Why does it seem that everyone thinks FOST is so hard to farm?
I have been farming the FO group for a awhile now and I'm finding that FOTP is far harder farm than FOST or FOO, I mean the trooper has 2x 12 energy and a 20 energy hard nodes vs Pilot who only has the 2x 16 energy nodes. And officer is in cantina store. So not sure why people claim he's the hardest FO farm.
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Better example would be anyone with a single hard node.
Then BB8 rolled around and suddenly FO was a thing. Well, I had both of those generic guys (FOTP, FOST) at around 22/25 shards at that time and have been farming them daily since it was announced that FO was required. I finished up FOTP a couple weeks ago and FOST about two days ago. They aren't THAT difficult to farm, but I still feel they're certainly more difficult than is warranted for what they bring to the table. FOTP in fleet store is a blessing to all, they should put FOST somewhere similar.
If something is slow, it becomes frustrating, which in turn makes it difficult, right?
Sure, it's not physically demanding to click "Sim" on a fairly easy to beat node, but having the patience to spend energy on the same node day in, day out, all for a subpar character that's part of a mostly subpar group isn't the easiest thing to make oneself go through for a lot of people.
Wrong. Difficult and frustrating are separate words with different meanings.
They are not synonymous. Difficulty requires effort and thought to overcome. Frustrating merely requires patience.
Jyn Erso. Now that's am annoying farm.
The drop rate on every character is the same.
Really? Guild store farms are probably the easiest because currency is plentiful. Granted you are relying on RNG for the right toon to show up but I've never had a problem with any of the toons I've farmed out of there.
I think that’s the key part. I farmed the Stormtrooper over a span of a couple months and barely noticed it. That was two nodes at 3x per day back then, too.
I did it then because I wanted to, not because I was under the gun for an event.
The moral of the story, I say, is to pick two character that are hard node only and do them every day until you finish and move onto a new pair.
Yeah, I think it's that farming that many hard nodes a day means you have less energy for gear. Certainly FOST is a much quicker farm than Baze, Shore, Krennic, or Lobot.
Some things are intentionally 'a pain' to prompt people to spend crystals to make it 'less of a pain' - those, and others with a single hard node - just need to be hit every day or so and just let it ride out, or pay to have it sooner.
Surprisingly, Lobot’s an easier farm. He only has two nodes, but shows up in Bronzium packs. I unlocked him from a pack a month into playing, thought it’d be funny to 7* him so I farmed both nodes (16 energy) for two months, then got the last ~20 shards from another bronzium pull.
Those two pulls were sheer luck, but FOST isn’t in them at all.
Why I oughta....(shakes fist furiously)
This with Hoth Rebel Soldier long before he was useful.... Farmed off a single node at 3 attempts per day and he sat collecting dust at 7* for almost a year....
Not really. Guild store....