So with the expansion of the cap to 80 there is now a credit shortage for all player levels. At cap level 70 provided you didn't buy shards you had enough credits to level and star all you charactors.
The math
You get 15 GW shards, 10+ arena shards, 5 cantina ship and 7-10 cantina mode shards per day for a total of 40 shards per day and 280 per week.
It cost about 4.5 million to max a charactor(plus abilities) and 330 shards. Total waste of income in the game is about 4.5 million. Looking at the math here you could level and star your charactors and over time provided you got less than 50 extra shards per week eventually it would level out.
Now with 6.5-7 million require to max 330 shards you are short. It now takes 10 daysish to earn your 6.5-7 million credits. This means any shards more than 33 a day can never be fully levelled.
So this means you should sacrifice 50 shards a week to the shard shop to speed the farming of other characters. If you buy chrome and do lots of hard nodes this number becomes higher.
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It is the worst thing imaginable. There is no reason to use it as a viable source of shard farming.
Edit: I had no idea stu.p.id.l.y. was censored on this forum. Are we three years old here? Really?
If so it's the dumbest thing I've ever read on this forum.
Absolutely,
As it stands there is no way to max all of the shards you farm. Unless a new source of credits is created you can't actually level your toons to where you can use them.
So instead if use those excess shards which you do not benefit from and put them to Cantina shipment or hard node characters you are better off.
The question might be best asked would you trade 50 energy and 50 crystals for 10 GW shards? I would all day.
But that sounds even worse.
Going by this logic, if you can't get enough credits to promote the character and you slow your farm down by using the Shard Shop, then you're even more behind when you actually get the credits to promote them. It's self damaging, and I understand why OP is saying it, but purposely slowing your progression is actually going to harm you far more than just farming what you need and waiting. I have over 17.5 million credits and many toons that need to be promoted, but I'm not using them. They're not draining my credits, and I don't need them, yet when I do, I'll be able to pump them up to max in no time when I decide to. The thing that people don't seem to grasp is, YOU DON'T HAVE TO PROMOTE EVERYONE YOU CAN.
You'll only gimp yourself if you do it like OP suggests.
I read this three times and still can't figure it out. A shard is what we use to star up our characters. Player shards. Once a toon's on 7 stars you no longer need to farm their shards, and that's the only time you can use extra shards in the shard shop.
That's what he's saying. He's saying if you don't have the credits to promote anyone, farm 7* characters to slow your progression so your credits can catch up and you can promote a character again.
So given that you can't level your players as fast as you get them and that their are more "Meta" players in hard nodes and cantina nodes it makes sense to transfer excess GW nodes at a 10:1 exchange into hard nodes or Cantina shipments.
Overall you will collect less shards but you will have funding for all your shards and you will have meta charactors sooner unless you happen to guess right on the shifts.
If you assume that over the course of 2 months you sacrifice 1 7 star character and that only 1 GW character will become new meta you are sacrificing a 1/8 chance in having the new meta sooner for an extra week of a current meta character.
Also you convert when there is stuff to buy. Right now I'm shop farming Ashoka, Rey and Vader. So I keep 300 in the shop and when they show up I buy them so there is no additional risk in this strategy based on shard shop selection.
And you are just giving up 5 GW shards a day.
This is exactly it. And that hard node and cantina ship charactors are better than 4th tier GW chars.
This. Considering i have 0 interest in getting a general grievous for 4950 shards (lol), i'd rather farm other stuff and save for when i decide to activate.
Already have 4-5 heroes from arena and GW sitting on their shards unpromoted.