I get the frugality with crystals. It’s much more satisfying to save them up for gear.
Personally, on Sunday after payout I spend 100 on cantina energy, then in the morning spend another 100 on same. Manage your energy use so you hit the next task reset with as close to 144 in each as you can get, then spend all that down (save the 7:00 bonus energy for 7:30). Tuesday you should have no problem getting 600, Wednesday you should be able to if you collected all 6 energy those two days, Thursday you need 50 crystals for energy.
It works well and I don’t spend very many crystals aside from Sunday nights, but that’s when I’m doing the most contribution for my guild and it allows me to speed up a farm a little bit, so it’s not bad.
I tend to miss the 10:00pm payout, at least until daylight saving changes it back to 9:00, which means I need to spend another 50 from time to time. I’d change my payouts, but I’m waiting on the refresh...
