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Lack of Transfer Shield Strength III BOFFs

darramouss1darramouss1 Member Posts: 1,811 Arc User
edited March 2014 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Hello all.

Ive been looking for a Transfer Shield Strength III BOFF for 3 days now. At the time of this thread I found 3 on the exchange, the cheapest being 20 million EC. I've searched every Fed race, both in the rare and very rare categories.

If a BOFF power is getting rare enough that the prices are going that high then their drop rate needs to be increased. No BOFF ability should be that rare.

Anyone else having trouble finding it?
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  • deathsremnantdeathsremnant Member Posts: 265
    edited March 2014
    Just wish we had a way to search for specific powers or traits -.- I feel for ya if you went through each available race page by page.
  • newromulan1newromulan1 Member Posts: 2,229
    edited March 2014
    darramouss1 wrote: »
    Hello all.

    Ive been looking for a Transfer Shield Strength III BOFF for 3 days now. At the time of this thread I found 3 on the exchange, the cheapest being 20 million EC. I've searched every Fed race, both in the rare and very rare categories.

    If a BOFF power is getting rare enough that the prices are going that high then their drop rate needs to be increased. No BOFF ability should be that rare.

    Anyone else having trouble finding it?

    Stored across 24 toons inventory I have maybe 600 purple boffs - just don't have time to bother with finding something to do with them. I have only purple as I delete all blues I get. Out of 600 I have 5 purples with tss3 - so less that 1 in 100 - I just checked out of curiosity after reading this post. So yes they must be pretty rare - at least in Purple.
  • orangeitisorangeitis Member Posts: 5,222 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    newromulan1 wrote: »
    Stored across 24 toons inventory I have maybe 600 purple boffs - just don't have time to bother with finding something to do with them. I have only purple as I delete all blues I get. Out of 600 I have 5 purples with tss3 - so less that 1 in 100 - I just checked out of curiosity after reading this post. So yes they must be pretty rare - at least in Purple.
    We gotta keep in mind that only ⅓ of all BOFFs are Science - the only career that can have TSS III. Not to mention... how many people do you suppose chooses a BOFF with TSS III from their New Officer missions, instead of the Tactical or Engineering choices?
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  • wait4mewait4me Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    There is a FE rerun reward for the Mission: Cutting the Cord that is a Reman Science Officer Candidate. He has TSS3, as well as TBR3. I got him and trained a few officers last rerun. I know it may be awhile to wait, but 20 mil EC is quite a bit.
  • newromulan1newromulan1 Member Posts: 2,229
    edited March 2014
    You must not have checked too hard - I just bought a human with it for 250k - I will mail it to you.
  • orangeitisorangeitis Member Posts: 5,222 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    wait4me2 wrote: »
    There is a FE rerun reward for the Mission: Cutting the Cord that is a Reman Science Officer Candidate. He has TSS3, as well as TBR3. I got him and trained a few officers last rerun. I know it may be awhile to wait, but 20 mil EC is quite a bit.
    VERY good to know.

    Know if it can train your Romulan's Rom BOFFs, or the allied BOFFs? Since only Romulan BOFFs can train Romulan BOFFs, and only allied BOFFs can train allied BOFFs, it seems...
    newromulan1 wrote: »
    You must not have checked too hard - I just bought a human with it for 250k - I will mail it to you.
    That might have been put up after he checked.
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  • nobletnoblet Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    orangeitis wrote: »
    VERY good to know.

    Know if it can train your Romulan's Rom BOFFs, or the allied BOFFs? Since only Romulan BOFFs can train Romulan BOFFs, and only allied BOFFs can train allied BOFFs, it seems...

    That might have been put up after he checked.

