"Vertigo;946001" wrote:
100% f2p: https://swgoh.gg/u/vertigo/
I think your main problem here might be the guild you're in. Does your guild run heroic rancor raids or just tier V/VI? If you're doing well in raids but only getting 10 salvage pieces thats a gonna be a really slow farm, even the lower ranks of a heroic rancor give like 20 salvage pieces. Getting in a good guild running more raids and better raids will drastically improve how much gear you're getting that you need. The slowest farms will be the ones that take a lot (50 pieces) from the LS/DS battles like stun cuffs and stun guns. Those are the hardest pieces to obtain for a lot of people, but you're right there is a huge step up from gear 8 to gear 9 and above.
A lot of the gear as you get to gear 10 though comes from different places, like some will come from the AAT raid and some from the Rancor raid and some from LS/DS battles which is a little easier to farm as you can do both simultaneously rather than just farming 1 raid for all the gear you now have a split amount of gear some of which needs gear from one raid and some gear needs stuff from the other. Most of your energy as you grind will go into farming the gear that needs 50 pieces from LS/DS battles though. You CAN get some of this stuff in the rewards from the Pit raid, but it's not always what you're looking for.
In short: It takes a while, this is where the real grind starts for gear, but it won't take quite 2 years, and if you can get into a more active guild and run higher tier raids you'll be far better off in getting your characters to gear 11.
Thanks for the helpful response! Any suggestions on how to get into a more productive guild? My guild seems decent, we have about 30 active players with a handful at lvl 85. We've never done any heroic raids and usually alternate between tier 3 and tier 5 rancor raids while the AAT raid takes about two weeks.
