1 shard a day
Come on now devs, the 5 a day hard node attempts is bad enough but to only be able to net 1 shard a day(sometimes none) without crystals is rediculous. If you played everyday and spent 100(20x5) energ...
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"Liath;c-1859354" wrote:
It's flawed because the drop rate is 33%, not 20%.
This. It feels like one per day because that's all you remember. You get 375 free energy per day from the timer and the three free standard refreshes (morning, payout, evening). Assuming you're farming nothing but 20 energy characters, that's 18 attempts per day. Assuming you're not refreshing attempts and you're dedicating your farms that means you're making 5 attempts on 3 different nodes and 3 attempts on a 4th node per day. Assuming you're starting from 0 shards and doing a little rounding cuz math is hard, you need 1000 attempts to get your 330 shards (we can argue drop rate but there are any number of posts you can search to see that it's really really really close to 33%).
1000 attempts / 5 attempts per day = 200 days with no crystal spend at all. But since you're farming 3.6 characters at once what you'll actually have at the end of those 200 days is...
330 shards of first hard node farm.
330 shards of second hard node farm.
330 shards of third hard node farm.
200 shards of fourth hard node farm.
So in a little under seven months, you will have 2/3 of a squad, just from hard nodes. Fortunately there isn't a single squad that is exclusively hard node farms so in reality, in that seven months you've also been able to farm toons from Fleet hard nodes (same math as above, only for a single toon), and Cantina (far more generous as there's no attempt limit) and you have yourself a team. For free. Without paying anything. And hoarding every crystal you've earned through that entire time. (Which, even if you're just finishing top 1000 in squad arena and top 50 in fleet would be 20,000 crystals!)
