If you don't have a high CMD option for gauntlet (Mirror Picard is the "usual" one), then Kahless is a very good investment (and even has one of the best Voyage scores if you cite him up). If you have a good CMD option for gauntlet already, then Kahless's value is somewhat reduced.
Personally, I wouldn't bother with either Kahless or Cap Bev - but that's my perspective based on my own crew needs and how I value honor. I wouldn't consider it a mistake if you used it on one of them. Just not my cup of tea.
As for beholds vs citations... this is one of those chocolate vs vanilla debates. I understand the arguments against beholds, but at this point in my game progress, beholds have proven useful to me. I have a boatload of 1/5 and 2/5 crew (74 of them at this moment). As many will point out, adding a star to a 1/5 yields very little immediate value, so it's almost like wasting it (an argument that doesn't apply if you only have a few legendaries). None of my 2/5 crew are particularly deserving of a boost to 3/5 via citation either (e.g., Grand Nagus Zek, General Chang, Senator Vreenak - nope all around). I could buy a citation for one of my seven 3/5 crew... OR I could buy a behold and possibly get a) a discounted star for any of my existing crew, b) a new 1/5 that I've wanted to add to my crew, or c) 3 choices that Hoover. I only have 11 FF'd legendaries, so the odds of a full-house FF behold are slim enough that I'm not worried about it.
For a time, I was a "buy citations only" player. Right now, I find the risk of getting a Hoover outcome to be outweighed by the potential benefits that a behold offers for me. Someday, I expect to revert back to the "only citations" attitude.
Edit: I have purchased 8 legendary beholds. Thus far, I regret none of the choices I've made from them. Some have had more value than others (Seven of Nine - yes! Mirror Regent Worf - meh.) but every one of them has done something for me.
Contrary to what a lot of people are saying here, Captain Bev has been one of the best honour investments (if not the best) that I’ve done in this game. Her high CMD and MED combo plus a decent amount of DIP have made her invaluable in my voyages, she pretty much makes every voyage. Her skills are rivalled by only one other character: Reverend Phlox, and due to his recent release, he’s not in the main portal yet. So other than her and him, no one else in game has both high CMD and MED.
In addition to her stellar voyage capabilities, she’s also quite a good gauntleteer. I break her out more than Mirror Phlox even, due to her 3 skills compared to his 2. She has common enough traits to receive bonuses fairly often too.
So I guess my advice is, don’t sleep on Captain Bev. She’s a sound investment.
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Amenities include wifi, fully-functioning holodecks, a full-service bar, 3 party decks, a Trill spa, and a business centre.
Fun fact: The ships are propelled by bouncy castle technology.
I currently have 510,001 honor. Not too long ago I had close to 740,000 honor but I've bought some citations since then
I have both Captain Beverly Picard and Kahless the Unaffordable at 5/5
Beverly ends up being on a lot of my Voyages and Kahless is used in almost every Gauntlet so both are useful. It just depends on how you play as to which is preferable.
Kahless is great voyage and gauntlet character. Still one of the best in the game. Beverly is just ok... She is a good option though if you didn't get Guinan in the Gauntlet. In regards to citations over legendary beholds, citations are generally always the best option. If you are new and need to build crew it is a gamble but I wouldn't blame someone for doing a legendary behold in this case, but after you have a well rounded crew citations are always the way to go.
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So long and thanks for all the fish.
Just sayin'.
I use Kahless in the gauntlet all the time, of course.
I stand by my assessment.
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So long and thanks for all the fish.
Her destroying humanity is what merits that. We as a species needed this.
Captain of the voyage vessels: Queen of Bashir, Landsknecht, and Sunspear, the first luxury starship cruiseliners.
Amenities include wifi, fully-functioning holodecks, a full-service bar, 3 party decks, a Trill spa, and a business centre.
Fun fact: The ships are propelled by bouncy castle technology.
And it’s so amusing how crazy great she is for voyages and even somewhat for gauntlet, because I remember when she was released as the newest honour hall 5* that people bemoaned how low her skill bases were. And yet! One of the best voyageers in this game.
Captain of the voyage vessels: Queen of Bashir, Landsknecht, and Sunspear, the first luxury starship cruiseliners.
Amenities include wifi, fully-functioning holodecks, a full-service bar, 3 party decks, a Trill spa, and a business centre.
Fun fact: The ships are propelled by bouncy castle technology.
For sure. Extremely Voyage valuable
I just put in sulan and/or age of sail crusher there instead. No, Beverly Picard is not worth 100k. She would certainly be worth 75k, but 100k? Nope.
Well that’s an exact market value analysis. I paid 250k honor plus $25 for her and I’m very glad I did. It’s all about what you’re looking for as I wouldn’t spend any amount of honor for Khaless. He’s just a notch above many I already have yet Bev is way above what I had.
I'm amused that you think Sulan or AoS Crusher hold a candle to Bev's CMD/MED combination. That's the real use I get out of her. She's a strong MED who can either help along a MED-based voyage from a CMD slot and doesn't have to take up the more restrictive MED slots. Or, she can act as an off-shoot in a CMD slot to raise MED to a decent level in a non-MED focused voyage, and still likely end up contributing something to whatever the gold or silver skill is for a voyage. Sulan and AoS Crusher aren't bad at all, but just don't cut it for what all Cap'n Bev serves.
In most voyages with MED gold skill, MED is hard enough to raise up to a nice 8-hour voyage, because CMD, SEC, and ENG are all low MED potential slots so that pretty much relegates you just to filling DIP, MED, and SCI slots. And, if you load up SCI with MED, you're going to likely suffer with low ENG. Likewise if you load up DIP with MED, you'll likely suffer low CMD. So because Cap'n Bev has strong CMD, she doesn't make the CMD slot suffer and adds nicely to MED and a fair amount to DIP. She's essentially freeing up some other slot because her CMD is high and ideal for that slot, unlike if you put Sulan or AoS Crusher there where their CMD debilitates that slot because they only have 500-600 in the skill at max. And, you sorta have to have them at 5* for the most part in order to get that 500-600 amount. Cap'n Bev does great in CMD/MED even at 3* by adding about 1000 to both CMD/MED and that is compounded even more if you have starbase bonuses. Sulan at 3* is rather pitiful for voyages, and Aos Crusher does alright, but not as efficiently as Cap'n' B sets a voyage at 3*.
I'm just a diehard Cap'n Bev advocate, mostly because I too felt her stats were underwhelming when I first saw her. Then I finally decided to get her and yeah, I've never looked back.
Captain of the voyage vessels: Queen of Bashir, Landsknecht, and Sunspear, the first luxury starship cruiseliners.
Amenities include wifi, fully-functioning holodecks, a full-service bar, 3 party decks, a Trill spa, and a business centre.
Fun fact: The ships are propelled by bouncy castle technology.
+1000 muh lady!!!
I get where you are coming from, really. I am also left with the notion that 300,000 honor for what would be a decent yet incremental improvement on MED/COM and COM/MED voyages is just too much for me. I could put more stars on my 1/5* Alternate Future Bashir or 1/5* The Keeper instead; while I won’t get the same huge boost to COM I can compensate for that by slotting COM-heavy crew into the COM and SEC slots.