Approaching galactic conquest as free to play

"Coolnessda;d-268306" wrote:
I've found that galactic conquest can be somewhat fun at times and at other times tedious. As a free to play gamer I never bother going after the conquest pass as I don't always feel obligated to play it if I don't have enough energy points or fully charged squads and haven't cleared beyond normal difficulty. What are some helpful tips on how to make good progress without the pass? I know that doing the extra requirements will offer more rewards like using specific toons/factions in so many battles but I don't have enough powerful squads capable of surviving tougher enemies in later stages when enemies get to relic levels.

A few suggestions, as I’m in the same boat as you, having never bought a pass.

1. To start off with, go through all the sectors as quick as you can. Use hard counters or GLs such that you know you won’t drop a battle (except maybe on a boss or mini-boss if the RNG is bad). That way you waste very little energy and can broaden your disk selection quickly.

2. Go after the challenge path only on the sections leading up to disk choices and not scavengers. In the sections leading up to scavengers try and pick easier modes, or ones which might let you cheese a feat later.

3. Only once you have a full disk selection should you focus on going back and topping off feats in sectors. If you do the 3x50c refreshes daily then you can get to the end of s5 by the 5th/6th day. That gives enough time to do almost any feat from scratch, except the win 40 with X if you only have one decent team for it. Additionally, if you’re not worrying about beating the hardest nodes at this point you can also afford to spend some energy on disk swapping.

4. This is more of a long term piece of advice, but get JML. His granted ability has helped in cheesing sooo many feats over the last year or so I’ve had him.

Of course these are only suggestions from my own meandering experience and other FTP players might disagree, but this was me with 9m GP with three days to go. DC farming time now.