    I'd be interested to know too. My Rommy is too new to have it. And other chars don't have access to Romulan science boff. It can definitely train allied boffs, both then and now. Maybe it's possible it can train both, but my bet is it counts as allied and can't train Romulan boffs.
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  • erraberrab Member Posts: 1,434 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Wow,

    Has crazy has it seems Transfer Shields Strength 3 is going from anywhere between 15-30 million EC Fed Side :eek:

    Boy am I glad I always stock up on TSS3 when I come across them for a few Thousand EC :D

    Strangly the skill is not much in demand KDF side.
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  • darramouss1darramouss1 Member Posts: 1,811 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    errab wrote: »
    Wow,

    Has crazy has it seems Transfer Shields Strength 3 is going from anywhere between 15-30 million EC Fed Side :eek:

    Boy am I glad I always stock up on TSS3 when I come across them for a few Thousand EC :D

    Strangly the skill is not much in demand KDF side.

    Why is that? I'm not a KDF player.
  • erraberrab Member Posts: 1,434 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    darramouss1 wrote: »
    Why is that? I'm not a KDF player.

    I'm saying that the Skill can be had KDF side for under 2 million EC and there's many KDF Science Boffs with the skill to be found on the Exchange.

    What seems to be happening is that some fleet or player is just going around fed side and snatching up all the Science Officers with TSS3 on them and just bloating the price up on the Exchange.

    Heck it's a pretty good racket if you have the EC and time to do it.
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  • doffingcomradedoffingcomrade Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    My guess is that the demand is lower on the KDF side because of a lack of ships that are even capable of fielding it. Not a lot of KDF boats with LtC Sci or better.
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  • ursusmorologusursusmorologus Member Posts: 5,328 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    orangeitis wrote: »
    Know if it can train your Romulan's Rom BOFFs, or the allied BOFFs? Since only Romulan BOFFs can train Romulan BOFFs, and only allied BOFFs can train allied BOFFs, it seems...
    Allied BOFFs will only offer to train if there's another allied BOFF of that profession in the roster. But once that condition is satisfied they will gladly train any of the BOFFs, including your Romulans. So grab the cheapest BOFF you can find, add him to your crew, then open the trainer BOFF and tell him to train whoever

    As to the topic at hand, yeah they're rare, I have 1 FED and 1 KDF with TSS in my mailbox, other than the Reman reward in the candidate lists on every toon just in case.
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  • erraberrab Member Posts: 1,434 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Has a general rule of mine I like to keep a few extra boffs with what I like to call staple skill around on both factions so anytime that I roll and ALT I'll have the skills on hand if I want to use them.

    My Staple skills are:

    Auxiliary power to structural integrity field 3 (Not Really needed anymore)

    Torpedo Spread 3 (Still a great skill but who uses Torpedo's anymore)

    Transfer Shield Strength 3 (Still very popular fed side)

    Beam Array Overload 3 (it's a damn shame that the Galaxy X was not given the Ltc. Tac slot)

    I also have a reclaimable Photonic Science officer on both factions that can train Hazard Emitters 3 and Tricorder Scan 3 if I should need them.

    A good rule of thumb is that if you like a skill make sure you have access to extra copies of it if needed ;)
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  • berginsbergins Member Posts: 3,453 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Lately, I've found that Fed side science BOffs in general are a lot more than either tac or eng. A lot more.

    That being said, I have an active purple/female/Fed/Vulcan/science BOff who has TSS3, and what I'd really like is either a Photonic BOff (T or S), or maybe a purple Fleet Rommie (T or S).

    If she can help me towards one of those goals, I'd sell/trade her.
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  • jagdhippiesjagdhippies Member Posts: 676 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    I know it would annoy a lot of people, but I would like to see all (including tier 3) boffs abilities trainable by either the captain or the boff trainer. Of course there would be a requirement for the captain to have a prerequisite skill in order to train the boff skill so it would be rather difficult to be able to train all skills at the same time.
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  • rylanadionysisrylanadionysis Member Posts: 3,359 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    You think thats bad, try getting it on a romulan. Or even worse, try getting it on a romulan sro.

    I mean you could pay the 60 million premium for the tss3 sro or for the discounted price of 10 for the sro and 25 for the doff to train....

    Its getting stupid, it really is.
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  • coupaholiccoupaholic Member Posts: 2,188 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Interesting. I spent way too long last night trying to find HE3 for one of my science toons and had no luck at all. Yet TSS3 I spotted all over the place for around the 200k mark, for a KDF it's quite straight forward to get most of the desirable abilities - since as another poster says we lack the seating to properly use them.

