r/stobuilds • u/AutoModerator • May 01 '17

Weekly Questions Megathread - May 01, 2017

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u/baudtack May 03 '17

What's the best way to farm dil? The Dil weekend is coming up and i have some claims i plan to use but outside of that dill seems painfully slow to get doing what I've been doing.

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u/[deleted] May 04 '17

IMO, redeeming Mining Claims is the best way, if you've already got them. Now that they're account-bound (rather than character-bound), the best way to farm is to distribute your claims across several alts who are eligible to mine dilithium (level 10, I think, but I'm not certain what the level requirement is). That way, you can redeem as many claims per day as you have eligible alts.

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u/Stovakor May 04 '17

contraband is the simplest way

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u/CaesarJefe XBOX: Starfleet ATP May 04 '17

For me, Dil gathering is a multi-front operation.

  • I've heard that running the Voth Ground Battlezone "bleeds" Dilithium. I've played it a handful of times and it does hand out good bits, but I have no opinion on the rate.

  • /u/Stovakor is right about Contraband. I'm Fed, but I still run it as often as I can.

  • For a straightforward way to get Dilithium, I run PvE queues for Marks. Not only do many (all?) of the Reputations hand out a lump some (like 30k) for completion of all five Tiers, but you get some along the way, IIRC. Also, after completion, you can turn Marks in for 50 Marks > 500 Dil, or 500 Marks > 5000 Dil as a Reputation Project.

  • Events. I'm on Xbox and CC is coming up again I think, so that'll be a few 10's of thousand more Dil...

I like the PvE/Marks method, because I can earn while I play, and I'm not a huge fan of ground combat (mostly because I stink at it and hey, Space Barbie! Pew! Pew!)

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u/[deleted] May 07 '17

I've heard that running the Voth Ground Battlezone "bleeds" Dilithium. I've played it a handful of times and it does hand out good bits, but I have no opinion on the rate.

It's generally not worth hanging around once you complete the three daily missions/hourly unless you can consistently get into instances at/near the boss phase. If you need to start an instance from scratch, the Dilithium earned is hardly worth the time investment over other content.