Mods are going to make me quit
I've been playing the game for well over a year. Lots of starred.and geared characters. Even spent money occasionally. But I have been avoiding mods, and it is starting to be my bottleneck.
I hate them. I hate farming them, with drop rates that are crazy low. I just don't seem to get anything worthwhile from challenges... The right side of all my characters are empty. I save up for mod packs, but they are rare. I would buy them ,but rarely see 5 dots for sale for cash.
Am i missing something? I see F2P players with full rosters of five dot mods... Did they just get them at the beginning before the drop rate nerf?
If there isn't an easier way that banging my head against a .01% drop rate for the next year and a half, I am ready to call it quits.
How to mod?
I hate them. I hate farming them, with drop rates that are crazy low. I just don't seem to get anything worthwhile from challenges... The right side of all my characters are empty. I save up for mod packs, but they are rare. I would buy them ,but rarely see 5 dots for sale for cash.
Am i missing something? I see F2P players with full rosters of five dot mods... Did they just get them at the beginning before the drop rate nerf?
If there isn't an easier way that banging my head against a .01% drop rate for the next year and a half, I am ready to call it quits.
How to mod?
0
Replies
If they would just make it gold mods is just an open book, what you see is what you get... that would do wonders.
Though I would guess it would severely hurt the mod shop since farming/grey mods could actually be useful.
I am F2P and have a pretty solid collection of mods. https://swgoh.gg/u/indominable j/mods/
I didn't get anything before the drop rate nerf (I'm not sure I completed any of the challenges at that point). I've gotten my mods by farming, farming, farming, as well as trolling the store for mods for credits. (Note, if you're not getting many 5 dots for credits,have you completed tier 3 of the defense mod challenge? Completing that tier increases the rate 5 dots show in the shop).
You have to focus on mods, at least for periods of time. I will farm a challenge for a week or two in between farming characters from cantina. Without mods you **cannot** compete at higher levels.
I almost quit when mods were released. Didn't even play the whole first week they were introduced because I did not like them either.
I soon realized they aren't that bad and actually add a whole new, fun dimension to the game. It's fun to make certain characters even better then what they are good at. For instance; it's fun to make my yoda super fast and throw out foresight+ tenacity. It's fun to make lando aoe for 20k. It's fun to have people try over and over to stun/shock my sf because he is at 90 tenacity. It's fun to stack protection on my gk and give him insane amounts of protection. It really is fun.
A big reason why I hated mods at the beginning is because I feel it was a very greedy, terrible way to add another grind; since we were already going through a huge grind at that time. Plus the way the released it was terrible with all the bugged drop rate and all the info they gave us in 1 day.
I didn't play the first week of mods and did not benefit from the first day of mods, sadly
But I grew to like mods after I started farming them. I was in the same situation as you; just not as long as you.
I suggest start farming them and check them out.
Even if they aren't great mods, you will get +30% health, some extra protection, and increased offense and defense and other key stats. You will at least have a team of characters with greater power, probably in a more balanced fashion, it would be like adding a couple gear levels or stars to your team and help you climb in arena and galactic war.
Once you have that base, then you can look to specialize mods on key characters and start looking for mods with key attributes.
After 4 weeks of spending 4 refreshes per day, of checking mod shipments, and buying credit packs (till the daily cap), I have yet to find an upgrade to my arena/raid mods.. so, yes, it's frustrating to say the least.
This.
With the way the first round of mods went and all the rage quits, I think they will be hesitant to put those out any time soon.
This was exactly my problem when I started to farm for mods...
I would get white 5dot mods and level them up. After about a month (or a few weeks) of farming, I ended up getting frustrated as I couldn't find any speed secondaries.
So in frustration I sold off every mod that didn't have speed secondaries...
DO NOT do that, I've regret my rage since most of my characters now are under modded... (back then I didn't even consider putting the mod on).
Keep farming, the drop rates are low but it's worth it in the long run. Also, save up credits and look in the mod shipments. They have some pretty some good ones now and then.
I tried my luck with mod packs the last time they were out. I only got 3-4 dot mods but all were green/blue tier... was it just RNG that I got those? Or is 5 dot mods just rarer to get?
