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BTHR7's avatar
7 years ago

Cantina characters are premium characters?

What do Hera, Ezra, Chopper, Old Ben, CHS, Hoth rebel scout, FO Officer, Kylo Ren, Deathtrooper, Veteran Smuggler Chewy and Han have in common?

They are all cantina node or cantina store characters and they ALL are required for legendary characters or territory battles.
We are forced to farm them and if we don't we will have to suffer the consequences...

But that's not the real issue, farming a bunch of characters that I don't want to play wouldn't be a huge problem for me, except it is because cantina energy is incredibly hard to get and the devs know it.

The costs of some of these nodes is in my opinion excessive, especially anything past tier 6. This is the perfect ground for panic farming as people will buy thousands of crystals for refreshes but what about F2P?

Has anyone though how long it takes a F2P player to farm a single cantina character? It takes at least 2 months for the cheap ones between cantina 1-3 for the ones placed between 6-9 we are talking about twice that. So you are looking at approximately a year for 3 of them!

This is kind of unreasonable as not only is it hard to get these characters but we are also forced to postpone the cantina characters that we want to have, indefinitely.

Also it prevents us from farming mods which then makes all of our characters useless. So all the grind for gear never pays off since we don't have the required speeds and other stats that we need to utilize our teams.

I don't understand how we are expected to survive in this environment where we are doomed to never have any decent mods because we constantly have to farm a character that is needed for the next legendary character or the one we failed to get the last time.

We are trapped in this indefinite farming of characters and if we decide to spend any energy outside of these chracter nodes we are gonna miss the deadlines for legendary characters who give great potential.

It feels like cantina characters are by no means free to farm and that makes mods also not free to farm. Considering how little cantina energy we get daily and how low the drop rates are we would need decades to farm every single cantina character unless we buy refreshes...

What do you all think?
  • They told us so we would spend money to panic farm. You can't get anyone to panic farm in a day.
  • "TVF;c-1361366" wrote:
    They told us so we would spend money to panic farm. You can't get anyone to panic farm in a day.


    Right, but why not actually tell us those are the characters then? If they would have said that a lot of people would have spent crystals buying them before they were even F2P. Or even more people would be panic farming them now.

    Letting us speculate who the characters are is a bad way to maximize the amount of people panic farming. It just doesn’t make sense to do it that way. It’s why I think this is all misdirection in some
    form.
  • Back to the general point of OP. Having to farm, no matter how you do it, toons you dont want sucks. It distracts from our purpose. Playing a game and having fun. As for mods. They went from 1:4-5 drop rate to 1:1 but the quality went way down just to cause spending because it hinders progress. I probably actually use 1or 2 in every 20 I buy. If I'm lucky.
    The rub is that the developer can't let you have any sense of completion. This is not in their business model. This is also why older toons became less useful as gr 12 came in. Better we grind a whole new toon then fix one up.
    I don't like it but everybody that wants to play just has to accept it. The game just isn't free.
  • I think this is just another post by someone who thinks they are entitled to everything right now for free.

    If you are FTP you need to make hard choices and limit your expectations.