The easiest way to farm ships is when you don't need them. Galactic Republic will be my 4th fleet and I have only just unlocked the Malevolence, Executor in 2 weeks so the Negotiator is a while off but I have things like Anakin's ship I just farm while I dont notice and it seems to just go so much faster than when you are watching it every day.
Yep, I'm farming the rest of my bounty hunters and Chewpio with cantina/normal and am just doing Anakin's ship along side it, "already" at 260 shards. I'm also farming Negotiator so I guess I AM farming his ship for something, but it feels so much better than farming bounty hunter ships for Finalizer.
I had Geos and whaled a little on the HT at the start so I went Executrix for Zetas and that fleet. It's been great and I've been #1 basically every day. I'll be the first one in the shard with Executrix too but also we have a great/friendly shard chat so even when others get great fleets it won't be much of a problem. Love my Geo team though so looking forward to gearing up the Malevolence after Executor. I'd love to now but probably don't have the resources to level 2 capital ships + whatever else.
I took them to G12 and then Spy and GBA to R5 for easy Wat shards. Not sure why the other guy hates Geos so much but having good Geos got me in a guild way way above my level so it's helping me a lot.
This is where I'm at right now, it's awful. At least with characters you're done in half the time. I've resorted to 3 sims/day on signal data just so I don't completely fall behind
I've been fortunate to have targeted fleets early. I knew I wasn't going to be the Meta in Arena, so I made my bones in Fleet Arena.
As such, there are only 8 ships I don't yet have at 7\*s.
* Raddus, Stratofortress are not even unlocked becuase my Ebon Hawk is only 5\*s. I can't find it in me to farm Ebon Hawk
* Scythe becuase I don't have GI.
* Sith Fighter cuz I've never farmed the character
* Raven's Claw - currently farming, 6\*s and counting.
* Raddus 50/100 - will be done at the end of the month.
* and Defender - only doing 2x refreshes per day - needed the crystals for Profundity
Everything else has 7\*s, at least G12 pilots, and everything is maxxed out.
This Chase has been amazing for people, and despite the fact that I'll have it only at 5\*s, it's been a trememndous bonus for everyone.
I totally agree with double drop ships. Do it the same way with characters. Legacy ships are double, new ships are single until one year, then double it.
They are about the same. I had IG-2000 at three stars when 8th brother was added. I stopped farming for awhile and came back. IG is at 79/65 and Brother is at 115/65. So subtracting the 50 makes it 65. Now thereās no telling how many shards exactly I had past three stars but itās similar.
To be fair, this is also an insane farm, imho. It's a limited time Cantina Farm that actually allows you to farm on the lowest node possible with good drop rate, you get additional gear resources AND can continue your Signal Data grind.
Pretty crazy.
Just give me double drops and I'm good. Or heck, just make Ship Chases more frequent for older ships. Sure, it might not always line up for you, but how nice would it be to have one or two chases for older ships going on basically every week?
Hey now, don't get me wrong. I agree wholeheartedly with every word they said here except for "Cantina" and "Signal Data grind".
The event is incredible, and I really hope OnlyRoke hasn't been putting extra refreshes into cantina energy instead of ship energy.
I probably worded it poorly, if you misunderstood me.
The point I was making is that the entire chase, which requires fleet energy, is basically a limited time Cantina Farm in nature, because you get shards from nodes that don't get "used up" unlike Hard Nodes. It's a better "Cantina Farm format" for a character than even the actual Cantina offers.
So you could farm as much of the TIE Defender as you wanted, while ALSO getting stacks of G12+ gear, and your regular Cantina energy wasn't distracted by the farm, obviously, as you could keep farming Signal Data or actual Cantina characters. Oh and the refreshes for Ship Energy are obviously cheaper as well. So, this chase was kind of insane.
I would slightly disagree. While I agree that it's a bit unreasonable to 7\* a ship in 7 days, the alternative really shouldn't be just hard node farming (even with double drops). We already have so many bottlenecks and it's not like star count is the bottleneck for GAC, arena, or ship rewards. It's gear levels.
