Do I NEED Wampa? Really? Conjecture for RotJ Luke.
November 12, 2018 3:57PM
edited November 2018
I've got Hermit Yoda 7-starred and am excited to use allllll that currency for gear now. Except... I don't have Wampa and I'm wondering... do I need him?
Let's get this out of the way real quick, okay? I don't want him. I know you could spend paragraphs glorifying him because plenty of people just love the hairy old dude. But I am working on lots of other characters I'm excited about right now and I just couldn't care less about this weird minor character who - by the way - I think gets a bad rap being "Dark Side." The Wampa has no allegiance! He's just trying to survive on the mean streets of Hoth! I'll bet he'd be just as happy hanging Palpatine upside down for a snack as Luke if he had the chance. ...But that's neither here nor there.
The real question is: should I reasonably worry about needing him for Luke's next hero's journey? I'm hearing people say "yeah" but I think that's only b/c he and Luke share a pretty intimate scene there in the cave. LOL. To my knowledge, we've never needed an enemy character for a hero's journey, have we? Usually, characters require their ally characters, not their enemy characters, to proceed, amiright? So getting Hermit Yoda should probably have done the trick?
What's the word on the street and what are your thoughts? Remember: this isn't a 'convince me Wampa is rad!' post. I mean, go ahead if you can't stop yourself. But yeah.
Thanks for your sparkling wit and fine conjecture,
Sam UX
Let's get this out of the way real quick, okay? I don't want him. I know you could spend paragraphs glorifying him because plenty of people just love the hairy old dude. But I am working on lots of other characters I'm excited about right now and I just couldn't care less about this weird minor character who - by the way - I think gets a bad rap being "Dark Side." The Wampa has no allegiance! He's just trying to survive on the mean streets of Hoth! I'll bet he'd be just as happy hanging Palpatine upside down for a snack as Luke if he had the chance. ...But that's neither here nor there.
The real question is: should I reasonably worry about needing him for Luke's next hero's journey? I'm hearing people say "yeah" but I think that's only b/c he and Luke share a pretty intimate scene there in the cave. LOL. To my knowledge, we've never needed an enemy character for a hero's journey, have we? Usually, characters require their ally characters, not their enemy characters, to proceed, amiright? So getting Hermit Yoda should probably have done the trick?
What's the word on the street and what are your thoughts? Remember: this isn't a 'convince me Wampa is rad!' post. I mean, go ahead if you can't stop yourself. But yeah.
Thanks for your sparkling wit and fine conjecture,
Sam UX
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That is correct, it has never been needed before. But prior to Revan we never had a Journey without first having a version of the Journey character. That proves they *could* do anything, and you should be ready for whatever. At least get his stars is what I say.
The guy above argued CG can do anything but this is not the case here because they wont require 2 GET toons for one legendary. They wont be able to milk $$$ from it... its gonna be either u are 100% prepared or 100% you wont get it no matter how much u spend cause u will get stuck on GET...
So IMHO no, Wampa wont be needed
Toons need gear, HAAT generates gear, and Wampa is a toon, that generates A LOT of ROI.
You dont need him, thats true. But you want him badly (you just dont know it yet..)
I'd say probably not needed for jedi luke. But who knows. It would ne the first hero's journey to reqire a previous hero's journey so they could use that as an excuse and call it a new event type. But I find that unlikely.
I'm with you. I have hoda 7 starred and geared but haven't even unlocked wampa. He's good but so is the tons of gear in that store that I need to g12 so many good toons. So for now I've paseed on the wampa. I was considering him for a haat solo at one point but now there are much more obtainable characters for that. I'm going to get revan anyway and he can solo haat so I'll just get revan next time and skip wampa.
Ha, I haven't worried about Phoenix or any other Rebel squad in a long time. Not convinced!
He's fun, that's my main reason for using him. I wish he fit in more comps so I could use him more.
I haven't worried about Pheonix for a long time either. Several teams destroy them
but to your point, no-one knows. They might follow precedent or Juke might be an entirely new type of event. I'd get him starred just in case.
I don't have Wampa but I can solo HAAT P3+P4 with AA(Lead), CLS, Thrawn, BB-8, and Young Han. I'm not in a rush to get Wampa because he doesn't really fill a need. Gear does
I’m tempted to do 2 more because they look stupid alongside G12 zeta characters 😉
But if you really don’t want to farm Wampa, then perhaps a reasonable middle of the road suggestion is this.
Hoard half (or a third, or a quarter... whatever floats your boat!) your earned Guild Event Tokens until you have a stockpile of 90k (starting at 0 shards, full unlock of Hermit Yoda or Wampa costs 89,100 GETs).
That way, with shops providing an opportunity to buy shards in increments of 5, 10, or 15, refreshing 4 times a day you ‘should’ be able to Average 40 shards a day (without spending crystals to refresh), allowing you to panic farm him in 8.25 days.
As long as they hold true to their previous method of a week notice for a new Legendary/Journey character plus a week long event, that gives you a window of over 5 days to complete the event (and you unlock on day 4, giving you most of 10 days to gear) once you max out his stars.
But it also gives you the flexibility to dip into the reserves a bit both while building them up and once you have it established if there is another character you ‘have’ to gear for another event, or to complete a raid team. But do that knowing you have to build it back up “just in case” Luke drops the next day.
It even gives you the flexibility to buy another shop exclusive character right out of the gate when/if we get a new version of TB’s...
(I personally have both of them farmed already, and am currently building a stockpile of tokens towards a 180k goal with about 75% of my GET income, so I can max out both a light and dark side toon from a new TB setup(s) should they occur)
You can do a full solo with ackbar lead, bb8, cls, hoda and wampa
Or just do 60/70% of p2+p3+p4 full auto
I’d tend to agree that Jedi Knight Luke will probably not require Wampa, but there’s no way to be sure. Wampa is one of the best damage dealers in the game, though. So you don’t have to farm him, but you’ll probably find a use for him if you do.
What does that have to do with farming Wampa potentially for RotJ Luke?
If they did a LS/DS mix then you could very well have a massive Heroes Journey-type event that requires 5 LS toons and 5 DS toons:
LS
CLS
ROLO/Lando/C3P0
Captain Han
Chewie
Hermit Yoda
DS
Vader
Emperor
Wampa
Veers
IPD/Boba
Have the whole journey based off of Empire, much like unlocking CLS was based off of A New Hope.
Good post
Basically this. If you really want RotJ Luke, farm every possible character, that way you're ready no matter what they do.
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Besides he could be a requirement for Jedi Luke I don´t bother. Never needed Wampa and never faced a situation where Wampa posed a problem to me. Most likely I will never unlock him. If they decide to make him a requirement somewhere I am screwed. But that´s ok, I am already on my way to SWGOH retiree.