Out of curiosity, do any of you run elite STFs?

Also oh god no don't use tetryons. They have the worst proc of all-- you're going to remove shields from an enemy super fast 99% of the time anyways. Literally any other damage type is better, because the procs on all other weapons are still useful when the enemy has no shields.

Anyways, if it helps any, my build is built around running ESTFs, a lot. The gear and build tolerances in there are tighter, because the enemies there hit harder, and in all four of the Borg ones, you need to kill the enemies very quickly indeed, if you want the optionals. Breach elite isn't really worthy of the name elite, it's super easy.

The enemies in starbase defence missions are very easy to kill compared to the ones in ESTFS, you can pretty much faceroll your keyboard to take 'em down.

Also farming the dil for fleet gear is not hard.

Step 1) make some klank alts and level them till they have access to the doff system
Step 2) run lots of marauding missions
Step 3) Feed the mountains of prisoners and contraband you get to the guy inside the throne room on Quosnos, or alternately to the guy standing in the hallway on DS9.
Step 4) Profit!

All you need to do is spend a few minutes a day sending your minions out and you'll soon be rolling in dilithium. You can move it to another character by putting it up on the dil exchange, then yanking it off again, leaving you with account-wide refined dil you can withdraw on whatever char you like.

Incidentially, any zen you buy on a char is account-wide.