The only caveat is because the Grind to Craft ratio is 3:5, you need 5 Support DOFFs to make three Tellarite DOFFs. That is useful for assignment-gathering. So, a Very Rare becomes three Rares. This is the duty officer's primary role aboard the starship, such as Conn Officer, Security Officer, Astrometric Officer, etc. Posts promoting a vested personal interest are limited to two per week, Press J to jump to the feed. Use a map if you're unfamiliar with sector space. it may have a 'Fed' or 'KDF" Suffix in it depending on what faction you are. Assignment slots indicate which traits will increase or decrease the chance of the possible outcomes of the assignment. This is a fine way to fill out your initial roster. You load up on recruitment assignments and then either keep, sell or send those VR doffs to the doff grinder at Starfleet. Klingon High Council Awards. Woke up this morning, logged in, claimed my rewards. and received 4 colonists. (Both Tac and Eng Captains can summon support who weapons doesn't need remodulating.) A variety of changes to the system, however, have made it not more difficult but less intuitive. One of the items you can craft on Defera is a fractal remodulator. For example, a Peaceful doff may get a bonus on a Diplomacy mission. go to an exploration cluster of the opposite faction that contains what you want (ex, T'Ong Nebula for Tier 1 samples as a Fed). With the easy Dilithium from Admiralty removed, restoring older methods of Dil-farming became far more imperative. But it is sustainable, as the longest mission duration for obtaining prisoners is the Orion slavers, you should be able to cycle prisoners into dilithium without looking further then 2-3 sectors. I got this one up to Tier IV quick but continuously running the 30 minute assignments and running the large one found on your bridge under Science Assignments and at the Undine space Battlezone. Start out by either going to the exchange and buy some VR or Rare doffs. It's a good way to make a chunk of change fairly quickly and meet your daily cap in one run. 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. I would also advise against exchanging high-rarity refugees in these assignments; there are some doff assignments (especially in Medical) that require refugees specifically. Some doffs are affiliated with certain R&D schools, allowing them to be used to create certain items. This is the unofficial community subreddit for Star Trek Online, the licensed Star Trek MMO, available on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. Every morning, I spend about five or six million EC on blue doffs on the exchange. Both are around 85,000 CXP and I need 100,000 CXP to get them to the final level of 4. At level 11, a character receives their initial consignment of doffs. A number of story missions have doff rewards. Transwarp Computer: Obtained with the T3 Excelsior but usable by any ship, this console drastically reduces transwarp cooldown time. Personal: location varies; Engineering under Department Heads, Duty officers. Use cheap greens or blues with crit traits for this mission. Like items, doffs can be bound to your character. Before embarking on doffing for EC, it is recommended that the player amass a sizable amount of purple and blue doffs to send on doff missions. Fleet doffs can be recruited at many fleet holdings by spending an absolutely outrageous number of fleddits for each doff purchased. EXTREMELY Overpowered Build:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws8WCYTQ9pc#StarTrekOnline #STO #StarTrekSubscribe to the channelhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/. ), 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. 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). Note that missions found under "Department heads" are exclusive to the player's console but can be shared with others via bridge invitations. I was inspired by CaptainBaldy's Cakeday Giveaway and wanted to build on the idea. Reclaim Assimilated Borg Drones: Awards an uncommon or rare doff on a crit. 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. Officers can be sent on missions and slotted for bonuses. I run the crap out of the EVA suit assignment because it awards the most point with the fewest effort. Medical has a ton of short 30 min assignments you can run till you drop and there is no shortage of them. This is a guide to farming EC, originally written by RockyCoon. Sometimes you can take the expensive route and buy doff assignments from the lock-boxes off the exchange, but unlike choosing a regular assignment, you are risking EC if you fail. 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). 