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List Where You Find Rare Particles

rodneywollamrodneywollam Member Posts: 61 Arc User
edited May 2015 in Duty Officer System and R&D
I created this thread because I don't see another one out there. But, if we could have one central place where you can go and see where others have found rare particles, I think that would be peachy keen. Ultimately, what I'm hoping for is someone out there will tell us where, if any exists, they have found a wellspring of rares being given up.

So, please list where you found your rares. If I find any, I'll list mine too.
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  • turbomagnusturbomagnus Member Posts: 3,479 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Unfortunately, I think they've randomised what Materials appear in harvest nodes.

    Running the "Japori System Patrol" (Defeat 5 Nausicaan Squadrons) five times as part of the "Tau Dewa Sector Block Patrol" Daily, the three harvest nodes in the Japori system have changed each time; sometimes Hydrazine Gas, sometimes Verteron Particles, sometimes Magnesite Ore, once or twice one of the nodes gave up Z-Particles...

    I've also repeated some of the shorter Episodes missions ("Stranded In Space", "Task Force Hippocrates", "Seeds of Dissent", "Rapier", etc.) and gotten the same random results from Harvest Nodes. The only consistancy has been that I've never gotten any kind of VR/Purple Material from any node. Beyond that, commons, greens, blues, it all seems to be random.
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    ^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
  • dabelgravedabelgrave Member Posts: 979 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    I got most of mine with crits on the doff assignments that give materials.
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  • daqheghdaqhegh Member Posts: 1,490 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    dabelgrave wrote: »
    I got most of mine with crits on the doff assignments that give materials.

    My DOff assignment have never given me any. The ONLY time I've gotten non-Trellium purples was in the the bonus boxes last weekend. Haven't seen a single one before or since.
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  • ashkrik23ashkrik23 Member Posts: 10,809 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Nodes are randomized. Whatever name you see is what you will get. I see quite a few rares.

    Of course it's far easier just to spam queue missions and work on getting your VRs at the same time.
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  • dabelgravedabelgrave Member Posts: 979 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    daqhegh wrote: »
    My DOff assignment have never given me any. The ONLY time I've gotten non-Trellium purples was in the the bonus boxes last weekend. Haven't seen a single one before or since.
    My mistake... I thought the op was asking about Rare materials, not Very Rare materials. All the VR materials come from the elite queue packs or c-store.
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  • rodneywollamrodneywollam Member Posts: 61 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Yes, rare. Not very rare. Very rare we know about (they have their names on them).
  • daqheghdaqhegh Member Posts: 1,490 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    rodneywollam wrote: »
    Yes, rare. Not very rare. Very rare we know about (they have their names on them).

    Rares aren't quite so bad. They have a halfway decent drop rate. Those VRs, though...ugh is not the word.
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  • rodneywollamrodneywollam Member Posts: 61 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Please tell me where they are dropping. Cause I've spent over 5 million on the exchange for them, with the only place else they drop being elite STFs (very sparingly if you are looking for one in particular).
  • daqheghdaqhegh Member Posts: 1,490 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    rodneywollam wrote: »
    Please tell me where they are dropping. Cause I've spent over 5 million on the exchange for them, with the only place else they drop being elite STFs (very sparingly if you are looking for one in particular).

    GEEZ, you have to BUY materials to craft now...I guess I knew it but I never really thought about it. Another good reason not to bother with it.
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  • doffingcomradedoffingcomrade Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    I find that just spamming all the relevant doff missions is enough to provide an adequate set of blue particles for any normal crafting purpose. It seems there are usually 4 per sector unless you've been banned from one or are actively doing it already. Unless you're spamming higher-mark garbage, there's really no reason you should run out of the stuff. What could you possibly even be USING it on? It's not until level 15+ that you get the ability to make anything at all.
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  • rodneywollamrodneywollam Member Posts: 61 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    doffingcomrade wrote: »
    I find that just spamming all the relevant doff missions is enough to provide an adequate set of blue particles for any normal crafting purpose. It seems there are usually 4 per sector unless you've been banned from one or are actively doing it already. Unless you're spamming higher-mark garbage, there's really no reason you should run out of the stuff. What could you possibly even be USING it on? It's not until level 15+ that you get the ability to make anything at all.

