Shard Stockpiling
I always hear about people waiting to activate characters that they have the necessary shards for. Now that I'm done with the LS Toon achievements, I decided not to activate Ima Gun Di when I got him.
Some do it to save credits. Others do it for the chance to get more shards if they get the toon in a card drop.
My question is: Has anyone ever had it pay off to wait to unlock the toon and get more shards off a bronzium or chromium drop?
Some do it to save credits. Others do it for the chance to get more shards if they get the toon in a card drop.
My question is: Has anyone ever had it pay off to wait to unlock the toon and get more shards off a bronzium or chromium drop?
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I never buy chromiums and I never get good stuff from bronzes. But I have had this pay off when buying bundles on two occasions.
That being said, you should only ever hold onto the shards until you plan to *USE* the character. So, for example, if you dont plan to use Bariss in you GW lineup until she is minimum 6*, then it makes no sense to unlock her at 4* rating.
Same with PVP champions that can be pulled. Just sit on their shards until they are considered "ready to go"
You do it so that if you pull the character from a bronzium pack you get more shards. If you pull a 3* character you haven't unlocked that's the equivalent of 50 shards. If you pull one that you have unlocked you get less (I don't remember how many).
I haven't pulled a character I'm actively farming, but I've pulled ones I will farm.
If you already have a character and you get a full character drop you only get 7 shards. So obviously the shard difference is there, and obviously not spending the money until you need to is nice (who knows if you'll actually end up using it).
My real question is if anyone has actually had a full character drop from a pack while they had already had enough shards stocked up to unlock it? I've not heard of this actually happening, just that people do it in hopes of that happening.
For the record, it's KILLING me looking at that flashing "Activate" button but I've been able to hold off. And I only do this for toons that are available in Bronzium since I don't buy chormiums. So I activated others early (like Magmatrooper) because he would never drop from Bronze.
I plan on doing the same with the others once Rey and Han are "done".
Look at it this way. If you wait, you're not really losing anything except the "instant toon gratification" thing. The toon won't really be useful to you under 5* (probably 6) anyway. So take the gamble. Even if the odds are low, you could hit a jackpot like I did. If not, you've lost very little in the process....and probably saved up some credits in the meantime too.
So yes you are correct but there is slightly more to it. The game is all about resource management. So if you go and spend credits to activate, no big loss. But then you go 3 star, 4 star, 5 star, etc. If the toon isn't viable in all those phases, you have spent credits now when they could have gone to another toon that is viable. So you don't "save" any credits per say, but you maximize the potential of the credits you spend. Meaning, when you DO decide to spend the money to star up a toon, you can spend it all at once and use that toon immediately instead of waiting long periods between star increases for viability.
This is one of the ways that I have avoided the credit crunch that a lot are feeling. I have a few toons that I could 6 or 7 star, but I haven't because they are not useful to me right now. Sometimes the toon doesn't have synergy or in other cases, I'm saving Jedi star ups for the Yoda event to return. The spend is the same but the usefulness of the spend can be managed.
Its not always only 7 shards. characters that unlock at a higher star level give more. Like the other day I opened one of the chromium 8-pack bundles that dropped 3 full characters. All 3 Sun Fac. The first one immediately unlocked him at 3 stars which would take 50 shards to unlock normally and the other two each gave me 25 shards. I've never pulled any 4 star unlocks I already have, but I'd guess they'd give 40 shards since the 4 star unlock price is 80.
If you get shards from a Chromium you only get 10 shards (sometimes 12?). When you get a full character and you already have that character you get 7, 15, 25, or 32 shards, depending on what star level they unlock at.
Ok so really the advantage is saving the credits to use otherwise while you're collecting, and *hoping* you pull a couple starred character from the packs? Got it.
I have a dump question, what is EE? Electric Engineer?
I thought I have known most of the terms in this game already...
Still in the habit of unlocking and levelling them up to 40 (which costs less than taking one toon from 76-77), then leaving them till I am ready to go back.
The other thing of course is getting the achievements - the cash from this is still useful.