Copyright 2010 by Attilio Vassallo. This defines what effect the officer has if assigned to a space or ground role. This is a guide to farming EC, originally written by RockyCoon. * Recruitment is another slow one. For some reason I see a spike in rare doff prices. Amarie Smuggler's Heavy Escort: This ship also has a bridge with a trader contact. The mechanics of the duty officer system are rather similar to those of many collectible card games, in that officers can be acquired from random booster packs from assignments or the Zen Store. Tal Shiar Awards. You only get points for DOFF assignments that are completed and not for assignments that gets an outcome of failure. There are 3 missions. Tour the Universe is an hour-long, galaxy-wide event in which the player is awarded 50,000 EC for visiting all sectors of a sector block. Crystalline Catastrophe Elite (CCE) is another mission that awards two purple MK XI items to first place winners. There is little to say here beyond that civilians are generally worse than the other types, as they qualify for fewer missions. Mirror Universe Bundle: Also sometimes called the Legendary Galaxy Dreadnought Bundle, this bundle does come with one doff. 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. All ranks unlock titles, a free doff, the ability to purchase more doffs with dilithium (or EC, in three cases), and in two cases transwarp points and an enemy-faction boff. Your faction's academy has department- and race-specific recruitment missions which are free and award common doffs. Thus, this is an indirect method of "unbinding" officers. Cryptic has been planning an update for the crafting system, but it's still a ways away. And so on until I've got all saleable doffs. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Want to join McStu's Fleet? You may want to check the exchange to see if you can't get more. Star Trek Online game content and materials are trademarks and copyrights of Ya the exchange is just way to overpriced for some of the basic componets. Sorry FED, that's just how it is. Shields and deflector dishes are the ones worth the most selling this way. Duty officers (doffs) represent the junior officers, enlisted personnel, and civilian crew members of the player's starship. It's a good way to make a chunk of change fairly quickly and meet your daily cap in one run. Definitely travel to the nebulae/expanses and do the doff mission chains! Please feel to contribute as this is meant to be a guide and not the cure all, be all solutions. On success a 10 stack of some craft item. Promotions: Several doffs have been given away for free in the past. It is your friend. You just don't get any points on those. Do note that "downgrinding" assignments can be useful for fleet contributions. Note that this is still a work in progress. I would also advise against exchanging high-rarity refugees in these assignments; there are some doff assignments (especially in Medical) that require refugees specifically. UPDATE: So far I've made about 10 million EC posting Tellarites with Stubborn and Resolve at a million EC a pop on the Exchange. Star Trek Online Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. Reclaim Assimilated Borg Drones: Awards an uncommon or rare doff on a crit. of a whopping 28%! When you have the purple doffs you need for active duty & other doff missions, grind down new ones at Starfleet Academy and sell the resulting unbound doffs. Usually ground maps show more of the doff assignments for these two categories. Colonial missions are also not as frequent for the KDF. Romulan Republic Awards. 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. Do the mission. Of course, what doffs are and how to get them is in service to for what you actually want to use them. Check the community-updated DOFFJOBS spreadsheet (http://bit.ly/DOFFS) to see what missions are currently active. 0.1: Alpha release. Recover Artifacts from X region. STO wiki Communications Quick links Factions in: Items, Inventory Items, Uncommon items, and 2 more English Contraband Edit Contraband Uncommon Inventory Value: 2,000 Contraband is available as reward item from Duty Officer Assignments and is a requirement to complete some. Pick up all the loot the ships drop. C. This option is probably the easiest and makes the most sense. Then I turn them all into purples. *On a side note, all the information that I found on links was just for the type of Doffs you can get and not anything up to date for commendations. You can sell them as the Take prisonors to laborcamp mission can be done with blue oder Purple Prisoners since you dont loose collored doff you get them back and can them send away on other missions. I have reached level 4 on all of them except Recruitment and Trade. 1 H U N T E R : T H E R E C KO N I N G. Written by Justin Achilli, Daniel Braga, Johnathan Byerly, Edward Austin Hall, Karim Muammar, Mario Ortegn, Pam Punzalan, and Erin Roberts Advice for Considerate Play appendix by Jacqueline Bryk Editing and Indexing by Ronni Radner Concept Diversity Consultancy and Diversity Reading by Maple Intersectionality Consulting Art Director . Well Traveled: This trait, obtainable by doing well in Tour the Galaxy, cuts transwarp cooldown by 20%. To replace it, the Duty Officer system was introduced. Many of you are already aware that you need to get your AOY or Gamma recruits commendation levels up in order to unlock your rewards. There are many options for setting up a doff dil farm since every doff mission provides a small dil reward. Finally, many Marauding assignments have a chance of awarding prisoners. Posts promoting a vested personal interest are limited to two per week, Press J to jump to the feed. If you crit all 4 of Colonists to , you will receive 6000 dil. 