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. In essence, they are "fire and forget:" assign your officers, wait some real-world number of hours, and reap the rewards. Up to 5 can apply their specializations to Space operations, while another 5 can can be used to improve Ground operations. And lo, did the Bank Tytrant speak. Start it by clicking 'Hail' at the bottom right. Always check your promotions tab to ensure that you do not already own them--the game will let you buy them even if they're available to claim for free. Increasing your difficulty to 'Elite' will increase your chances of blues and purples, and possibly higher mark gear. You can reach to other veteran players in this game and I am sure we are willing to help you with any Doff questions that you may have. Others have mentioned breaking down doffs into lower doffs and this is fine if you have enough free doff slots. More doff = $$$ advice: buy/get junior officer cadres. This is not to meant to be a platform for the answers to what may work better for worse for you. Celebrate 13 years of Star Trek Online with Season Twenty-eight: Refractions, now live on PC! Complete at least a few of the Colonization missions (mentioned below) in order to maximize the chance of critical success on these missions. The standard roster size is 100 duty officers, but this can be increased up to a total of 500 through Zen Store purchase options consisting of 25 more slots for 225 or 100 more slots for 725 . Winters STO Top Tips. Romulan Republic Awards. 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. Upon transwarp to the Undine battlezone, starting flying your ship and stop when you immediately see the doff assignments option. 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. Do note that prices can be quite high. Finally, many Marauding assignments have a chance of awarding prisoners. What are the traits listed next to Critical, success and failure? 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. When a captain gets Diplomacy or Marauding maxed out, it gets even easier with the transwarp points unlocked. 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. Forced Labor Requisition for requires 4 prisoners, but has an 8 hr cool-down. R&D DOFFs | Omega Primary R&D DOFFs R&D, DOFFs, Traits and Crafting Purple R&D DOFFs needed for level 15 that help your success when trying to craft ULTRA RARE items. Just because a species is generally associated with a particular faction does not mean an officer is usable by that side. This assignment has a 72 hour cooldown upon completion. The obvious benefit of higher-rarity doffs is that they contribute a higher chance of success to a mission. Only white quality duty officers have a chance of dying while on assignment (note the difficulty of the assignment). Romulan Republic Awards. I could have sworn I did before. This defines what effect the officer has if assigned to a space or ground role. Crystalline Catastrophe Elite (CCE) is another mission that awards two purple MK XI items to first place winners. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Extra active duty officer roster slots are available for requisition through the Fleet Spire at the Personnel Officer. By playing a Foundry mission once every day, a player can amass a few hundred thousand EC in less than 20 minutes. 09-01-2016, 10:04 PM. 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). Further crits will award bound blue Entertainment Holograms. Currently, there are duty officers of white, green, blue, purple, dark purple and gold quality. (If you have purchased the Legacy of Romulus Pack, they also have access to four bonus doffs.). This is always a good trade for common prisoners, especially if you already have access to admiralty. Definitely travel to the nebulae/expanses and do the doff mission chains! I tried to get back in september 2018 but not many people were on so I left again. This mission (like all Department Head missions) is unique to you, but can be shared by inviting people to your bridge and telling them to access your bridge officer contacts. Or, just ask someone that has it to grant it. If someone is a Excel Guru then by all means please add it. For example, you might 350 Eng points /350 colonial points. To replace it, the Duty Officer system was introduced. Tellarites with Stubborn and Resolve fetch around a million EC on the Exchange. Princess Luna. 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. Lets look at the FED first. Note: in late 2012, the Dilithium required increased significantly. Each cluster has a series of 7 DOFF missions which follow on from eachother. This is meant to bring the newbies up to speed and why Doffs matter. 1 MK X or XI Warp Core. I have been saving my data samples and leving up crafting as I can. Ferengi Awards. Caitian Diaspora / Unforgiven of Ferasa assignment chains: Awards a very rare flight deck officer and unlocks a repeatable assignment to get more. 