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ordo801st
Rising Veteran
1 day ago

Datacron Farming Needs Improvments

Datacron farming needs massive improvement. Now I know CG probably likes how it is, but players I am sure are so annoyed with how the farming process is. Yes I know its made to get Whales to get the best of the best or the most , especially the dumb Reroll materials for the level 9s. Its so annoying to burn crystals to get a reroll and not a reroll we would like. This needs improvement. It makes me feel I can't get a level 9 with the Resources I get. Or I can only get them through Territory Wars. Which is such an annoyance and a small amount. In my personal opinion Datacrons are not a fun thing to farm. Yes there have been some good Datacrons, yet sometimes I have yet to gain them cause of rerolls and the expense of farming. Here is my list of Datacron Farming Improvements. At the end I will also provide some other suggestions with Balancing. 

  1. I am sorry, there is a need for more Datacron Credits, or what they are called is Data-caches. So first suggestion to getting more is giving us some Daily Data-caches. The amount can be between 50k to 350k a day. This way players can gradually farm them when needed to level up the Datacrons. When the Datacrons get to the higher levels (especially the Focused Datacrons), they start to cost multiple millions. I believe its about almost 2-4 million a level up on the last 6 or so levels of the level 15 Focused Datacrons. Still it gets costly.
  2. We should get more in return when Datacrons get dismantled at their expatriation dates. I feel that if you have like 3 to 5+ level 9s we should be able to get 1 level 9 out of the dismantled materials. It is such a dismal return. Especially since its a seasonal investment. My suggestion is to increase the return about by 15% to 25%.
  3. I feel its time we have in the first 2 tiers of Conquest to farm the Datacron Materials. We shouldn't need to wait until tier 4 and 5 to get materials. I feel Tier 1 should have 3 battles. Battle 1 will be Data-caches, Chance of Datacron, and Binding MK1 Material. Battle 2 should be Binding MK2 and MK3, and battle 3 should have Breakdown MK 1(reroll) materials. Tier 2 should have a single battle for the Breakdown MK 2 and 3s. It consolidates the need for multiple battles. Plus it allows players to then use a bit more resources for their future conquest characters. 
  4. With the Updated battles in #3, I also feel the level up materials should have a increased amount when farming them. Not by much just about 5 to 10 more per attempt. 
  5. For the Datacron store and when using the Shard Shop Currency we should be able to use Shard Shop Currency to farm Binding MK 2 Level up Materials. It is so abysmal to not be able to farm that material to finish off a Datacron if we are saving on Crystals. We should have access to all the material by trading Shard Shop Currency instead of it being limited to Crystals on certain materials. However I also feel it wouldn't hurt allowing players to use other currencies like Galactic War Materials to get Datacrons. 
  6. For the Reroll Costs, I feel all Reroll costs should start with 10 and it cost 10, 3 times, then up to 20, 3 times, then up to 30, 3 times then 40 and up from there. This Reroll cost should be for each 3 levels of stats and abilities of the Datacron. So if you rerolled level 3 5 times it won't cost you the higher cost at the level 9 and vise versa. This helps Free to Play and Light Spenders have a chance at some decent Datacrons. Yes they won't have the vast number of level 9s like Whales or high spenders of SWGOH, cause of their expense, but still improving this will help players get more and be interested more in Datacrons. 

With these changes I would think it'd be better for bother Free to play and spenders alike. Datacrons are a nuisance to farm aside from whales that have tons of money to spend (which I appreciate them keeping the game alive), but still improvements are needed to these TEMPORARY BUFFS which go away frequently. CG Please make some of these changes. Itll help players farm datacrons better. 

4 Replies

  • nottenst's avatar
    nottenst
    Seasoned Ace
    1 day ago

    Some nice suggestions.  The dismantle return just disappoints every time,  

    When they changed back to new DCs every month, they really needed to change the frequency of the L9 reroll materials.  There needs to be another source of these other than TW or TW should double up and give the current and next DC season reroll materials.

    Edit: actually, since we earn L9 reroll materials independently from Conquest, it would be best if they were independent from a Conquest season. Just one type of L9 reroll materials - good for any Datacron. That would solve a lot of problems and should be relatively easy to implement. 

  • harvestmouse1's avatar
    harvestmouse1
    Seasoned Ace
    1 day ago
    nottenst wrote:

    Edit: actually, since we earn L9 reroll materials independently from Conquest, it would be best if they were independent from a Conquest season. Just one type of L9 reroll materials - good for any Datacron. That would solve a lot of problems and should be relatively easy to implement. 

    I like this idea.

    The annoying one for me is the Mk2 gear.  I can never farm enough of it compared to Mk1s & Mk3s.  As the OP wrote, unlike earlier and later gear, you can't use shard shop currency to balance the off-set.  I guess though, this is an intentional bottleneck.  

  • Timpetus's avatar
    Timpetus
    New Vanguard
    1 day ago

    It sure sounds like you are not doing Hard Conquest, yet. There are DC mats in all tiers of Hard Conquest, including actual Datacrons, Data Caches, and reroll mats. I've never spent cash on DCs and get 3-5 level 9s per conquest.

  • nottenst's avatar
    nottenst
    Seasoned Ace
    1 day ago

    I can't imagine the Mk2 bottleneck being just an accident.  It has to be an intentional bottleneck. You can get some with Ally points once or twice a season, but that's it.  It basically is spend extra crystals to do more farming or spend crystals directly. 

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