Hi everyone.
I just finished farming my 3rd GL, JML. I'm at a point where I would like to gear up some other teams, but I don't really have many zetas to spare. I'm still working on JMLs last zeta and will be unlocking both Maul and Drevan soon, and their respective teams will both need multiple zetas. It seems to me I'm farming characters much faster than I'm farming zetas.
I can complete almost all the Assault Battles (just missing the nightsisters and inquisitors) and use all my fleet currency exclusively on zeta mats. How come most people I see seem to be swimming in zetas?
Aside from this, are there any additional teams that don't require many zetas, that I could start building up to G12 as side projects?
Here is my roster:
https://swgoh.gg/p/975918932/characters/
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1. Don't place until they are needed
2. Buy with currency
3. Do events
4. Spend time relicing characters instead of farming new
And one day you will just run out of characters to place all your zetas on
Just work one character and one team at a time and a lot of your resources will start to pile up. It is painstakingly and frustratingly slow, but it is very effective.
I agree with this.... But I will also say that you will reach a point where it is super rewarding.... You will see that your patience has paid off when you actually have the gear and mats to advance your new toon far ther down the road
I go about gearing up characters a specific way: characters only get geared up when I have everything to relic them in one go and when they have a full modset built for them. Because this generally takes awhile, I can accumulate a lot of zetas without really focusing on getting them.
Like others have said, either work on one character at a time or one specific team at a time. Spreading yourself too thinly early on will just stunt your growth. Also, giving zetas to characters who aren’t get 7 stars or is without a team to use them doesn’t serve much of a purpose
If I am reading 4 as I think, I disagree.
Unit shards should always be farmed till you have 330 (7*), even if you don't make them 7* right away
Shards farming require neither zetas nor any materials at all...
And while you are sitting and gathering relics your zetas are stockpiling
Gotcha. Makes more sense. Gearing and relicing agree less (units) at a time is better
Honestly, CG has done a really good job or reaching equilibrium on this. I hover between 120 and 220 zeta mats and it doesn't go past there really. This is with applying zetas on almost all new characters, having all the GLs and Journey units, and occasionally going back for some zeta I never used before like Stormtrooper Han.
When I farm, I take every character that is required for that farm (whether it be just a one character farm or farming multiples for a GL etc) and I make them my "favorites" so that they show up at the top of my roster and I can focus on them... Then, I apply all of the "necessary" zetas on them... Once that is done, I don't use any zetas until that farm is done and I am on to the next one allowing them to pile up in my inventory...Rinse, repeat
Generally I don't drop zetas on a character until g12, though there are exceptions. The Tuskens are a classic example of this b/c their use in Galactic challenges made it much more important to drop a couple zetas on them now, at sub-7* and sub-g12, to meet my GC goals. Or at least to meet them with minimum stress.
Any policy should have some flexibility built into it, but if you don't zeta toons before they hit g12, that will make things much easier for you. It will automatically weed out some toons as "not ready" and thus slow down the excited zeta dropping that can happen when several characters are released close to each other.
As others have said, it's also useful to limit your resources to a single toon or faction that you're developing. This would include zetas -- but even if it didn't, it would include them by accident if you apply my previous suggested policy b/c if you're only spending gear on a particular toon or squad, then you would only have a few toons at a time reaching g12 and thus being considered worthy of a zeta.
I doubt that things will be the same for you as for me. I've been swimming in a couple hundred zetas or more for years now, but if you started the game later than me then you have more previously-released toons to catch up with. And though I've used my g12 test for a long time, with gear acceleration that's more like how a g10 test might have functioned 3 years ago.
But even if things are different and even if I'm not able to tell you exactly when thing will get easier, I can assure you that they do. In fact, with the release of Omicrons, I'm convinced that they're going to allow even more zetas into the economy at some point before the end-of-year, possibly when they release the new Krayt Dragon raid, or possibly in conjunction with some as yet unknown changes to the game.
Be hopeful! The zetas will get easier and then you'll only have to worry about gates on Omicrons, Kyros, Signal Data, and relic mats!