Ever since the last update I just keep falling further and further behind. I was sitting about 270 - 190 in squad battles but more and more teams just keep passing me. Your "updates" are great for whales and those who want to spend thousands but us F2P players are not able to compete. You keep saying that everything comes available for everyone eventually but I say ****. I've been waiting for YEARS for general Kenobi Commander Skywalker, Jedi Rey etc but they never become farmable. SOME,maybe, eventually after layer upon layer of secondary and tertiary tiers MIGHT become available in some silly "event " that happens, maybe, every 6 months. Most people don't want to waste their lives developing 7star droids, in order to develop 7 star Ewoks, on order to build something else to get a Chewbacca, or whatever. ENOUGH. Make primo characters farmable by simple means or me, and many other F2P players won't be around much longer. There's no point if it's impossible to even compete in the same arena.
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Everything is working as intended
With smart choices and enough dedication you can go there too even if 100% F2P. Stick to the system or you'll never be strong enough. Love it or hate it, stay or leave. They won't change anything about it.
- Grand Admiral Thrawn
ALL characters do come available for everyone but if you choose not to farm for them then thats the choice you make.
then again guess you want everything for nothing, play the game randomly whenever you feel like it and expect it all to be given to you while other FTP players work hard at the game and compete pretty good with even the whales in the game.
CG shouldn't change the whole entire game genre because of you. These type of games work like this, MSF and that dungeon game are the same.
I'm F2P and I've been chilling in top 50s because unlike you I'm a smart player.
I’m have bought a few small packs here and there, but not more than maybe $100 or so over several years, so no whale.
I played the game poorly for the first 6 months or so, so have been way off meta compared to my shard. But still, without paying of any real level I’ve worked my way to sit around 60 in squad arena and top 20’in fleet.
You do need to plan out if you want the good toons, and that I can’t see a problem with tbh.
Plenty of decent starter teams to be farmed, plenty options to get meta teams through dedication, though guys like General Skywalker is not obtainable for most without paying or being very early days player.
Still fine, really. Not too bad for FTP
Any time I read someone complain about farming, for example, ewoks (which happen to be a very solid defensive team in TWs and GAs as well as countering First Order offensively and getting you C-3P0--in other words doing quite a lot of useful stuff outside of Arena) they never say what they'd rather be doing instead.
You can either purchase crystals or win them in the arenas. Fleet arena might be easier than squad since it doesn’t rely on mod quality.
you know you have to farm characters to get jtr and cls, right? and be in a guild doing heroic raids to get traya and GK? that's the farm you are looking for.
I did get a chuckle about how you don't want to farm in order to get characters. Heck, I want to retire without working, so I get it!
defense team?? ewoks are horrendous defensively in tw/gac. offensively I like them a lot vs, as you said, FO, also carth and some BH too. very fun team
Offense is a different story.
2) get GMY + Anakin on a decent relic level
3) get some decent speed and damage (off/CD) mods (mod farming needed)
4) learn the game mechanics
You can defeat all other teams then (except for GAS), build the 2 best raid teams for HSR (JKR p2, Ani with NS p3) and it's easy to obtain without having to farm a lot of B-C teams for a certain key char like ewoks for C3PO or OR for Malak. The Jedi's are also one of these squads with a good future perspective as they highly benefit from relics due to their buff spread and abilities powering up their stats such as JKR's leadership or HY's masters training.
It's not hard to be successful even as a f2p.
Ask yourself: "Do I want to *play* the game? Or do I want to *win* the game?"
I play because I'm a fan of the franchise. I know I will never be META, and I'm okay with that.
It's fun when my Imperial Troopers take out a squad of Nightsisters, but I also giggle when my strongest squad doesn't even get a turn vs. Ewoks.
It's a game.
Sorry but fleet arena relies heavily on good mods
I'm completely ftp, and am now down to 8 toons to 7* (including Malak, Wat Tambor and GAS) and 5 ships to 7*, with Anakin's fighter being the only one that has been farmable for a while.
While it is quite difficult to be starting out as ftp, if you have been here from the launch you finally do catch up. I can't compete with the whales on my shard, but I never could. I don't expect #1 in the arenas, but I can hit top 50.
They don't, although I think the color might have a minor effect. Regardless, secondary stats (like a +20 speed) are irrelevant.
True, but also because shards are much smaller (2k vs 20k) and fewer people are willing to invest in ships because of the double investment (ships + pilots).
Respectfully disagree. Pilots mods don't care about the stats, they care that they are gold 5 dot (6 dot is better).
Only the level (lvl 15 > lvl 12) and the number of dots is relevant.
6 dot mods > 5 dot mods > 4 dot etc.
That's what I thought too. And then someone (CGDF member but I don't remember which one) showed us that the color (I think) has a small effect on ship GP. Whether that relates to any stats or not, I don't recall.
Not sure I'm following, what other crystal income source besides tb? We would need daily malak event failures for anything to come close xD
C'mon, we all pray to rng gods.