Starting coop over after a decade on another server

Co-op Missions Discussion
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So because of the outage we experienced on the Americas server, and am starting to get bored playing at max level, I decided to level up on EU server. I can say I am starting to see where those previous posts about bad players are coming from there’s more troll players here, some don’t even know that you can take expansions and just sit on 1 base.

But I digress, I want to know your inputs if it’s easier to level prestiges or masteries first? My gut tells me to max out masteries before taking prestiges. But I think ultimately it doesn’t matter.

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Mastery is a slog. At about 75 or 80, the levels take what feels like forever to advance. 85 to 90 is mind numbing. 89 to 90 is over a million XP.

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But isn’t every mastery level the same as the XP needed to level 90-1000?

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The mastery levels have an increasing XP amount per level.

After 90, it resets to a static number all the way to A1000.

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oh dang it is a slog no wonder I’d forgotten all about it lol.

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Back when I started over on EU, I chose to do the prestiges first since felt like it progressed a little quicker. And because I couldn’t even use mastery points during it anyways.

Once those were done, then I slogged through the mastery using the prestige I liked best which made it feel slightly more enjoyable.

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maybe I will do that. masteries don’t apply sub 15 anyway. Thanks for all the info.

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Ohh, no! You’re thinking of Ascension levels (from lv90 to lv1000) which is 200K. Mastery here is on an “RPG scale”…
https://starcraft.fandom.com/wiki/Co-op_Leveling#Mastery_Levels

… 18,467,500 XP is needed to reach lv90
Quarter of the way there by XP is 4.6 million, which is lv55
Half way through by XP is 9.2 million, which is just short of lv73
3/4 of the way there by XP is 13.85 million, which is north of lv84

So the differences are…
0% to 25% = +55 levels
25% to 50% = +18 levels
50% to 75% = +11 levels
75% to 100% = +6 levels

If you look at the column that just shows the straight XP for each level, the final 3 in Mastery are 835K XP, 935K, and 1.035 million! It’s a really long way to get that final mastery point! (although at least there’s an end in sight)

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As for doing it all over again, I tried. However, it’s just too big of a time sink. :confused: I play on my maxed out US server because there’s literally no commitment. I don’t have to keep up with the FWotD bonuses. Even though I still rack up Mutation Bounties, this is only once per week.

Don’t get me wrong, I had fun leveling up, everything, the first time. However, as far as progress on Europe goes, I’m only on lv57 (if you look at my post above, that’s pretty much just 27% of the way through, and that did take a bit of time alone! Can’t imagine repeating that 3 more times).

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If I were to soldier on with Europe region/server, I would go with what’s been suggested… level up more COs, and their prestiges, so you’ll have more variety when doing Mastery. It’d also give Mutation Bounties better utilization since you may not be able to do some Brutations with some of them COs and prestiges at pre-mastery. If you can, then it’s a great way to fast track through that!

Once you have more of them unlocked, along with some of their prestiges, it makes Mastery (not to mention Ascension) more variety, choices, and fun! My path to getting through Mastery, I only had Karax, Swann, and Stukov. Wasn’t that bad, “but still”.

Also, I would totally ignore some prestiges the 2nd time around, and even downright COs, to save significant amounts of time. I don’t really use them because they’re not my play style. Off the top of my head… Swann, Fenix… stop at P2. Don’t bother with Mengsk, at all.

I only forced myself to do so as a fun experiment… my “tour de prestige”. It took me 1.5 years (gained 400 Ascension levels) to try each mission, with each CO, on each of their prestiges, at least once. Regular Brutal, bonus was mandatory.
While we’re on metrics, it took me 8 months to do all 54 prestiges (from P1 to P3, inclusive, of all 18 COs)!

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Yeah I’m thinking of just getting all CO’s levelled to 15 for now and see if I still want to continue or go back to US. At least if we get an outage I can have fun on EU with COs that can hold their own on brutal.

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Outtage? As in you can’t access any content on the US side of Coop? Most I got was the first 3 being capped at lv5

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yeah remember that issue a few weeks back where you can’t start any games?

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Yeah, that’s right! FWIW, that was rare, and the ONLY time that’s ever happened to me over the nearly 5 years I’ve been playing Coop on a constant basis (can’t speak to the period of 2015 - 2020 though).

That’s what got me to put some leveling into the Europe COs. Did so for Stetmann P0, got from lv55 to lv57, and it was fun. However, too much of an obligation (so pretty much, read my comment about this being a time sink). In the future, I’ll probably have better will power to just turn the game off and come back some other time.

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I can speak for that time and nope, no outage during those years too. lol.

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Eh I try to get myself all on all servers but my main problem is that daily quest is not reseting at a default time. So I try to get myself via daily quest wins on P3 Level 15 with all commanders except Mengsk (never bought him as he whas too much of immersion break for me) so once I am P3 15 on all Commanders I will only do one daily win per server and rest only if I feel like while trying else only via weekly mutations.