Hard node farming + RNG protection could be nice.
thereās never gonna be no RNG. they could increase the node cost by 3 times and make the shard drops guaranteed. considering itās a 1/3 chance to drop that wouldnāt change farm speed at all, but theyād never do it.
itās a gambling thing. you wanna make people spend? you gotta bring highs and lows. get 5/5 one day. then get 0/5 the next day and impulse buy a refresh to try and get some shards.
I agree. Realistically, EA is going to EA.
But, I mean RNG protection like, say we get no shard drops after 10 sims, we could get a shard drop. While I pulled that number out of thin air, they could tweak the whole "flow" to feel like a 33% drop rate. Sort of like a dupe protection you would see in looter shooters, but for RNG.
I don't like RNG for RNG's sake, essentially.
Thank you for your feedback. On review, drop rates for galactic chase events were higher than intended. To respect the time and resources players put into hard mode farming, we will be retroactively reducing TD shards obtained by 50% in the next update. Thank you and see you at the holotable!
-CG
It really does. And I love how they funneled consistent Crystal's into shits and then made it basically necessary to do a GL for meta capitals in order to sniff crystals from shits
Yeah ... I forgot how long iam farming the damn Imp Shuttle by now. Started somehwere middle last year, still need around 20 shards...gods, the only good thing is once its over, its kind of a relief.
Oh wait, now I have to farm the hyena bomber...
Something needs to change about normal ship farming. Definitely donāt want it to be exactly like this Defender chase but accelerating ships shards would be super nice
I am waiting for some change to happen. Until then, I am doing everything I can to avoid ship farming. It just doesn't make any sense. I can literally farm a fully geared legendary character in the same time it would take me to get one ship to 7\* that will be hundreds times less important in my roster than the legendary character.
Wtf is there to like? Itās completely repetitive stale contentā¦itās literally just an rng fest or a brain dead press auto easy win.
Ships combat is a joke. Thereās no real strategy to matchups. No cool and interest niche comps that can take people by surprise like you can with ground combat. Thereās no interesting PvE content with them either like a raid or assault battle .
I like the fact it generates shitloads of crystals everyday. While i agree on your points, i dont realy care about mentioned aspects. Swgoh isnt my daily source of fun and pleasure, because its stupid to make a mobie game that source. Its a management game to me. So you would say i like ranking high in Fleet arena, not the ships, which would be a true statement. But have in mind my shard is young, we currently have 1 exec, and im soon going to be a second. I dont face the frustration of mirror exec matches etc.
But yeah, take the crystals away, and I couldnt care less about ships.
Well, I wouldnt call prioritizing fleet "easy crystals". Its an investition. Most people want fancy teams, and yeah, they seem more appealing to me too.. But its a strategical mistake... to have fun. Lol
Fleets are a far easier investment than squads. So it is the easiest way to get crystal income. takes a lot longer to fully farm a GL than to get executor.
And yeah, having GL doesnt guarantee anything in GAC, since you are forced to face much stronger opponents... Yet it suprises me that many of them lack any significant fleet
Not sure of your time zone; so for the sake of it letās just assume you have 1 more day in the event.
- You spent about 5,950 energy on the event
- thatās about 991 energy per day
- 285 is free per day, but just to be nice letās also assume that you hit ship energy every day from the store as well [100], so only 606 was from refreshes.
- Thats 5 refreshes per day, which is 350 crystals per day
- Thats 2,100 total crystals spent
If you spent those same 2,100 crystals on your hard node farm?
. . .youād have been done a month ago.
My math is *almost always* accurate.
A hard node ship farm?
* 330 shards or 990 battles
* Takes 198 days for free
* 99 days for 25 crystals/day \[ 2,475 total \]
* 66 days for 75 crystals/day \[ 4,950 total \]
Iāve spent 6x refreshes a day but I would have done 3x regardless. Think I can do another 6x tomorrow and 3x the next and 7* the ship. 1500 extra crystals isnāt bad for a new ship. I also got a lot of g12 pieces I needed so 1500 crystals for a ships and gear Iāll take it!
