Gear Crunch

Can't help but feel they are trying to take everything they can before the competition gets rolling. CG no longer has exclusive rights to Start Wars mobile games, correct? The stealth nerf to the Google Play packs says a lot about this evil empire, and that empire will soon be challenged.

I don't expect a mass exodus, but our guild lost two long-playing members already this week because of this issue. I'm on the fence as well. A fresh start in a new Star Wars universe may be very attractive to lot of folks feeling this way.

"Kabbage;c-2284623" wrote:
Can't help but feel they are trying to take everything they can before the competition gets rolling. CG no longer has exclusive rights to Start Wars mobile games, correct? The stealth nerf to the Google Play packs says a lot about this evil empire, and that empire will soon be challenged.

I don't expect a mass exodus, but our guild lost two long-playing members already this week because of this issue. I'm on the fence as well. A fresh start in a new Star Wars universe may be very attractive to lot of folks feeling this way.

Kind of in the same boat. I’m gonna wait this nerf out and see what happens. Not gonna make some rash rage quit decison, but got to admit, I’m quite skeptical where they are going with these GL’s. If these nerfs on these characters effect my ability to clear tier 2 and 3 for relic mats? than yeah, I’m probably leaving the game. I’m not a whale but certainly not ftp.
Not happy when toons I’ve spent money on, weeks, months of time farming, neutered to make it easier for them to program a game.

Not a fan of the whole GL requirements that seem to target specific toons that many haven’t maxed because they don’t really help that much in any phase of the game. Yes contrarians, sometimes they throw us a bone like EP or Jango Fett in the reauirements.

Haven’t missed a farming day in 5 years so I pretty much had thousands of excess gear for relics. But unfortunately that is coming to an end. Carbonite cirquit boards and chromium transisters are getting to a point where they are almost gone. It was a good run for scavenger but soon it wont be helping much. Especially with relic 8 and 9 right around the corner. (Way too soon) Not sure why they could never add mk5 stun guns or mk3 carbantis to challenges? Also love the whole kyros will aleviate the gear crunch speech. Bad Batch was pretty much all Kyros so I don’t know where that came from?

Copy and paste raids and territory battles. Let’s just add more hit points and massive damage. Very uncreative. Does the new devs even know how to implement new material into the game or was it just the old programmers? That a big no ghostrider. Community has been begging for a ship raid for years but we can’t get that. I’m sure we’ll get ship gear and relics before that happens.

True, we can close this thread now.

"Starslayer;c-2285013" wrote:

"Ultra;c-2285009" wrote:

"Starslayer;c-2284970" wrote:
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"WookieWookie;c-2284968" wrote:
Y'all remember the last time CG "eased the gear crunch" by adding kyrotech? Have you recently taken any legacy/launch characters through all the gear levels alongside newer releases?

With CG, any additional 'easing' of the gear crunch will just be the next tier of awful to farm gear with even worse drop rates (what an insult that kyros are purple despite their drop rate and monetization) and required even more frequently on future characters.

I can see it now:

"Hiya holotable heroes! We've seen that the community has been struggling with the farming of items such as stun guns, carbantis, and stun cuffs, so with all future character releases we'll be removing those gear requirements to ease the gear grind. We are also excited to roll out the new CryoTack gear, which be required from G5-G11 on all new characters, and can be farmed on hard node battles only, with a drop rate of 5% per 20 energy attempt. We hope you enjoy this new system that will lower the number of required stun guns, cuffs, and carbantis! See you on the holotables!"

You get 210 kyrotech per month for free doing your dailies and challenge tier 1 of assault battles. Not too shabby.

310 actually, more if you get more TB stars / win TW

I count 20x6 via AB and 3x30 via dailies...what did I miss ? (GAC could add 35 to 185, depending on your results, via GAC currency; if you have TB/TW rough numbers, please let me know !)

This info was recently gathered in another thread. I believe MasterSeedy started it.

"Konju;c-2285014" wrote:

"Starslayer;c-2285013" wrote:

"Ultra;c-2285009" wrote:

"Starslayer;c-2284970" wrote:
O

"WookieWookie;c-2284968" wrote:
Y'all remember the last time CG "eased the gear crunch" by adding kyrotech? Have you recently taken any legacy/launch characters through all the gear levels alongside newer releases?

With CG, any additional 'easing' of the gear crunch will just be the next tier of awful to farm gear with even worse drop rates (what an insult that kyros are purple despite their drop rate and monetization) and required even more frequently on future characters.

I can see it now:

"Hiya holotable heroes! We've seen that the community has been struggling with the farming of items such as stun guns, carbantis, and stun cuffs, so with all future character releases we'll be removing those gear requirements to ease the gear grind. We are also excited to roll out the new CryoTack gear, which be required from G5-G11 on all new characters, and can be farmed on hard node battles only, with a drop rate of 5% per 20 energy attempt. We hope you enjoy this new system that will lower the number of required stun guns, cuffs, and carbantis! See you on the holotables!"

You get 210 kyrotech per month for free doing your dailies and challenge tier 1 of assault battles. Not too shabby.

