Check out the new Event Grand Prize - the Tier 6 Compiler Science Dreadnought inspired by V'ger, or check out some of the new prizes available from the Picard: "A Safe Galaxy Lock Box"! There is little to say here beyond that civilians are generally worse than the other types, as they qualify for fewer missions. It is often recommended that a FED player start a Klingon player to DOff with. Specialist Fleet Awards. If you'd like to help out with updating the wiki, click here for a list of all new items and content! Out of curiousity, I tried this last night, and it worked well enough, but I'm curious: how do you know how to price them? For example, you might 350 Eng points /350 colonial points. In addition, a Romulan captain (or one with Rank 4 in Diplomacy/Marauding) can recruit Rai during Mine Enemy. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, Farmer's Guide to Energy Credits and Dilithium, Farming EC with Duty Officer missions (FED), Farming Dilithium with Duty Officer missions, Infuse Alien Artifact with Rare Particles, Completion of the respective star cluster's. Every bridge officer has their very own special expertise, which are displayed in daring text. Note that certain DOffs like the Emergency Medical Hologram do not return any dilithium or XP upon dismissal. The Junior Officer Appreciation Event requires an absolutely outrageous number of particle traces per doff and is not worth doing. You get more commendations points for the assignments. 1 Advisor, Diplomat, or Security officer and 1 other doff (doffs will be returned to your roster upon completion). I could have sworn I did before. Want to join McStu's Fleet? B. Race only matters for the Federation; Ferengi offer a marginal benefit in reducing the cost of purchased commodities that may be required for missions. Get yourself an escort of some sort. You load up on recruitment assignments and then either keep, sell or send those VR doffs to the doff grinder at Starfleet. Promotions: Several doffs have been given away for free in the past. Mission types include: Consoles, Dual Heavy Cannons, Beam Arrays, and Torpedoes. I also has to be reinstated in the fleet but I dont see much activity in the forums, Locations for Doff Recruitment and Trade CXP. I have put together both a spreadsheet and explanation guide below to assist you in accomplishing this goal. Medical has a ton of short 30 min assignments you can run till you drop and there is no shortage of them. They are the most common doff type, randomly obtained through leveling. I add this to my dailies list when I do dailies. Green, blue, and purple quality duty officers cannot die while on assignment, but can sustain injury which will make them unavailable for a period of time (Usually 8 hours) and is likely to place them in sickbay. Targeted areas for improvement besides incomplete sections include a more comprehensive guide to marauding (once I experiment with it a little more), a more accurate ranking of commendation difficulties (where exactly do Diplomacy, Exploration, Marauding, and Development rank compared to the rest? I zipped through the recruitment CXP using your technique at the Personnel Officer. Tellarites with Stubborn and Resolve fetch around a million EC on the Exchange. I would also advise against exchanging high-rarity refugees in these assignments; there are some doff assignments (especially in Medical) that require refugees specifically. To replace it, the Duty Officer system was introduced. sectors: Qo'nos, Khitomer, Xarantine, Japori, Celes, Kesse, Risa, and finally Alderbaran. Weigh carefully what you want more: Do you want fast dilithium, or more dilithium at less risk of disaster? Transwarp Computer: Obtained with the T3 Excelsior but usable by any ship, this console drastically reduces transwarp cooldown time. The best way to farm crafting mats is to farm EC and buy them on the exchange. Recruitment assignments from the academies (visit representatives and accept the assignment). Using it on a Ferengi ship also provides access to yet another assignment contact. True, you won't have the chance for that sweet crit, but you also don't risk that devastating disaster, and as has been said, Consign Prisoners isn't very sustainable. Always double-check for this before selling, downgrinding, etc. Some abilities are borderline useless; some have created the most famous builds in the game. This is the unofficial community subreddit for Star Trek Online, the licensed Star Trek MMO, available on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. In order to get Tier IV you must earn 100,000 points in that commendation to get to the point. These include A Fistful of Gorn, Facility 4028, All That Glitters, A New Warfare, Time In A Bottle, and the Halloween/Friday the 13th special mission Hearts and Minds. Assignment: Tellarite Cultural Exchange (by chance in normal Success) Refugees can be bought from the in-game Exchange or can . Some elements, however, are more important than others. Try it if you're feeling lucky. Refugees can be obtained from Duty Officer Assignments: Assignment: Support Colonization Efforts (*These missions do NOT award Refugees, on a Critical Sucess they award 1 Prisoner.) C. This