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Ok, so I finally broke down and tried the Tau Dewa sector patrol again...I did a long time ago, but I keep reading about it as a good source of Romulan marks.
I must be doing something wrong. It seems like if I go in and kill 5 particular enemies hidden among 20 or 25 enemies I get 20% of the patrol done - it seems like its about 30 minutes of leaning on the fire button.
Am I doing something wrong or is that about right? Seems like much slogging....
I must be doing something wrong. It seems like if I go in and kill 5 particular enemies hidden among 20 or 25 enemies I get 20% of the patrol done - it seems like its about 30 minutes of leaning on the fire button.
Am I doing something wrong or is that about right? Seems like much slogging....
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Its called patrol for a reason - as in go to other systems. You don't complete the mission until you get to 100%. You can usually net about 60 marks for the patrol mission.
Try going to Carraya and just doing the patrol in that area. Just run it 5 times in a row, you dont even have to wait in between. Once you finish it you exit the system and you can immediately go back in and it will have reset. It's not until about 6-7 times clearing out the system that you have to wait in between resets, but it only takes 5 times to get 100% for the mission.
Plus the Tholian Red Alert ALSO counts as a "Patrol" so you can grab both missions at the same time, and kill two birds with one stone when you do the Tholian RA (actually gives 25% of the patrol quota for some reason)
So, in the end more or less, 135+30 = 165 every 2 or 3 days, 135 every day.
I leveled ALL my romulan reputations through these missions lol, only went to new romulus with my main almost 1 year ago. After that, i only use the tau dewa and so on to complete my romulan reputations lol.
I like to fight in space, and i have patience, so it was never a problem for me.
If i remember right, my patrols are -> Acamar system, Carraya system, Beta Thoridor, Gamma Eridon, Nerendra and Pheben System. When i do the radiation as well, i need to also visit Beta Lankai and Galordon to get the radiation reports (the other radiation reports are located in Gamma Eridon, Carraya and Beta Thoridor if i remember right).
this might be fun to do on occasion but it seems to me that only 60 marks for 30 minutes of game play its not the best way to be earning romulan marks.
personally I would rather do epohh tagging, for just a few minutes a day you can earn 400 marks at lest once a week once you get on a roll.
if you crit your first tag doff research mission a few times here and there you can really make a killing.
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When Tau Dewa Patrol launched you could go all 'Groundhog Day' and complete Acamar 6x in a row under 8 minutes. They ended up adding or fixing it so you had to fight the Romulans at the end about a month later.
Now - i just do Narendra 5x, approximately 22-25 minutes for the daily when needed.
If you're talking fed toons, then epohh tagging is the way to go. takes a while to get started, but the payoff is well worth the very short amount of actual effort
This is how I do it for solo missions. After they bumped up the rewards it does a lot better now. Where before I would have to do several trips to get anywhere on both.
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I found that doing the trading mission in the Nequencia system is pretty easy and quick. I found that there are basically three trading combinations. Once you know the pattern of trading you can zip right through it. It gives you 20% so you just need to do it 5 times. It doesn't take any longer than 15 to 20 minutes now for me now to get the patrol done. Only downside is there are no drops like when you blow stuff up.
This is certainly the most efficient way to get some easy rom marks. You can get the three trading combinations online and plow threw the mission pretty quickly. With practice and smart clicking of boxes you can do the 5 under 10 minutes.
Sorry but thats impossible. 10 minutes? lol.. or you mean the nequencia mission over and over again?
Ok, ive been doing the tau dewa patrol since i started playing and never ocurred to me that it is possible to do the same system over and over again, and it will count for the progress of the mission?? :eek: didnt know that...
10 minutes sounds about right. It's a simple "trade x for y" quest, and if you've got a guide, it's trivial. No combat involved at all.
Here's a guide. The longest run takes something like 9 npc interactions to do.
10 Minutes, so easy you can do it in your sleep and you get your daily marks. I run it twice to get my Romulan/Nukara Marks for the day.
Go to the Tau Dewa Sector, Japori system. Accept the patrol mission. Enter Japori, kill 5 waves of enemies, 5 times,... leave with a full inventory worth of EC fodder and 115 Rom marks,... each 5 waves is worth 20% of the patrol mission.
It usually takes me less than 10-15 minutes.
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^^ That's what I do, the Carraya system. 5x in a row.
Well it's 12 minutes, and doing it twice would ned 24+24+55 = 103 marks. for ~25 mins.
25 mins is a tau dewa patrol, which would yield 60+55 = 115 marks for about same time invested. (and if you bake in a tholian alert in that, you can get a daily box of nukara marks too)
But yea, if all you want is the 55 mark daily box, a single azure run would be faster.
Occasionally, coming out of the Deep Space Encounter or Patrol Mission you would find a Red Alert on. That used to be hit or miss. Again you enter and nothing was there. They have since fixed up the Deep Space encounters so that there is always a counter and Tholians to kill, and they removed any timers so that you could enter and reenter like the Patrol Missions. They also fixed up the Red Alert so that there is always a Tholian Fleet there. [Problem with this one is if there are not enough player ships to take on that rather formidable force you end up wasting the 10 minutes.]
So for me I started off doing the Patrol and Radiation Missions with my Romulan Main (Radiation is not available to Federation or Klingon characters). Cycling through the five systems for the Radiation but only doing the actual Patrol stuff in the Carraya system (Tal'Shiar), Beta Thoridor(Rival Klingon), or Gamma Eridon (Gorn). Doing Carraya or Beta Thoridor again to fill out the five Patrols (the Klingons were the easiest overall). Did not want to bother with the Tholians in Beta Lankal, or Gekli in Galorndon.
I then went over to the Carraya system and Deep Space Encounter duo. Now I just pick a Deep Space encounter and do that seven times. The Deep Space stuff goes very quickly.
I used to do the Epohhs pretty regularly but sort of got out doing that with the Summer Event, spending most of my day there for the duration, going into orbit to pick up Doff Missions or doing an eSTF.
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If you just don't care, you can park in a deep space encounter, and pick up a couple of encounters for "free." You'll disconnect in an hour, but that's plenty of time to go to the bathroom, or go eat lunch.
This. Gamma E is in a good location (about 5 seconds out from new rom), is extremely easy and fairly short duration. If you have a high dps ship, you can clear it very, very quickly on normal difficulty -- it is just waves of extremely weak trash.
Klingons are the easiest waves lol. They tend to sent bird of preys using cloak all the time when they are targeted, so you can kill em really fast ^^ if you already fired a torp spread on em , for example. The hardest are the hirogen in Nerendra and the hunter escorts in elite difficulty are a pain in the TRIBBLE, for con, the hirogen apex are way too easy to kill. The ones that takes more time are the Tholians in Archer system, they are easy, but it takes too much time due to the friking webs and all that stuff. About romulans, they tend to be easy even in elite difficulty if you maintain a certain distance from the mogais and dedirexes.