Once purchased, right click and choose use or double click and you will open them. This is a guide to farming EC, originally written by RockyCoon. As you are promoted through the Commendation ranks, you will receive free doffs from Lieutenants Ferra or S'stas. 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. Celebrate 13 years of Star Trek Online with Season Twenty-eight: Refractions, now live on PC! Operations Facilities Tier III is required to buy the additional active space roster slot. If you need specific samples, make sure you're looking in the right place. 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"! (The same idea or KDf). We've already looked at the Consign Prisoners to Colonial Labor Battalion mission, with its 2 hr. The easiest way would be to search the exchange using cxp and choose the amount you want to purchase. I have found that the easiest ones to get to Tier IV, the quickest order I found that works are the following: A. & 2010 CBS Studios Inc. All rights reserved. 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. Klingon High Council Awards. Recruitment assignments from the academies (visit representatives and accept the assignment). In general, be on the lookout for doffs with the Telekinetic, Shroud, and Resolve traits, as these are required for some very rewarding missions. 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. "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. Console missions are highly recommended. Just because a species is generally associated with a particular faction does not mean an officer is usable by that side. This mission can be found under "Current Map" in sector space but is more likely to be found under "Department Heads." For example, the Technician variant that boosts Auxiliary Power to the Battery is the entire focal point of A2B builds--and, therefore, Technicians command a very high price. Instigate Defection: It takes a long time to complete, but awards a rare officer on success and a very rare officer on a crit. A good farming mission will give you at least 500k EC in items (yes, that's a 10-minute half-million). You must transwarp to the Allied Space area. Players can make use of duty officers in four ways: Duty officers have the following characteristics: Personal: location varies; Engineering under Department Heads, Duty officers. Try it if you're feeling lucky. I will caution you before going out and buying all the VR doffs on the exchange, this is a very expensive route to take. There is little to say here beyond that civilians are generally worse than the other types, as they qualify for fewer missions. Cross-faction doffs do also exist, mostly as special rewards or as part of C-Store doff packs. Further crits will award bound blue Entertainment Holograms. Also some doff missions like Scan for genetic anomaly or scan for re sequencers show up in sector and department head tabs sometimes. C. This option is probably the easiest and makes the most sense. 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. You should be a KDF-aligned Romulan, however, as Romulans have access to a third set of doffs the other two factions cannot use. Upon acquiring at least four or up to the maximum 20 colonists, you must find a place to drop them off. Copyright 2010 by Attilio Vassallo. Doffs follow the same rarity scheme as items: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Very Rare, Ultra-Rare, and Epic. They have loads of other wee missions too for recruitment and trade. Get a Federation, or Klingon character to Level 50. The only advantage I see to farming the support missions is that it requires no starting capital. You should now have a crapload of commons, uncommons, and rares of various flavors, if you got lucky. Make sure you buy the additional 3 slots from your fleet embassy. 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. They are the most common doff type, randomly obtained through leveling. Higher quality duty officers have a higher chance to complete assignments successfully, and will provide better assignment rewards than standard (common) quality officers. behind the building with Lt. Ferrera and the DOFF combiner, talking to the Andorian personnel officer. 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 section deals with accumulating Energy Credits by: Seller beware: this is a guide on acquisition, not selling. Reclaim Assimilated Borg Drones: Awards an uncommon or rare doff on a crit. Start out by either going to the exchange and buy some VR or Rare doffs. Use cheap greens or blues with crit traits for this mission. This is because Success chance cuts into Critical Success chance. You can send your common doffs to your fleet, dismiss them and get more bonus CXP or sell them The choice is yours. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, RetiredAdmiral Enzo Aquarius@enzoaquarius - U.S.S. For Diplomacy the smaller points assignments make more sense, yes you have to check them more often, but you get more bang for your CXP bonus pool buck by doing it this way. Outfit it for DPS. Do note, however, that for the purposes of the doffing mission system abilities do not matter at all. Some assignment slots may require duty officers of a particular rank to succeed. 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). BUt now im at the point where i want to start to raise it to max. The Dominion Fugitive can be sold on the exchange or used in other missions that will permanently remove the doff from your roster. These missions appear infrequently in sector space, usually in your personal tab under Recruitment. I often hear that KDF is better for DOffing for dilithium then FED, and it very much seems the case. You will see this more on the instigate deflection or cluster assignments throughout the maps. Active duty: The most common modern use of doffs, putting doffs on active duty can radically improve the efficacy of your build--or may even be required to make your build work at all. Play whatever race you would like to play. In this video I am showing how to easily get Common Duty Officers to fill your fleet projects. 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. This is not generally enough to outweigh the advantages a race might offer other aspects of the character's playstyle. You won't run into any exploration systems, only scanning anomalies. Amarie Smuggler's Heavy Escort: This ship also has a bridge with a trader contact. If you are running very rare doffs and can critical the assignments you can get a large amount of CXP points from this assignments. ), the other marauding missions that give prisoners have a cool-down of 2hrs., but do not guarantee prisoners (though they often deliver at least one). The 2/27 changes to Admiralty pushed me over the edge. For some reason they are located there. For best results, send a purple trader on the mission. You can buy them off the exchange, from opening lockboxes or even from completing some DOFF assignments. Then I turn them all into purples. Ya i see that, but its still nice having it maxed out. Alternatively, you can buy 3 blue ones and use those while you wait out the long process of farming B'Tran cluster. (It also includes two scaling ground weapons.). The ability is what sets the price for doffs, generally speaking. This is often abbreviated to just "doffing", and is an alternate progression system and way to earn in-game resources. Gorn Awards. While a critical success with common duty officers is possible, it is not as probable and not recommended. Winters STO Top Tips. #6. Complete it to the end, completely. 