Is the Darth Revan pack worth it?
April 22, 2020 1:14AM
edited April 2020
Hey everyone. So, I've been saving my crystals to buy the shard pack for Darth Revan. I'm talking about the 2450 pack that gives one guaranteed character and 8 character shards. I'm prepared to buy the pack, but I'm now hesitant and want a second opinion. Here are the reasons I am hesitant:
1. I have low crystal income and it will take me several weeks to get back to a high amount of crystals.
2. I'm not actually sure if the pack is worth the investment for me. I already have a 7 star JK-47 and a 2-star Bastilla Shan(Fallen) I'll link to my roster below.
3. I have other interests. In a recent forum discussion(https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/227893/darth-revan-or-slkr#latest) I had some forum members help me decide between Darth Revan and SLKR. However, I still want SLKR one day. Diverting such a large amount of crystals to Darth Revan will impact my SLKR farming for months.
4. My fleet arena will suffer(Kinda) Seeing as how I'm grinding for SLKR, I'm running a FO team in fleet arena. Almost all the FO characters have ships and are required for SLKR, so I'm killing two birds with one stone. If I stop gearing up my FO characters, my fleet arena will stall. I've already seen big differences since I brought my KRU up to relic 5. It's a complicated decision for me.
Thanks for reading this very long post. Note: I posted a message similar to this a few hours ago but it disappeared after I made an edit to it; so I decided to repost.
Here's my roster: https://swgoh.gg/p/725233668/characters/
EDIT: Thank you to everyone for replying to this post. To clarify and answer the questions of those who asked, this post is NOT about asking about if I should farm Darth Revan or SLKR. After my last post, in which the majority of people said I should get DR, I 95% set myself to get DR. But that's irrelevant. The goal of THIS post is to ask if the Darth Revan pack is a good deal, nothing more, nothing less. Please, if you strongly feel I should pursue SLKR, please let me know, but that is not the goal of this post. Thanks.
1. I have low crystal income and it will take me several weeks to get back to a high amount of crystals.
2. I'm not actually sure if the pack is worth the investment for me. I already have a 7 star JK-47 and a 2-star Bastilla Shan(Fallen) I'll link to my roster below.
3. I have other interests. In a recent forum discussion(https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/227893/darth-revan-or-slkr#latest) I had some forum members help me decide between Darth Revan and SLKR. However, I still want SLKR one day. Diverting such a large amount of crystals to Darth Revan will impact my SLKR farming for months.
4. My fleet arena will suffer(Kinda) Seeing as how I'm grinding for SLKR, I'm running a FO team in fleet arena. Almost all the FO characters have ships and are required for SLKR, so I'm killing two birds with one stone. If I stop gearing up my FO characters, my fleet arena will stall. I've already seen big differences since I brought my KRU up to relic 5. It's a complicated decision for me.
Thanks for reading this very long post. Note: I posted a message similar to this a few hours ago but it disappeared after I made an edit to it; so I decided to repost.
Here's my roster: https://swgoh.gg/p/725233668/characters/
EDIT: Thank you to everyone for replying to this post. To clarify and answer the questions of those who asked, this post is NOT about asking about if I should farm Darth Revan or SLKR. After my last post, in which the majority of people said I should get DR, I 95% set myself to get DR. But that's irrelevant. The goal of THIS post is to ask if the Darth Revan pack is a good deal, nothing more, nothing less. Please, if you strongly feel I should pursue SLKR, please let me know, but that is not the goal of this post. Thanks.
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SLKR is a huuuuuuge grind so if he is what you want then go for it but know doing so will set you way back.
The answer to your first question is right at the end of his post.
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I, for one, can’t wait to hear all the reasons why itsnotamoon is wrong
BUT whether it is in fact better for you is always dependent on how fast you're trying to get there and what you're currently spending.
Math/reasoning:
The very best possibility here is refreshing a 12 energy hard node, so a cost of 125 crystals and a 33% drop rate. Over time, you'll average 75 crystals per character shard. This is very slightly better than buying shards from the store at 80 crystals a pop.
Of course, none of the DR toons are on a 12 energy node. At the higher end and the worse drop rate, you are spending 142/1.6 = 88 & 1/3rd crystals per shard, which is worse than buying shards from the store.
So at some point, buying shards from the store becomes MORE economical, even though 80 crystals per shard seems an outrageous price. As long as you either don't have the crystals per day to keep up 3-4 node refreshes or you aren't needing the toon any faster than 2-3 node refreshes per day will get it done, then you should never buy shard directly for crystals in the store.
The same logic applies with packs. You can calculate out an average # of shards dropped, including the average number that will be wasted by getting shards of a toon that's already 7 stars.
Take the number of valuable shards per purchase, divide by the number of crystals in the price of the pack, and you find the cost per shard.
Once you know that number, if it's greater than 80, you should never buy the pack b/c even if you wanted to buy shards it's more cost effective to buy them directly from shipments and pick the exact character you want to get them.
If it's less than 80 (which it might be if you don't have any of the needed toons finished yet, so the probability of wasted shards is 0), then you simply compare it to the cost of doing node refreshes and buying energy.
For your second node refresh the crystal cost if 50. An energy refresh is also 50. Assuming you need 100 energy on that node, the effective total cost for your next 5 attempts is 91.3333333 etc.
91.3etc/1.6 = 57.
This all tells us that unless you're maintaining a rate of 3 refreshes a day OR the cost per effective shard (which means after taking into account the chance of wasted shards in a toon you already have at 7*) in the pack is below 57, THEN you should never buy the pack.
Since you have multiple toons to farm up at the same time (and because you said you don't have much crystal income), I strongly suspect you can't maintain 3 node refreshes per day, and even if you could it would be more cost effective to do 1 refresh per day of 3 different nodes to get all your toons up to 7*.
So ask yourself - are you going to be refreshing any nodes 3x per day?
If not, it's extremely unlikely that the pack is cost effective for you.
That's one at a time,
3 refreshes for that price
If they're farmed together.
That's not how bets work...
They'd have to makes bets with you,
Not with each other.
But I'm FTP, and you know, you can't just buy that.
Thanks for the feedback. Do you personally have SLKR?
Please see my edit. Sorry for the confusion.
No disrespect, just too hard to type all that on phone lol
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Oh.
Idk, what exactly is the pack? I don’t think I can see it as I have all these chars (cough. 😎😉)