sildeath Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 So I've just starting doing some space missions, because they're pretty good xp for lower levels and I have a few questions about upgrading my starship. When I go to the Starship upgrade Vendor and look at the items they'll say things like "upgrade blaster damage to 40." When I look at my starship tab under the character menu it says, with nothing equipped, that my blaster damage is 45. Does this mean I should avoid buying any grade 1 items since the base level with nothing equipped on the ship is higher than what they offer? Or are tool tips just incorrect? Also, does the starship base damage increase with my level? Something that makes me think the tool tips are wrong is that my missile bay says it holds 40, but when I start a mission I only have 16 missiles. Also, I'm a cybertech and read somewhere I should be able to craft starship upgrades. At what level should this happen? I'm about a 130 in cybertech right now, and unless I've totally overlooked them, I haven't see anything yet. Thanks for any help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vexxation Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 Not sure about your tooltips part but the schematics for the starship upgrades are drops from other missions and cannot be learned from the trainer. Happily they are usually quite a common drop and thus cheap on the GTN. Don't try and RE the upgrades you make though, they don't RE.Its always a good idea to upgrade your ship though - but don't buy level 1 ship armor as soon as you get your ship because you get it as a quest reward for one of the first ship missions you do (and grade 2 beam charger - I think its the beam charger, might not be - for later mssions is also a reward). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFizbin Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 You get the grade 2 and 4 beam chargers from space quests. Buy the grade 2 and 4 items off the GTN when you can use them. Don't bother with grade 1 or 3. Grade 2 will be fine until you can use the grade 4 stuff. And grade 2 really does have better stats than the grade 3 stuff. I'd suggest doing the space dailies every day to save up fleet commendations. You'll need them for ship upgrades at levels 25, 35, 45, and 50. As for crafting the upgrades, I see that one of the grade 2 schematics on the GTN says you need 90 cybertech skill to learn it. Keep checking the GTN for ones you don't know. The ship upgrades aren't available at the trainer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owsley Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 Something that makes me think the tool tips are wrong is that my missile bay says it holds 40, but when I start a mission I only have 16 missiles. Thanks for any help Did you equip the item or is it still in your inventory? You need to equip the upgrades just like you would with your companion. Open you ship tab and make sure the slot has something in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasheria Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 Putting in level 1 items (usable when you get your ship) is a good thing (plus it is WAY cheap) level 2 item does have a little higher level limit and sometimes are not available on GTN (unless you make it yourself like me) If you can't find level 2 items, level 1 is better than empty slot (you always want lots and lots of missiles ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bammur Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 Something that makes me think the tool tips are wrong is that my missile bay says it holds 40, but when I start a mission I only have 16 missiles. Thanks for any help If reference to this specifically, the number you see is the number remaining in 'inventory'. So when you look at your missiles, you have 4 showing plus 16 for a total of 20. You should see 36 if your missile bay holds 40. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sildeath Posted February 2, 2012 Author Share Posted February 2, 2012 Did you equip the item or is it still in your inventory? You need to equip the upgrades just like you would with your companion. Open you ship tab and make sure the slot has something in it. I haven't actually purchased any upgrades at this point, which is why it's kind of weird that it shows 40 in my ship screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sildeath Posted February 2, 2012 Author Share Posted February 2, 2012 I'd suggest doing the space dailies every day to save up fleet commendations. You'll need them for ship upgrades at levels 25, 35, 45, and 50. Regarding the space dailies, how can you tell if it's a daily? I accepted several missions, but I can't tell which are repeatable or dailies. Thanks again to everyone for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Althire Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 They normally say repeatable in the log also the dailies are usually two of the space missions and not just one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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