Dilithum Farming With STF missions (outdated)

[Gogeta1701]

Farming dilithium with the STF missions is probably the fastest way available. With the elite versions, when its not double rewards day, you get 1,100 dilithium ore. You also have a pretty decent chance of getting rare and prototype salvage.
To get the most out of farming dilithium this way, it helps if you have your ship set up in the best possible way for the STF missions you run, or your character, if you prefer ground missions. Also to get the more ore possible, one would have to trade in EVERYTHING one gets from their raids. Becuase rewards can vary greatly, your ore collection from each run will vary greatly. One fleet member got 2 rare salvage and 2 prototype salvage from a single run. If he traded it in for dilithium his ore pile from that would have been:

1100 from the raid
1056 x2 from the rare salvage
2056 x2 from the prototype salvage.

The total there would have been over 8,000. Thats more than a single character can refine in a single day from a single run, and a single run can take anywhere from 10-45 minutes depending on the teams.

A simple breakdown of the rewards table for getting dilithium for your trqded in salvage is as follows:

10 EDC's, Rare salvage, common shield\engine\deflector tech, rare shield\engine\deflector tech, Common PSG\Armor\Weapon tech and rare PSG\Armor\Weapon tech all get you around 1050 dilithium ore.

Prototype salvage, prototype engine\shield\delfector tech, prototype PSG\Weapon\Armor tech all get you over 2,000 dilithium ore.


Thats a lot of options to expand the amount of ore one gets from a single raid. Even if all one got was the 2 EDC's per elite raid, 7 raids, and the 10 EDC's would get that character his\her daily refining limit. However, it is somewhat common to get any of the above items in any given STF run, so usually one can max out their daily limit with just 3 or 4 runs. Or if your Lutos, one raid.

[Gogeta1701]

as a correction,

Anything with prototype in the name gives 2304 ore, not 2056.

[kulumur]

I would save prototype stuff for season 6... if you can promote your boofs to capain rank, you´ll need that stuff to equip your wingmen . But nevertheless a very good topic!

[Gogeta1701]

Thanks.

I'll keep saving protosalvage in mind for when you can promote boffs to captain and have them use your other ships as wingmen.

Another thing to also consider is the fact that those weapons are only strong against borg. Even Green MK XII non-[borg] weapons do more damage against other targets. What makes those borg weapons more effective is the fact that they have that 1000 radiation damage proc. Because the three bonuses for those weapons is acc, crith and critD, they are weaker than a green mk XII with [dmg]

For wingman ships Id have to recommend using very rare mk XII with [dmg]x3 if you want to do the absolute most damage.

[Gogeta1701]

Oh, another thing to consider as well,with wingmen. Since there are 6 tier 4 ships(RAL) and also all those tier 5(VA) ships. You could also stockpile ore and C-points to buy all those higher level ships and have higher level wingmen.

Speaking of which i Decomissioned Crownheads Galaxy class since he has the dread cruiser, but after the thunderchild is mine, the venture galaxy is next.