    After a while I gave up and just went with HE1 and Polarize Hull 3 instead, since I thought the extra damage resistance would be handy and I can't do much else science-y besides heals.

    I certainly agree that having a way to search for specific traits or skills would be very helpful, but probably asking too much of the system we have now.
  • phoeniciusphoenicius Member Posts: 762 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    IMO they should just let boff trainers teach everything, there is no point to any ability being boff only, nor captain only.
  • rylanadionysisrylanadionysis Member Posts: 3,359 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    coupaholic wrote: »
    Interesting. I spent way too long last night trying to find HE3 for one of my science toons and had no luck at all. Yet TSS3 I spotted all over the place for around the 200k mark, for a KDF it's quite straight forward to get most of the desirable abilities - since as another poster says we lack the seating to properly use them.

    After a while I gave up and just went with HE1 and Polarize Hull 3 instead, since I thought the extra damage resistance would be handy and I can't do much else science-y besides heals.

    I certainly agree that having a way to search for specific traits or skills would be very helpful, but probably asking too much of the system we have now.

    HE3 is captain trainable
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  • meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,594 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    There's still plenty left, Fed-side, on Exchange.

    Maybe disable 'Only show useable items.' Enabling it tends to do more harm than good, really.
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  • berginsbergins Member Posts: 3,453 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    This thread brought up something that pops up in my head once in a while:

    If I am concentrating on BOffs for Space (Ground is a whole new ballgame...) is there a difference between a Common BOff and a Very Rare BOff, barring any unusual Traits (such as Efficient) or Abilities (like TSS3)?

    Basically, if I were to train both a Common and a Purple BOff in TSS3, would I see a difference in performance?

    Not that I'd ever do that. I'd use Uncommon instead of Common. Have you seen what Common BOffs are selling for on the exchange?!?!? Purple BOffs sell for 10x less!!!
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    edited March 2014
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  • meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,594 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    bergins wrote: »
    Basically, if I were to train both a Common and a Purple BOff in TSS3, would I see a difference in performance?

    No, makes no difference whatsoever. TSS3 is TSS3, regardless of quality of boff. Only differences, as you say, are possible traits. And higher quality boffs usually come pre-trained with higher quality skills.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    bergins wrote: »
    This thread brought up something that pops up in my head once in a while:

    If I am concentrating on BOffs for Space (Ground is a whole new ballgame...) is there a difference between a Common BOff and a Very Rare BOff, barring any unusual Traits (such as Efficient) or Abilities (like TSS3)?

    Basically, if I were to train both a Common and a Purple BOff in TSS3, would I see a difference in performance?

    Not that I'd ever do that. I'd use Uncommon instead of Common. Have you seen what Common BOffs are selling for on the exchange?!?!? Purple BOffs sell for 10x less!!!
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  • uryenserellonturyenserellont Member Posts: 858 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    markhawkman wrote: »
    Starbases only eat commons. :P

    Common boffs? There's starbase projects that require boffs?
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  • no09dysonsphereno09dysonsphere Member Posts: 410 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    uryenserellont wrote: »
    Common boffs? There's starbase projects that require boffs?

    Yeah for KDF...

    I'm surprised so many people don't know how to train Romulan boffs with allied boffs, thought it'd be common knowledge by now for Romulan players...
  • dsarisdsaris Member Posts: 375 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    TSS3 BoFFs are relatively rare... however if you take advantage of the Featured Episode reruns that occur a few times a year you can get the Purple quality Reman Science BoFF... and he has TSS3.
  • berginsbergins Member Posts: 3,453 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    markhawkman wrote: »
    Starbases only eat commons. :P
    uryenserellont wrote: »
    Common boffs? There's starbase projects that require boffs?
    no09dysonsphere wrote: »
    Yeah for KDF...

    I'm surprised so many people don't know how to train Romulan boffs with allied boffs, thought it'd be common knowledge by now for Romulan players...
    Actually, Fed too. The Fleet Personell Officer requires 10 common humans of each career. Are there others that require other races? 'Cause the price isn't much different btwn human and others.
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