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When is it better to behold or to cite?
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So I know this is a bit of a depends on the circumstance sort of question. When is it better to pull a behold and when is it better to get an honorable citation? The trade off I am facing is roll the dice for a better character with a behold (or maybe hope for a hit on a character that I want to add a star to) or build the characters I have in a targeted way by spending a bit more by getting citations.
And is it better to spread the love by also using super rare citations/beholds or just to focus solely on legendary?
What I currently have is:
7 Legendary:
T'Kuvma 4*
Mobile Doctor 1*
Mirror Jean-Luc Picard 5*
Mariachi Q 1*
The Keeper 1*
Wlll Scarlett 1*
Scientist Degra 1*
50 - 60 Super Rare characters:
I've worked out which super rares are the best (using lvl 100 stats and do not airlock sheets - fantastic spreadsheets). I've built my super rare characters to spread fairly evenly across the skills (a bit week in Medicine). A whole load of the lower quality super rares are not developed at all and I will just chuck once something better comes along. Credits tend to limit my development of characters.
Rare and uncommon:
I am now at a stage where I have the bare minimum 2 stars I need for the cadet challenges. I have excess 3* characters ready to be frozen to make space but they are still kind of useful at the moment as I still have a lot of underdeveloped 4* characters.
My other stats:
My voyages get to the 6 hour mark half the time.
I'm usually top 25 on the gauntlet.
And is it better to spread the love by also using super rare citations/beholds or just to focus solely on legendary?
What I currently have is:
7 Legendary:
T'Kuvma 4*
Mobile Doctor 1*
Mirror Jean-Luc Picard 5*
Mariachi Q 1*
The Keeper 1*
Wlll Scarlett 1*
Scientist Degra 1*
50 - 60 Super Rare characters:
I've worked out which super rares are the best (using lvl 100 stats and do not airlock sheets - fantastic spreadsheets). I've built my super rare characters to spread fairly evenly across the skills (a bit week in Medicine). A whole load of the lower quality super rares are not developed at all and I will just chuck once something better comes along. Credits tend to limit my development of characters.
Rare and uncommon:
I am now at a stage where I have the bare minimum 2 stars I need for the cadet challenges. I have excess 3* characters ready to be frozen to make space but they are still kind of useful at the moment as I still have a lot of underdeveloped 4* characters.
My other stats:
My voyages get to the 6 hour mark half the time.
I'm usually top 25 on the gauntlet.
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Thanks. Very helpful.
So are you saying it is better to get beholds unless you have a character that wont drop in a behold?
People thought that about Mirror Picard
Citations is what I'm leaning to anyway. Confirmation or counter arguments are appreciated.
If all of those beholds were "useful" (I was able to add a star to an existing 5* or a character that is useful at 1/5), then it was a better deal to buy the beholds.
If one was not useful, then it was a toss-up in terms of cost. However, with citations, I would get to choose my most powerful characters to star-up.
If more than one was not useful, then the beholds were an awful deal because I received fewer useful stars that didn't necessarily go on my strongest characters.
There are LOTS of bad 5*s out there. Personally, I would never take the risk of getting a "bad" one because all it takes is just one out of the 10 beholds for it to make it worse than citations.
That really does make a lot of sense. I think it all depends on what a players crew looks like and who they have that is worth citations. Over the past couple days I blew through a huge stockpile of Honor I was sitting on (saving 100k for the new Honor Hall person). I have SO many 1/5s I figured it would be more fun to get beholds rather than citations. I got 5 Legendary Beholds and consider myself pretty lucky:
Yarnek (2nd Star)
Lt. Cmdr Jadzia Dax (2nd Star)
Grand Nagus Zek (2nd Star)
Bashir, Julian Bashir (New)
Dahar Master Kang (5th Star)
No great, not terrible. I was able to Immortalize Kang just in time for the event this week. All in all I'm pretty happy with it. Next time I splurge though I will get citations to finish off some people not in the regular pool yet.
Very helpful. Up vote.
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Not sure if this has been mentioned ... but should you site Super Rares ... you might want to start with crew that has just been released ... e.g. Duelist Yar, Mother Horta, Commander Chapel etc. ... they may not be your best, but if you don't have 4 copies of them already they'll sit around for eons on your roster. This way you can keep on making space and hope portal/Voyage luck brings you stars on others.
Because, e.g. you'll automatically probably get a 10x Premium pull sometime next weekend and that could have a behold, or at least a 4* ... this will be from the list of older crew available and it would be a pity if you just used a citation on them. However, it will be a month or 2-3 before Duelist Yar is added to that pool.