    I went thru every system in Zeta Andromedae looking for Z-Particles. I got exactly zero. And what do I need them for? Well, let's just say that not all the ec to be made is on highest mark items. Besides, I am the poc for my fleet's projectiles and I use all four slots to constantly be running projects. And since you can only run research once a day, you have to use rare particles in all but the most elementary of levels. For example, there are 12 rare particles required for just ONE part of one mark VIII item.
  • lucho80lucho80 Member Posts: 6,600 Bug Hunter
    edited August 2014
    Ok, seems to be a lack of doff assignment knowledge so more precise info. I do this every day, every hour. A quick Google search on the forums and you would have found this:
    corgatag wrote: »
    You get particle traces when you crit on the following missions:
    20 hr Sector/DH Exploration missions with the word "Artifact"
    30min-3hr Sector Science missions with the word "Scan..."
    30min-3hr Sector Exploration missions with the word "Analyze..."

    The 30min-3hr ones give some greens mats on success and 2 rares on crit. The 20hr ones give 0-30 commons mats on success and 2 rares and an alien artifact on crit.

    The scan ones have low cooldowns so you can find them all through the day randomly in ANY sector. Just kick all you see in each sector you travel to and you might get as many as 16 going on at the same time.

    For the sectors where you find archeology ones, look at the map here (And use your science department head apart from the current map assignments):
    http://sto.gamepedia.com/Assignment:_Recover_Artifacts_from_Archaeological_Site

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  • rodneywollamrodneywollam Member Posts: 61 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Who says I didn't find it?
    But, where in that post does it say it applies to the revamped R&D system? Besides, I do those. And you know what I get? Verteron, Thoron, Beta Tachyon. I've never received Tetrazine and I think I got Z-Particles maybe twice.

    CERTAINLY not enough to keep my projects going.
  • lucho80lucho80 Member Posts: 6,600 Bug Hunter
    edited August 2014
    rodneywollam wrote: »
    Who says I didn't find it?
    Where in that post does it say it applies to the revamped R&D system? Besides, I do those. And you know what I get? Verteron, Thoron, Beta Tachyon. I've never received Tetrazine and I think I got Z-Particles maybe twice.

    CERTAINLY not enough to keep my projects going.

    Unless you're above level 15, there is no sense in making stuff above MkVI hourly and kicking off the daily project. Even at Mk15, you'll probably craft VR and not UR special items.
  • rodneywollamrodneywollam Member Posts: 61 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    lucho80 wrote: »
    Unless you're above level 15, there is no sense in making stuff above MkVI hourly and kicking off the daily project. Even at Mk15, you'll probably craft VR and not UR special items.

    There's all kinds of sense in it. One, you get more experience points. Two, I earn roughly half a million ec for every mk viii vr torpedo i put on the exchange. Three, like I said before, you can only run research once every twenty hours (and I do do that).
  • lucho80lucho80 Member Posts: 6,600 Bug Hunter
    edited August 2014
    I've kicked off all Analyze and Scan missions pre patch and I'll complete them post patch to show what I got. I do get every type of rare particles (there are only 4 anyway) on crits.
  • rodneywollamrodneywollam Member Posts: 61 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Cool. I'll start doing that then.
  • alexvio1alexvio1 Member Posts: 389 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    lucho80 wrote: »
    and an alien artifact on crit.

