Who's given up farming mods with mod energy?
September 30, 2018 2:48PM
edited September 2018
Rolls are useless on everything but gold mods now, greens, blues and purples don't even roll on existing stats, rather just on new stats, from my experience. After vigorous mod farming since they were introduced, it's just a waste in my opinion now. unless whites are sought after and upgraded. All I'm doing doing is scrounging through my inventory, and hoping for rolls on mods that had some decent secondaries. I reckon the game's backfired, now that we don't want conventional farms anymore. Your thoughts on the subject are appreciated. As a long-term player, I believe the system of good farms is now truly broken (for the worse) and NEEDS revamping.
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not financially, spend enough on game as is
With the old system. If a green mod had +5 speed and no other stats.
Then when you upgraded it to level 3 you was 100 % sure to get speed on that roll
After that you just got the secondary 3 slots filled out.
With blue mods you had 2 x chances on 50 % to land speed .
But that was the old system
Now barely ever even get rolls on existing stats for blues and purples as well, and they are more costly and rare
Chances of speed upgrading are lower, but the chance of getting speed that can upgrade is higher. I've had multiple blue and purple mods without a speed secondary that upgraded to 10 speed + without slicing.
Thats something called luck...
That's why i said chances of speed upgrading are lower.
https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/182888/would-you-like-to-see-the-new-2-0-mods-current-system-for-upgrades-improved#latest
Would you like to see the new 2.0 mods current system for upgrades improved? 15 votes
Yes, I'd like to revert to the previous system of rolls on new mods with respect to greens, blues and purple mods
33% 5 votes
No, I'm happy with the current system
maybe a better poll needs to be taken, ? was the wording unclear, or were guys thinking about mods with 6* when they voted, bc I voted for 6* mods as well
Considering the average drop rate of something with speed was not great, you have a better chance to have a mod with speed roll. Then with slicing you have a chance for any mod with speed to be one of your best mods. They made the process longer to get there, but overall you have a better chance to get a valuable speed mod (something 10+)
As a player who did not have a broad selection of mods built up, the change really helped me by opening up the different mod type challenges and by freeing up all my cantina energy for character shard farming.
Also, the drop rate for purple ability mats is around 25% or more if I had to guess.
different type of energy buddy
Not disagreeing that can get better mods from SLICING. HOWEVER, the title of this post in "Who's given up farming mods with mod energy?" The point being here, is that FARMING is no longer decent for getting good mods, or at par with what it used to be. There is more RNG and more cost at getting mods with very good speed, + 15 say, than there used to be. In fact the quality of mods is being watered down, if one can make a very general broad-based statement.
I'm saddened that I can't get anything good anymore, to the level of what I used to have in my inventory. I used to invest 3 refreshes per day on mods. NOW I DON'T WANT TO SPEND ANYTHING. So with or without the SLICING I can't build the same quality tier mods, that I am currently slicing. This is fine for newer players perhaps, since they may not have many higher tier quality mods (largely in regards to speed).
Pre slicing you have better chances for mods with the same speed associated with any tier.
Any green, blue, or purple can offer upgraded speed secondaries not just ones that roll it in the first roll. In the old system most of those mods would just be immediate junk. Never mind the added ability to slice.
All the work I've dedicated to the game, my time, my energy, and coin for developing a strong inventory of mods, seems like now there's a drought, unless I want to get crueled by the RNG of slicing what I consider to be poor quality mods with too much RNG deciding the fate of my investments.
Why would a perfectly good system be discarded? Is it to promote the slicing system? Because as you just said yourself:
"Pre slicing you have better chances for mods with the same speed associated with any tier."
Maybe you are just blocking out all the bad runs from before. The ones where you get a rainbow of color, and no speed...... or the run where you get a few with speed and you just watch it sit there as you dump in resources to get a mod with a great flat health boost...
I agree there is an increased cost, but with the price reduction it's not as bad as it was to find no speed, or not hit speed.
I suck at math, but here we go:
pre-update we had 1 chance to get upgradable speed out of 12 possible secondaries (8.3%). That secondary would however upgrade 100% of the time. So out of every 1000 green mods you farmed, rougly 83 would have upgraded speed.
post-update we have 4 chances to get upgradable speed out of 12 possible secondaries (38.5%?)
I must be doing something wrong because i was expecting it to be worse post-update lmao
The problem folks fall into is making a handful of best sets, then equipping those on everyone. It’s a lot easier to make a handful of best sets and then a bunch of good enough sets.
So, long story short, at the moment I don’t need more mods, I need better mods. Slicing makes existing stuff better, ergo I slice.
Sliced a white with +3 speed into a gold with +9. So I don’t know why people are so down on everything except golds... Just takes a little more time, is all.
I like your strategy in general, but a +9 speed isn't that exciting.
No. It’s called Math. I don’t mind the update because it basically sealed the order for best mods. Green and Blue mods were nerfed into garbage. I’m glad my mods were in place before the update. Sorry to all who hadn’t yet built up a strong supply.
Not quite. I believe the poster was inferring to using crystals to buy energy. Yes the energy for mods & cantina are different, but you have to manage crystal consumption to replenish both energies. If your priority is cantina, mods miss out.
That’s just not true at all. The way things are now if mods white through blue are veritable junk. Blue mods showing speed used to have a 1 in 4 chance of speed rolling twice. You can’t find that kind of value anymore. I wrote out the math on it one day. Basically if you slice all your mods to gold now you can get the same speeds you got pre mod roll nerf. Basically you go through the process of slicing for no added gain now.
In a short and easy way to understand it, they turned all mods into gold mods but those who have a large inventory of pre-rolled blue and green mods have a large set of mods starting with a huge advantage. This is like precrafting 2.0.