How are ship packs?
December 23, 2016 2:58AM
edited December 2016
Hey, y'all! Thinking about revamping my crystal usage in preparation for hitting level 80 (or 82... crud, it seems far away now) and farming Zetas and i'm not sure exactly how to go about getting the ships required.
Right now, I'm planning on switching off weekly between buying gear from shipments and buying ship packs to be ready for ship challenges, but I realize packs tend to be risky. Obviously, there's RNG involved, but I just want to be sure I'm not paying into trash.
That said, what are your experiences with ship packs? Have they proven worthy, or am I better off farming from fleet shipments/GW and spending my crystals all on gear/refreshes? And if anybody can attest, have you gotten any rare ships like Slave/Scimitar?
Right now, I'm planning on switching off weekly between buying gear from shipments and buying ship packs to be ready for ship challenges, but I realize packs tend to be risky. Obviously, there's RNG involved, but I just want to be sure I'm not paying into trash.
That said, what are your experiences with ship packs? Have they proven worthy, or am I better off farming from fleet shipments/GW and spending my crystals all on gear/refreshes? And if anybody can attest, have you gotten any rare ships like Slave/Scimitar?
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Ask yourself, would pay 320 crystals for 4 rex shards in shipments store, knowing you can use 600 fleet shipment tokens for 5 rex shards in the fleet store, or 400 guild coins for 5?
True.... I just feel like farming up a fifth dark side ship is gonna take ages. Not to mention having to get all of those other ships to 5* for the actual challenge.
I'm not super worried about my fleet arena ranking. More about getting Zetas as quick as possible. Given how few ships there are in the first place, I feel like anything will do.
depending on how many blue prints you got for Vader tie that "tournament" is around the corner so that could be an easy ds ship.
Unfortunately I didn't participate in Vader TIE and busted all of my AP on Jyn and Cassian. Hence my deep desire for Zetas haha.
This is always true, no matter what "going big" means for you.
I decided to play the lottery this time, as Ships were a new and exciting feature, and was lucky enough to get a few good drops. Nothing out of the ordinary, but 1 decent drop out of 5-8 packs seems to be fairly accurate.
Well so that's the thing. I'll choose the fleet shipments if I think that crystals are more valuable than fleet currency. But this is different because there's only an arena mode with challenges. Different because with most other game modes you can supplement your progress with crystals, but here there's no way to do that.
I feel. I'm basically foregoing refreshes to (week 1) get full gear from shipments and (week 2) get a ship pack a day. Is that big enough? lol
It is not a bad plan just stop at some point, best stopping point is when you can do t3 of ability mat challenge or take top spot in fleet arena.
Ehhh, not really accurate, that last one. If you're short on gear and mods for a couple of pilots you may well never be able to reach the top 5.
That's why I gave 2 recommended stopping points not knowing strength of pilots. Which ever one you can get too first
Through multiple packs?? Or did you get it one shot lol
At this point I have TFP, GSoldier, and SF's ships and pilots. I only have pilot for FOTP and Boba. If I got a ship to 4* I'd farm the pilot though.
im salivating........
I'll probably sit down and calculate how many shards I need to make it all work. If that's too far out of reach I'll go for the packs.
Once your ships hit 4*, the packs are okay for a top up but you will not get much of a gain out of it in my opinion. However I still do it when I have had a bit too much of the silly juice....
The Mega Pack was bought once and will never happen again. I just got shards for toons that I have
7*, and 10 falcon shards in the last slot just to rub salt in the wound. No Falcon for you but have a taste!!
So it's expensive, but seems to be a better value to me than spending $100 on say, three characters I can't farm. I am farming zeta mats now and letting my ship arena rank slide on an insane server, so no complaints.
I've bought like ten 499 crystal data cards, but that was early on. I got 100 blueprints of FO Tie-Fighter on one pull, but mostly 10 and 15 blueprints per pull.
To me, it didn't make sense to buy any more 499 data cards after I started going because my shard isn't all that competitive and I've stayed in the Top 15 throughout the inception of ships. Now, I'm top 4 to 7 easy. So all the Ship currency I get (along with GW tokens spent on blueprints) has made it easy for me to develop my fleet.
Now, I'm two 5-star ships away from unlocking the Zeta Mats challenge and I should have that done by this weekend.
So I'd say invest in Ships to start out, but you don't need to go too crazy on them unless your shard is really competitive and you really want to place high.
Gotcha. What are you planning on doing for your fifth dark side ship? At this point for me, the only accessible option looks like GSpy's ship, but I'd have to farm a whopping 80 shards just to unlock him from Cantina..... not super feeling it.
That's probably the biggest reason I want to go for packs, is to speed up production on Slave/Scimitar.