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. I've commonly found that I can fill up my queue of 20 missions with missions that reward items needed, dilithium, and DOff recruitment in about 2-3 sectors worth of wandering. ), If you are building a character solely for the purposes of doffing, the KDF has many advantages over the Federation in terms of assignment access. There's a few things on there that are worth the effort to produce (the Aegis set is a good entry-level endgame set that's worth having), and crafting Mk IV-VIII weapons, shields, and deflectors is useful for having low-level toons well equipped during the leveling process. Tal Shiar Awards. Play whatever race you would like to play. Note: in late 2012, the Dilithium required increased significantly. 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. All missions can be found under "Current Map" unles otherwise noted. You can get the bonus pools several ways in this game. 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. The Junior Officer Appreciation Event requires an absolutely outrageous number of particle traces per doff and is not worth doing. If you Crit it, you get one of 14 Very Rare Duty officers. 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. This is the unofficial community subreddit for Star Trek Online, the licensed Star Trek MMO, available on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. Several doffs are available through the Phoenix Box. By default the Exchange lists all doffs, whether your character can use them or not. There are a handful of doffs available to buy during the Summer Event. The other faction's duty officers CAN, however, be used to supply Starbase projects. In the extremely unlikely event that this mission is available in not a single sector, and not on offer from your operations officer, you will have to wait for a sector update. You select an assignment from any of the several lists. Deep Space Nine Pack: The DS9 bundle includes three doffs. I created this guide as a result of all the questions that I have seen regarding how to level up your commendations to Tier IV. FEDs get 20 "free" colonist DOffs when they start out, but afterward this is the mission you need to get more. At level 11, a character receives their initial consignment of doffs. I have see the multiphasic event. Before you post responses about which commendation may be easier or more difficult, understand that this is a guide meant to assist players in getting their commendations leveled up. If you Crit it, you get one of 14 Very Rare Duty officers. behind the building with Lt. Ferrera and the DOFF combiner, talking to the Andorian personnel officer. While it is true that Klingons have it easier when it comes to dilithium farming, it is far less efficient to start an alt, get fed up and bored with said alt, and then abandon DOffing altogether. 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. More often than not, the contents of said cadre are worth more than the initial outlay. Where is the Tellarite personnel officer at Starfleet Academy, by the way? 09-01-2016, 10:04 PM. I have a warp core theorist with stubborn up on the exchange right now, but it seems somewhat difficult to figure out how to gauge the pricing properly Oh joy. Using it on a Ferengi ship also provides access to yet another assignment contact. Get yourself an escort of some sort. Duty officers can have one or more traits. With the easy Dilithium from Admiralty removed, restoring older methods of Dil-farming became far more imperative. An escort/DPS Ship makes it fly by quickly. The only caveat is because the Grind to Craft ratio is 3:5, you need 5 Support DOFFs to make three Tellarite DOFFs. I was wondering if there was a way to farm samples quicker than just grabing the anomolies on the missions? Read the 2.99 mil EC Race Route for instructions on how to earn millions of EC in one hour. The Bartender on Drozana should give you 50% sell rate. The maximum amount that can be earned during the event is 350,000 EC. Fleet Research Lab has a doff mission, K13, and Mine Holding do too. But, you can regrind any useless Tellarites into 3 more Rares. It took a while and I may have to replace my mouse, but I am now Tier 4 recruitment. They're mostly all gone. I have been saving my data samples and leving up crafting as I can. Further crits will award bound blue Entertainment Holograms. There are quite a few who get frustrated with, and ultimately abandon the DOff system. 