Dear global launch friends, as you slowly enter the 40s, if not already in the 50s level region, you might have noticed the sudden difficulty in maintaining your characters at the same level as you, or the best gear they can get at the moment. (Especially those that have more than 5 characters they want at the best possible condition always).
I wish to bring up firstly, that like all games, including MMORPGs, you should have realised the final few levels are usually the most difficult and longest grinding phase. This is usually put in place to slow down player progression and let you enjoy the content a little longer, as they prepare more content for you. I know some of you can't help but want to vent out the "OMG! This is going to take FOREVER".
Believe me, I F2P through this phase entirely, only using crystals I earned (I'll post a screenie of my roster today at the bottom to give you hope). For the P2P guys, if you loved rushing everything and leveling/gearing everything on your roster till now, prepare a credit card with larger limits, you won't be able to speed things up much without paying a price, a huge one now.
If you have not felt the sudden credit/training droid/gear crunch. I bring to you here, a small table of data of what to expect as you approach the level 60 cap.
What you might wish to do with the data:
- Plan out which characters you REALLY want to invest in as you reach the 50s region
- Stop wasting your precious resources right now leveling/gearing everything
- Save up credits or start training droid farming, and your precious ability mats
- Plan your priorities (Example: if you are unlocking that Darth Sidious soon, and Chewy is going to the bench, you might want to stop investing in that Chewy)
Training Droid rank/ Exp per droid/ credit used per droid
- 1* | 30exp | 213
- 2* | 150exp | 1065
- 3* | 750exp | 5325
- 4* | 1500exp | 10650
- 5* | 3000exp | 21300
- 6* | 6000exp | 42600
Cost per Exp = 7.1 creditsLevel/ Exp required to go next level
- 38: 2100
- 39: 2400
- 40: 2700
- 41: 3000
- 42: 3300 (Sudden spike in exp needed)
- 43: 3700
- 44: 4100
- 45: 4600
- 46: 5100
- 47: 5700
- 48: 6300 (1st exp spike ends)
- 49: 6500
- 50: 6700
- 51: 7000
- 52: 7300
- 53: 7600
- 54: 7900 (All hell breaks loose from here on)
- 55: 9000
- 56: 10000
- 57: 11000
- 58: 12000
- 59: 13000 (92.3k credits just to get from 59 to 60)
Got a new character? Bronzium just blessed you with a 4* Old Ben or 4* Darth Maul you really want to bring to speed immediately as part of your main team? Here's what it will cost you:
Gear? Here's the last few kinds of gear you will see:
2 x 20 purple pieces to collect in 1 gear. (oh if you can see the background, that's a gear for Lumi, something you all need. Teehee!)
Ability mats? You almost forgot about that didn't you? Most characters can get level 5 and 6 abilities. Here's what you need:
Level 4 to 5 skill: 5x White, 5x Green, 4x Blue
Level 5 to 6 skill: 8x White, 7x Green, 5x Blue
Wow, the information is just overwhelming isn't it? Will you be able to do it? Survive? Catch up in arena? The answer is yes. Because I've been there and done it. With only a little more than $50 spent on the game since soft launch, 1 x dooku + 2 x chronium pack of 10, it was pack of 10, once upon a time. (price excluding the daily crystal subscription I've purchased twice now, daily sub packs only came after global launch, which was way past my lvl50-60 phase).
You can see what I have today here, it's 3 screenies, so for clutter sake, hyperlink instead.
imgur.com/a/2HAXj
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From another point of view I did spend couple hundred dollars focused 80% into mission energy. All 5 of my main PvP team are in the epic tier equiped with all non level restricted gear and all mats grinded already for the level 60 restricted. It indeed is not only 40 epic mats for some pieces I could easly drop 300+ energy and only get 15 pieces. The good thing is you stack extra parts so when you do unlock another toon you can zip him to epics very quickly.
So guess the point is if your willing to part with USD its very easy to gear up even easier to level. But your way is so much better there is not even a comparison. I was just impatient. I have more money than common sense.
The real question I think many of us need to know is, given how little we know about end-game, and given that we can't really figure out synergies yet, whom should we invest in? Luminara I know about. Sideous seems like a decent choice, though to be honest, aside from his debuff I find him unimpressive so far. Beyond that? It gets murky. I started a thread on this if you experienced guys want to weigh in: https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/1235/so-what-are-the-farmable-characters-most-used-at-end-game
I felt the real hurt reaching lvl60, I suddenly had 6-7 characters I wanted to level from 59 to 60, so I can get level 6 skills and some gears capped at 60.
Each character required tons of droids and 100k creds each. I almost lost control and swiped that credit card. But I must say, we had it a little easier back then, the cred and droid events which cost 50 energy now, cost nothing back then, just limited to 2 tries each. One of the small perks of soft launch
But hey, on the bright side: if we could all instantly fill our gear slots, we'd make it impossible for ourselves to finish the daily challenge that requires equipping a gear. Gonna keep some scrub character underleveled just for that.
All of that said I'm glad people spend money to keep the game going... I'm just hoping they all stay on a different server!
I was wondering this myself but would involve dropping dailies
Some of the dailies I would continue, like the ticket daily. Others I would drop. I would only drop doing dailies until I farmed the heroes I wanted most.
Guild: Fear The Boot
Guild: Fear The Boot
Right. But I'll be gaining credits along the way. Lots of people my level have no credits and can't even keep their characters up at their level even now.
One question I have that I didn't see is promotion cost. I think my consular was 100K to go from 4* to 5*. What is it from 5* to 6* and 6* to 7*? That has to hurt too...
Also, would it worth the Training Droid event (just unlocked it) if you can spare the energy or is it better to just accumulate the training droids via gear grinding on missions?
I just got Old Daka, Boba Fett, Asajj Ventress and Luminara Unduli. As I level them up, I move one of my current primary characters to the sideline. I also acquired Savage Opress, but I'm not working on him just yet. I am sidelining Talia, Jawa, Chewbacca and Jedi Counselor due to the difficulty of acquiring shards. I earned Darth Sidious first and he's already upgraded to current and will remain as part of my main team, so it's a 4 for 4 swap.
The remainder of the characters not mentioned either come in Bronzium packs or have to be farmed one shard at a time and are unavailable in any of the Arena shipments, part of why I'm not focused on them but I'll build them slowly when possible looking long term...