Farming Leia the hard way

"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.