1 MK X or XI Warp Core. Complete at least a few of the Colonization missions (mentioned below) in order to maximize the chance of critical success on these missions. Tuffli Freighter: The second prime competitor for the best doffing ship in the game, the Tuffli trades the cell ship's unique recruitment assignments for the ability to call a transport ship that can offer Transfer Prisoners and Turn Over Confiscated Contraband. Also some doff missions like Scan for genetic anomaly or scan for re sequencers show up in sector and department head tabs sometimes. (Both Tac and Eng Captains can summon support who weapons doesn't need remodulating.) It is possible, with the proper planning, to amass nearly 3 million EC during the event. If you check the in-game calendar, there is a "multiphasic" event that improves the drops from scanning anomalies. You will notice that there are several categories for each commendation and they all max out at Tier IV. Mission types include: Consoles, Dual Heavy Cannons, Beam Arrays, and Torpedoes. Klingons will find however that this option, while it does offer the chance of a crit for 2500 dil, is in the long run less optimal with regard to use of prisoners and risk, but more optimal with regard to time with a 2 hr duration. menu I am trying to reach level 4 on all of my Doff commendation categories. Try it if you're feeling lucky. It also determines the doff's ability when added to your active roster. For example CXP 10,000 or 25,000. This is one of the factors that determines which doffs can go on which missions. 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. In this section, I will explain the various traits of a doff and how they impact gameplay. B. Transwarp Computer: Obtained with the T3 Excelsior but usable by any ship, this console drastically reduces transwarp cooldown time. 3 security doffs (returned to your roster upon completion). Go to Drozana Station (for all factions.). Doffs follow the same rarity scheme as items: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Very Rare, Ultra-Rare, and Epic. There is little to say here beyond that civilians are generally worse than the other types, as they qualify for fewer missions. On success a 10 stack of some craft item. Departmental recruitment (awards 2 duty officers from a specific department), Each rank achieved awards one free duty officer and unlocks the remaining officers in that category for purchase with dilithium (available from, Special Items (e.g., from lock boxes et al. It's only one second faster, but that can make a big difference in combat. The solutions to the problems of both the FED and KDF when it comes to colonists and prisoners respectively are, for the FED, to focus on transporting colonists, and for the KDF to seek out those missions which, while they have a longer cool-down, have a lower requirement in prisoners and a lower fail/disaster rate. Given how long it would take at this rate to farm 3 VR DoFFs, you're probably better off buying them off the exchange. Also, grab yourself one of the Astrometrics Scientist DOffs (and put them on active duty) with the "Chance of collecting additional particle traces when scanning anomalies" ability. Tellarites with Stubborn and Resolve fetch around a million EC on the Exchange. For best results, send a purple trader on the mission. Also, I believe you can exchange your bound doffs, right? Tour the Galaxy is a good source of exploration xp. This is indicated by the color of the duty officer's name and the border around the portrait, if there is one. This is an optional role some duty officers may have, allowing them to be used in crafting of special items unlocked with level 15 in. NOTE: a 4 hour cooldown for this mission was introduced with the launch of the Legacy of Romulus expansion pack in 2013. For duty officer discussion, visit /r/STODOff/. Cut the bull, What is the easiest ones to get to Tier IV to get my EPIC doffs? 2 Matter-Antimatter Specialists, 2 Science doffs (doffs return to your roster). Each cluster has a series of 7 DOFF missions which follow on from eachother. For Feds, there is also a uniform option unlocked by doffing. This is the unofficial community subreddit for Star Trek Online, the licensed Star Trek MMO, available on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. One of the items you can craft on Defera is a fractal remodulator. Make sure you bag them! See the Tellarite, Andorian, and Vulcan personnel officers at Starfleet Academy. So from FREE DOFFs, you get valuable DOFFs, which you can either sell or use to make Mk XII consoles which can net millions of EC, and CXP you can trade in for Fleet Marks. Use cheap greens or blues with crit traits for this mission. For example, you might 350 Eng points /350 colonial points. This system was eventually removed for many reasons--one of them being that the missions it gave felt like something lower-ranking officers should be doing. You should now have a crapload of commons, uncommons, and rares of various flavors, if you got lucky. Weigh carefully what you want more: Do you want fast dilithium, or more dilithium at less risk of disaster? Unfortunately difficult to obtain in the modern game. Both are around 85,000 CXP and I need 100,000 CXP to get them to the final level of 4. Make sure you buy the additional 3 slots from your fleet embassy. You can then visit the personnel officer and exchange them down for 3 lower ranking officers. So, a Very Rare becomes three Rares. I will have to try it out. I was able to get 6 VR KDF's doffs that joined my crew for getting critical success on my assignment. This section deals with accumulating Energy Credits by: Seller beware: this is a guide on acquisition, not selling. Players with support builds have found it relatively easy to take first place, as healing counts more than damage inflicted in this fleet action. This usually does not take me even half and hour, and this is spent mostly in between waiting for STFs to start. keep scanning. These are low-rarity, but free. These include the Lower Decks doffs, Neal