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. The best way to farm crafting mats is to farm EC and buy them on the exchange. Look for other opportunities for rare or very rare prisoners. Thus, in many ways the rarity of a doff is the most important factor when grinding Commendation XP. *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. I've seen them act wonky before. I have see the multiphasic event. For some reason I see a spike in rare doff prices. Want to join McStu's Fleet? You can also repeatedly run the 72 hour development ones. The Bartender on Drozana should give you 50% sell rate. Star Trek Online: The Admiralty System and Farming Dilithium February 27, 2020 / Roger Edwards Dilithium is one of the major currencies that can be earned in the MMORPG Star Trek Online. FEDs get 20 "free" colonist DOffs when they start out, but afterward this is the mission you need to get more. The assignments offered reset every 20 hours and are specific to your ship, so visiting another player's ship will present different assignments. With a proper guide, Dil-farming through Contraband Marauding and/or Colonial assignment chaining should be just as easy as it was previously. Recruitment assignments from the academies (visit representatives and accept the assignment). Join the Discord! All missions can be found under "Current Map" unles otherwise noted. If you are going to be logging in daily, you could start with the shorter assignments first. I have played many, many, many different MMO's, and my favorite thing to do is crafting. 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. Asylum assignment type: These allow you to exchange refugees for random doffs. For best results, send a purple trader on the mission. 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? Assimilated Subtranswarp Engine / Gamma Synergistic Overcharged Core: These two do not stack, alas, but both are very useful for improving the speed of your assignment-gathering expeditions. There is a Tellarite Personnel Officer at Starfleet Academy, and all Tellarites come with Stubborn as a default trait, with the possibility of being generated with Resolve, an Engineering specialization, or both. Excelsior-class ships: the T5 and T6 ones come with ten transwarp locations. If you'd like to help out with updating the wiki, click here for a list of all new items and content! After you complete each of the 14 Colonization chains, you get the repeatable Support Colonization Efforts mission for each one. 1 unbound duty officer. Sorry FED, that's just how it is. Negotiate Prisoner Exchange: Allows you to trade a prisoner for a new, random doff. 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. There is also some unique items that you can get such as the Aegis set, Omni-Directional beams, and more. if you're in a Reddit fleet the RA bank has plenty of samples, I'm sure taking some within reason would be okay. The Junior Officer Appreciation Event requires an absolutely outrageous number of particle traces per doff and is not worth doing. Military - the assignments are everywhere and usually award between 400-500 points per normal success. Colonization mission chains: These are a major source of doffs, as one chain is available in each colonial cluster. Most doffs are aligned to a faction--either FED, KDF, or ROM, with the vast majority being either FED or KDF (and consequently usable by those faction's allies). Those also drop craft items. Lets think about these crits, assuming you crit all 5 of to Colonists to , you will receive 5000 dil. Use the mission list below as a guide and plot your route. Variations include, 19 duty officers and 20 entertainment provisions (doffs return to your roster). Obviously, if you are grinding Commendation XP you should buy as many CXP boosts as you can afford. Acquire or sacrifice a "useless" very rare DOFF. CORE RULEBOOK. One of the best methods of helping a new character is mailing them unbound doffs from your other ones. Also some doff missions like Scan for genetic anomaly or scan for re sequencers show up in sector and department head tabs sometimes. Ya i see that, but its still nice having it maxed out. It can be a bit of a grind, but with patience can be quite profitable. 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 will caution you before going out and buying all the VR doffs on the exchange, this is a very expensive route to take. Ferengi Awards. ULTRA RARE ITEM CRAFTING DOFFS Extensively-Modified Warp Core can also work instead, if you have access to it. There is no warning in game - like with bridge officers - to stop you from buying or trading from the other faction and discover the Duty Officer (DOFF) isn't going to do what you wanted. 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. 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. If you can't find it on the current map anywhere (gasp!) There are many options for setting up a doff dil farm since every doff mission provides a small dil reward. Complete it to the end, completely. I do not like to think about the Nagus.) I have only found the Vulcan one. Frequently, those who own these will offer bridge invites to players who do not in order to allow them access to these assignments. hello, i know is an old thread but besides that advise is there any other way to get recruitment xp. 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. Players can make use of duty officers in four ways: Duty officers have the following characteristics: My goal is to provide that guide--and a broader guide to doffing as well. 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. Free is never bad. Quality depends on duty officer qualities and crit traits. There is little to say here beyond that civilians are generally worse than the other types, as they qualify for fewer missions. 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