The obvious benefit of higher-rarity doffs is that they contribute a higher chance of success to a mission. But what if I told you that you're leaving dilithium on the ground, and that Cryptic laughs at your foolishness, dishonorable toHpaH that they are? (There is some disagreement on this point. EDIT: You can't exchange bound doffs afterall. 1 MK X or XI Warp Core. In this video I am showing how to easily get Common Duty Officers to fill your fleet projects. More doff = $$$ advice: buy/get junior officer cadres. 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. You will see this more on the instigate deflection or cluster assignments throughout the maps. Thus, in many ways the rarity of a doff is the most important factor when grinding Commendation XP. There are many options for setting up a doff dil farm since every doff mission provides a small dil reward. Look for other opportunities for rare or very rare prisoners. 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 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. See Gamepedia wiki page. Want to join McStu's Fleet? Duty Officers on your ship can build components and will offer assignments some of these are new and some of these are additional chances to focus your efforts on a specific commendation category (e.g. Further crits will award bound blue Entertainment Holograms. If you Crit it, you get one of 14 Very Rare Duty officers. Specialist Fleet Awards. Some assignment slots may require duty officers of a particular rank to succeed. Colonization mission chains: These are a major source of doffs, as one chain is available in each colonial cluster. Although there are some assignments like haggle for (insert whatever commodities you want) that will still say unprofitable but still award you commodities. Common quality R&D Schooled Doffs will sell for 3-12 million EC on the exchange, with the very rare quality doffs ranging from 8-32 million ec depending on what they are schooled in. Actually the Dyson Sphere pretty much has no assignments . Out in the sector space map, and in many social zones, there are doff assignments available. Of course, what doffs are and how to get them is in service to for what you actually want to use them. Use the mission list below as a guide and plot your route. Use the Personnel Officer and your faction's main Hub or at the Fleet Starbase to convert it into 3 rare. To replace it, the Duty Officer system was introduced. 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. If you Crit it, you get one of 14 Very Rare Duty officers. This will ONLY happen if they are put on active duty. On success a 10 stack of some craft item. 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. 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. 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. You can buy them off the exchange, from opening lockboxes or even from completing some DOFF assignments. Also, they're pretty easy to Crit. 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. Promotions: Several doffs have been given away for free in the past. An escort/DPS Ship makes it fly by quickly. :angryface: Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. 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. Duty officer missions can be found in either location. It was at that point that I first considered collating what I had learned into a new doffing guide. These missions appear infrequently in sector space, usually in your personal tab under Recruitment. 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. This mission can be found in several sector blocks (the map on the Gamepedia wiki page is incorrect; it has been seen in Psi Velorum). 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. By playing a Foundry mission once every day, a player can amass a few hundred thousand EC in less than 20 minutes. Some of these officers also offer unique assignments to acquire consumables (ship batteries, hypos, etc.). You can larger points ones from the Undine battlezone, your bridge of your ship or current map. Any that you do not select may be purchased with dilithium, though this may be less attractive for higher-rarity options. Complete it to the end, completely. 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. This is Due the Fact that collored quallity Doff cant die in Missions. Several doffs are available through the Phoenix Box. One of the items you can craft on Defera is a fractal remodulator. You must transwarp to the Allied Space area. Make sure you bag them! Note that certain DOffs like the Emergency Medical Hologram do not return any dilithium or XP upon dismissal. This function permits you to add as many bridge officers as you need, depending on the kind of ship you are using. For example alot of Very Rare Doffs have the trait RESOLVE. (If you have purchased the Legacy of Romulus Pack, they also have access to four bonus doffs.). This is a guide to farming EC, originally written by RockyCoon. One of the best methods of helping a new character is mailing them unbound doffs from your other ones. Good group of people there. What are the traits listed next to Critical, success and failure? Definitely doable if you want to burn some of that hard earned EC and commons can be cheap. When a captain gets Diplomacy or Marauding maxed out, it gets even easier with the