The Gear Wall Is Ridiculous.
Before I begin, know that this isn't a plea or a complaint. This is simply me stating the facts.
Each day I have the choice to use energy on either hard nodes or gear. I try to do both. By the time I get done farming shards, I've already used my two 50 crystal refreshes. Having enough crystals isn't the problem, as I end up in prize tier 50-20 every day. No, the problem is the drop rate for the gear I need, and the sheer amount of toons that require the same gear I'm farming.
For example, let's look at the Mk 8 Blastech weapon mod. I have roughly 6 or so toons that could reach gear 8 or 7 if they had one. With that many gear slots to fill, surely that specific piece wouldn't be hard to come by?
You'd think, but I spent roughly 220 energy today and only snagged about 4 pieces.
At that rate, I'd have twenty pieces over the course of five days. Boom. One character done. On to the next seven. 35 days later, I've completed those, too. Now I can move on to the next Gear slot for a character that requires another twenty pieces. Turns out, five more characters also need that piece of gear, so i spend another month taking care of those.
And then, after two whole months, I finally have all the characters I want geared up. Clearly my next move should be to go use them in the arena. So I do that, fight a team of all gear nine dooku, GS, Rey, RG, etc, get floored because I don't have the money to pave the way for that kind of team, and then repeat.
I know that all those numbers are hypothetical, and that I could easily get much more than 4 pieces a day, but what one must realize is that the situation I'm describing is entirely possible with the system at hand. My idea of accomplishment and fun Isn't waiting three months for my efforts to prove fruitless. And don't even get me started on the whole "furnace" nonsense.
Each day I have the choice to use energy on either hard nodes or gear. I try to do both. By the time I get done farming shards, I've already used my two 50 crystal refreshes. Having enough crystals isn't the problem, as I end up in prize tier 50-20 every day. No, the problem is the drop rate for the gear I need, and the sheer amount of toons that require the same gear I'm farming.
For example, let's look at the Mk 8 Blastech weapon mod. I have roughly 6 or so toons that could reach gear 8 or 7 if they had one. With that many gear slots to fill, surely that specific piece wouldn't be hard to come by?
You'd think, but I spent roughly 220 energy today and only snagged about 4 pieces.
At that rate, I'd have twenty pieces over the course of five days. Boom. One character done. On to the next seven. 35 days later, I've completed those, too. Now I can move on to the next Gear slot for a character that requires another twenty pieces. Turns out, five more characters also need that piece of gear, so i spend another month taking care of those.
And then, after two whole months, I finally have all the characters I want geared up. Clearly my next move should be to go use them in the arena. So I do that, fight a team of all gear nine dooku, GS, Rey, RG, etc, get floored because I don't have the money to pave the way for that kind of team, and then repeat.
I know that all those numbers are hypothetical, and that I could easily get much more than 4 pieces a day, but what one must realize is that the situation I'm describing is entirely possible with the system at hand. My idea of accomplishment and fun Isn't waiting three months for my efforts to prove fruitless. And don't even get me started on the whole "furnace" nonsense.
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Once you have geared the characters you want to gear, then start working on shards for other characters.
This is the only way to progress without falling into the money spending trap that this game can be to get "just one more refresh because I only need 2 more blow dryers"
The wall is so steep, I'm just working on my lower gear heroes now, bringing them all up to VIII.
Right? I've already bought all the furnaces I need for my current squads...not a droid caller to be found and no guarantee of one even in raids...and the guild currency reward is borderline insulting lol. Saving a lucky drop...It will be weeks before I can craft even one of those things.
What on earth kind of nonsense are you bringing forth?
A year to get 5 characters to gear X? Your joking.
a few hundred dollars? What, you think the only way of gaining 50 pieces of gear is to refresh to the point that it costs you 2000 crystals per refresh?
Alternatively you could just refresh up 50/50/100/100 like most everyone else and be fine.
You get around 60 attempts to get gear in dark/light side battle with the energy you have from that every day. Even if oyu were ridiculously unlucky and got 4 pieces out of 22 trys like the OP, you would be able to get the eqipment in around 5 days. And thats when you are unlucky, and not including any mats you get from challenges, raids etc.
The 'gear grind' people seem to be spouting seems like completely adulterated tripe.
Not everybody earns 300 crystals a day for refreshes. Add in Cantina refresh and that's 400 crystals. That's a lot of crystals.
One chromium isn't going to get you very far. One chromium pack isn't either. If you want chromiums, the best thing you can do is buy the crystals you need with real money. Those crystals you are saving are much better used in energy refreshes.
i dont know what gear level you are at, but i have 15 or more characters waiting on the gated gear. Furnaces and droid callers, and whatever the other piece is. The ONLY way to get this gear is to pay $10 each IF they come up in shipments, or get extremely lucky in a raid. 15 characters is at least $150, and im adding a character to that list every 2 weeks. all 65 characters (guessing) that need this gear is going to cost a few hundred dollars.
This, there needs to be a better way to farm gear for scanners and droid callers. They have turned gear farming into Daka/Dooku rng.
It is a trap.
Imd done with it. Farm one toon in hard nodes, max. Rest goes to gear.
Raids are tedious.
Thank gosh for the gw change. It takes a lot less time now. Hope raids is next. We need some time to fly spaceships.
I share your frustration with trying to gear a whole new team, op. I am trying to maintain and grow my main arena team while gearing a droid team. Then i realize how many mk5 furnaces will have to drop in my lap. And how many mk4 sorosub laptops i need. And stun cuffs. And heck i am lvl 76 and have still not farmed half of my first mk5 stun gun prototype!!
Basically it is very hard to gear up multiple teams. But its fine to me, really. It just means u are taking a huge ris lk that cohld end up being a **** by the time u get there. I like gambling.
Hopefully they find other ways to extend the game rather than another 10-level grind.
Nicely put.