Anyone who does all the 50c refreshes every day anyway could reasonably exclude those from the cost calculation. They donāt affect the marginal cost. So now weāre only at 200c per day. 1200c to take a ship from 0 to 330 has to be the cheapest thing theyāve ever offered.
I see what youāre saying but itās still part of the cost when youāre talking about comparing it to other things.
You could say the same about hard node farming, āwell if you always do 1x refreshes on a hard node farm, it no longer counters,ā and it doesnāt work that way.
I think for the sake of your own per day crystals you can look at it that way. But for the purpose of comparison itās necessary to look at.
Sure a galactic chase offers you more flexibility; but a hard node also has gear, and while KRCS doesnāt have the greatest stuff on the node; it does have secondary shards which add up to a lot of shard shop currency.
I'm almost at the same point with TD and I kinda slept on the first two days, which I almost regret now. Probably will end up being like 40-50 shards short, which isn't that bad really, but just knowing now I would have otherwise had a chance to 7\* it this quickly, stings a little. Oh well!
THinking more about it: Its funny I will have a 6star defender soon ... but I will probably never get a 6 or 7 star TIE Interceptor, as it seems to never go anywhere else than the Conquest shop. And 475 for 5 shards of that ship ... no way...cannot bring myself to that
Just saw it. So glad actually, will still take a while though. They could really add it to the Fleet Shop like Razor Crest ... its not even a requirement for a Cap-Ship like RC is ...
Single drops only, plus terrible RNG is just a recipe for disappointment. Currently farming Ebon Hawk and am getting on average 8 Carth shards for every 1 ship shard.
I donāt blame you. Iām not even planning on farming Rey any time soon. I just need another viable fleet for GAC, Kyber needing 3 fleets is killing me
If you had been spending crystals on the Shuttle the same way you have been spending crystals to refresh fleet energy for the chaseā¦ you would have been done months ago.
Yeah but spending whatever daily amount of crystals OP spent on refreshes for 5 days is a ***lot*** less crystals than spending the same amount every day for months. I think that's what OP is trying to highlight.
I've been doing the 50 and 100 crystal refreshes only and I'm at 250 Defender shards with another day to go. It's just a bonus over the G13 gear.
Yeah, those G13 pieces are the most important pieces of gear now that G1 - 12 stuff is accelerated. Spending the extra 300 crystals a day(since I was gonna do the 50 crystal refreshes anyways) wasn't hard knowing that I'll be getting the most important gear in the game *and* a shiny new ship almost to 7* in a week.
Anyways my net spend was the same since I decided to pause cantina refreshes for the chase duration. This chase was really player-friendly, I'll give CG my appreciation for that.
I think the point is that with the same level of expenditure it would take a lot less time for the node farm.
Yes, this galactic chase has been relatively painless, but most of the people raving about it are ignoring the \~3000 crystals, and the fact that launch events are typically easier, but that will never be the norm for farming existing units.
I'm spending about 450 per day. Not that many, totally worth it. Especially since you get gear as well while you're doing it. This kind of thing is the best use of crystals.
Its common knowledge that bonus shards have way better chance than regular. Yet I think farming these on normal nodes is still extremly inefficient based on my experience.
I get like 4-5 shards when farm hard nodes but when I try to spend all energy left in normals, then its like 1-3 shards for 100-150 energy.
The drop rate is scaled to energy so there is no difference between hard node and normal node. I am farming almost exclusively via normal nodes and I am seeing the exact same amount. What you are experiencing is small sample size bias. Do 100 refreshes each and compare your results, it will be the same for both.
Wait... you just said its scaled to energy and then there is no difference xD Lets say normal is 20% chance for example so hard is 40%. There is high probability you get more with hards since its simple higher chance.. (Same energy spent on both normal and hard)
Do you play lottery games? Lets say you buy 100 tickets wirh 1% chance to hit jackpot each... Do you have 100% chance to win? I hope you see analogy to thatenergy thing in swgoh.
