I've collected a whole slew of Bridge Officers clogging my inventory and decided to do a little house cleaning. So I went to the exchange.
Looking at Rare Human Boffs, a quick glance at one for 45EC and one for 25MEC, they have the same superior ability, and although their other abilities are different, it didn't seem like anywhere near 25M worth of different.
I'm wondering if its even worth trying to sell Boffs on the exchange. I remember selling one for several MEC when I first started, but can't remember why...
You can still sell some BOFFs for millions, depending on the look and the abilities, with the rare abilities bearing the best prices.
Starfleet side, it's harder to make money due to the population size. In some cases, you can make more money, like Vulcan Science Officers (female especially) or Klingon Tactical Officers... mainly because they replicate beloved characters from the TV shows and/or have better innate abilities, but mostly because of the shows.
Of course, the "best" ones on Starfleet side are Aliens because you can always change to the flavor of the month when it comes to appearance. Vorta, Vulcan, whatever. My Starfleet Alien Eng has almost all Alien BOFFs, with a couple Humans, a Trill, and a Vulcan or two. If I knew that Human traits did something, I'd use more of them. And you don't have the Nausicaan Pirate issue for KDF (because if you don't slot all Pirate BOFFs, yarrrr! You're losing a lot of DPS in Space).
And yet Aliens are pretty inexpensive on the Exchange. Go figure.
With the exception of Romulan (and rarely Reman) BoFF's that have a variant of the "Operative" trait, most BoFF's actually sell for 100 to 50K EC, with Blue and Purple ones usually getting a little more because they often come with "xxxx III' versions of powers.
Also, Female BoFF's generally fetch better prices than male one's (yep, STO has 'that' kind of player base)
If you see any other BoFF except a Romulan/Reman with either "Romulan Operative" or "Superior Romulan Operative" traits for any more than 100K EC, you can bet that someone is simply using the Exchange for storage and transfer between Alts.
Either that or they are really hoping for a total 'noob' to come along and by it simply be cause it's expensive, so it must be good right? Right?
and hardly anything they said above applies to the KDF side. Boffs with untrainable skills can fetch millions. no matter what they look like. because in some cases that is the only way to get the skill you want on your current Boff.
Trophies for killing FEDS ahh those were the days.
Unless you are selling a romulan boff with the superior operative trait, or a reman with the superior subterfuge, or any other "rare" boff, no, its not worthy. Regular Boffs, it doesnt matter ir they are purple are really cheap, since they are really easy to get (i would say the most easy thing to get in STO lol) so you will be selling em for ridiculous prices, like 20-60k EC. Its like selling loot items on the exchange, you can do it, but there are a lot more ways to gain EC. But of course if you dont know what to do with em, you can sell em even if you will not be gaining so much ec.
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You can still sell some BOFFs for millions, depending on the look and the abilities, with the rare abilities bearing the best prices.
Starfleet side, it's harder to make money due to the population size. In some cases, you can make more money, like Vulcan Science Officers (female especially) or Klingon Tactical Officers... mainly because they replicate beloved characters from the TV shows and/or have better innate abilities, but mostly because of the shows.
Of course, the "best" ones on Starfleet side are Aliens because you can always change to the flavor of the month when it comes to appearance. Vorta, Vulcan, whatever. My Starfleet Alien Eng has almost all Alien BOFFs, with a couple Humans, a Trill, and a Vulcan or two. If I knew that Human traits did something, I'd use more of them. And you don't have the Nausicaan Pirate issue for KDF (because if you don't slot all Pirate BOFFs, yarrrr! You're losing a lot of DPS in Space).
And yet Aliens are pretty inexpensive on the Exchange. Go figure.
IKS Korrasami (Fleet B'rel Bird of Prey Retrofit T5-U)
Also, Female BoFF's generally fetch better prices than male one's (yep, STO has 'that' kind of player base)
If you see any other BoFF except a Romulan/Reman with either "Romulan Operative" or "Superior Romulan Operative" traits for any more than 100K EC, you can bet that someone is simply using the Exchange for storage and transfer between Alts.
Either that or they are really hoping for a total 'noob' to come along and by it simply be cause it's expensive, so it must be good right? Right?