transwarp points unlocked. Start it by clicking 'Hail' at the bottom right. This defines what effect the officer has if assigned to a space or ground role. (doffs return to your roster). I often hear that KDF is better for DOffing for dilithium then FED, and it very much seems the case. Introduction The crafting system in STO (unlocked when your character is at level 15) is a great way to get some useful equipment to use as you work your way towards even better equipment. Like foundry mission farming, PVE/PVP combat can be quite lucrative. It allows players to assign duty officers ("doffs") to missions that are more fitting of a junior officer--auditing diplomatic correspondence, correlating star charts, etc. The various doff packs available through the C-Store are simply not worth the money based on the random return. They're mostly all gone. It should say Battlezone Assignments. KDF players, this applies to you as well, but you will already be marauding your hearts out to gather prisoners for the slave battalions and contraband, so this will be less of a burden for you. Variations include, 19 duty officers and 20 entertainment provisions (doffs return to your roster). Efficient is also almost always helpful when it appears. 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. For example, you might 350 Eng points /350 colonial points. 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. The other descriptive attributes of your doffs are pure flavor and do not matter. Start out by either going to the exchange and buy some VR or Rare doffs. Before you waste time and credits, however, always check to make sure you do not have free doffs waiting. 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. At higher CXP ranks, this is also a method for passively farming Fleet Marks. The main use of fleet doffs is when you need a specific one for your build. 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 . This is a guide to farming EC, originally written by RockyCoon. farshore Member Posts: 353 Arc User. FEDs get 20 "free" colonist DOffs when they start out, but afterward this is the mission you need to get more. If cryptic ever does do an update, at least i can be there waiting. These are preferred because you can obviously double down and cut your doff time in half. I add this to my dailies list when I do dailies. It is your friend. Instigate Defection: It takes a long time to complete, but awards a rare officer on success and a very rare officer on a crit. Unique, unrepeatable assignment. 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. You don't need to max Diplomacy/Marauding, you only need T3 to cross the borders. I ve been away for a big while so I dont know much how much is new since 2017. Both recruit types, if you created one of each, requires you to achieve Tier IV in 6 different commendation categories. A number of story missions have doff rewards. 1 Astrometric Probe, 10000 EC, 1 tactical, 2 other duty officers (doffs return to your roster). Assignments will reward you with a proper faction duty officer, but if you intend to trade or buy another one, you have to make sure that the duty officer belongs to your faction. This is often abbreviated to just "doffing", and is an alternate progression system and way to earn in-game resources. This mission can be a gamble. Both are around 85,000 CXP and I need 100,000 CXP to get them to the final level of 4. The system unlocks once a character reaches Level 11. Recruitment assignments from the academies (visit representatives and accept the assignment). Currently, there are duty officers of white, green, blue, purple, dark purple and gold quality. This method can be very profitable, especially when fleets run projects that require a lot of common duty officers. For best results, send a purple trader on the mission. Others have mentioned breaking down doffs into lower doffs and this is fine if you have enough free doff slots. 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! If nothing else, it is a fairly passive source of dil that can also complement your admiralty efforts in the same arena. You select an assignment from any of the several lists. Extra active duty officer roster slots are available for requisition through the Fleet Spire at the Personnel Officer. Star Trek Online game content and materials are trademarks and copyrights of 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"! This is an easy mission that also qualifies for basic foundry rewards (dilithum). Fleet Research Lab has a doff mission, K13, and Mine Holding do too. Duty officers (doffs) represent the junior officers, enlisted personnel, and civilian crew members of the player's starship. I do not like to think about the Nagus.) Also, a good farming mission will spawn ships with no shields, so they will be killed a lot more easy. See how to distinguish faction side on this frame comparison image. The short answer is that almost every element of a doff in some way influences how useful that doff is. Ultra Rare and Epic duty officers will have same rank as Very Rare quality duty officers. Cross-faction doffs do also exist, mostly as special rewards or as part of C-Store doff packs. This is one of the factors that determines which doffs can go on which missions. Please feel to add if you come across additional info, but please keep in mind