As you are promoted through the Commendation ranks, you will receive free doffs from Lieutenants Ferra or S'stas. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. You can turn on the option at the bottom of the Exchange window to only show usable items. 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. 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. In addition, a Romulan captain (or one with Rank 4 in Diplomacy/Marauding) can recruit Rai during Mine Enemy. Personal: location varies; Engineering under Department Heads, Duty officers. EDIT: You can't exchange bound doffs afterall. You can then visit the personnel officer and exchange them down for 3 lower ranking officers. Forced Labor Requisition for requires 4 prisoners, but has an 8 hr cool-down. 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. Buying two prisoners from the Orion slavers has a duration of 8 hrs. Cryptic has been planning an update for the crafting system, but it's still a ways away. 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"! Prices can and will fluctuate on the exchange, depending on rarity, availability, and the amount of game-wide Starbase projects currently running. Given how long it would take at this rate to farm 3 VR DoFFs, you're probably better off buying them off the exchange. It can be a bit of a grind, but with patience can be quite profitable. Get yourself an escort of some sort. See the Tellarite, Andorian, and Vulcan personnel officers at Starfleet Academy. 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. KDF, admit it, you have it easy. Currently, there are duty officers of white, green, blue, purple, dark purple and gold quality. Quality (purple, blue) depends on refugee quality and crit traits. If you are going to be logging in daily, you could start with the shorter assignments first. Astrometrics Scientist: Putting one of these on active duty will allow you to use transwarp more frequently, which is useful for assignment-gathering. Currently have five Engineers with Resolve and Stubborn (three Purple, two Blue). Particle Traces and other bridge missions, colonial chains, analyzing Gamma commodity properties, Undine BZ, Dyson allied/contested when available, one at K-13, one at the Research Lab, and two at the Dilithium Mine. 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.) NOTE: a 4 hour cooldown for this mission was introduced with the launch of the Legacy of Romulus expansion pack in 2013. Negotiate Prisoner Exchange: Allows you to trade a prisoner for a new, random doff. Thanks! The Bartender on Drozana should give you 50% sell rate. Running a CXP bonus pool can speed the time up. Instigate Defection: It takes a long time to complete, but awards a rare officer on success and a very rare officer on a crit. The maximum amount that can be earned during the event is 350,000 EC. B. It should say Battlezone Assignments. 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. Since the Materials are "Bind to Character on Pickup.". DOFF Grinding for Fun and Profit I was inspired by CaptainBaldy's Cakeday Giveaway and wanted to build on the idea. 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. I found the alpha quadrant, and in particular the area around DS9, to offer the most trade assignments with good payoffs. Doff missions. Start out by either going to the exchange and buy some VR or Rare doffs. A good farming mission will give you at least 500k EC in items (yes, that's a 10-minute half-million). If you are buying doffs from the Exchange, always check to ensure that the doff you are buying is usable by your faction. Extensively-Modified Warp Core can also work instead, if you have access to it. So, what we have here is an unlimited supply of redundant Very Rare duty officers that can be obtained relatively quickly and in large quantity, while also awarding Refugees that can be exchanged via Asylum missions for more DOFFs of varying quality. Cryptic Studios, Inc. or its licensees and used with permission. Note that missions found under "Department heads" are exclusive to the player's console but can be shared with others via bridge invitations. Even the incredibly good doffing assignments in the Dsyon sphere are gone. check with your operations officer in the Department heads tab or on your ships engineering deck. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! Finally, if you're crafting to make EC, remember opportunity cost. Both have a disaster rate of 4% with no fail rate, you crit, succeed, or there is a disaster. Celebrate 13 years of Star Trek Online with Season Twenty-eight: Refractions, now live on PC! These include the Lower Decks doffs, Neal Falconer, and the doff version of Holo-Leeta previously given out at conventions. You select an assignment from any of the several lists. Or, just ask someone that has it to grant it. This is a guide to farming EC, originally written by RockyCoon. Some elements, however, are more important than others. Notably, this officer comes unbound--and the officer you send can be bound. Tellarite Engineers with Stubborn and Resolve fetch 20 million plus. To replace it, the Duty Officer system was introduced. Up to 10 duty officers can be placed on Active Duty. Join the Discord! If all else fails, the Exchange usually has exactly what you want. 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. On success a 10 stack of some craft item. Ferengi Awards. The only advantage I see to farming the support missions is that it requires no starting capital. You get more commendations points for the assignments. Admiralty missions will frequently reward colonists and prisoners. After you complete each of the 14 Colonization chains, you get the repeatable Support Colonization Efforts mission for each one. (The same idea or KDf). The main use of fleet doffs is when you need a specific one for your build. 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). You will notice that there are several categories for each commendation and they all max out at Tier IV. I will caution you before going out and buying all the VR doffs on the exchange, this is a very expensive route to take. 