option is probably the easiest and makes the most sense. You won't run into any exploration systems, only scanning anomalies. Duty officers will be in one of the seven following departments: There are also 2 more departments that have their own roster separated from the main roster: Passengers (usually colonists) and the Brig. These missions take place "in the background," so to speak, and happen in real-world time. At higher CXP ranks, this is also a method for passively farming Fleet Marks. After you complete each of the 14 Colonization chains, you get the repeatable Support Colonization Efforts mission for each one. Those without much time to spare may want to skip the downgrind step and sell all doffs acquired. Ferengi Marauder Set: Expensive in terms of Lobi, but a 10% bonus to all CXP earned is no laughing matter. If all else fails, the Exchange usually has exactly what you want. The higher the Doff rarity the more points you will receive. Caitian Diaspora / Unforgiven of Ferasa assignment chains: Awards a very rare flight deck officer and unlocks a repeatable assignment to get more. Doffs follow the same rarity scheme as items: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Very Rare, Ultra-Rare, and Epic. Every morning, I spend about five or six million EC on blue doffs on the exchange. The exception is, of course, when they are occasionally given away for free as part of a promotion. Resettle Colonists is available fairly often for FEDs and has an 8hr cool-down. At level 11, a character receives their initial consignment of doffs. (There is some disagreement on this point. Nah, im in a fleet with my 2 RL friends. However, a particularly large benefit when grinding is that they also contribute bonus Commendation XP to a success or crit based on their rarity. I have reached level 4 on all of them except Recruitment and Trade. Thanks! Both recruit types, if you created one of each, requires you to achieve Tier IV in 6 different commendation categories. Additional Duty Officers can be obtained in various ways and in many map locations: If you wish to get rid of one or more of duty officers (DOFFs), you can select "dismiss" and get an amount of Dilithium Ore and Recruitment CXP based upon their rarity. Efficient is also almost always helpful when it appears. Wow! Negotiate Prisoner Exchange: Allows you to trade a prisoner for a new, random doff. STAR TREK and related marks are Thus, in many ways the rarity of a doff is the most important factor when grinding Commendation XP. That's the same idea I'm working with, except for a DOFF with specific traits. #6. Guides. Therefore it may be subjective as to which is easier or harder and what to order to complete them. You'll almost inevitably end up with a few spare Rare DOFFs, but those can always hang around until you have other Rares to combine them with. These are preferred because you can obviously double down and cut your doff time in half. I had held off on this due to the perceived difficulty in doing so, and because the available information on doffing is essentially years out of date. Very Rare Mk XII Consoles net between 3 and 50 million EC, depending on the console. Running a CXP bonus pool can speed the time up. With the help of a variety of resources and advice, I was able to complete this work in a far shorter amount of time than I expected. Awards the doff regardless of the mission outcome. Get a Federation, or Klingon character to Level 50. Guides. When managed correctly, doffing can be quite lucrative on a number of levels. I have see the multiphasic event. This will help you make a decent amount of EC so you can survive your needs. The set itself can work in a torpboat setup. Duty officers, with the exception of civilians, will have an enlisted or officer rank. It does you no good to fill up all of your available slots with 20 hours assignments that may not award the same amount of points. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, RetiredAdmiral Enzo Aquarius@enzoaquarius - U.S.S. Fleet doffs can be recruited at many fleet holdings by spending an absolutely outrageous number of fleddits for each doff purchased. Use a map if you're unfamiliar with sector space. Unique, unrepeatable assignment. For some reason I see a spike in rare doff prices. On success a 10 stack of some craft item. Star Trek Online video follow up to my previous guide on the upgrade system with commentary.Link to previous video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bytJhQ0ozl. This mission can be found under "Current Map" in sector space but is more likely to be found under "Department Heads." Players with support builds have found it relatively easy to take first place, as healing counts more than damage inflicted in this fleet action. * Recruitment is another slow one. Lets think about these crits, assuming you crit all 5 of to Colonists to , you will receive 5000 dil. Each extra slot can only be purchased once. https://discord.. You can successfully craft rare items without the below DOFFs, however Ultra Rare crafting does require special DOFFs. TL;DR - it's possible to "farm" the Support Very Rare DOFFs, break them down into Rare DOFFs, feed them to the Tellarite