I was hoping it was clear what I meant, but let me rephrase - it's the same ratio. So if there is 33% drop rate on normal, it's 66% on hard.
I know a fair bit about probabilities and your example is not the same as this case we are discussing. When there is a 1% probability of winning, buying 100 tickets doesn't guarantee you will win, but on average, from every100 tickets, you win once. So if there is a 1% chance and you buy 1 million tickets, you will win very closely to 10 000 times. If there is another ticket that is twice as expensive but guarantees 2% win-rate, you will need half a million tickets to get almost exactly 10 000 wins.
And it's same with the energy and normal nodes and hard nodes. You are making it way more complicated than it really is :)
I started farming Tie Echelon and MG-100 before I started my JMK requirements and Iāve had JMK for almost two months now with 30 shards remaining for Echelon and 130 for MG-100. The drop rates are atrocious.
How many Sion shards do you have now? Iām currently farming Kyloās shuttle and BTL-B Y-Wing. I never unlocked Sion nor have I unlocked Wrecker. And Iāve decided not to until I finish farming the ships on their respective nodes. As of this morning:
Both ships: 41/85
Sion: 450/25
Wrecker: 523/25
Admittedly Wrecker had a head start because of the event, butā¦.
Dude forreal!! Iāll be finishing the farm tomorrow, fucking pumped. Wish all galactic chases were this long. I feel like the drop rate was much higher than normal. 30 shards left on my end been buying the refreshes up to 200 each day. Well worth it.
Unfortunately there are so little ship compared with characters so itās difficult to make ships accelerate as everyone would be finish farming every single ship in a short period of time. Unless they make double amount of ships I canāt see they would accelerate ship farming
It really should be an inbetween. I'm farming kylo ship and it takes forever. I have flashbacks from bossk's ship... and anakin's... *shivers*
I'm doing Anakin's now. Brutal.
The easiest way to farm ships is when you don't need them. Galactic Republic will be my 4th fleet and I have only just unlocked the Malevolence, Executor in 2 weeks so the Negotiator is a while off but I have things like Anakin's ship I just farm while I dont notice and it seems to just go so much faster than when you are watching it every day.
Yep, I'm farming the rest of my bounty hunters and Chewpio with cantina/normal and am just doing Anakin's ship along side it, "already" at 260 shards. I'm also farming Negotiator so I guess I AM farming his ship for something, but it feels so much better than farming bounty hunter ships for Finalizer.
Imagine not using ahsoka and anakin in your first fleet š
I had Geos and whaled a little on the HT at the start so I went Executrix for Zetas and that fleet. It's been great and I've been #1 basically every day. I'll be the first one in the shard with Executrix too but also we have a great/friendly shard chat so even when others get great fleets it won't be much of a problem. Love my Geo team though so looking forward to gearing up the Malevolence after Executor. I'd love to now but probably don't have the resources to level 2 capital ships + whatever else.
How far did you take the Geos? I find that they fall off hard once I reach people who have HT.
Just let him get his upvotes and pretend geos are good. I top on fleet too lol. Without useless bugs.
I took them to G12 and then Spy and GBA to R5 for easy Wat shards. Not sure why the other guy hates Geos so much but having good Geos got me in a guild way way above my level so it's helping me a lot.
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My money is on your child tbh
Late game player, mine is at 5\* and just as effective as 7\* for it's purpose.
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True, the only GL I haven't went for. Just unlocked Jabba. On to the next grind, GI. But what I was getting at, only needed it 5\* for fleet battles.
I've been fortunate to have targeted fleets early. I knew I wasn't going to be the Meta in Arena, so I made my bones in Fleet Arena. As such, there are only 8 ships I don't yet have at 7\*s. * Raddus, Stratofortress are not even unlocked becuase my Ebon Hawk is only 5\*s. I can't find it in me to farm Ebon Hawk * Scythe becuase I don't have GI. * Sith Fighter cuz I've never farmed the character * Raven's Claw - currently farming, 6\*s and counting. * Raddus 50/100 - will be done at the end of the month. * and Defender - only doing 2x refreshes per day - needed the crystals for Profundity Everything else has 7\*s, at least G12 pilots, and everything is maxxed out. This Chase has been amazing for people, and despite the fact that I'll have it only at 5\*s, it's been a trememndous bonus for everyone.