I just finished wedge a couple days ago and since then I'm only doing mod challenges. Obviously I could keep doing that for month (for ever?) until I'm somewhat satisfied. How do I know when it's enough for now?
I'm lvl 76, so there is plenty farming to be done.
It depends unfortunately as there are so many areas to the game? Are you top 10 on the Rancor Raid? Where do you sit in arena currently and where do you want to be (At minimum I'd suggest at least top 50)? Without knowing that or your current roster it's tough to make a judgement, but I'd make sure at least your arena team is competive. If you have a switch.gg link that'd be helpful too
+1
I'm fighting each day to stay in top50, my mods still are a problem.
I can't really contribute in raids, working on teebo right now, he'll be 7* in a week or so.
I'd appreciate an in depth look, didn't want to be too needy. Here's the link:
https://swgoh.gg/u/unimatrix010/
I've got tons of Mk V mods, but very few have speed secondaries. The small handful that do have a speed of +3, +5, or maybe +8 at best. I am defeated by enemies who have characters with multiple speed secondaries of +14 or more.
ALL of the best speed secondaries I have EVER received since mods first appeared are on my Boba Fett, and I was able to get him to a speed of 204. People above me in the arena have Fett at speeds of 240 and 265. I would be willing to spend money on mods with high speed secondary, but they have never appeared.
When I have purchased a mod with a speed secondary of 3 or 4, it stays at that level after upgrading from level 1 up to 15.
How in the world do you sell mods??
If your guild isn't significantly stronger then you, you're in pretty good shape for the Rancor. You already have a QGJ, Phasma, and Wiggs. With getting Teebo soon, you'll have the characters for a strong P1 team. Granted my account is older, but I use the same team and my personal best is almost completing the 1st two tiers of the Rancor Raid (Personal Best less then 10% left of P2).
As far as arena, I actually used a pretty similar team until recently. My best strategy was focusing your best speed mods on STH and putting Lando as your lead instead of Wiggs. Hopefully that will allow you to start first nearly every match because of the extra speed Lando provides to STH and then STH subsequently taunting giving the rest of your team turn meter to hopefully go next. Then obviously EP can shock them to slow them down and Wiggs can hopefully one shot a key opponent.
Now based on what I mentioned above, this is what I'd recommend....
You should be doing the Potency Mod Battles until you're able to equip with a full set of Potency mods for Teebo. Even rarity 1 and 2s work great as he still gets the 10% bonus with each set (with a potency cross you'll be close to an additional 50% potency which is critical for the Rancor raid).
Additionally, Potency Mod Battles will be useful for QGJ and EP and potency is important for both of those two. You want to ensure you have at least a potency cross for both QGJ and EP (and of course another potency mod somewhere).
Then with any leftover speed secondaries I'd move those to Biggs as using his assist with Wedge is important on your initial attack.
While speed matters, make sure you put a critical damage triangle along on Wedge for now. Eventually you'll want critical damage mods (and probably a critical chance set), but those can be substituted with health mods in the meantime if you don't have critical damage unlocked.
For Lando, you want to load up on critical chance, critical damage, and speed secondaries. I'd recommend making him your second fastest guy (behind STH).
To your original question, once you have have speed arrows for all your 8 characters (Wiggs, Teebo, EP, Phasma, QGJ, STH, and Lando) along with appropriate mod types (even from Mod Battles), you then will have a choice to focus on building up your mods (speed secondaries and rarity 5 mods) to reach the top 20 and beyond of arena and improve your Rancor score, or work on new characters.
Hope this helps!
Thank you so much for this detailed analysis.
You are a very nice person to go through so much trouble to help a random person on the forums out.
Really appreciate it, you even mentioned stuff I was going to ask.
You, kind Sir, are awesome!
Not a problem. I hope it works out for you and if you have other questions feel free to shoot a PM.
As others have said mod shipments seem to be the way to go. I have gotten my best mods from there. The mod pack that appears in the store when tournaments are out also have some value imo. I've gotten just as many 5* gold mods out of 4 or 5 packs as I did with 2 months farming.
Hit the manage icon under mods.
Bottom left corner of the screen under all of your mods.
+1