    Not an alien artifact. I presume, it can be up to FOUR alien artifacts.

    http://112.imagebam.com/download/HKV4XjJV_7H9MD8aCm6Udg/34360/343593497/3.jpg <- 3 artifacts in one mission. I made this screenshot in S9.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    does it still give the artifacts?
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  • turbomagnusturbomagnus Member Posts: 3,479 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    I've gotten a few from those since 9.5. If anything, it seems like the odds of recieving them, especially for Federation players in Omega Leonis SB, seems to have increased. (Unfortunately for moi, Strange Alien Artifact prices have gone down on the Exchange and the 'Create Console' in-ship Assignment chain is so random as to be pointless... three flippin science consoles in a row, not one of them useful for my ship build.)
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    ^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
  • lucho80lucho80 Member Posts: 6,600 Bug Hunter
    edited August 2014
    Here, I kicked off 13-16 scan assignments on my 4 toons pre-patch. Granted, only 1 has all purple toons to crit a lot, but here is what I got:

    http://tinypic.com/r/o0zf2t/8

    You can get all the different blue ones form these, and you can repeat these several times a day.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    turbomagnus wrote: »
    I've gotten a few from those since 9.5. If anything, it seems like the odds of recieving them, especially for Federation players in Omega Leonis SB, seems to have increased. (Unfortunately for moi, Strange Alien Artifact prices have gone down on the Exchange and the 'Create Console' in-ship Assignment chain is so random as to be pointless... three flippin science consoles in a row, not one of them useful for my ship build.)
    Hunh, I haven't seen any myself, I guess I'll have to keep looking.
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  • rodneywollamrodneywollam Member Posts: 61 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    lucho80 wrote: »
    Here, I kicked off 13-16 scan assignments on my 4 toons pre-patch. Granted, only 1 has all purple toons to crit a lot, but here is what I got:

    http://tinypic.com/r/o0zf2t/8

    You can get all the different blue ones form these, and you can repeat these several times a day.

    Wow. Six tetrazine from 13 to 16 assignments. That doesn't even cover one two hour item in the R&D system. :(
  • turbomagnusturbomagnus Member Posts: 3,479 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    You said this is for your fleet?

    Have you considered asking your fleetmates to supply some of the materials?
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    ^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    markhawkman wrote: »
    Hunh, I haven't seen any myself, I guess I'll have to keep looking.
    And mere moments after I said this my doffs found TWO on Mol'Rihan.... heh...
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  • turbomagnusturbomagnus Member Posts: 3,479 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    *Blinks*

    What assignment on Mol'Rihan awarded them? Because I don't think I've seen that myself...
    "If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid." -- Q, TNG: "Q-Who?"
    ^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
  • rodneywollamrodneywollam Member Posts: 61 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    turbomagnus wrote: »
    You said this is for your fleet?

    Have you considered asking your fleetmates to supply some of the materials?

    I'm not asking anyone for the material. I'm simply asking people to say where they found it. :P
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    turbomagnus wrote: »
    *Blinks*

    What assignment on Mol'Rihan awarded them? Because I don't think I've seen that myself...
    When you're in the command building you can sometimes find a mission named something like "Investigate ruins on New Romulus". It seems to be a clone of the ones you see in sector space, but you only see it when inside NRC.
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  • turbomagnusturbomagnus Member Posts: 3,479 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    markhawkman wrote: »
    When you're in the command building you can sometimes find a mission named something like "Investigate ruins on New Romulus". It seems to be a clone of the ones you see in sector space, but you only see it when inside NRC.

    Ah, okay. I don't really pay that much attention to the 'hub' map assignments unless I'm at the Academys looking for the Kobayashi Maru ones. That explains why I've never seen it... and the fact that typically when I think of Mol'Rihan, I think of the Adventure Zone, not Command...

    rodneywollam wrote: »
    I'm not asking anyone for the material. I'm simply asking people to say where they found it. :P

    Criticals on Exploration and Science DOff assignments, randomly with a low chance of harvest nodes being a rare material instead of uncommon or common. It's all random, there's no real consistant location or way to say will always give you rare materials.
    "If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid." -- Q, TNG: "Q-Who?"
    ^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
  • rodneywollamrodneywollam Member Posts: 61 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Yes, I know. But, since I went thru the entire ZA sector block and found zero Z-particles, I was wondering if there was a sb that offered them more than others.
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