Doff Walkthru or Guide

Hello Im trying to understand and learn this Doff System but im kinda confused. Is thier a guide or walkthru avail. Thanks for any help.

Check out: http://sto.gamepedia.com/Duty_officer

Not sure if it'll assist you, but if there is something you're hung up on specifically feel free to post any of your questions here and we'll try to assist as best as we can! :)

~Andrew

Thanks Andrew for the Link! Also I hear Their are Special Channels what are they for? I hope im making sense.

Yup! I only use the doffjobs channel myself, but for a directory of channels in STO check this link: http://sto.gamepedia.com/Global_Channel_Directory

To join a channel you would use/type the following command into your in-game chat box and press Enter: /channel_join channel name

Example: /channel_join DOFFJobs

Thanks for the Link Andrew!! Looks like alot of Channels. Can people Trade these Doffs or sell them?

Here's the deal with doff, they can make or break high end builds but for base-mid level build they are really optional. There are doffs that allow beam overload to penetrate your enemies shields and penetrate that stacks, and doffs that create aftershock gravity wells and does not stack. It's really a matter of what your build is and (really important here) How much can you afford. In most cases Blues are satisfactory but in others you really want those purple ones.

When buying doffs check the exchange price first and find the doff you want for your faction before asking in a trade channel to avoid getting taken for a ride. Better yet ask fleeties, they may have doffs they're not using and will never use that they may be able to give away

If you're looking for specific, high quality doffs, most of them can be found on the exchange. But if you're just looking to do some roster building, here are some tips:

The personnel officer at the academies (Starfleet Academy in the building with Lt. Ferra and Cmdr. Valia, Klingon Academy next to the exchange, and Romulan Republic command [this one is a console in the room with the bridge officer trainer]) have free missions that can be done every couple of days that award doffs. Beware the General Recruitment one because it costs dilithium, as does the Request R&D assistance (though that one is usually worth the dilithium cost). The other 4 missions though award 2-3 doffs upon completion. These are usually white quality, sometimes green (though I did once get one of the purple original ultra rares from it).

Refugee missions are great for roster building as well. Buy up some common refugees from the exchange, and then grant them sanctuary/refuge via the available doff missions. If you are playing a fed character, buy the doffs Neva something or other and Jeffery Toby Lamar. They have all 3 necessary traits for the mission, which means it will often trade the common refugee for Blue/Purple doffs. The mission is available at ESD under the ops tab, as well as in orbit of Sol System. The mission repopulates about every 36 hours, so you can do this fairly consistently to get some good doffs. If you go out in to the Sirius sector block, you'll also find grant Asylum on Vulcan/Andoria/Rigel V/Tellar Prime, there are doffs that line up well with all of these as well, but I can't remember their names offhand. If you're KDF, it becomes even better, because the Omega Leonis block/Qo'nos/First City maps almost always have 1-4 missions available that are of the grant asylum/sanctuary/refuge type that will grant Klingon, Nausicaan, Gorn, and Orion doffs.

All of the exploration clusters have a 7 part mission chain that ends by awarding a unique blue doff. Then, once those have been completed, they have a repeatable mission that on success awards a refugee (fed) or prisoner (kdf) and on critical success award a purple version of the blue doff you get at the end of the chain. (B'Tran cluster at the bottom of Gamma Orionis block awards liberated borg technicians [caitains for fed, gorn for kdf])

Doff packs are a pretty good way to grind too. Reinforcements, Fleet Support, and Romulan Surivivor duty officer packs can be found on the exchange and award 7 doffs, with special powers. These occasionally drop a purple doff, and are guaranteed to drop at least one blue doff.

Special doff requisition packs, like the Elachi Survivor, Voth Separatist, Tholian Warfare Specialist, and Dominion Duty Officer, reward 1 (2 in the Elachi pack) purple doffs with unique powers. They're pricey, but these doffs usually have traits that are good for many of the doff missions out there (most of these doffs have resolve, which is a useful trait).

Also, if you talk about doffs in the fleet chat when I'm on, I'll often mail you a bunch in the in-game mail (I have thousands of doffs and don't need most of them, so I like to help out where I can B) )

If you have any questions, there are lots of resources out there, but hopefully this gives you a little bit of an intro.

Some other things to consider when using doffs for active duty:

They are removed from your reserve roster, so you can't send them on missions. This makes their traits unimportant, so you don't have to look for someone with good traits if you are throwing them on active duty.

The usefulness of the power increases with the quality of the doff. A green doff may offer a 5% chance to do something while a purple one will offer 20%. This means if you're wanting to experiment with a power, you can try one of the lower quality ones (even the best powers are cheap to buy on green doffs) then if you like it, you can save up for a higher quality doff.

Remember to save up for the extra active duty slots at the fleet spire, they are 200% worth the investment. Even if you throw a green doff in that extra slot, that extra little boost is worth having someone in there.

Like was said before me, if you're not playing a hardcore build, your doffs won't make or break you, but you can have a lot of fun playing around with the powers. Stuff like the gravimetric scientist making extra gravity wells is pretty cool if you're just starting to play around with the gravity well. But some of the special powers on the new doffs can really change the way that your skills work. There is a voth doff that makes it so your tractor beam repulsors pull your target instead of pushing them away, which changes how you evaluate the skill. Some other doffs add bonuses on to skills, making things that may have seemed mediocre seem much cooler. Some of the hirogen doffs add a chance to take subsystems offline when using various abilities (subnucleonic beam, aceton beam, etc), this might make these powers more attractive if you build around them.

Just some food for thought :)

Crap forgot one of the easiest place to get Doffs, the Fleet Starbase, for ~15K Fleet Mark yiou can get a random purple doff...it is random and if you want to be more specific by class (Tac, Eng, Sci) you'll have to pay more

Great info thanks you for sharing it WhiteOnmyoji!!! I googled some info and found this DoffTrekker Speadsheet that looks interesting anyone else use it? And Fimon wow thank you so much i find all this so interesting!!! Thanks Guys for all your help!!!!

not really its good for tracking hard to find doff missions but that's about it.

Fimon update I went to the C-Store and bought a Roster upgrade to 300 is that enough or should i get more, i think it said i can update to 500 officers i assume that is the Max? I also bought 2 Doff Packs.

Thanks Again

If this is your main, you can get the extra 2, but it isn't necessary. I bought all 5 with mine and it is nice, but my 2 other primes only have 100 each, and for the most part they do fine. My current view is 300 is just fine for a main (me im a completionist), but 200 will do in a pinch.

Hiya Seannewboy Thanks for the Heads up! I peaked at your profile and read you like Babylon 5. I also really liked the Show !! My Favorite Character was the Centauri Ambassador Londo Mollari. I thought the Story line was Great! I also liked Farscape. Ok back to the Doffs. I keep hearing about these purple ones being the Best but i found a drop down and it looks like their are 2 other I can only remember one at the moment an Epic one where do they come from? Oh and this is my only Toon 1st time playing STO so yes this is my Main.