Energy Refreshes or Shipments better to build gear?

I occasionally buy gear due to impatience, but I prefer using energy refreshes to farm gear in the campaigns. I think you get better value in the long run. i tend to do a max of 4 refreshes a day on regular energy , and 4 on cantina, although lately I haven't been refreshing cantina much as there are no characters I want that are farmed that way right now.

"Mzee;900827" wrote:
I occasionally buy gear due to impatience, but I prefer using energy refreshes to farm gear in the campaigns. I think you get better value in the long run. i tend to do a max of 4 refreshes a day on regular energy , and 4 on cantina, although lately I haven't been refreshing cantina much as there are no characters I want that are farmed that way right now.

Ok so the money your dropping you dont feel you would get more gear more buying from shipments?

the 50 crystal refreshes are worth it imo.
50 piece gear worth 1250 crystals = 25 refreshes / 3000 energy / 300 sims. With a droprate higher than 16.6% it's cheaper to buy refreshes. I think my droprate is higher than 16.6%, so i'm buying refreshes.
+ you're farming additional resources.
I do buy gear from shipments with the left over crystals. (How much you have left depends on your arena rank and how many cantina refreshes you do)

"leef;901277" wrote:
the 50 crystal refreshes are worth it imo.
50 piece gear worth 1250 crystals = 25 refreshes / 3000 energy / 300 sims. With a droprate higher than 16.6% it's cheaper to buy refreshes. I think my droprate is higher than 16.6%, so i'm buying refreshes.
+ you're farming additional resources.
I do buy gear from shipments with the left over crystals. (How much you have left depends on your arena rank and how many cantina refreshes you do)

Do you feel cantinanrefreshes are worth it? At what point did you stop farming characters?

"Olga;901290" wrote:
Could say the same about buying Mk3 Holoprojector. I can farm those up in 3 refreshes.

Out of 36 attempts you can pull 20 purple salvage? That i have a very hard time believing...

What about galactic gear packs? Even Has raid gear. For 600. Probably just less than a week of saving for 100 rank. I'm think about doing this for the first time this week.

Mk5 stun gun salvage cost 1400 crystals . To farm the 50 pieces needed to craft takes around 12 full refreshes if you are lucky.

My advice is to studdy the gear. Those mk4 laptop are 300 crystals each . You need 2 of them to make a bit of gear that costs 300 crystals. The bargins are out there, just be paitant

"SilverMajra;92557" wrote:
Using energy for battles has been the go to strat but im 12 days away from level 85 regardless of energy refreshes. I have done my 2 energy refreshes pretty religously up to this point but im wondering if that 100 crystals would be better suited just buying the gear outright after a week or two of saving. What are your guys thoughts on it? Also how do you feel about cantina energy refreshes? I have been doing those as well. Im completely free to play and have just recently started taking 1st in my shard.

Being a f2p users means you maximize what little resources you have. Buying anything that is not guaranteed is a gamble, so I would discourage you from buying any gear packs or mod packs.
It's always profitable to farm gear through battles, you will need a crapton of blue gear anyway (droid callers, power cells, thermal detonators), there is no shortcut here. In terms of saving crystals for gear in shipments - sure it's worth it, but only if you're bottlenecked. MK5 furnaces come to mind as only ones worth saving for. Rest is situational.
Best advice I can give out - farm shards and blue gear using energy refills. Get purple/pink gear from various shipments or guild donations, using ingame currency. Alternatively - choose nodes with multiple usefull gear pieces on it.