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mamif3
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Just got my rom alt to 50 and I've started looking for these. A quick search of the exchange didn't turn up any.
As a romulan where do you get the boffs with superior op?
As a romulan where do you get the boffs with superior op?
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Also... did you check the boffs you get from level up to see if one of those might have it? It can happen, if rarely.
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Just a warning however, the rare ones tend to go for 6-8 million EC, while the Very rare tend to be 11 Million and up for Superior Romulan Operative. Also note that as usual, Females go for more than the Males.
My best advice I could say, is if you are not actively playing your Romulan, or when you do log off for the night or session, park them at New Romulas command. This will increase your odds of finding that rare Doff Mission when you log back in, as it tends to show up when you log in their rather then when you zone in to the zone. If you have other romulan characters, by all means park them their when not in use, and check them every 4-5 hours if possible, basically when the zone doff missions reset.
I tried this and was lucky enough to get an engineer and tactical from doff missions as I leveled up my Reman, and got one engineer with the trait from the free Boffs they rewarded me as I leveled. Sadly I had to spend 11-12 million EC a piece to get my female science Boffs with it.
That being said, the investment can be worth it if you really want a high crit Build. My Reman currently sits at a 20.5% crit chance with 5 Boffs with Superior Operative, 2.5% base, 3% from romulan rep, 3% from the dyson space gear set bonus (proton beam-cannon/consol/gravimetric torpedo). I can't recall where I got the other 2.5% from, might be another console as i don't have fleet tactical consoles yet on my science ship.
As for the Romulan marks, best thing I could suggest is doing the Epoh stuff on new romulus. It might take you a week and a half for that first epoh to get to eldar, but once you get one to eldar, you can turn it in for 400 romulan marks. You basically have to spend 2 days getting the carrots from tagging epohs, then do a doff mission in to turn that into a tag. This will get you 1-3 of these little tag things depending if they crit the mission. Once you have 5 tags, you can buy an epoh, then talk to one of the romulans around their to do a Doff mission to raise the Epoh. This raising process has to go from child to adult to eldar, so will take 3 days alone to raise one. Each Epoh will give you 10/100/200/400 marks depending on if they are cubs, teenager, adult and eldar basically. Do this and at least get enough marks to keep the rep rolling, and eventually you will have alot more marks to do stuff. still not as easy as the others but still easier to do the epohs than not do the epoh stuff.
Easiest way to get SRO BOffs:
Make an alt throwaway tac Romulan/reman. Level it up to level 45. ONLY PICK THE BOFFs WITH SRO AS YOU LEVEL UP. After you get each BOff with SRO, DO NOT USE IT. Leave it in your officer candidate list and instead use faction based BOffs (IE humans, andorians, blah blah blah for feds, Klingons, orions gorn, nausicaan as KDF). After you hit level 45, look through your officer candidates. Each BOff with SRO, MAIL IT TO YOURSELF. Then distribute as needed throughout your main toons. Delete character. Rinse and repeat as many times as needed.
What does this do for you? Yes, you have to spend a week leveling a toon each time, but that week will guarantee you getting BOffs with SRO (they start appearing on the level 25 free BOff, and appear pretty consistently after that), save you the stress of looking for the DOff mission, and also will save you MILLIONS OF EC. As for you guys selling them on the exchange? Sorry. Not really.
As for the Mark thread hijack? Azure Nebula, Mine Enemy, The Vault: Ensnared and Tau Dewa Daily: Sector Patrol for Romulan Marks. And for Nukara marks? Run around on Nukara prime doing stuff. I picked up 300 marks in an hour easily.
I like my method better =P
I tried that once myself and didn't mention it only because I felt it wasn't an effective use of time and I level pretty fast. Seems like most of the time you get 2 or 3 boffs that way but easier to just spend less time farming the EC.
What's most laughable is that Rom BoFF's are ALL priced high on the exchange because the "sheep" don't actually know why everyone wants them ... You can actually pick up better Dil BoFF's (and randomly get the Super Op trait if you're persistent"
But hey, I'm making a fair bit of EC from selling every Rom BoFF I get, regardless of stats or traits, so ...
I Support Disco | Disco is Love | Disco is Life
That's more or less it, really.
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Scorpius - Zelbinion Mk II
Oh god, do we need to have an Exchange 101 thread XD.
But yeah, you just slightly undercut the cheapest one (or if the cheapest one is UBER cheap, then you snap it up and sell it higher).
No, we don't. Especially the people who don't understand the value of certain rare doffs. Yes, this last month has been rather hilarious, and it'd be nice for it to continue with the new lock box.
Peacekeeper High Command
Scorpius - Zelbinion Mk II
lol
I'm not completely unaware of how to play Exchange. It's just BOffs is never an area I've broken into since trait hunting a little more involved than just learning the name of what you want and searching for it.
At any rate. I'm seriously considering blowing a large amount of ingame currency on a novelty character, and since I'm not especially interested in using the BOffs in question, I figure I'm better off selling them to make my all-"Hirogen" crew a reality.
I Support Disco | Disco is Love | Disco is Life
This nails it for me. So beautifully said. A calculated approach! Getting those marks represented such a pleasure compared to the rest of the bunch.
The *few* times the marks actually were in shortage, I just went to a spot on New Romulus with a low population, and plenty of nearby radiation, for that healthy extra dosage. You get good at that mini-game, with just a little inspiration going, and the target in sight.
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I LOVE IT! Too bad I can't send them to my Fed Alts. But ohwell, this will be great for when I make a Romm alt!
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They randomly come with "Basic Romulan Operative" which is around 50% as good as the Superior version, but it may be better than spending millions of EC.
Basic Romulan Operative
+1% Critical Chance
+2.5% Critical Severity
+5% Power Recharge
Speed for Cloaking
Romulan Operative
+1.5% Critical Chance
+3.8% Critical Severity
+10% Power Recharge
Speed for Cloaking
Superior Romulan Operative
+2% Critical Chance
+5% Critical Severity
+15% Power Recharge
Speed for Cloaking
Anyway, the point is that on the Exchange even common bridge officers can have Basic Romulan Operative, but for lower prices than blue boffs. They may only be half as good as SRO but for less than a tenth of the price, that might be worth it.
Anyway, SRO can also be found on blue BOFF, but they will still cost a lot. Sometimes less than purple however, because most people will look for them with the very rare filter.
This requires actually having to do the time wasting 1st set of missions, moving some doffs to the char to level up, then we have a glaring problem of needing 5 more sup op boffs when you get around to refitting this char
Actually you're dead wrong for the simple reason of this:
IT'S A THROWAWAY CHARACTER. ie, You make it to get rid of it. You make it ONLY for the BOffs. You don't need DOffs for it, you don't need any GOOD BOffs for it (those you transfer to other accounts that actually need them), you make this account to get it's SRO BOffs, and then delete it.
The biggest problem I see with this method is ... Tovan!!!
I would go completely, totally, irrevocably MAD if I had to put up with him and his pathetic whining and complaining on multiple characters. I just couldn't do it! It's not worth it!!! ...
Tovan who? Tovan Crusher ?
That's why I just skip all the flavor text and spam my spacebar and esc buttons during cutscenes. And on the few you can't skip, I take off my headphones and go to the bathroom or play with my cat.
This will not kill the Boff market, at all. How many people are going to be willing to spend the hours necessary to save them a few mil in EC? By level 45 you'll get what, 2 maybe 3 Boffs with SRO, assuming they're even ones you want (i.e. not 3 engineers)? The time spent is worth much more than the 30 million or so EC you saved. I can't see anyone doing this when they could spend less time earning the EC and just buying the BOFFs they need.