Shard drop rate from missions is RIDICULOUSLY LOW

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Qeltar
4326 posts Member
It can't be more than 1 in 5. How many weeks will it take to level up anything at that rate?
I just wanted to level up my Chewie, I needed 5 shards, it took well over 20 missions to get them.
Come on guys! I know you want us to buy annoying gambling packs, but this is just going to frustrate people to the point of wanting to leave.
Quit 7/14/16. Best of luck to all of you.

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  • Yes i play now 7 days and got 17 Dooku shards from 42 trys.
    This is <50%.
    I hate this 3 try limit and the 12 Energie.
    In MFF i can farm a spot endless if i have enough energie.
  • What gets me is the drop rate even for equipment is beyond pathetic. It's torture just trying to level up characters equipment level. I'm not expecting to get what I need every time but ran 7 missions in a row where not a single piece of equipment dropped.
  • Rolf
    1032 posts Member
    Agreed on the poor odds. I was also surprised to see that sim tickets use/require your energy.
    My ally code: 296-673-769. Wish we could have more than 35.
  • Sim tickets requiring energy is perfectly fine.. the point of those is to save time.
  • Hey, it took a year before the drop rates improved in HODA. For a year ppl complained about not getting the legendary heroes. After two years nobody complains anymore. Also, they don't have that many heroes yet, wait till they start adding heroes every week.
  • Qeltar wrote: »
    It can't be more than 1 in 5. How many weeks will it take to level up anything at that rate?
    I just wanted to level up my Chewie, I needed 5 shards, it took well over 20 missions to get them.
    Come on guys! I know you want us to buy annoying gambling packs, but this is just going to frustrate people to the point of wanting to leave.

    It's all designed to take advantage of those who are impatient. It's the typical f2p setup: Make free progression intentionally extremely slow, while offering ways to pay for more "expedited" play. These games have to make money somehow, and the best way is to take advantage of fools.
  • Cenarl
    35 posts Member
    edited December 2015
    nothing like blowing all your energy on 1 or 2 shards, equipment is also kinda crazy, sometimes i'll do 6 before i give up to even get a white...which i assume should be more common
  • wait till u guys reach a level where you need levels 63 or 70 to achive higher level suits. problem is the character levels mxed at 60
  • Qeltar
    4326 posts Member
    For reference I kept track of my drops this morning. 15 total attempts to get shards for Dooku and Jedi Consular. Total shard drops: 3.

    3 shards for 180 energy, which is a whole night's refill plus a 50 crystal refill.

    This is not fair or reasonable.
    Quit 7/14/16. Best of luck to all of you.
  • Hi all. I just tried to drop rare purple mats from 5E normal dark side. I have 14 try and got 1 mats. 1 mats for 14 try!!! develops u serious?!?? Sorry for eng.
  • Yeah there is a definate imbalance in the shard and ability material drops. I am currently at 44 tries and have yet to recieve ability material of any kind. I scrounge from challenges and galactic war. The only reason I even go in there has been for Talia shards.... I can understand somewhat you want a slow progression system in free, but this is out of hand.
    I log in for challenges, squad arena, galactic wars and simming for shards and gear. Its been a rough ride obtaining shards from Squad Cantina lvls. Borderline Insanity at this point.
  • The rate of shard and character drops is totally ridiculous and should be better. I understand their agenda though and that is to get you to buy crystals. Sadly, the pricing for crystals is ridiculous. Judging by the math regarding drops, you'd probably have to buy like $150 worth of junk to get what you're looking for and that is crazy. They should have just charged $20 for the game and then made crystals and other items very cheap, like $5 for 50,000 crystals. The largest crystal pack for $100 will only get you about 50 tries at the Chromium cards and I can see a person buying that many tries and receiving maybe a few characters if they're lucky. This game is quickly becoming less fun because of the setup and I can't see myself logging in daily for months to play....
  • Hmm I managed to farm 50 Luke shards from the cantina in just over a week. Drop rare isn't too bad. Least not there anyway.
  • Qeltar
    4326 posts Member
    Hmm I managed to farm 50 Luke shards from the cantina in just over a week. Drop rare isn't too bad. Least not there anyway.

    The Cantina ones are much easier because they are unlimited. But there are many characters where you get at most 9, 6 or even 3 tries per day. At 3 tries per day, with the drop rate I am seeing, it would take 2-3 months to get 50 shards.
    Quit 7/14/16. Best of luck to all of you.
  • All depends on your luck, my dooku shard luck is abysmal, but councilor and talia shards are usually 1/1. Managed to 4* councilor in under 3 weeks. But I'll agree that the drops are horrible (especially gear drops) but thankfully the shipments and events usually cover what my team needs.
  • woodchuck
    53 posts Member
    edited December 2015
    I noticed BOTH gear and shard drop rates declined sharply as I got higher in level. Now it is frustratingly low... sometimes not dropping until the 10th try on same simulated battle. WhatTheF!

