Forget credits, it's GEAR that will kill you!
For the folks that think that we're short on credits, and will need years to fully level our roster at the current income rate, have a look at this:
GEAR takes twice as long to obtain as credits!
You're happy to get about 40 Carbanti pieces a week (from STR challenge)? Think again, you'll need 8500 of them! Yep, 4 years.
Well, in any case, here's a small chart that will help you plan your gear acquisition and what's actually useful and not, or explains why you keep running out of BAW Armor MkI. This is based on the state of the game last month, and includes gear that's currently obtainable and useful (i.e. no gold gear).
The top-5 annoying ones are:
This also illustrates why some Raid salvage thing is actually almost useless: After crafting a pair of badly needed Furnace Mk5, I now have a sithpile of them, but not enough Hypo Mk6 to actually craft the full pieces.
GEAR takes twice as long to obtain as credits!
You're happy to get about 40 Carbanti pieces a week (from STR challenge)? Think again, you'll need 8500 of them! Yep, 4 years.
Well, in any case, here's a small chart that will help you plan your gear acquisition and what's actually useful and not, or explains why you keep running out of BAW Armor MkI. This is based on the state of the game last month, and includes gear that's currently obtainable and useful (i.e. no gold gear).
The top-5 annoying ones are:
- 8500 Carbanti Mk3
- 7750 Chiewab Hypo Mk6
- 5250 Czerka Mk3
- 5040 Soro-Suub Mk4
- 4560 Arakyd Droid Mk3
This also illustrates why some Raid salvage thing is actually almost useless: After crafting a pair of badly needed Furnace Mk5, I now have a sithpile of them, but not enough Hypo Mk6 to actually craft the full pieces.
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THREE CUFFS. I guess they're trying to force us to pay $12 for them in the store in order to progress.
honestly, its more sad that anyone of us can feel lucky about getting 6 cuffs in 3 refreshes. Thats a 16.6% droprate (assuming you used the 10 energy battles)
Just really shows how ridiculous this game has gotten. We all knew it, or at least had the feeling, but it's nice to see an actual visual to confirm the feeling of running in quicksand.
and its been a long time since ive seen stun cuffs, i want to craft a mk4 comlink, no go!
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Not having the credits to Star and Level up your characters actually makes the Gear bottleneck a bit more manageble. Imagine only having to farm shards to get lvl80 7* characters, seems awesome right? Now imagine all the gear you need to make them viable
Cuffs are indeed out there... top-3, you need up to 5250 of them. The Chedak Mk IV are a more modest 1400.
@EscapeArtist51 Actually you're right. Credits are also tight. What I'm getting at though is that the games tries very hard to make you think that it's all about collecting shards for your characters (see for instance how those character packs on sale are made: Shards for Jawas! And some credits and few ability materials, and we are made to think that will get us closer to have an actual Jawa character ready for battle), but the sad truth is that shards are only the easy part.
@DelmonYoung True you don't need to max out all 80-something characters, but realistically about 20 or more, which more or less means a quarter of the gear in the chart (still a lot... Down from 4 years to 1). And as you said, be sure that the devs make everything they can so you need as many different toons as possible, as seen recently with the Mod Challenges (Hop, all 5 Jawas, all 5 First Order, all 5 Resistance). They don't need to be maxed out (fortunately, Mods do help here by giving a temporary boost instead of having to assign gear/credits permanently), but still that's a lot of different characters. Be sure that whatever "next content" is being worked upon will require Nightsisters or Tusken.
In the end, we're still losing this game... If we ever catch up, they'll introduce gold gear, and we're back to square 1 (just imagine new gear that's made out of 2 or 3 of those scarce purple gears). So no, we'll never have "All of it".
Still, knowing the big picture helps making informed decisions, e.g. there's no need to go nuts farming/buying BlasTech Mk8 or BioTech Mk7... Sooner rather than later you'll be blocked again on a Stun Cuff or a Hypo Syringe.
And yes they're all f2p, the latest being Dathcha, Tarkin, Cad Bane,... By now (I started in Nov), I have collected almost everything that was in the GW shipments, and most of Arena. Nightsister Initiate is still gear 1 level 30, waiting for an excuse to get her any further. Leia is still 330 shards, waiting for the same thing.
I am the same way right now. No new characters now, I have enough to do everything. No reason to buy broken toons that get released a couple of months later (Wedge). I have enough shards to 7 star all but 10 toons but will never be able to promote, gear, and mod them let alone new ones.
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I do tier 50/50 tier 3/4 on agi challenge. Just in case level 90 gear needs 3000 pieces of the useless salvage.