Dark side currency farm

"Krashxxxx;c-2114210" wrote:
Find one that has gear you don't have 3000 of and farm that one? 6 energy is 6 energy. Drop rates are the same no matter what anecdotal evidence people plaster all over the forums. Except TVF, he has special drop rates but his dad works at CG so that does not count.

Yeah, drop rates are the same. But farming lower energy nodes gets you more chances for the same amount of energy as high nodes.
Let's just say, for example, that the drop rates are 1/3 chance. For every 3 tries, you get 1 shard (obviously sometimes it'll be zero, sometimes it might be 2, etc.). If you have 100 energy, and you farm a 10-energy node, that's 10 tries at that node. Going based on the 1/3 chance, you'll average around 3 shards for 100 energy. Now, still with that same 100 energy and drop rates, you do a 5-energy node instead of the 10-energy node. That's 20 tries for the same amount of energy. 20 tries gets you closer to 6/7 shards for 100 energy.

Given that we know drop rates are the same across the board, you can efficiently spend your energy on lower nodes, if your goal is just the resource available on those nodes.