What do you mean by grinding/farming?
By grinding/farming I mean finding an
efficient way to gain currency or advancement in the game. When you
take the time investment, combined with the difficulty of an activity
and compare it to the rewards gained to find the most efficient
content to play repeatedly.
But grinding is anti-fun, why would you
make a guide for anti-fun?
A few quick reasons, first off not all
consider it anti-fun. Secondly some people do not enjoy a particular
type of content and just want to get it over with. Finally some
players may be having a difficult time finding enough time or lack
the knowledge to make the progress they desire. This guide is for
their benefit.
Does STO promote farming?
Yes and no. It is true that some
content has really good rewards when compared to others. However
these tend to be limited in the number of times you can do them by
either being once per day or having a cooldown or thirty minutes to
an hour each time you play.
Why no mention of Doffs?
Farming with Doffs is a guide in and of
itself that I may make at a later time.
Omega Marks
Infected The Conduit (Space Elite STF)
Duration (10 – 20 minutes)
Difficulty: Easy – Medium
Rewards: 60+ Omega Marks, 960
Dilithium, 1+ Neural Processor
Detail: This STF is relatively easy and
the rewards are very high. Especially with the random chance to get
over 100 marks or 11 Neural Processors. While it can only be done
once per hour it is the best way to grind out your marks and/or
dilithium.
Ship Tips: You will need to be
relatively tanky while still having a high amount of damage. Also be
sure to bring repair components as you will occasionally explode due
to bad luck or a mistake.
Walk-threw:
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=282071
by latinumbar
covers all STFs and is a very good read before you begin these.
Spicing it Up
Khitomer Vortex (Space Elite) is also
really easy especially once you get good with your ship. Cure Found
(Space Elite) is a bit more difficult but not by much if you get good
and have a solid group.
Avoid
Into the Hive and all the ground STFs
unless you have a good premade. Pugging them is painful and simply
not worth the effort. Also avoid Defaria as the rewards are simply
not worth the time.
Romulan Marks
Tau Dewa Sector Patrol (Daily)
Duration (2-4 minutes per encounter, 5
encounters)
Rewards: 75 Marks when turned in during
event hour, 60 otherwise
Detail: These missions are easy kill 5
waves of enemies. You can redo the same system five times in a row if
you want to avoid travel time and will also get some energy credits
for your troubles. Below are the best systems to run in my opinion.
Ship Tips: Most of the missions have
swarms of enemies making cannon scatter volley amazing.
Gamma Eridon (Gorn): Sometimes use
Aceton Assimilators which are annoying, and warp plasma
Narenda (Hirogen): Use subneuclonic
beam frequently, Science Team clears it.
Japori (Nausicaans): The stinger
fighters can kill your turn rate somehow, attack pattern omega clears
it or just scatter volley them to death.
Spicing it Up
If you scan a few Radiation Samples on
New Romulas you will get an additional daily mission where you goto
five systems and scan the satellites doing the same mini-game. The
rewards are decent for the time involved and it helps to get some
variety in the systems you run, just be sure to ignore the Gelki
Herding. You can just fly to the satellite and ignore the actual
mission in the system. Also the Red Alert when it doesn't bug is
pretty good too just be sure to bring weapon batteries.
Epohh Raising
Detail: While the amount of time and
effort involved is minimal, the number of days it can take if you do
not get doff crits combined with having to either travel to New
Romulas all the time makes me not really care for this. It is great
for an alt that just camps there but I find the rewards from the
sector daily to be better overall.
Avoid
Azure Nebula Rescue and the other queue
missions have terrible rewards for the time they take. The rewards on
New Romulas aside from Epohh raising are also pretty bad but the
missions are enjoyable.
Fleet Marks
Investigate Officer Reports
Duration: Varies
Rewards: 50 Fleet Marks, 960 Dilithium
Detail: This is a wrapper mission and
rewards you for completing a Foundry mission. While some of the other
methods of obtaining fleet marks provide just as many for the same
amount of time investment they do not offer dilithium as well making
this the best method. In addition you can do one of these every 30
minutes if you desire. One small thing to make a note of though is
that after a point you will no longer get item drops or experience as
there is a daily limit of about 750k-1mil EC value that will drop. My
favorite Foundry mission(s) are listed below. Be sure to tip the
authors who make these possible.
Battleship Royal: This takes 10 – 20
minutes to complete and gives out 250k+ EC worth of gear on top of
the wrapper rewards. Entry is at earth spacedock just be sure to take
a few weapon batteries to speed things up as you will get hit with
Viral Matrix a few times.
Gorn Minefield (Random Daily Wrapper)
Duration: 10-15 minutes
Rewards: 960 + 480 Dilithium, 50 Fleet
Marks, 1-2 Purple Mk XI Item
Detail: This is another wrapper mission
but it is a random daily and is not available every day. When it is
though be sure to run it as the rewards are excellent. Just make sure
the team scans all 4 mineral samples to get the rewards.
Dilithium
Detail: The best part of the season 7
reward changes is that you tend to get Dilithium while doing other
things and so you should not have to worry too much about grinding
this. Keep in mind the best way to get dilithium is to run the elite
space STFs and do the conversion projects via the reputation system.
Daily Missions:
http://www.stowiki.org/Dilithium#Missions
is a great list from the wiki. To increase efficiency take the
mission but do not run it until the next day, then you can do them,
turn them in and retake them and do them a second time to reduce
travel time.
Breen: You may want to bring a Science
Team as Subneuclonic beam is annoying
Eta Eridana: If you do any of these
make sure it is the Alhena mission for the consumable reward and the
follow-up mission is very quick and easy.
Energy Credits
Detail: This currency is just not a
good idea to try and grind directly. You are better off grinding
Dilithium to exchange for Zen and selling things like Master Keys on
the exchange. With that said though some missions do reward a larger
amount of loot than others such as battleship royal and the more
ships you blow up in general the more credits you get. Other than
that if you are good at placing 1st in Fleet Actions like
Gorn Minefield and Starbase 24 you can get a lucky item that will
sell on the exchange.
Experience
Mirror Event (Queue Event)
Duration: 10+ minutes
Reward: ?? Dilithium
Detail: When this event is active it is
time to break out that low level alt and get a few quick levels.
Explore Strange New Worlds (Daily)
Duration: Varies
Reward: 1,440 Dilithium
Detail: While there might be faster
ways of gaining experience I like to earn dilithium while leveling
and this is a great way to do so.
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