How do you farm duty officers explosive experts?

stormwind81

Is there a way you can farm those?
Cause I need a lot of them on every of my twinks.

Also what fast methods except the exchange are out there to fill up your duty officers with rare, very rare or ultra rare duty officers?

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stormwind81

Ok, I am still learning and kinda need to ask stupid questions.
So I need to fly somewhere first and then look under "current map" in my duty officer assigments if I see a chain-mission there? and then I start doing that?
And after its finished I need to fly there again to get the 2/7 assigment?
Am I right?

Then I only need to know where I need to fly for those ;()

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legendarylycan

and none of the chains offer explosives experts - i checked​​

phoenixc

shadowfang240 wrote: »

and none of the chains offer explosives experts - i checked​​

You can also buy doff packs from the c-store (there is even going to be a sale on them early next week) which award random doffs of various quality levels (they guarantee a certain minimum number of each rank generally and the rest can be of any quality). Since they are random specialties you may or may not get the exact type you are looking for depending on how the random numbers run when you open the packs.

chastity1337

https://sto.gamepedia.com/Assignment:_Support_Colonization_Efforts
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Assignment:_Support_Expansion_Efforts

14 is correct. The links above will show you the exact purps you get for crit on the repeatables, after completing the 7/7 chain.

Note that the Armory Officer from the D'Kel cluster is very useful for doing these repeatables, with the traits you need to max your chance of a crit. Once you have 5 of him/her you are cooking with gas! Also, you still get a DOFF even if you don't crit, it's just something less useful.

If you're having trouble finding these clusters and whatnot, you can click the rightmost tab at the top of your map for an alphabetical list, and then doubleclick on the name to auto-nav there, assuming you are at least in the right quadrant.

stormwind81

Yeah, somehow I must have forgotten about that, because now I remember someone telling me about that.
So you basically have to farm/level that up like your other reputations.
And I am already annoyed that you can only have 20 colonists and they block your "inventory" until the assignment is finished!
So you can only do a certain amount at a time.

chastity1337

stormwind81#1860 wrote: »

Yeah, somehow I must have forgotten about that, because now I remember someone telling me about that.
So you basically have to farm/level that up like your other reputations.
And I am already annoyed that you can only have 20 colonists and they block your "inventory" until the assignment is finished!
So you can only do a certain amount at a time.

Patience, grasshopper! STO is a marathon, not a 40-meter sprint.

stormwind81

chastity1337 wrote: »

stormwind81#1860 wrote: »

Yeah, somehow I must have forgotten about that, because now I remember someone telling me about that.
So you basically have to farm/level that up like your other reputations.
And I am already annoyed that you can only have 20 colonists and they block your "inventory" until the assignment is finished!
So you can only do a certain amount at a time.

Patience, grasshopper! STO is a marathon, not a 40-meter sprint.

Dont worry, ensign! Life is a marathon, games are just short sprints on your road.

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chastity1337

corinthalas wrote: »

According to the list, the crit-reward doffs does not include an explosive expert. But it doesn't show the lower-qualify doffs you get from non-crit completion.

I do know that the instigate defection duty assignment (fed side, don't know about KDF) has a rare explosive expert as one of the possible rewards. But it can award any one of over a dozen possible doffs and has a lengthy cooldown (roughly 96 hours). The doffs are all character bound, too.

Good catch, Corinthalas. Your post inspired me to go poke around at STOGamepedia...
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Specialization:_Explosives_Expert
...and I just can't find any easy way to get Explosive Experts. That doesn't mean no easy way exists, it just means I have not been able to find one. Especially for a relatively new player, this is a tough row to hoe.

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kevinhr

stormwind81#1860 wrote: »

Ok, I am still learning and kinda need to ask stupid questions.
So I need to fly somewhere first and then look under "current map" in my duty officer assigments if I see a chain-mission there? and then I start doing that?
And after its finished I need to fly there again to get the 2/7 assigment?
Am I right?

Then I only need to know where I need to fly for those ;()

Depends on the chain. The explorations chains are given from that cluster's duty office button that pops up when you are near the cluster. Chain missions will appear (either the starter or follow up) in any of the assignment locations (current map, under a department head, there is both a chef and a bartender chain) and possibly multiple sectors on the map (and possibly different sectors than where the previous mission might be).

There is also a "bug" about where assignment lists "change" on the map which you should research. Look a sweet spot after a major sector line and before the list resets to the generic assignment list, and also realize the list will change the reverse way as well. Several other people explain it better (with maps!!) so look for those.

It can be a fun treasure hunt with cool rewards, but it's a lot more complicated than the designers intended, and at this point, probably not going to change or be "fixed" any decade soon.

PS - One last hint, there's a "chain" that involves a play and 19 holograms. Talk to your Operations Office in Main Engineering (yes, go visit your ship interior). Enjoy!!