    This is pure greed raising it's ugly head again. Bait and switch tactics.

    This game is over for me. I will not spend any more on crystals. Drop rates are basically rigged like they rig odds for online casinos.
  • Qeltar
    4326 posts Member
    Raelyan wrote: »
    ...councilor and talia shards are usually 1/1.

    I think if you actually track this in a spreadsheet you will see it is not really the case.
    Quit 7/14/16. Best of luck to all of you.
  • Qeltar
    4326 posts Member
    1/6 on Dooku today. Which costs again a whole night's sleep of energy regen.
    At this rate it will take close to a year to get him to 7*. That's not an exaggeration. Not that I will even likely bother after I get him to 4*.
    This entire game is now oriented around which characters you can get shards for in a predictable manner. This is not good.
    Quit 7/14/16. Best of luck to all of you.
  • I opened about 30 chromium cards and got not even a single piece of good character, only weak characters. Not even a 4 star. I spent good money for nothing. It will be very unlucky or just a form of making ourselves spending more and more? And no return.
  • Qeltar
    4326 posts Member
    Never buy chromium packs unless you are willing and able to treat this like putting money in the slots in Vegas. Because that's what it is.
    Instead focus on characters that can be obtained reliably through in-game play: Cantina, Arena, Galactic Wars.
    Quit 7/14/16. Best of luck to all of you.
  • Having a really bad morning, but then I get some decent drop rates some days. That freaded rng that plagues numerous games. My drops this morning for the record:

    Hard missions:
    Royal Guard: 1 from 3
    Jedi Consular: 0 from 5

    Cantina:
    Chewbacca: 0 from 9

    But now I have no energy to do anything so crystals it is, at least this game gives you enough crystals daily to be able to boost your energy every day/2 if you complete all daily activities. Most games out there don't give you the chance to play to get the 'premium currency' instead forcing you to pay. I would say though that the 100 daily crystal pack over 21 days is great value imo
  • Luparelli wrote: »
    I opened about 30 chromium cards and got not even a single piece of good character, only weak characters. Not even a 4 star. I spent good money for nothing. It will be very unlucky or just a form of making ourselves spending more and more? And no return.

    I was considering buying enough crystals for the 8 chromium pack, then I realised I had a samsung galaxy s3 lying around, logged in on that and got the samsung bonus crystals, bought one chromium pack and got a 3* Luke, I'd been farming Luke enough so he dropped only 1 shard away from promotion. I was chuffed enough that I didn't buy the packs in the end, didn't want to risk my luck as previously I'd only gotten a handful of shards to a random character from them
  • I was seriously tempted to put in some actual dollars if a nice character bundle came along (even though they are RIDICULOUSLY over priced) as I was enjoying this game a quite a lot. But now... It's now almost April and the drop rates for ANYTHING is horrible. Massive turn off.
  • Wow, way to make an entrance. Are you Resurecting this dead post because it's Easter? With a pointless comment on a long outdated thread. Where's your forum etiquette? It's been basically proven that shard rates are about 33%
  • Sharded
    5 posts Member
    edited March 2016
    "Basically proven"... Useless response. Whats your point, bro? It changes nothing from the fact that the drop rates for anything are horribly low. Talk to me about pointless comments and etiquette? Leave and troll elsewhere.
  • Farming for gear is even more frustrating, those purple handcuffs drop 1 out of 10 for me. And I need 50 of them so that means 5000 energy total...FOR ONE PIECE OF GEAR. It takes about 10 full days to get it, if you do 2 energy refreshes and if you only farm that, no hard nodes no anything.

    Ridiculous.
  • Yeah, that's what I meant by the drop rates for ANYTHING. Oh dear...
  • Well... keep making a fuss. Revive dead and "long outdated" threads like this one, and maybe they just might listen.
  • I know the feeling. At the start of the yoda event I bought the overpriced jedi pack and been farming the 3 battles for Anakin shards since every day. So that's 2 months now? And he just reached 6*. I seen 1/9 and 6/9. But I think average is about 30% droprate. I don't notice any drop change difference between 20-16-12 energy places. But maybe it's good you can't have everything very fast.
    About the gear drops I do agree it's ridiculous. Those cuffs have like a droprate of like 10%. And it doesn't matter if you do the 20-10 energy places. I hope the lvl 72 challenge will have the cuffs and chiewab drops. Else I will give up just go F2P from now on.
  • definitely stealth nerf again.
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