So with Leia appearing regularly in shipments at a premium cost of 320 crystals for 4 shards (that's 80 crystals per shard compared to 50 for "normal" toons), is anyone actually farming her this way?
I managed to get Leia in a chromium drop a while back but she unlocks at a lowly 2*. Doing some back of the napkin math here, it'll take 25+50+65+85+100=325 shards to get her to 7* which equates to 325x80=26,000 crystals. Yikes.
Let's pretend that I go monk and abstain from spending any crystals and I manage to gain on average 200 crystals per day. That still takes 130 days, or about 4.3 months, just to collect enough crystals to get Leia up to 7*. That doesn't take into account that her shipment doesn't appear daily so actually getting the shards will take even longer.
Meanwhile, that whole time, I'm not refreshing any energies or pvp's which slows down the progress of the rest of my roster.
So who's actually going down this crazy F2P path of farming Leia?
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There is your problem, no one (I know) is doing this that is F2P.
It definitely would take longer than opening mass chromiums but in the long run you save a significant amount of money. This method is for people that want a p2p character without participating in the chromium lottery. It's not a feasible way to get p2p characters for f2p players without crippling progress in other areas.
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Actually, I might be done now with it. Probably. Maybe. I dunno.
I have pretty much suspended refreshes of energy though except for cantina once a week to try and level out the cost.
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They sure are making it close to not being like that. Rex/Leia/Sun Fac/B2 are all locked behind a pay wall and they are becoming (except B2, i mean, he was just released) almost required for super META teams.
If trends continue, F2P will be forced to spend either crystals or real money to stay competitive. Time will only tell.
FTP players should not even look at these packs in the shipment.
I am.
Depending on my luck as to what rank I stay overnight and if I actually have time or the inclination between 6-7pm to shoot for a top 10 arena rank, I usually get a top 20 arena payout, occasionally a top 10, and occasionally only a top 50. So with dailies and GW completed, I earn a minimum of 227 crystals, maximum 327 per day. I used to do 2 regular refreshes and a cantina refresh every day, for an expenditure of 200 crystals. Now, I'm just doing one regular and one cantina for 150, so I gain 77-177 crystals per day, usually 127. I'll be able to buy Leia shards at least twice a week, and at that rate, I'll have her maxed in 38 weeks (I'm at 31 shards today).
I know that's a long time, and it's slowing down my farming of other shards and gear. However, I don't care for 2 reasons.
1, there's such a gear bottleneck from gear VIII to IX currently, that I can't see how it's going to matter. Since raid gear was added, I've unlocked, fully starred and leveled Ventress and Akbar, and I added Akbar after I started farming Leia. Both of them quickly reached 5/6 gear VIII and they have a looooooong wait for their callers/furnaces/whatevers to get to IX. I expect any new characters I unlock to also race to gear VIII in spite of only doing one refresh, long before I'm ready to promote them to IX, so slowing down on gear clearly doesn't matter.
2, as far as getting slowed down on character shards, it's already annoying enough that shard acquisition so drastically outpaces credit and gear acquisition, so who cares?
And as for the long wait, I already hard node farmed Rey to 7*, so I can handle a long term project.
Small correction. The upgrade to 4 stars is 30 not 50.
It's 330 total shards for a character.
10 + 15 + 25 + *30* + 65 + 85 + 100 = 330
of which you have the first 25 done by unlocking the full character.
25 + 30 + 65 + 85 + 100 = 305
If you are going to farm a toon this way I suggest you to go with Sun Fac. At least he is newer and less likely to go farmable.
I think it just comes down to your own preference. I'm willing to spend a little money and she's a classic character that is key to the team/style I'm building. If you are set on FTP, then I don't think it would be worth it, especially now that you can farm Rey in the guild store. If it's not worth it to you, then there a plenty of other quality farmable toons if you want to be FTP.
Yeah, I've considered this, but at $5 spent so far, and only considering perhaps a one time crystal sub, I can't really bother with chasing the meta anyway, may as well go for characters and archetypes I just like. I like Leia and Rebels, and could care less about Sun Fac and Geonosians.
This game is going to be a continual balancing act, like many others before it, between tankiness, damage, healing, or other factors being the strongest. A glass cannon like Leia may rotate in and out of OP-ness from time to time, but it's unlikely to ever be useless. At the very least, she'll win on offense, right? And, as I mentioned in my prior response, I don't think I'm giving up much, at least in the current state of the game, to buy her shards directly with crystals. If gear stops being the primary obstacle to developing a character, I may have to reconsider the long Leia farm...
This was my thinking exactly. As a newb, I was saving crystals towards a chromium 8 pack, but luckily hit the forums in time to find out how much real money you would have to sink into chromiums to average out to any thing of value. 320 crystals for 4 shards of the exact character I want is a bargain in comparison.