Best way to obtain marquee characters

"Obi_six_Kenobi;c-2409955" wrote:
Everyone just says throw money. I get that. But that isn’t my question. What mechanism do you use? Do you buy the character shards in the store? What do you actually purchase? What packs? Or do you save it for if they release a limited time shard pickup on a pedi fix type of energy or something.

There are three stages (I guess four now) for marquee releases.

Marquee event gets you a 3* unlock. At that point you can only get shards through packs for money of 1299 crystals. PLEASE NOTE these crystal packs are a terrible deal and will give you 7 shards the majority of times. Typical cost to 7* from these packs is $300

4-6 weeks later the character will go into shipments for 80 crystals per shard. Cost to 7* here is more like $100

4-6 weeks after that the character will go onto a cantina or ls/ds node for farming.

1 year after initial release, the character will be accelerated and you will get 2 shards per successful sim.


If you are a newer player chasing Cal, you have to 7* 5 different marquees, so you are looking at 6 months at best, more likely 9-12. It is doable, but will also take your account in a direction that may not help you in other (any?) game modes.

Money can help speed it up, but a little money speeds it up a little and making it instant is a very large investment.