Personnel Officer, and get a Very Rare DOFF that's worth between one and twenty million plus EC with the right traits on the Exchange, or assemble a team of those DOFFs to craft Mk XII consoles and either keep them, sell them, or give them away. Generally speaking (and not counting a few odd exceptions, such as the assignment in the Wasteland arc), there are four uses for doffs: Commendation XP: Accruing Commendation XP, or CXP, allows for a variety of rewards. Tal Shiar Awards. These are only important for assignments. You only get points for DOFF assignments that are completed and not for assignments that gets an outcome of failure. Uncommons contribute +5%, Rares +10%, and Very Rare and higher contribute +20%. The Borg in this area will Adapt to your Energy weapons, so grab a Remodulator from your Replicator (for 0EC) and remember to use it. This couldn't be further from the truth however. You will receive a few more as you level up. While most of the bundle can only be used by Federation-aligned characters, Klingon-aligned ones can in fact still claim the doffs through a Klingon version in the Zen store. For example alot of Very Rare Doffs have the trait RESOLVE. PROTIP: Always check the Current Map in the "Assignments" tab and in the corresponding department under the "Department heads" tab. The major disadvantage of binding doffs, aside from not being able to trade them, is that most bound doffs cannot be downground into multiple doffs of lower rarity. This will be important, because when the Discovery part of STO gets added in the fall, we will undoubtedly have to do this again if Cryptic runs recruiting event. Both mission uses a nebula around a portal to make a bunch of battleships coming in one by one easier to kill by stripping their shields be sure to stay outside the nebula area so you can keep yours! Colonial missions are also not as frequent for the KDF. Forced Labor Camp in the requires fewer prisoners, but also only pays out 350 dil (which is why you don't see it on r/STODOff's lists), it also requires 5 provisions. Open the Foundry. Notably, this officer comes unbound--and the officer you send can be bound. While these duty officers technically fall in the civilian category, they have some differences with it, like in example you will not be able to use them for many assignments that would normally allow any character in them. But, you can regrind any useless Tellarites into 3 more Rares. Video Guides. Increasing your difficulty to 'Elite' will increase your chances of blues and purples, and possibly higher mark gear. I have been saving my data samples and leving up crafting as I can. Thank you to @spacewitch3 for compiling this list and @masterskittle for passing it on to me.You can find the list used in the video here: https://www.dropbo. Since there is no guarantee that the mission will succeed I would only consider this option as a alternative. You will see this more on the instigate deflection or cluster assignments throughout the maps. Use the Personnel Officer and your faction's main Hub or at the Fleet Starbase to convert it into 3 rare. and costs 2000 latinum (Yes, intrepid DOff'er, latinum is good for something! For example CXP 10,000 or 25,000. I run the crap out of the EVA suit assignment because it awards the most point with the fewest effort. It's really awesome and there's rich PVPers/Children's Toys dudes running around buying. You can then visit the personnel officer and exchange them down for 3 lower ranking officers. For duty officer discussion, visit /r/STODOff/. The general idea is to score critical successes to get items and more doffs, then sell the expensive items and doffs for EC. Resettle Colonists: Awards five colonists on success. Gorn Awards. I am trying to reach level 4 on all of my Doff commendation categories. D'Kora / Quark / Nandi: These ships come with a trader contact, but also have additional benefits when equipping the Ferengi Marauder set. The maximum amount that can be earned during the event is 350,000 EC. Quality depends on duty officer qualities and crit traits. Some doffs are affiliated with certain R&D schools, allowing them to be used to create certain items. Both have a disaster rate of 4% with no fail rate, you crit, succeed, or there is a disaster. It is possible, with the proper planning, to amass nearly 3 million EC during the event. This is one of the factors that determines which doffs can go on which missions. Use cheap greens or blues with crit traits for this mission. The only advantage I see to farming the support missions is that it requires no starting capital. I often hear that KDF is better for DOffing for dilithium then FED, and it very much seems the case. Snagged a Stubborn + Resolve damage control engineer doff outta this, instant +17 mil, made about 30 or so when the next two (including the 17 mil) doffs sell. Follow route, keeping in mind Beta borders, Relocate to Borders plus Colonial chains--look for crit traits, Support Khazan (Projectile Weapons Officer), Convert all doffs possible to unbound via OXP, Turn in to Fleet projects (Coordinate Colonization can take any white, even Refugees or Prisoners), u/allocator's excellent work on mapping doff