I'm in the same boat - short 1,300. Anybody figure out why it's working for some people and not others?
I thinkMasterSeedy worked it out last time.
If you unlock the era legendary unit at 4*, you have one additional era unit to use your materials on, but there’s not enough additional mk5 Cresh available via coliseum rewards to get that unit as well as all the others past the bottleneck.
I think those that unlock the legendary at 5* have more than enough mk5 Cresh as the second tier of Cassian’s event gave a large amount of them.
I think those that didn’t unlock Cassian at all have enough Mk5 Cresh for the 7 standard era units.
Happy to concede if I’ve misremembered, but that seems consistent with observations in this thread at least.
DarjeloSalas is exactly correct. Legendary at 4 stars gives you some additional salvage but not enough to get over that one particular hurdle. Getting the legendary to 5* rewards more salvage that gets you over that hurdle.
Unfortunately for most people (including me the first time round), you take your legendary up past the point where they use this rare salvage before other toons come out, so you're not even aware that there's a bottleneck and don't get to make your own, educated choices about how to navigate it.
The good AND bad news is that the next era will use a new system, and legendary gear rewards may create totally new and different problems. So we can't plan for next era based on what we've learned in this one, but we can always hope that next era won't create this kind of stupid hurdle. That wouldn't be naive, would it?
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