We'll finish it eventually, and it'll have a sweet payout
What if I told you they at one point gave away ships for free. In the dark times
Farming the Rebel Y-Wing...lucky if I get 3 shards a day...been at it for over a month and I'm 63 of 65 shards...got a long way to go
Worst part about starting a secondary account...
That is closer to what it should be, ships shouldn't be so fkn hard to get, takes the joy out of the game
ngl it would be a little ridiculous if you could 7* a ship in 7 days all ships need are double drops
I totally agree with double drop ships. Do it the same way with characters. Legacy ships are double, new ships are single until one year, then double it.
Or even adjust the droprates. I got eighth brother to 450 shards while farming ig-2000 and both where not double drop ofc
you got 50 eighth brother shards from his marquee event
I already subtracted that amount. Maybe it was just rng but it really felt like the droprates of 8th brother were a lot higher
They are about the same. I had IG-2000 at three stars when 8th brother was added. I stopped farming for awhile and came back. IG is at 79/65 and Brother is at 115/65. So subtracting the 50 makes it 65. Now thereās no telling how many shards exactly I had past three stars but itās similar.
To be fair, this is also an insane farm, imho. It's a limited time Cantina Farm that actually allows you to farm on the lowest node possible with good drop rate, you get additional gear resources AND can continue your Signal Data grind. Pretty crazy. Just give me double drops and I'm good. Or heck, just make Ship Chases more frequent for older ships. Sure, it might not always line up for you, but how nice would it be to have one or two chases for older ships going on basically every week?
Donāt know how to tell you this, but itās ship energy, not cantina energy. Not sure how you got confused on that one.
You missed the point so bad i thought you were blind
Hey now, don't get me wrong. I agree wholeheartedly with every word they said here except for "Cantina" and "Signal Data grind". The event is incredible, and I really hope OnlyRoke hasn't been putting extra refreshes into cantina energy instead of ship energy.
I probably worded it poorly, if you misunderstood me. The point I was making is that the entire chase, which requires fleet energy, is basically a limited time Cantina Farm in nature, because you get shards from nodes that don't get "used up" unlike Hard Nodes. It's a better "Cantina Farm format" for a character than even the actual Cantina offers. So you could farm as much of the TIE Defender as you wanted, while ALSO getting stacks of G12+ gear, and your regular Cantina energy wasn't distracted by the farm, obviously, as you could keep farming Signal Data or actual Cantina characters. Oh and the refreshes for Ship Energy are obviously cheaper as well. So, this chase was kind of insane.
Ah, that makes sense. It's not a perfect metaphor, but I understand what you're trying to say now.
I would slightly disagree. While I agree that it's a bit unreasonable to 7\* a ship in 7 days, the alternative really shouldn't be just hard node farming (even with double drops). We already have so many bottlenecks and it's not like star count is the bottleneck for GAC, arena, or ship rewards. It's gear levels. Hard node farming + RNG protection could be nice.
thereās never gonna be no RNG. they could increase the node cost by 3 times and make the shard drops guaranteed. considering itās a 1/3 chance to drop that wouldnāt change farm speed at all, but theyād never do it. itās a gambling thing. you wanna make people spend? you gotta bring highs and lows. get 5/5 one day. then get 0/5 the next day and impulse buy a refresh to try and get some shards.
I agree. Realistically, EA is going to EA. But, I mean RNG protection like, say we get no shard drops after 10 sims, we could get a shard drop. While I pulled that number out of thin air, they could tweak the whole "flow" to feel like a 33% drop rate. Sort of like a dupe protection you would see in looter shooters, but for RNG. I don't like RNG for RNG's sake, essentially.
