Farming Leia the hard way

Go for the gear instead. Far more valuable than any chromium toons.

"orange12;44582" wrote:

So who's actually going down this crazy F2P path of farming Leia?

There is your problem, no one (I know) is doing this that is F2P.

It's just a way for whales to finish off toons that didn't drop to the full 7*s in all of their chromium purchases. That's all.

I have Rex at 5* and I'm farming him this way, but I'm not f2p and know it'll be a long & expensive farm

I'm farming her that way but I already had a near 6* Leia before I started

Well if you took the price of a vault of crystals to find the cost of maxing Leia through shipments you get around $168. ($99.99/15710)*26,400 crystals since you need 330 shards total
It definitely would take longer than opening mass chromiums but in the long run you save a significant amount of money. This method is for people that want a p2p character without participating in the chromium lottery. It's not a feasible way to get p2p characters for f2p players without crippling progress in other areas.

I would not do this for Leia.

I already had her at 5* plus when she came into shipments. So instead of more chromiums, I'm farming her from shipments. I have her now at 6*+23. I would not consider doing it this way for someone from scratch. But I figured I was close enough to pull the trigger without the risk of getting a bunch of shards for toons I'll likely never use.

I have pretty much suspended refreshes of energy though except for cantina once a week to try and level out the cost.

The 4 shard packs are really geared towards those people who bought chromium packs and are sorry a few shards from 7*ing toons.

FTP players should not even look at these packs in the shipment.

"orange12;44582" wrote:
So who's actually going down this crazy F2P path of farming Leia?

I am.

Depending on my luck as to what rank I stay overnight and if I actually have time or the inclination between 6-7pm to shoot for a top 10 arena rank, I usually get a top 20 arena payout, occasionally a top 10, and occasionally only a top 50. So with dailies and GW completed, I earn a minimum of 227 crystals, maximum 327 per day. I used to do 2 regular refreshes and a cantina refresh every day, for an expenditure of 200 crystals. Now, I'm just doing one regular and one cantina for 150, so I gain 77-177 crystals per day, usually 127. I'll be able to buy Leia shards at least twice a week, and at that rate, I'll have her maxed in 38 weeks (I'm at 31 shards today).

I know that's a long time, and it's slowing down my farming of other shards and gear. However, I don't care for 2 reasons.

1, there's such a gear bottleneck from gear VIII to IX currently, that I can't see how it's going to matter. Since raid gear was added, I've unlocked, fully starred and leveled Ventress and Akbar, and I added Akbar after I started farming Leia. Both of them quickly reached 5/6 gear VIII and they have a looooooong wait for their callers/furnaces/whatevers to get to IX. I expect any new characters I unlock to also race to gear VIII in spite of only doing one refresh, long before I'm ready to promote them to IX, so slowing down on gear clearly doesn't matter.

2, as far as getting slowed down on character shards, it's already annoying enough that shard acquisition so drastically outpaces credit and gear acquisition, so who cares?

And as for the long wait, I already hard node farmed Rey to 7*, so I can handle a long term project.