Gear Crunch Discussion

"Katsapliakos;c-2025504" wrote:

"Austin9370;c-2025412" wrote:

"Schwartzring;c-2025404" wrote:
I have no idea what it used to be like as I've only been playing 8 months now.

But I can say it took 3 months to get the account to L85, another 3 months to get a single character to G12, and 2 months after that before I got G13 & Relic 5

I can also say that after 8 months of playing, I am constantly broke in Credits, Fleet Credits, & Purple mats in addition to the obvious FleetPurples/Omega/Zeta/G8+ crunch.

I also frequently have to go back & farm G1-7 items because someone at CG thinks its really cool to keep using L1+ Gear in combines for L10+ Gear.

Basically I've gone from thinking wow, what a cool SW game, to, WTH am I doing spending several hours a day playing this stupid game, & just quitting to go ride a bike in the nice weather.

So you know, take from that what you will about my feelings towards the gear crunch. Its basically painful to log in every day and almost zero fun.

Its not really a game, its shard collecting for months on end till you accomplish 1 thing, if your lucky, and don't destroy your phone in a rage throw into the wall.
Its about as fun as doing your taxes, every day of your life, while standing barefoot on broken glass.

Perhaps I'm being overly dramatic in my description........ then again....... I'm not so sure.

Then you are playing wrong. While I'm not certain how long it should take to reach level 85 these days, the other lengths of time are absurd. I'm curious if you're all over the map in regards to what you should be doing to progress efficiently in the game.

With that said, not trying to be too critical, but you're probably the type of player CG has in mind in giving direction to with this new Journey Guide.

From the number of posts,i can assume you are a rly old player and have some resources at hand,i reached the 1 year mark previous month and its as the op is saying.Even if you focus one toon at a time,it takes ages to make him g12 with the 1/15 attempts at gear i am getting thats way below 20% anyone is claiming,especially on kyros.I never got more than 2 from 10 or 15 attempts.

Partially correct. I'm a player from January '16, but I don't really believe in hoarding anymore then I need to. I just work on a character or two at a time and acquire through the most efficient means possible. Some gear is better to farm, others buy in the currency shops, and others only the shard shop.

Soon after the Journey Guide drops, I'm looking to start a completely FTP alt. I'm very confident I will do very well with it and my bottleneck will be character shards, not gear.