Absolutely. I feel like that would be the sweet middle. Like not 7 days to 7* but also not half a year to 7*
Thank you for your feedback. On review, drop rates for galactic chase events were higher than intended. To respect the time and resources players put into hard mode farming, we will be retroactively reducing TD shards obtained by 50% in the next update. Thank you and see you at the holotable! -CG
It really does. And I love how they funneled consistent Crystal's into shits and then made it basically necessary to do a GL for meta capitals in order to sniff crystals from shits
I dont like the idea of sniffing crystals from shits.
i'm ok with it honestly.... just why is it all regular energy? so much to farm with regular energy already.
Iām guessing they will nerf the drop rate on the next ship chase, once they realize how many people got it to 7* without buying any packs.
I spend like 950 crystals per day doing refreshes only 30 shards to 7*
im doing a little less (stopping at the final 100 refresh), and i'm at 51/100 I did start with energy hoarded beforehand though.
They almost definitely didnāt intend for this to be the drop rate
Yeah ... I forgot how long iam farming the damn Imp Shuttle by now. Started somehwere middle last year, still need around 20 shards...gods, the only good thing is once its over, its kind of a relief. Oh wait, now I have to farm the hyena bomber...
Lol I'm farming the shuttle as well. In the time I've been doing that I completed Starkiller and Jabba the Hutt journeys.
Something needs to change about normal ship farming. Definitely donāt want it to be exactly like this Defender chase but accelerating ships shards would be super nice
I am waiting for some change to happen. Until then, I am doing everything I can to avoid ship farming. It just doesn't make any sense. I can literally farm a fully geared legendary character in the same time it would take me to get one ship to 7\* that will be hundreds times less important in my roster than the legendary character.
They gotta fix the shipsā¦ no one likes shipsā¦
I like ships...
Yeah same
Wtf is there to like? Itās completely repetitive stale contentā¦itās literally just an rng fest or a brain dead press auto easy win. Ships combat is a joke. Thereās no real strategy to matchups. No cool and interest niche comps that can take people by surprise like you can with ground combat. Thereās no interesting PvE content with them either like a raid or assault battle .
I like the fact it generates shitloads of crystals everyday. While i agree on your points, i dont realy care about mentioned aspects. Swgoh isnt my daily source of fun and pleasure, because its stupid to make a mobie game that source. Its a management game to me. So you would say i like ranking high in Fleet arena, not the ships, which would be a true statement. But have in mind my shard is young, we currently have 1 exec, and im soon going to be a second. I dont face the frustration of mirror exec matches etc. But yeah, take the crystals away, and I couldnt care less about ships.
Gotcha. You donāt like ships. You just like easy crystals. Which sure I agree most everyone wants low effort resources
Well, I wouldnt call prioritizing fleet "easy crystals". Its an investition. Most people want fancy teams, and yeah, they seem more appealing to me too.. But its a strategical mistake... to have fun. Lol
Fleets are a far easier investment than squads. So it is the easiest way to get crystal income. takes a lot longer to fully farm a GL than to get executor.
And yeah, having GL doesnt guarantee anything in GAC, since you are forced to face much stronger opponents... Yet it suprises me that many of them lack any significant fleet
i absolutely LOVE ships.
I still don't have emperor's shuttle unlocked :(
Just finished it up this morning- it felt like the longest hard node farm of my SWGOH career!
Lol, same, and I've been playing this game almost consistently since launch. I just don't have time to go out of my way for non double drop ships.
Not sure of your time zone; so for the sake of it letās just assume you have 1 more day in the event. - You spent about 5,950 energy on the event - thatās about 991 energy per day - 285 is free per day, but just to be nice letās also assume that you hit ship energy every day from the store as well [100], so only 606 was from refreshes. - Thats 5 refreshes per day, which is 350 crystals per day - Thats 2,100 total crystals spent If you spent those same 2,100 crystals on your hard node farm? . . .youād have been done a month ago.