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. The final step of Children's Toys, Fabricate Prototype Console from Alien Artifact, needs five Engineers with Resolve for Success, with Crits on Efficient, Stubborn, and Cunning. wtf. Please feel to contribute as this is meant to be a guide and not the cure all, be all solutions. There are a number of different methods to obtain doffs--some more worthwhile than others. Romulan Republic Awards. Permit Crippled Warrior to Perform the Hegh'bat, Legacy of Romulus Release Notes (21 May 2013). Science, Engineering, or any other category). Posts promoting a vested personal interest are limited to two per week, Press J to jump to the feed. They have loads of other wee missions too for recruitment and trade. In this video I am showing how to easily get Common Duty Officers to fill your fleet projects. [1] There are at least 54,587 duty officers available since the system was introduced in Season 5. This will take you through 6 Duty Officer Jurisdictions, where new assignments will automatically populate as you fly. 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 same odds apply to all Cultural Exchange missions. If you received another faction's duty officers they can be traded/mailed/sold using drag and drop from your roster/brig/passenger slots, or dismissed for a small bonus in dilithium and recruitment points. 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. So that's a good way to get rid of unwanted ones you can't sell. Holy shit. Fleet doffs can be recruited at many fleet holdings by spending an absolutely outrageous number of fleddits for each doff purchased. The only caveat is because the Grind to Craft ratio is 3:5, you need 5 Support DOFFs to make three Tellarite DOFFs. 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). If you know the answer to that one, you probably don't need this guide. I imagine you can do this earlier than 50, but being level 50 insures you get the highest mark of loot. and costs 2000 latinum (Yes, intrepid DOff'er, latinum is good for something! 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. If nothing else, it is a fairly passive source of dil that can also complement your admiralty efforts in the same arena. 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. Quality depends on duty officer qualities and crit traits. Although there are some assignments like haggle for (insert whatever commodities you want) that will still say unprofitable but still award you commodities. When a captain gets Diplomacy or Marauding maxed out, it gets even easier with the transwarp points unlocked. Other, more common commodities can be found in assignments themselves, replicated, or bought from a variety of specialized vendors. Any more of an in-depth look than that is somewhat outside the scope of this guide; however, do note that R&D doffs are valuable even at lower rarities. 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. 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. For example CXP 10,000 or 25,000. I was inspired by CaptainBaldy's Cakeday Giveaway and wanted to build on the idea. But, you can regrind any useless Tellarites into 3 more Rares. For some reason, I often find regular Federation/Klingon Junior Officer Cadres for the same price or cheaper than a mini-pack (around 200k). It was at that point that I first considered collating what I had learned into a new doffing guide. Also, a good farming mission will spawn ships with no shields, so they will be killed a lot more easy. This is the unofficial community subreddit for Star Trek Online, the licensed Star Trek MMO, available on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. 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. These missions take place "in the background," so to speak, and happen in real-world time. This is the other major sorting mechanism for which doffs can go on what missions. Specialization: Refugee is a duty officer specialization within the Civilian department. Along with that, there's the Children's Toys chain, which lets you craft Uncommon/Rare/Very Rare Mk XII consoles. To downgrind doffs, see the Personnel Officer, located behind Lt. Ferra on Starfleet Academy and choose the option "Exchange Officers." In the future I will be adding a DOFF calculator to determine the time needed to complete each tier and with/without bonus CXP pools. Outfit it for DPS. 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. I litterally needs hundreds of samples. Start it by clicking 'Hail' at the bottom right. I would also advise against exchanging high-rarity refugees in these assignments; there are some doff assignments (especially in Medical) that require refugees specifically. In this section, I will explain the various traits of a doff and how they impact gameplay. Fortunately, as stated, it is on offer fairly often. 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. I zipped through the recruitment CXP using your technique at the Personnel Officer. This is a fine way to fill out your initial roster. ULTRA RARE ITEM CRAFTING DOFFS Read the 2.99 mil EC Race Route for instructions on how to earn millions of EC in one hour. "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. Ferengi Awards. *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 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. Likewise, when you unlock the R&D system at level 15 you will receive a cadre of common, traitless doffs. Last year, I finally got around to completing the grind to six T4 commendation ranks on both my Temporal and Gamma recruits. The system unlocks once a character reaches Level 11. Kobayashi Maru / Tong'Duj: The last two options for the best doffing ship in the game, though they are functionally identical to each other--and the Tuffli. Link to Spreadsheet Google Docs Spreadsheet. Ya i see that, but its still nice having it maxed out. This is also never worth it given the cost. 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. 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. 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. 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