Originally Posted by bringram

IMHO the best gear is crafted, but for the high end gear you will need a fairly large quantity of dilithium. It's been a while for me, but you may be able to get a decent set of blue RA gear from drops. Get the old borg set as quickly as you can. Don't waste your EDC on mark X gear. If you get a drop for a piece of STF Mark X gear by all means use it. But otherwise, save your EDC for the MK XI gear.