Best TFOs to farm MKXII's?

[Jordan_Peterson]

whats the fastest and best TFO to get a lot of MKXII's?
Have to equip some of my ships that arent at MK12 yet.

[Running-Target]

If you don't have the Mk XII's on your current ship, then you should not be playing in TFOs. I hope you realize that Everybody in that TFO gets a crack at any items that drop and everyone usually picks Need. Only thing you should expect from the TFO is marks package and xp. Look on the exchange, MK xii are there for sale cheap at the Green and maybe Blue quality. I am not sure about elite or advanced TFOs, but there is no normal one that drops items regularly. You should be doing every episode that has ship gear for reward and working your reputations for their gear. Ask for someone to craft you some gear, in zone chat or in your guild.

Read here > https://sto.gamepedia.com/Task_Force_Operation
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Mission
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Reputation_System
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Starship_equipment

[Agnithrax]

Join all. Salvage most of what you get. Max your R & D. Make purple MK XII's. Roll your preferred affixes. Make purple MK ii to salvage for more re-roll salvage. Make Tech upgradies. wait for the R & D weekend. Upgrade them to MK XV's Make more MK ii's for cheap salvage. re-roll your preferred affixes. Upgrade to EPIC MK XV'S when it is not R & D weekend.

[Maj_Cyric]

This thread has some responses i've made that points out things regarding crafting/upgrading

https://steamcommunity.com/app/9900/discussions/0/4153959587260321462/

[SeaDog]

Search on YouTube for “sto budget builds”. You can completely outfit your ship with mission rewards and reputation gear and do pretty well. This includes getting good reputation traits, BOFFs, DOFFs in addition to purple gear. Maxing our reputation does not take as long as you think and will make a big difference to your play as it grants many gear and trait rewards and millions of ec and thousands of dilithium as you go. To max reputation you should be cuing for all tfos and select the extra crate of marks that you get so that you can keep all the daily reputations going all the time until you max them all out. Trying to outfit you ship with random drops to become competitive will make you quit the game.

[Jaq]

Just replay story episodes for the mission rewards, which will now be appropriate quality for your current level. There's no waiting to queue, and no RNG. You'll know exactly what you're getting as a reward before you even accept the mission.

[Jordan_Peterson]

Oh If I can only remember the name of the mission but there are 2 transport or escort, I dont remember how they are called, anyway they are not TFO missions.
And if u have a friend helping you they spawn in an insane amount of ships and you get like a ton of drops there. Did 2 missions of them and had like 10 or more MK12 drops.
But thanks for the input so far, will check out that too. Keep it coming.

[Vellari]

Originally posted by Rebecca:

Oh If I can only remember the name of the mission but there are 2 transport or escort, I dont remember how they are called, anyway they are not TFO missions.
And if u have a friend helping you they spawn in an insane amount of ships and you get like a ton of drops there. Did 2 missions of them and had like 10 or more MK12 drops.
But thanks for the input so far, will check out that too. Keep it coming.

Patrol missions in general are very "target rich" and as such also loot rich.

[Maj_Cyric]

The Patrol "Wanted" in the Argala System (Delta Quad) still has the best drops for salvage or NPC selling to get EC...

Also every story line mission has "check points" (save/respawn points) that you start from should you die or exit the mission... which you can use to farm loot or "accolade kills" (I ran Skirmish exiting from mission before entering the bridge then "continuing" mission to kill the Cardies until getting 1k kills (30 something kills each run through)...

The Mission Midnight is a good space mission to farm exiting just before the point where "help comes to open the portal"..

[VoodooMike]

Originally posted by "Maj_Cyric":

The Patrol "Wanted" in the Argala System (Delta Quad) still has the best drops for salvage or NPC selling to get EC...

Argala is yesterday's news for that sort of thing, though if you're just starting out it's probably a good place to level ships and such.

The newer patrols with timed/endless spawns of ships are the place to farm salvage and the like so long as you have a fast-kill AOE build. A high damage science build based on GW3, or a high damage pets/FAW type build (certainly if you have the sentry mode console) will net you a truly ridiculous amount of items in a single run. You can gain enough xp to go from MR0 to MR5 on a new ship in a single patrol on Normal...

[Vellari]

Originally posted by VoodooMike:

You can gain enough xp to go from MR0 to MR5 on a new ship in a single patrol on Normal...

On advanced for sure get mastery done in one...haven't even tried normal in ages.

[Maj_Cyric]

From my observations "Wanted" gives more Ship gear drops.. the newer patrols drop more "Devices" and "Commodities" than they do "real drops"

[Maj_Cyric]

The Tzenkethi Battlezone playground gives the best the Mk XII gear drops for salvage though... Just park at one of the "football" zones and let them come to die and give drops..

Just remember to attack head on for dealing full damage..

[Vellari]

Haven't really payed attentio to quality/what the drops actually are, but I tend to do Kinjer/Ninth advanced...30-40 loot drops easily.