I quitted the game in January 2016, and a couple of days ago I started again, to see how much it had changed.
There are some positive things. For example, the ships tutorial gave me Grand Moff Tarking, Admiral Ackbar, Mace Windows and a TIE pilot (not the same one I already had, so it must be new), and enough ships to at least start playing. I was also able to unlock Leia (one of my most desired toons back then) with some of the pvp coins I saved before leaving. I haven't tried guilds, because I don't want to join one if I'm not sure that I'm going to stay, but I'd like to test them.
Galactic Wars seem to be the same as always. My level 71 toons get paired with level 82+ teams who one-shot my best team before I even have the chance to restart. But that's normal, people have more than one year of advantage over me, I consider a good achievement reaching the last node. This would be the "not better, but not too worse either" part.
Now the worst part, the one that made me leave, seems intact, or even worse. And I'm talking about the endless farming. I still need 350 purple hyporyringes only for my 7 main toons, not counting all the ones I have at gear level VII! And 100 stuncuffs, more than 100 flamedroids (I didn't count those), more than 200 of something else, etc. How on Earth am I going to get all those gears?? Using all my daily energy, I get a maximum of 2 of only one of those gears, and I need hundreds of each!
Then, shards. I saw in the shop a toon that has an ability to instantly kill an enemy. Cool! Let's look what the shop says... "11xx crystals, 5 guaranteed shards with a possibility of up to 30". What? 11k crystals to unlock him? Then thousands and thousands more to star it up? No, thanks. I'll continue my road to give Dooku his last star, instead. But wait! I can't battle in the Cantina because now I need modifiers! After a year, people must have lots of max-level max-star modifiers, what do I do? Finish Dooku (I calculate a month or two to get all the shards, at the same time working for Qui-Gon-Jinn's last star, too), or try to get some gears? Why can't I do both things?
If someone can give me some advice, especially on the last two things (gears and what to do with cantina energy), I'd be very thankful. And if someone wants to lend me a temporary space on their guild, just to test how it works, then that would be very generous.
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Many in here will probably tell you to start over, but if you're a casual player, maybe you don't care about arena as much.
Gear will always be a grind, but that is greatly alleviated by guilds. There are many low-level casual guilds that aren't strict with rules if you think you might not be daily active right away.
I recently came back around this past Christmas, and had a TON of catching up to do. My Nov 2015 shard runs zeta teams with around 45-50K power in the top 500. It's insane trying to catch up. But I am slowly making progress. I got frustrated last month and started spending cash. That was a mistake.
This month, I'm taking a different approach. I am only focused on what I can get done today, and then logging off. I actually have crystals starting to accumulate, and plenty of energy when I need it. I am still in a major credit slump because of how insanely expensive it is to level even one toon. But that's ok. I zero in on one toon at a time and farm and level it. Oh, and if you're not in a guild, get in one stat! Raids will help you immensely in farming the gear you need.
People like us cannot waste time thinking ahead about how far we have to go, unless we're willing to drop the house payments on this silly game.
@McBee hey I'm exactly like you in terms of playing and stopping and then coming back into the game. We might be in the same shard too. And yes the struggle is real. I'm lucky to be top 1000 during payout. No chance breaking in to top 500 with those level 85 power rating 40/45k maxed out teams
And if you're rocking the top 100 in a Nov 2015 shard, you know that you are one of the most elite players in the entire SWGOH universe. That's a pretty sweet distinction.
I can't imagine starting over. Even more so that I can get palp at 7* in the next few days and if I were to start over, poof all hope is gone.
Yes it is my friend, yes it is.
The only adv of starting over is Arena.. if your happy never being able to seriously compete and willing to earn less crystals daily then no need to reroll
Yeah I've sort of come to peace with that. It's something I have to live with for bailing on the game some time ago. Things are definitely not pleasant right now but with some grind and patience, I hope I'll be able to break TOP 100 on my shard someday. That's the goal.
Games evolve and its so hard to keep up coming back to them
Note apologies for those with no mmorpg background and wondering what the hell im walking about
Remember it's a marathon, not a race, so be patient and have fun.
Actually, it's a never ending marathon with occasions of mad sprints, infused with frustration and glorious gratification no matter where you leave off.
Good luck and welcome back.
Good luck.
I still log in on Runescape for a time or two. It's is crazy seeing the loyalist reaching skill mastery and still playing.
My only regret is joining literally a week too late to get Nihilus he is the only reason I cant crack 200.
he's not that great.
Under level 50, with starter champs and even a halfway decent selection of dark siders, against a sidious maul savage dooku nihilus team, I promise you, hes more than great.
You're right, he's really great! Mines 3* and gear X (one piece away from XI though!)
http://m.imgur.com/cidRFiV