Falconer, and the doff version of Holo-Leeta previously given out at conventions. Project Chrysalis assignment chain: This assignment chain awards a very rare officer upon completion. These were a reward from the No Win Scenarios Event in Event Campaign II, and are currently unobtainable. Start it by clicking 'Hail' at the bottom right. With the no fail rate and higher max payout, Colonists to is clearly the better bet. Alternatively, you can buy 3 blue ones and use those while you wait out the long process of farming B'Tran cluster. Wow! Either that or grab a Melee weapon as they don't adapt to them. There is a 9% chance of critical success and a 91% chance of success. STAR TREK and related marks are This mission can be found under "Current Map" in sector space but is more likely to be found under "Department Heads." I found the alpha quadrant, and in particular the area around DS9, to offer the most trade assignments with good payoffs. Those are the traits that your DOFFS or Duty officers have specifically listed to them. D'Kora / Quark / Nandi: These ships come with a trader contact, but also have additional benefits when equipping the Ferengi Marauder set. Along with that, there's the Children's Toys chain, which lets you craft Uncommon/Rare/Very Rare Mk XII consoles. If you do not have access to any of the above ships (or only have access to the D'Kora but not the Ferengi Marauder set), this line is probably your best bet for a doffing-focused character. In Star Trek Online, there is a particular function for players who need so as to add bridge crew members to their ship. With that said, if you really need higher-rarity doffs this can be a good source. In essence, they are "fire and forget:" assign your officers, wait some real-world number of hours, and reap the rewards. 1 Astrometric Probe, 10000 EC, 1 tactical, 2 other duty officers (doffs return to your roster). farshore Member Posts: 353 Arc User. 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. Facility 4028 assignment chain: Rewards a rare prisoner upon completion and unlocks a repeatable assignment, Strike At Fugitive Support Network, which can award rare or very rare prisoners. You load up on recruitment assignments and then either keep, sell or send those VR doffs to the doff grinder at Starfleet. Below are methods commonly used to farm EC (Energy Credits). This is a guide to farming EC, originally written by RockyCoon. If the resulting purple isn't going to be worth at least 1.3M or so, it isn't worth selling, and I break it back down into three blues. Since the Materials are "Bind to Character on Pickup.". A nonrepeatable mission is available at both academies during junior officer weekends that rewards a very rare doff. Also of note are Aegis doffs, which function similarly to R&D school doffs. This assignment has a 72 hour cooldown upon completion. Starbase 24 and Gorn Minefield both have a good reward system: first place awards 2 purple mk xi items, second place awards 1 purple mk xi item, and 3rd place awards 1 blue mk xi item. They are the most common doff type, randomly obtained through leveling. Quality (purple, blue) depends on refugee quality and crit traits. I tried to get back in september 2018 but not many people were on so I left again. https://discord.. Running a CXP bonus pool can speed the time up. You go to your one stop shop for dilithium DOffing and then your off to slay any weak and helpless Federation that happen across your path. You get commendation by initiating DOFF assignments and completing them. Winters STO Top Tips. Negotiate Prisoner Exchange: Allows you to trade a prisoner for a new, random doff. EXTREMELY Overpowered Build:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws8WCYTQ9pc#StarTrekOnline #STO #StarTrekSubscribe to the channelhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/. The DOff-system is the de-facto crafting system for STO since F2P made most items from Memory Alpha (and more) available through the dilithium store. Note that many specializations have more than one ability; usually, the alternate abilities can only be obtained from sources such as lockboxes. 1 MK X or XI item. A player's starship has five slots for duty officers that enhance space operations and five slots for duty officers that enhance ground operations, depending on the officer's specialization. Race only matters for the Federation; Ferengi offer a marginal benefit in reducing the cost of purchased commodities that may be required for missions. Investigate Temporal Anomaly: A non-repeatable assignment which awards a purple-quality bartender. 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! Efficient is also almost always helpful when it appears. (I am aware that the Nagus technically works as well. We've already looked at the Consign Prisoners to Colonial Labor Battalion mission, with its 2 hr. SECOND UPDATE: The grinding and combining also nets you a ton of Recruitment CXP, which you can trade in at the Starbase for 75 Fleet Marks (100 on Crit) assuming you already have at least 100k Recruitment CXP. Open the Foundry. I was inspired by CaptainBaldy's Cakeday Giveaway and wanted to build on the idea. It was at that point that I first considered collating what I had learned into a new doffing guide. One "good" place to boost your Crafting XP is in Defera invasion zone, you only need three types of Materials, and you gain Experience and often Omega Marks while