Is it necessary to complete all Pursuits for 6000 Ego?

[Ray8888]

If this wasn't complicated enough, now I have to worry about a EXP level cap too?

Since I maxed all the EGO skills I wanted, I am not so concerned with EXP anymore, I take it as it comes.

The XP gives 4266 ego without any pursuits. Everybody gets frustrated at about 5700. Everybody. That is the point where you gotta do the tedious stuff. Most complain about the Races and PvP. You dont have to do them all but you have to do some. I got to 6k without golding any of the races. PvP was the lesser of the evils for me.

You want all the numbers click here... http://forums.defiance.com/showthrea...f-Apr.-14-2015

[Atticus Batman]

The XP gives 4266 ego without any pursuits. Everybody gets frustrated at about 5700. Everybody. That is the point where you gotta do the tedious stuff. Most complain about the Races and PvP. You dont have to do them all but you have to do some. I got to 6k without golding any of the races. PvP was the lesser of the evils for me.

You want all the numbers click here... http://forums.defiance.com/showthrea...f-Apr.-14-2015

Exactly. If you do all the PVP pursuits, then you don't have to gold the races. However you do have to silver all of them, last I recall. However I am at like 5700 and haven't silvered them all and still need around 250 PVP kills (and 15 clanmates in a shadowwar). Do I actually care enough to grind out the stuff that annoys me, like golding races or doing Expos? No, because I play for fun, so max level is no big deal.

Besides there are currently no real reasons to reach max ego, other than the self gratification at doing so; The feeling of pride that you indeed got to max cap and earned it (so self-gratification that you should feel proud about and enjoy.); Bragging rights as a way to make yourself feel like you are better at the game than others (and I have seen this attitude a lot since the game went F2P on Xbox); or because you are a min/max player and must always deal max damage (which is fine, just please don't complain about my weapon choices too much. I know that some of my choices are considered crap. However I like to use what I want, and I have an unorthodox play-style that works for me in most games that I play.).

[Tilarta]

My current frustration is with the weekly reputation pursuits.
The one identified for Soleptor Enterprises never launches because it is a Co-Op map and not enough players queue to launch it.
Defiant Few, I have no idea where to find these enemies listed, nor do I feel like finding 3 specific kinds of foes, so that's also out.
7th Legion requires you to do a specific one-shot Incursion and those are not common.
There's a couple of others that focus on Expeditions and the last time I tried one, I got wiped by the boss level enemy I was told to fight.

Given this amount of negative experience, I'm hoping the Reputation Pursuits can be ignored.

My other frustration is that Going Commando insists you get to rank 10 in Infectors.
I am trying it, but the weapon is so low in DPS, it's limiting my ability to fight enemies.
Against some of the more powerful enemies, it feels like it isn't even harming them!

I don't even want to think about the ones that insist you must use a specific EGO skill to defeat 5000 enemies!

My problem with the Race based pursuits is that I spend so much time watching the timer to see if I am getting Silver, it's impossible to concentrate on the racetrack at the same time.
And the more frustrated I get at not being able to meet the target, the more I fail.

The ones relating to the rocket or grenade launcher always seem to fail for the same reason, not enough ammo and the enemies won't group up so I can take out high numbers with one shot.
When I run out of ammo, it's game over.
Crystal Defense was particularly annoying for this, they'd run around in groups of 2 or 3, never 10 or more.

I'm hoping in the unlikely event that I complete most of the Pursuits successfully, I'll have gotten to 6k ego without PvP so I can skip doing them, since I dislike it so intensely.


And if you are curious as to why I want to be maxed, it's so I can play a story mode mission without dying 100 times over.
That's the only motivation here.

Although a secondary motivation was the Artic Freeze pack they added to the store about a week or more ago.
Since I like ice based weapons, I thought it might be worth buying.
Then I noticed the EGO level required for the weapon in the pack (6000) and realized it would be pointless to buy it as I couldn't use the weapon!
I hope that is a permanent item so I don't miss out on it if I ever get to 6k EGO.

[Fallen_Aingeal]

*snip*
Then I noticed the EGO level required for the weapon in the pack (6000) and realized it would be pointless to buy it as I couldn't use the weapon!
I hope that is a permanent item so I don't miss out on it if I ever get to 6k EGO.

That EGO on the advertisement card is just a stock number to show what the weapons will do at max ego.

When you purchase the bundle, the weapons will fall to your ego or 100 less.

[true]

In my opinion and from what i've heard from a few poeple that particular bundle is over rated anyways your money would be better spent with the patron pass because it gives you bonuses for all your weapons, viehical and ego bonuses for leveling up.

As for lvling guns - right now the colony courtship is going on so get to them majors and use them. You'll be surprized at how fast those weapons will lvl.

The biggest thing is to just be a little patient. Most of the pursuits and enemy based pursuits have a habit of completing by just playing the game. Also the 1st character that I ran the races on I put a piece of tape over the timer area on my screen and actually did pretty good at that time.

I despised PvP as well, but with persistence and a lot of dying I achieved most of them.

Expect to die A lot, but just keep going and you'll start to see that these things get easier as you go.