Recently, there have been a lot of new crew coming in and next weekend you'll get 3 new crew again (the mega-event 5* (citation worthy), and both 4*s, as it is a galaxy!). So, it might be better to make sure you can make some space?
I got a citation for both Yar and Horta, both will be frozen come Monday (Yar already is). I also got a citation for Mirror Picard in week 1 of the last mega event and will do the asme this time around, it really helped out, especially the Hybrid/Faction events.
EDIT: As a reference, I currently have 130.000+ Honor and only spend it on citations.
If you have the crew soace to hold onto more partial fusions (or don't mind airlocking them) then you might be better served by citing your best 5*s.
Generally, I have aimed for 5*s with high base scores who are also main cast (and stand to be event crew more often).
Depending on how much honour you have, a 5* cite for the legendary in the next mega event.
A 5* cite for T'Kumva, but this can wait.
For characters that are 3/4, use a cite to finish them. Cite the characters that are less useful, then freeze them. That will free up a crew space, and keep the character for future events.
For useful 3/4 characters, keep them on the ship, and wait for a duplicate to drop.
I will be citing Prisoner Cornwell as soon as she drops. She will be my best med, and event crew.
Personally I would wait until the end of the mega event, you don't want another mirror picard scenario.
I would be seriously shocked if they pulled another Mirror Picard scenario again, to do so would require someone to purposely try and sabotage the company.
It just wouldn't be worth it - although if they started the event with a free Cornwell that would be a very different matter!
Cornwall on the other hand is 3rd in the voyage table and has a high MED base so I would focus your attentions to her; as she'll be an infinitely more useful character than the blue guy!
2. In what way 962 base, 1291 for Voyages loses to 829 base, 1082 for Voyages? 5/5 T'Kuvma is outright better than 4/4 Tyler.
A 5/5 T'Kuvma still ranks significantly better in overall voyage score than every single 4* in the game and is 110th overall. Not GOOD, certainly, but a good option for most people.
And, this is probably a bit of a nitpick, but I have Cornwall 5th overall for voyage score, however, I'm assuming full starbases, so that might be the reason for the discrepancy, as two high-proficiency characters (Locutus and Kahless) are just a hair ahead of her.
1 First Officer Burnham 3817
2 Mirror Jean-Luc Picard 3704
3 Locutus of Borg 3679
4 Kahless the Unforgettable 3674
5 Prisoner Katrina Cornwell 3672
6 Leonardo da Vinci 3654
7 Bartender Guinan 3610
8 Protomorphosis Barclay 3578
9 Honey Bare Dax 3576
10 Borg Queen 3576
I've been tracking how many times I've used my crew members for things like non-event shuttles and voyages. T'Kuvma has only made it into 5 of my voyages, but he's also made it into 68 of my non-event shuttles--making him #1 in that category. He's also been used in every Faction Event, as well as this week's Disco-bonus Galaxy. Voyages aren't everything.
Back to the matter at hand, the most prudent course of action is to go with the Citation. It's a sure thing with a great deal of flexibility. Plus, you can use it for crew members who aren't in general portal circulation, like the Gauntlet, Honor Hall, and/or Voyage exclusive crew who are not presently even possible to pull.
That said, I've vacillated. I've cashed in for Citations to finish the first four mega-event Legendaries, as well as for the last two stars on Bartender Guinan and a third on Locutus of Borg. I'll eventually get the last two for Locutus, and for Prisoner Katrina Cornwell, too.
I've also rolled the dice on two Legendary Beholds, reasoning that between all the 5*'s I still need stars on, and all the ones I don't have at all that I still want, it's still mathematically favorable for me to end up with someone I'll want. It's worked out nicely both times I've done it, but I'm keenly aware that it is still a risk that could end up squandering 45000 Honor. I was okay with that risk, and I'll almost certainly take it again eventually, but for the time being I've decided to shift my focus back to adding stars to the ones I can't pull because they aren't in general circulation.
I level up the 3* and 4* in parallel and dump a 3* every time it is replaced by a better levelled up 4*. In a few weeks I won't have any surplus 3*s.
Having taken it all in I'm going to focus on citing my best characters even though some of them can be got in the behold. My reason is that I think I will benefit in the long run from going further in voyages or better chances on shuttles etc. I think I will then finish off some of my lesser 4*s with citations to make space. Once I have got my best characters fused and created space, I think I will start on 5* beholds.