you do so. You can still farm dilithium on your main, and make a good showing for it, without having to spend time on an alt that you don't care about and which makes DOffing a chore. Actually the Dyson Sphere pretty much has no assignments . Traits give you bonuses to the chances of various outcomes on certain missions. Get a Federation, or Klingon character to Level 50. If you'd like to help out with updating the wiki, click here for a list of all new items and content! If all else fails, the Exchange usually has exactly what you want. Specialist Fleet Awards. Both are around 85,000 CXP and I need 100,000 CXP to get them to the final level of 4. All rights reserved. Up to 5 can apply their specializations to Space operations, while another 5 can can be used to improve Ground operations. You can buy them off the exchange, from opening lockboxes or even from completing some DOFF assignments. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! Thanks! This mission can be a good, quick source of purple doffs. "Upgrinding," or converting lower-rarity doffs into higher-ranking doffs through the assignments available at a faction academy, is absolutely never worth the time, dilithium, or doff investment. The other faction's duty officers will go into your roster/passengers/brig but they will not be displayed as a slottable Recommendation from the assignment Department Heads. Increasing your difficulty to 'Elite' will increase your chances of blues and purples, and possibly higher mark gear. E. Recruiting- This has to be one of the easiest commendation categories to reach Tier IV. You will see this more on the instigate deflection or cluster assignments throughout the maps. Look for the Mission called 'One and Done' via the 'Browse All' Tab on the Sidebar, and pressing the downwards triangle at the top to open the search dialogue. Continue to grind them down until you get them to common. I don't have the answer to how often that occurs so your guess is as good as mine. & 2010 CBS Studios Inc. All rights reserved. FED players, do not despair! Every morning, I spend about five or six million EC on blue doffs on the exchange. I have found that the easiest ones to get to Tier IV, the quickest order I found that works are the following: A. (Advanced Mirror Escorts and Patrol Mirror Escorts are cheap on the Exchange, as well as the Mirror Qin for KDF.) A. 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). All other features, including the transwarp, remain the same. Conversely, Stubborn and Unscrupulous are almost always negative; for any departments other than Tactical or Security, Aggressive is as well. 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. Specialist Fleet Awards. Another way to dispose of unwanted duty officers is to exchange either five low quality duty officers for one higher quality officer at the personal officers at the academy, or to exchange one high quality duty officer for three lower quality officers: (Does not apply to Prisoners, Ultra Rare or Epic duty officers). While a critical success with common duty officers is possible, it is not as probable and not recommended. Lets look at the FED first. Delta Rising Operations Pack: The Delta Rising Pack includes three doffs available to all characters on an account, including a Research Lab Scientist (useful for R&D). Astrometrics Scientist: Putting one of these on active duty will allow you to use transwarp more frequently, which is useful for assignment-gathering. The main use of fleet doffs is when you need a specific one for your build. I am releasing it now because of the recruitment event in progress, but I do intend to expand on all points which are simply outlined below. (If you have purchased the Legacy of Romulus Pack, they also have access to four bonus doffs.). I imagine you can do this earlier than 50, but being level 50 insures you get the highest mark of loot. Use a map if you're unfamiliar with sector space. The next step in the series will not always be available. The ability is what sets the price for doffs, generally speaking. They end by rewarding a rare doff and unlocking a repeatable chance at a very rare via critting on an assignment. Were they bound greens from the doff store? and costs 2000 latinum (Yes, intrepid DOff'er, latinum is good for something! Likewise, when you unlock the R&D system at level 15 you will receive a cadre of common, traitless doffs. Those also drop craft items. Quality depends on duty officer qualities and crit traits. The obvious benefit of higher-rarity doffs is that they contribute a higher chance of success to a mission. I will caution you before going out and buying all the VR doffs on the exchange, this is a very expensive route to take. By playing a Foundry mission once every day, a player can amass a few hundred thousand EC in less than 20 minutes. You don't need to max Diplomacy/Marauding, you only need T3 to cross the borders. Fortunately, as stated, it is on offer fairly often. Assignment: Tellarite Cultural Exchange (by chance in normal Success) Refugees can be bought from the in-game Exchange or can . 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. I did join the reddit chat chanel though. Some abilities are borderline useless; some have created the most famous builds in the game. Those without much time to spare may want to skip the downgrind step and sell all doffs acquired.

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