to maintain the spirit of the guide when adding. DOFF Grinding for Fun and Profit I was inspired by CaptainBaldy's Cakeday Giveaway and wanted to build on the idea. Since there is no guarantee that the mission will succeed I would only consider this option as a alternative. By default the Exchange lists all doffs, whether your character can use them or not. If you'd like to help out with updating the wiki, click here for a list of all new items and content! cool-down, 28% disaster rate, and 1000 dil (2500 dil for a crit) payout. The assignment Colonists to , also known as Relocate Colonists takes 5 colonists per, can not be failed, I'll say it again, CAN NOT BE FAILED, and pays out 500 dil per mission, with a chance to crit for 1500. Well, maybe not, but I'll lay out some numbers and let you decide how you want to sell your prisoners into slavery. 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. Like items, doffs can be bound to your character. check with your operations officer in the Department heads tab or on your ships engineering deck. 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. Gorn Awards. A NOTE ABOUT DOWNGRINDING DOFFS: since white duty officers sell quickly due to their demand and relatively low prices, some doffers choose to acquire as many high-level doffs as possible through duty officer missions (listed below), sell the expensive ones, downgrind the rest to lower quality doffs, and sell the resulting white ones. :/, EDIT2: Nevermind. Only white quality duty officers have a chance of dying while on assignment (note the difficulty of the assignment). With the easy Dilithium from Admiralty removed, restoring older methods of Dil-farming became far more imperative. 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. After you complete each of the 14 Colonization chains, you get the repeatable Support Colonization Efforts mission for each one. For similar reasons, the academy recruitment assignments which cost dilithium (general and R&D) are also not worthwhile. On success a 10 stack of some craft item. The only caveat is because the Grind to Craft ratio is 3:5, you need 5 Support DOFFs to make three Tellarite DOFFs. If you are running very rare doffs and can critical the assignments you can get a large amount of CXP points from this assignments. PROTIP: Always check the Current Map in the "Assignments" tab and in the corresponding department under the "Department heads" tab. Lets think about these crits, assuming you crit all 5 of to Colonists to , you will receive 5000 dil. (Both Tac and Eng Captains can summon support who weapons doesn't need remodulating.) Do note that when farming Commendation XP, one should try to have as many Critical Success traits as possible but as few Success traits as possible. I zipped through the recruitment CXP using your technique at the Personnel Officer. 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. Play whatever race you would like to play. 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. Notably, this officer comes unbound--and the officer you send can be bound. "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. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, M'ky RA/RSE Adm/HoS MS/Resident "Tytrant". Share your glorious (or hilarious) in-game adventures through stories and screencaps, ask your game related questions, and organize events with your fellow Captains. Legacy of Romulus Legacy Pack: The Legacy of Romulus Pack includes four doffs, available to any Romulan characters across the entire account. Some doffs are affiliated with certain R&D schools, allowing them to be used to create certain items. The D'Kora is notable for being able to be had fairly inexpensively on the Exchange, and the Nandi for being available for an Epic token from the Phoenix Store. This is meant to bring the newbies up to speed and why Doffs matter. Science, Engineering, or any other category). Regular doff assignments can be re-tried after you fail and the cool off has come around. 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. May his word be taken as the law of Bank. 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). I was wondering if there was a way to farm samples quicker than just grabing the anomolies on the missions? The Dominion Fugitive can be sold on the exchange or used in other missions that will permanently remove the doff from your roster. Start out by either going to the exchange and buy some VR or Rare doffs. Then click on Undine or Space battlezone contact. The general idea is to score critical successes to get items and more doffs, then sell the expensive items and doffs for EC. Project Chrysalis assignment chain: This assignment chain awards a very rare officer upon completion. Don't bother with the Saurian mission, as it requires a refugee with "Cold Blooded" or "Resilient" traits (difficult to find). The unbound equivalents of the purple rewards often fetch high prices on the exchange (several million EC in some cases), so completion of the assignment chains is recommended for those looking for valuable duty officers. The Bartender on Drozana should give you 50% sell rate. Doffs can be attached to messages at mail terminals just like items. B. Every time you "FIRE" or dismiss a doff you will get DIL+recruitment points. 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