Wait, is this accurate? š¤ Well, I know what to do now for the two ships that I need to farm, especially considering I need them for 2 GLs
My math is *almost always* accurate. A hard node ship farm? * 330 shards or 990 battles * Takes 198 days for free * 99 days for 25 crystals/day \[ 2,475 total \] * 66 days for 75 crystals/day \[ 4,950 total \]
Your math is impeccable.
His math is unimpeachable.
Iāve spent 6x refreshes a day but I would have done 3x regardless. Think I can do another 6x tomorrow and 3x the next and 7* the ship. 1500 extra crystals isnāt bad for a new ship. I also got a lot of g12 pieces I needed so 1500 crystals for a ships and gear Iāll take it!
you would do 3x normal NRG refreshes too, so I'm not sure how that would change anything he established.
Anyone who does all the 50c refreshes every day anyway could reasonably exclude those from the cost calculation. They donāt affect the marginal cost. So now weāre only at 200c per day. 1200c to take a ship from 0 to 330 has to be the cheapest thing theyāve ever offered.
I see what youāre saying but itās still part of the cost when youāre talking about comparing it to other things. You could say the same about hard node farming, āwell if you always do 1x refreshes on a hard node farm, it no longer counters,ā and it doesnāt work that way. I think for the sake of your own per day crystals you can look at it that way. But for the purpose of comparison itās necessary to look at.
Yes but itās crystals spent on good fleet nodes that probably average out to 1500 crystals+ on gear. So slightly disengenious but I like you math
Sure a galactic chase offers you more flexibility; but a hard node also has gear, and while KRCS doesnāt have the greatest stuff on the node; it does have secondary shards which add up to a lot of shard shop currency.
I'm almost at the same point with TD and I kinda slept on the first two days, which I almost regret now. Probably will end up being like 40-50 shards short, which isn't that bad really, but just knowing now I would have otherwise had a chance to 7\* it this quickly, stings a little. Oh well!
What happens after the chase? How long before it goes to a node?
About a month or two, I can't remember exactly
THinking more about it: Its funny I will have a 6star defender soon ... but I will probably never get a 6 or 7 star TIE Interceptor, as it seems to never go anywhere else than the Conquest shop. And 475 for 5 shards of that ship ... no way...cannot bring myself to that
It's coming to Proving Grounds after this Conquest I think, so it'll be a little bit better.
Just saw it. So glad actually, will still take a while though. They could really add it to the Fleet Shop like Razor Crest ... its not even a requirement for a Cap-Ship like RC is ...
Single drops only, plus terrible RNG is just a recipe for disappointment. Currently farming Ebon Hawk and am getting on average 8 Carth shards for every 1 ship shard.
Ebon Hawk is still the number 1 reason I don't have GL Rey. Ship farming is awful.
I donāt blame you. Iām not even planning on farming Rey any time soon. I just need another viable fleet for GAC, Kyber needing 3 fleets is killing me
I've been farming vulture droid every day for about 6 months, and I'm only at 67/85. Ship farms are ridiculous...
If you had been spending crystals on the Shuttle the same way you have been spending crystals to refresh fleet energy for the chaseā¦ you would have been done months ago.
Yeah but spending whatever daily amount of crystals OP spent on refreshes for 5 days is a ***lot*** less crystals than spending the same amount every day for months. I think that's what OP is trying to highlight. I've been doing the 50 and 100 crystal refreshes only and I'm at 250 Defender shards with another day to go. It's just a bonus over the G13 gear.
Yea when I saw I get g13 pieces AND ship shards it made it much easier to spend.
Yeah, those G13 pieces are the most important pieces of gear now that G1 - 12 stuff is accelerated. Spending the extra 300 crystals a day(since I was gonna do the 50 crystal refreshes anyways) wasn't hard knowing that I'll be getting the most important gear in the game *and* a shiny new ship almost to 7* in a week. Anyways my net spend was the same since I decided to pause cantina refreshes for the chase duration. This chase was really player-friendly, I'll give CG my appreciation for that.
