Upgrading JC to G6 is a joke...

CaptainPlatypus

20 Mk 4 Chiewab etc etc?

Haven't really had too many problems upgrading gear for most toons, just a few items that didn't seem to drop regularly and I needed 5 of here and there.

I'd left JC alone at 3* Lv49 G5 because he wasn't part of my arena squad, but needing him now for some light side missions.

Just sank 240 energy into trying to get 20 Mk 4 Chiewab etc etc... and I got 4.

Why is JC's gear so much harder than everyone else's?

Yuri

You haven't seen anything yet, you'll need hundreds of those to get your characters to gear 7.
I need 50 purple materials for one piece of gear to get Phasma to gear 8.
Get used to it.

cosmicturtle333

I only need 63 more purple laptops to get all of my heroes to gear 8. YAY!

moddom

This isn't that bad at all considering how much gear you need later on. Once you start getting characters to gear 7 and gear 8 it will cost you 20 - 50 purples for one upgrade alone. So if you are put off by 20 of one thing for an upgrade you are in for a big surprise

John_Matrix1985

I don't think JC gear is any harder than normal. To get the final piece to upgrade to gear 9 you need 50 pieces of a yet to be unlocked item.

My JC is L60, 5*, gear 8. 4196 power. JC is a good lumi backup and can fit into a primary side as a second healer so keep trying!

Lianara

My JC is first to Gear 8, so he isn't very hard. Many of my other tools can't get to 7 due to drop rates on purple mats.

CaptainPlatypus

Well that does all sound very scary

But it's more the fact that JC seems to take more than other toons. I've got Sid, Daka, 5s, and Dooku all G6 and one item each off G7 I can't equip due to level requirements. None of them have required anything more than 5, and all have seemed easier than this.

Guess I'm in for a treat when I start getting to G7 & 8.

HavokTrigger

After you get that, you can take him to gear 8 easily. It's a trade off

CaptainPlatypus

Cheers for the info guys

Speaking of which (should probably make a different thread for this), has anyone encountered different drop rates for gear at different missions? Wondering if it might be good to get a group of people on here to gather some data and make a table. I've found a couple of missions that seem to give better drop rates for certain items, not sure if it's just my imagination though.

bleeaauuh

Jc is the easiest charcter in the game to gear, you will relise this once you start to upgrade toons to gear 7 and 8
Literally he is THE EAsiEST in the whole game.
For example Ayala secura requires 120 purple gear to get to gear 7
Aniken requires 100
And that's just purple that not even including the blue gear

Shiro

cosmicturtle333 wrote: »

I only need 63 more purple laptops to get all of my heroes to gear 8. YAY!

Me too , lol

MRFREE2PLAY90

My JC is at lvl 7 purple gear its not really that hard you just need a lot of patience .

Nzchimeran

Yuri wrote: »

You haven't seen anything yet, you'll need hundreds of those to get your characters to gear 7.
I need 50 purple materials for one piece of gear to get Phasma to gear 8.
Get used to it.

EA at its finest.
Can you feel the force tugging on your credit card?
The force is strong here

ventsel

Nzchimeran wrote: »

Yuri wrote: »

You haven't seen anything yet, you'll need hundreds of those to get your characters to gear 7.
I need 50 purple materials for one piece of gear to get Phasma to gear 8.
Get used to it.

EA at its finest.
Can you feel the force tugging on your credit card?
The force is strong here

Man, you're such a bore, and not a clever one, too. No one is tugging on your credit card except your own impatience. You're coming into literally each tread blaming all the world for your character flaws. Grow up already and stop spamming how bad EA puts your in chains and tortures you for money. You're convincing no one but yourself.

CaptainPlatypus

bleeaauuh wrote: »

Jc is the easiest charcter in the game to gear, you will relise this once you start to upgrade toons to gear 7 and 8
Literally he is THE EAsiEST in the whole game.

As Havok said, seems like it's a trade off.

HavokTrigger wrote: »

After you get that, you can take him to gear 8 easily. It's a trade off

I've found JC pretty much the hardest to get from V to VI so far (out of Dooku, Daka, 5s, and Sid), but obviously from what people have said, he gets easier compared to the others from here.

Phasma is the only one I've arguably found harder, because I haven't been able to get to the light side level required to unlock a piece of her gear yet. But that's due to my team being mostly dark side more than anything else.