old ben shard drop tracking...COMPLETED 7*!
March 17, 2016 4:47PM
edited April 2016
similar to how i'm tracking anakin shards, this is for old ben in squad cantina
- added gw drop location
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it does seem a bit too easy to get a full 7* in only 21 days of farming cantina, but i'm not complaining....(and probably jinxed my drop rate for the next week
the crystal spent for refreshes is tracked, so my formula uses nested if statements to meet conditions for +100 and +200 crystals. i use 2 refreshes as indicated by a total of 300 crystals spent per day
My drop rate hovers around 15% in hard mode and the cantina.
I could 7* General Grievous YEARS before any hard mode farms.
Cantina has a much better drop rate than the hard nodes.
I guess im one of the few that is farming him at stage 6, i get about 8 shards a day.
it's done in excel
while i understand the point that some players make about keeping his hp as low as possible, i have yet to see anyone actually do it...basically no one has put their money where their mouth is...it's just talk with zero evidence to back it up.
conventional wisdom points to having your heroes perform at peak levels by having them maxed out (withholding bugs ofc).
to me, the difference in cantina currency is not worth slowing down the farm rate.
13 * 45 attempts = 585
21 * 30 attempts = 630
every 9 days you can get an extra shipment. ymmv, but 10 days is not a deal breaker for me, since i can farm an additional 1/3 shards through nodes at the cost of 45 cantina currency per day, which when broken down is: 4.5 additional old ben shards per day vs .5 shards through shipments per day.
like i said, ymmv
edit: or to make the math a bit more palatable, that's equivalent to 45 old ben shards for 5 shards in cantina shipments. the opportunity cost is too steep if the currency is all you're after. factoring in the mk iii drops from higher nodes can make them more appealing, but that's dependent on your ability mats situation. i'm well over 100 and gaining 52+ per week, so those aren't a selling point for me
QGJ, Lumi, Eeth and soon JC all 7* already...
ben might not be the best choice since his damage is pretty low. his special will get resisted and give yoda additional turns. on top of that, his basic gives evasion, which yoda can steal on top of his foresight. i would suggest barriss as her passive heal and heal on basic (and leader skill if you don't go for lumi rng dogding) are all nice to have
edit: i take back what i said. slower characters may have their damage increased based on the last update on friday....so the next time yoda comes around, old ben might be hitting harder (at least i hope so). in that case, keep farming ben, but the surest bet if you were to ask me right now, is that barriss is more optimal than ben
I didn't farm her but I have anakin almost 7* with a drop rate of 31%. both anakin and Rey have 3 nodes.
https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/17085/jedi-knight-anakin-shard-drop-tracking#latest
you can assume a 33% drop rate, so 330 shards would take 990 attempts. it would be somewhere around 60+ days to farm Rey to 7* refreshing each node once for 18 attempts per day. there will be a ton of players who will complain that she has a lower drop rate than other heroes, but I don't believe it personally with my experience farming anakin, fotp and rg from hard nodes
Spend 150gems refreshing she'll be 6* in a month.
Also I'm day 3 of no shards for Rey... 0-18! I'm at 71 for her, was hoping to get her by end of the week, but with a 0% drop rate I'm not keeping my hopes up!
don't give up! it should equalize at 33% +/- 3%
Thanks.