Character shard drop rates
Why are shard drop rates so low and energy costs so high? With 330 shards required to get to 7 stars, about 200 cantina energy or 5 hard battles a day, you can at best get about 5 shards for a charact...
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"CuddlyTyrant;c-1407139" wrote:
Ok, 33% drop rates, its still about 1000 cantina runs to unlock a character. With them costing up to 16 energy a pop, that's 58 runs a day assuming you're refreshing 5 times. So, 17 days and spending nearly 12000 crystals. Lets assume you get an extremely generous 5000 crystals free in that 17 days. You would still have to spend about $50 to actually run that many cantinas. Most people are only going to refresh once a day, i would think. So, they'd get 20 runs a day taking 50 days of perfect energy usage and refreshing once to hit 7 stars. For one complete squad that's 250 days...I don't understand why you're defending the drop rates. Could you explain why you think the rates are fine? I think this is a great game and am only trying to make it better by giving players a better sense of...dare I say it...pride and accomplishment. Lets not forget how many characters are completely unattainable through farming. As you said characters are a major draw, so allowing people to unlock and get them to 7 stars more quickly would entice more players. However, I have no issues with them loosening one of the other bottlenecks. Characters just happens to be my preference.
I already explained why I think they are fine. If they were significantly higher, people would quickly run out of characters to farm and the game would get boring. This is a game that requires choices. You can't have everything and you have to pick which things to focus on. It has to be that way in order to remain interesting.
There are numerous places to get characters, so calculating how many days it takes to farm a team shouldn't assume they all come from cantina. Most teams don't require you to farm 5 cantina characters, because some of the characters can be obtained from the various shops as well. Many of the best characters come from legendary events and raids anyway.
Single hard node farms take an inordinately long time, as does the current Wicket/Talzin cadence. The only issue I have with cantina farms is the fact that they conflict with mod farming.