mission locations in the Alpha/Beta Quadrants, \@ShadowDragon, whose Reddit username I do not know, for his kind advice on Colonists in Redditchat that is far more relevant post-Admiralty nerf, u/redhotkurt's guide to farming on the r/STO wiki, which includes some information about doffing, The r/sto wiki's Advanced Doffing guide, which is now solidly out of date but still contains much relevant information, No Win Scenarios Event in Event Campaign II, mapping doff mission locations in the Alpha/Beta Quadrants. At the respective factions academies, Personnel Officers allow a captain to commission cadres of duty officers, and also to turn in five underperforming duty officers, plus a modest amount of Dilithium, for a random duty officer of the next highest quality. This limit can be exceeded by purchasing 1 additional slot for ground and space through the. Also, I believe you can exchange your bound doffs, right? You can buy them off the exchange, from opening lockboxes or even from completing some DOFF assignments. Players of the Klingon faction additionally have the following assignments to "dismiss" duty officers (other than prisoners/colonists/refugees) for a reward: There are currently 65 different species of duty officers. This is Due the Fact that collored quallity Doff cant die in Missions. On that note, please add comments and ideas that will life easier for all of us and especially the new players. If you Crit it, you get one of 14 Very Rare Duty officers. This is especially true for marauding Klingons. The mission to Colonists to has a one hour cool-down and, if you have 20 colonists, 2500 dil assuming all success, or more if you crit (and yes, less if you fail). You can get the bonus pools several ways in this game. Play fleet actions like Starbase 24 and Gorn Minefield and you can amass good amounts of EC, Fleet marks, Dilithium, junk loot, and potentially valuable reward loot in the process. On success a 10 stack of some craft item. In addition, Engineering, Security, and Medical commendation ranks will unlock additional doffs via your replicator. This method can be very profitable, especially when fleets run projects that require a lot of common duty officers. Continue to grind them down until you get them to common. Cultural Exchange assignments: Available only to the Federation, there are ten of these (one is linked as an example). If you check the in-game calendar, there is a "multiphasic" event that improves the drops from scanning anomalies. Well, maybe not, but I'll lay out some numbers and let you decide how you want to sell your prisoners into slavery. Star Trek Online General Discussion. Winters STO Top Tips. I am coming along well with the Trade CXP as well. They go for about 10M a pop, to they're not too bad. Call Us: 1.800.883.9662. sto secondary deflector mission reward. KDF, admit it, you have it easy. A good farming mission will give you at least 500k EC in items (yes, that's a 10-minute half-million). Expensive purple items (like the Warp Core, explained in detail above) can be awarded with the proper duty officers with crit traits. While you do not necessarily have to fill out the critical traits list to complete a doff assignment, you do increase your chances of getting a critical result. Much of the build-focused subject matter is beyond the scope of this guide, Fleet projects: A still-important facet of doffing is turning in common doffs for fleet project progress. This is the unofficial community subreddit for Star Trek Online, the licensed Star Trek MMO, available on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. You can recognise these because they will be marked as being part of a chain by ending with 3/7, or whichever stage of the series they belong to. Note that your results will vary from others. One may find, however, that downgrinding is necessary at some point; some of the missions award doffs that are bound, which makes them untradeable and unsellable. (Both Tac and Eng Captains can summon support who weapons doesn't need remodulating.) The T3 only comes with three, but has a console that cuts transwarp cooldown in half (and can be had with nothing but dilithium). Deep Space Nine Pack: The DS9 bundle includes three doffs. In Star Trek Online (STO), Dilithium ("Dil") is used as a currency to purchase everything from starships, high level or specialized weapons and armor, and other end game content, including contributions to Fleet Projects (STO's Guilds) and the Reputation system. Then I turn them all into purples. I have reached level 4 on all of them except Recruitment and Trade. Good group of people there. (doffs return to your roster). In addition, it is able to transwarp to any exploration cluster. C. Science. Dilithium farming: While other, more profitable methods of dil farming (such as admiralty) have taken some of the luster out of dil doffing, there are still rewards to be had for building dil-focused doffs. The Problem is that the Materials must be picked up from Borg in Defera invasion zone, or from the 4 Mission givers on that planet on completion of their missions. Duty officers can be sent out on special missions called. 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