Ducat Hunting: Best Missions

[Rydian]

Ducat Hunting: Best Missions

I spent some time going over missions that can give 50-Ducat and multiple 20-Ducat parts, and I mapped out which ones seem to be the best chances of getting parts with a value higher than 10 (or anything at all lately).  The suggestions here will be divided into multiple categories based on differing player needs because not every player has the same skill/gear level, patience, or key stash.

There's two things to remember when deciding which missions to run for hunting Ducats.

• Not everything in the Void has the same rarity.  In general the rarer and higher-value items drop half to a third as often as the most common items.
• The game can always choose to give you a key instead of actually picking something from the loot table... so even missions that have nothing but prime parts in their reward table can give you just a key in return.

Each mission will have numbers underneath it, these represent the possible rewards and their Ducat trade-in value.  Entries marked as 0 Ducats are things like Forma(BPs), Fusion Cores, Orokin Cells, and things like that.


- Speed Runs
These missions can be completed very quickly, so with the right setup you can speed run them repeatedly in short amounts of time to get rapid chances at their reward pool.

- Safe Bets
These missions aren't as fast to complete as the first category, but have better chances of getting something at all.

- Endless Missions
Want to get a lot of Ducats for just one key?  These missions were selected for having 20+ Ducat rewards in more than just slot C.

- Misc. Missions
These aren't the best missions to run for Ducat farming, but are acceptable alternatives if you're running low on keys for the above missions.

(Updated for the 15.1.3.x changes reducing a price or two.)

Edited February 18, 2015 by Rydian

[EversorNinja]

Thank you, this'll help

[MEEBOSS]

nice.  thanks.

[Jubis]

I like this. I'm probably going to start running random keys over and over and logging the results, and will post here in the future once I have a lot of data.

 

<3

[Katinka]

How about T4 Exterminate?  50, 20, 10, 0, 50, 50.  Not sure what the chances on each item are but two of them, Glaive BP and Rhino BP, seemed to drop often enough for me.

[Rydian]

How about T4 Exterminate?  50, 20, 10, 0, 50, 50.  Not sure what the chances on each item are but two of them, Glaive BP and Rhino BP, seemed to drop often enough for me.

Ah, yup looks like I missed that one, added it in the Misc section 'cause it can choose from multiple 50s.

[zerogear5]

fairly useful

[OverlordMcGeek]

thanks

[Rydian]

This is outdated since the changes in Ducat prices a week ago, I haven't updated it yet.

 

And updated.

Edited February 10, 2015 by Rydian

[gvidzix]

thanks

 

edit: this one is from me

 

get a good squad (nova prime, trinity, disarm loki, any other usefull cc frame)

have at least one nice damage weapon

 

and go for 10-20 rounds on Tower IV Interception = profit

Edited February 22, 2015 by gvidzix

[Jubis]

Don't forget the Sabotage keys, if you get a squadmate or two to hunt for caches, reward a sabotage reward (speculated) on the third cache. I was running T1 sab keys earlier and got Nova Prime BP, Vasto Prime Barrel from the third cache on two runs. Not sure if Nova BP is in that drop table but the Vasto Barrel definitely is, got that on the third run (alas, did not find the third cache though =\ )

 

TL;DR so sabotage keys with cache rewards can give 2x prime parts per run!

Edited March 30, 2015 by Jubis