"warmonkey;d-116146" wrote:
I am f2p and get top five in arena everyday. I am 20 shards short of 5 star kanaan today. I don't have enough time by the 15th when Thrawn comes for anything close to 6 star.
So how is this enough time to farm them? Unless paying cash is now considered farming?
You're missing the fact that the event, presuming it is like every single other legendary event, will run for more than one day. So whether you can 6* him on the 15th is irrelevant. You're already admitting that you will, by the 15th, be able to unlock him at 5*. Plus, it's not a horrible thing to not be able to immediately go for 6* or 7* on the day the event releases -- it'll give some time for people to determine exactly what the minimum gear/mod requirements are for those tiers, so you don't have to spend more resources than absolutely necessary on the squad.
And I'm saying this as a f2p who has a solid shot of getting Thrawn at 7*
by the end of the event. I have a full 5* team (and will get Hera to 6* today). I have enough currencies saved up to 7* Chopper, Kanan, and Zeb, plus some extra that can go to the shard shop. However, absent refreshing the stores, I won't have them at 7* until the 21st. I have 400k ally points that I can blow through if necessary for shard shop conversion. I also finish top 5 in arena, and am doing three cantina refreshes a day (did 5 a day during double drops). Like everything else it's about resource management -- I really have wanted to run an empire team (I missed out on Zader's run), so when Krennic went into the shard shop, I went heavy at him. When Nihilus was there, as much as I wanted to dump a lot into him, I controlled myself and saved up currencies again instead. It's likely going to pay off because to the extent that I need to supplement cantina farming with the shard shop I can.
"warmonkey;c-1126784" wrote:
So if Thrawn is a chaze killer and I just finally got chaze into my arena team a couple weeks ago after spending many months farming and gearing them then I have no chance in arena vs my competition. If I can't get top five I can't get enough crystals to do anything. If I can't do anything to compete then I have no reason to play.
I want to play this game but only thing keeping me here is social aspect and being able to compete in arena. I can't compete in raids being f2p vs whales and we don't set up silly guild rules that help me and hurt our whales ranks there. My ship shard is full of whales so will never compete there and GW is a joke. I only can play arena and if I am shut ouy of top five becauae the whales can't be moved anymore with a chaze killer then what is left? A new game mode in the future that is also for whales it appears?
First, you already are saying that you can't compete in raids, so arena is pretty much the end-all-be-all game mode for you. In that case, the difference between a 5*/6*/7* Thrawn is probably going to be pretty minimal. He has a solid protection base (26k), so the net effect on his health at different stars (26k at 7*, so probably over 20k at 5*), or damage, is not going to be a difference maker in arena. Thus, for arena purposes, being able to unlock him is mostly as good as being able to max him. Second, you presume he's a Chaze killer. There's no real evidence of this yet. Third, his kit appears to be something that (unsurprisingly) the AI can screw up. I don't think he's going to make an unbeatable team.
