B1 Battle Droid Node
So now that the panic farm/spending is over, can we please put B1 on a more manageable node? 5 attempts on a fleet hard node is just utterly insane, not to mention this is not a major unit, and who additionally requires a zeta to be viable...
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Yes same amount of attempts at twice the price...
This. 50 extra stacks. The zeta makes him better, the team better. Can’t say the same for the stormtrooper zeta
I think the one zeta you don’t really need on that sep droid team is guard.
Why waste the time to ask for something they will never do?
Roger roger!
If you already have Nest and Carth, it makes sense to farm B1. Unless you want to do the ships like Anakin's or Sith Fighter instead (I know they aren't meta, but my guild needs them for platoons and I don't need B1).
You can farm B1 only using free energy, which is paying the same price as any standard node. Zero crystals.
If you want to farm faster, we get 165 free fleet energy a day so seven days out of ten, you can spend 25 crystals on a node refresh which is the same as a standard node.
If you want to buy energy refreshes for fleet energy, those specifically cost more, but you're still buying node refreshes at the same price, so you're talking along the lines of 125 for one node refresh and one fleet energy refresh or 175 for two node refreshes and one fleet energy refresh, vice 75/125 for standard, which is not double. We might get an another assault battle or similar event that has them in the mix.
I'd be shocked if it was any time soon. They put things on the fleet table to make them the most difficult farms in the game.
It's not without precedent. Nest landed in the bounty event. Although that was quite a while after getting her node (6 months maybe?).
Speaking of which, they should add the sith ships to the Secrets and Shadows assault battle. There were so few sith ships when that event was created, they put in Kylo's CS and FOTie. They really should put in Sith Fighter and Bomber, perhaps Palp's shuttle too.
They're very selective of who they put on ships. Double the refresh of regular energy, which basically negates most FTP (**NOT ALL) players from refreshing ships energy for only one more set of sims per day. Why do 100/5 when you can get 50/5 on regular energy where there's much more to farm?
I can't remember the last time I refreshed ship energy with crystals. Can't be bothered.
Yes, and NS zombie is a major unit too. She doesn't have a zeta...
Because I'm an American, I dont put up with ****, and I say what I need to say.
Actually it's not "dubious" at all. Like you vaguely stated yourself fleet energy "cost more", yes they actually cost twice as much as regular energy. And "twice as much" means double.... smh
And sure you could just farm him the way you reccomended with free energy, and with horrendous drop rates you can maybe get the chance to get him to 7 star before next Easter. Then probably wait another year after catching up with all the new meta zeta abilities, to zeta b-1; and actually be able to viably use him. And that's only IF you only focus on him, completely ignoring any, and all new more important characters are relegated to the nightmare that is fleet node farming. Have fun 👍
Now then.
My post was not a suggestion. It was math. My suggestion is to do your five sims on one unit, do the other 3.5 on another in parallel, and be patient. So you're already wrong on the focus point.
The drop rate for shards remains 1/3, same as all the other hard nodes, so you're wrong on your timeframe. Doing free energy, free attempts, it is exactly the same speed as any other hard node farm.
Zetas are at your own discretion, in whichever order you please, and the popular choices are not the only viable choices. And as more content comes to the game, the old sequences break down. I have a zeta on Holdo and Rose, but none on CLS or Palpatine, because I chose to run JTR through Nightmare meta while CLS and Palpatine have really only been possible future TW/GA teams for me. You are not beholden to a sequence, and B1 is gonna get that zeta before Luke for me unless something comes out to change the calculus. You are not compelled down a stock sequence, and the sequence people choose will change as new content comes out.
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I don't see a problem of placing him in Fleet nodes. I would challenge placing him in the last tier since that limits him only to players who already have strong fleet to open that node on 3* for easy farming. I assume that players who don't primarily target ships will need to be on 2.5M+ GP to even be able to start farming him. Since there is no other separatist droid to even temporarily replace him in GG team, that makes separatists droid team one of the hardest to built.
This is only true if you aren't doing node refreshes.