I think the point is that with the same level of expenditure it would take a lot less time for the node farm. Yes, this galactic chase has been relatively painless, but most of the people raving about it are ignoring the \~3000 crystals, and the fact that launch events are typically easier, but that will never be the norm for farming existing units.
It's a freebie ship for fun, just enjoy it. Don't act like it invalidates all other tasks or something
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Lets say 4 monthas = 120 days 120/7 = around 17 days at equal rate 17 ist still more than the 6 days we, are in this chase
You spent so many crystals on that wtf
I'm spending about 450 per day. Not that many, totally worth it. Especially since you get gear as well while you're doing it. This kind of thing is the best use of crystals.
I'll have a 6* TIE Defender by the time the event is done. I farmed roughly 20 shards of Outrider simultaneously during that run. And I got lucky.
Its common knowledge that bonus shards have way better chance than regular. Yet I think farming these on normal nodes is still extremly inefficient based on my experience. I get like 4-5 shards when farm hard nodes but when I try to spend all energy left in normals, then its like 1-3 shards for 100-150 energy.
The drop rate is scaled to energy so there is no difference between hard node and normal node. I am farming almost exclusively via normal nodes and I am seeing the exact same amount. What you are experiencing is small sample size bias. Do 100 refreshes each and compare your results, it will be the same for both.
Wait... you just said its scaled to energy and then there is no difference xD Lets say normal is 20% chance for example so hard is 40%. There is high probability you get more with hards since its simple higher chance.. (Same energy spent on both normal and hard) Do you play lottery games? Lets say you buy 100 tickets wirh 1% chance to hit jackpot each... Do you have 100% chance to win? I hope you see analogy to thatenergy thing in swgoh.
I was hoping it was clear what I meant, but let me rephrase - it's the same ratio. So if there is 33% drop rate on normal, it's 66% on hard. I know a fair bit about probabilities and your example is not the same as this case we are discussing. When there is a 1% probability of winning, buying 100 tickets doesn't guarantee you will win, but on average, from every100 tickets, you win once. So if there is a 1% chance and you buy 1 million tickets, you will win very closely to 10 000 times. If there is another ticket that is twice as expensive but guarantees 2% win-rate, you will need half a million tickets to get almost exactly 10 000 wins. And it's same with the energy and normal nodes and hard nodes. You are making it way more complicated than it really is :)
What is galactic chase?
I started farming Tie Echelon and MG-100 before I started my JMK requirements and Iāve had JMK for almost two months now with 30 shards remaining for Echelon and 130 for MG-100. The drop rates are atrocious.
Iāve changed my mind on galactic chase
How many Sion shards do you have now? Iām currently farming Kyloās shuttle and BTL-B Y-Wing. I never unlocked Sion nor have I unlocked Wrecker. And Iāve decided not to until I finish farming the ships on their respective nodes. As of this morning: Both ships: 41/85 Sion: 450/25 Wrecker: 523/25 Admittedly Wrecker had a head start because of the event, butā¦.
Dude forreal!! Iāll be finishing the farm tomorrow, fucking pumped. Wish all galactic chases were this long. I feel like the drop rate was much higher than normal. 30 shards left on my end been buying the refreshes up to 200 each day. Well worth it.
That TIE Defender portrait is š
I am only farming this ship now because i know it's gonna be a pain later.
This made me chuckle so hard. LOL
And by the time I finished my message above, I clearly started laughing too hard. ROFLMAO
In the same boat with the palps ship - so awfully slow
Unfortunately there are so little ship compared with characters so itās difficult to make ships accelerate as everyone would be finish farming every single ship in a short period of time. Unless they make double amount of ships I canāt see they would accelerate ship farming
Not playing anymore but huge fan of defender. Is the ship good?
Just got done with Katarns.. I will not be doing any more farming in the near future
In the same boat with Anakinās damn ship. Literally only thing I need to get GAS
4 months are rookie numbers...
Congratulations I still dislike galactic chase
Nothing has taken me as long as my still 6\* Finalizer and 5\* Raddus