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. It took a while and I may have to replace my mouse, but I am now Tier 4 recruitment. Star Trek Online General Discussion. Winters STO Top Tips. The various doff packs available through the C-Store are simply not worth the money based on the random return. To replace it, the Duty Officer system was introduced. Both have a disaster rate of 4% with no fail rate, you crit, succeed, or there is a disaster. See the Tellarite, Andorian, and Vulcan personnel officers at Starfleet Academy. You can successfully craft rare items without the below DOFFs, however Ultra Rare crafting does require special DOFFs. You load up on recruitment assignments and then either keep, sell or send those VR doffs to the doff grinder at Starfleet. First off i want to thank everyone for their help and advice on leveling, i ended up doing 1-50 in 4 days. 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). Doffs can be attached to messages at mail terminals just like items. The various assignment items available from lockboxes or the exchange which can lead to doff rewards are not worth the cost. 0.1: Alpha release. I have only found the Vulcan one. Also of note are Aegis doffs, which function similarly to R&D school doffs. 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. For Feds, there is also a uniform option unlocked by doffing. Caitian Diaspora / Unforgiven of Ferasa assignment chains: Awards a very rare flight deck officer and unlocks a repeatable assignment to get more. DOFF Grinding for Fun and Profit I was inspired by CaptainBaldy's Cakeday Giveaway and wanted to build on the idea. Cryptic, in an effort to make getting Rare/Uncommon/Common DOFFs for Starbase projects easier, introduced the DOFF Grinder at Starfleet Academy, which lets you turn an Uncommon/Rare/Very Rare duty officer into three of the next lowest category of duty officer. Buying two prisoners from the Orion slavers has a duration of 8 hrs. Just a thought. I ve been away for a big while so I dont know much how much is new since 2017. Uncommons contribute +5%, Rares +10%, and Very Rare and higher contribute +20%. Admiralty missions will frequently reward colonists and prisoners. If you know the answer to that one, you probably don't need this guide. if you're in a Reddit fleet the RA bank has plenty of samples, I'm sure taking some within reason would be okay. Extensively-Modified Warp Core can also work instead, if you have access to it. 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. You can repeat this until you stop getting expertise for killing ships, which also makes loot stop dropping. as there's a daily/20 hour cap on the amount of foundry loot/drops/expertise. 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. It also determines the doff's ability when added to your active roster. (If you have purchased the Legacy of Romulus Pack, they also have access to four bonus doffs.). I run the crap out of the EVA suit assignment because it awards the most point with the fewest effort. For similar reasons, the academy recruitment assignments which cost dilithium (general and R&D) are also not worthwhile. Transwarp Computer: Obtained with the T3 Excelsior but usable by any ship, this console drastically reduces transwarp cooldown time. Each extra slot can only be purchased once. Colonial missions are also not as frequent for the KDF. The Junior Officer Appreciation Event requires an absolutely outrageous number of particle traces per doff and is not worth doing. Press J to jump to the feed. I normally farm the Academy assignments for white doffs to use in Fleet Projects so I assume I will get there sooner or later. ULTRA RARE ITEM CRAFTING DOFFS Ya the exchange is just way to overpriced for some of the basic componets. There are a number of them available through chance drops from the academy or in the C-store packs for 250 zen. At first, fleet projects require common (white) DOFFs, which are removed from your ship's roster and placed on permanent assignment in the fleet structures. Ferengi Marauder Set: Expensive in terms of Lobi, but a 10% bonus to all CXP earned is no laughing matter. However, a particularly large benefit when grinding is that they also contribute bonus Commendation XP to a success or crit based on their rarity. This is the unofficial community subreddit for Star Trek Online, the licensed Star Trek MMO, available on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. Every bridge officer has their very own special expertise, which are displayed in daring text. Ferengi Awards. Posts promoting a vested personal interest are limited to two per week, Press J to jump to the feed. 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. This mission can be a gamble. Actually the Dyson Sphere pretty much has no assignments . Blue Strange Alien Artifacts can be sold or used in the mission. Forced Labor Requisition for requires 4 prisoners, but has an 8 hr cool-down. 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. You just don't get any points on those. Faction. Fortunately, as stated, it is on offer fairly often. The start point is a cup of bloodwine near the bar. [1] There are at least 54,587 duty officers available since the system was introduced in Season 5. It is often recommended that a FED player start a Klingon player to DOff with. Good group of people there. With the easy Dilithium from Admiralty removed, restoring older methods of Dil-farming became far more imperative. Since there is no guarantee that the mission will succeed I would only consider this option as a alternative. In addition, a Romulan captain (or one with Rank 4 in Diplomacy/Marauding) can recruit Rai during Mine Enemy. For a long time, doffing was one of the easiest of these. 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. 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. Specialization: Refugee is a duty officer specialization within the Civilian department. The assignments offered reset every 20 hours and are specific to your ship, so visiting another player's ship will present different assignments. This will take you through 6 Duty Officer Jurisdictions, where new assignments will automatically populate as you fly. Like foundry mission farming, PVE/PVP combat can be quite lucrative. On the upside FED, your strength in earning dilithium will be in transporting colonists, and I've found that the missions that provide colonists occur in ratio to missions that take colonists to be slightly better then KDF prisoner missions, with the caveat that KDF will always have available the opportunity to turn in ten prisoners for an almost guaranteed 1000 dil. Out in the sector space map, and in many social zones, there are doff assignments available. The next step in the series will not always be available. Also exist, mostly as special rewards or as part of C-Store doff packs available through the Commendation,! 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