310 actually, more if you get more TB stars / win TW

I count 20x6 via AB and 3x30 via dailies...what did I miss ? (GAC could add 35 to 185, depending on your results, via GAC currency; if you have TB/TW rough numbers, please let me know !)

This info was recently gathered in another thread. I believe MasterSeedy started it.

Yeah, I had this same conversation and made the same maths before, several times. But My Search Fu is weak, so...let's say doing this over and over is good for the brain. Well, the math part anyway.

"Starslayer;c-2285015" wrote:

"Konju;c-2285014" wrote:

"Starslayer;c-2285013" wrote:

"Ultra;c-2285009" wrote:

"Starslayer;c-2284970" wrote:
O

"WookieWookie;c-2284968" wrote:
Y'all remember the last time CG "eased the gear crunch" by adding kyrotech? Have you recently taken any legacy/launch characters through all the gear levels alongside newer releases?

With CG, any additional 'easing' of the gear crunch will just be the next tier of awful to farm gear with even worse drop rates (what an insult that kyros are purple despite their drop rate and monetization) and required even more frequently on future characters.

I can see it now:

"Hiya holotable heroes! We've seen that the community has been struggling with the farming of items such as stun guns, carbantis, and stun cuffs, so with all future character releases we'll be removing those gear requirements to ease the gear grind. We are also excited to roll out the new CryoTack gear, which be required from G5-G11 on all new characters, and can be farmed on hard node battles only, with a drop rate of 5% per 20 energy attempt. We hope you enjoy this new system that will lower the number of required stun guns, cuffs, and carbantis! See you on the holotables!"

You get 210 kyrotech per month for free doing your dailies and challenge tier 1 of assault battles. Not too shabby.

310 actually, more if you get more TB stars / win TW

I count 20x6 via AB and 3x30 via dailies...what did I miss ? (GAC could add 35 to 185, depending on your results, via GAC currency; if you have TB/TW rough numbers, please let me know !)

This info was recently gathered in another thread. I believe MasterSeedy started it.

Yeah, I had this same conversation and made the same maths before, several times. But My Search Fu is weak, so...let's say doing this over and over is good for the brain. Well, the math part anyway.

Here is the thread

https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/247250/has-anyone-catalogued-all-possible-sources-of-kyrotech#latest

"MKHolloway;c-2285337" wrote:

"Starslayer;c-2284970" wrote:
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"WookieWookie;c-2284968" wrote:
Y'all remember the last time CG "eased the gear crunch" by adding kyrotech? Have you recently taken any legacy/launch characters through all the gear levels alongside newer releases?

With CG, any additional 'easing' of the gear crunch will just be the next tier of awful to farm gear with even worse drop rates (what an insult that kyros are purple despite their drop rate and monetization) and required even more frequently on future characters.

I can see it now:

"Hiya holotable heroes! We've seen that the community has been struggling with the farming of items such as stun guns, carbantis, and stun cuffs, so with all future character releases we'll be removing those gear requirements to ease the gear grind. We are also excited to roll out the new CryoTack gear, which be required from G5-G11 on all new characters, and can be farmed on hard node battles only, with a drop rate of 5% per 20 energy attempt. We hope you enjoy this new system that will lower the number of required stun guns, cuffs, and carbantis! See you on the holotables!"

You get 210 kyrotech per month for free doing your dailies and challenge tier 1 of assault battles. Not too shabby.

I think the majority can agree that Kyros are not the problem in 2 months of hoarding I have 425ish of shock kyros with zero farming of them (as you said from daily and other challenges) in thr same 2 months I have 86 mkv stun guns. So yes not to shabby but those are really not the problem. Farming neither gear but having 4x as much as the other shows the issue. They really just need to start including then in dailies and more frequently in the common shops.

And stop requiring guns for pretty much all characters and at multiple gear levels. There's no way characters should be requiring guns or kyros at gear level 8 or 9. We're looking at relic 9 at some point fairly soon, and it's high time those early bottlenecks were eased up a bit.

"AlexanderG;c-2285340" wrote:

And stop requiring guns for pretty much all characters and at multiple gear levels. There's no way characters should be requiring guns or kyros at gear level 8 or 9. We're looking at relic 9 at some point fairly soon, and it's high time those early bottlenecks were eased up a bit.

This is the real issue here.

They overload certain slots & then other things you never see required & you have 1000's of them banked.

If they would just evenly distribute what is required for characters it wouldn't be so bad.

You should never open up the 6 slots & see 2 of the same item or a total of 4 of a single item required between sub-combines.

They create these problems by picking the same pieces over & over again.

"MKHolloway;c-2285337" wrote:

I think the majority can agree that Kyros are not the problem in 2 months of hoarding I have 425ish of shock kyros with zero farming of them (as you said from daily and other challenges) in thr same 2 months I have 86 mkv stun guns. So yes not to shabby but those are really not the problem. Farming neither gear but having 4x as much as the other shows the issue. They really just need to start including then in dailies and more frequently in the common shops.

So 2 months of hording & just gearing SLKR would wipe that out.
That might get you through 1.5-2 of the BB team before being empty.
I'm not saying that is a good ratio or anything, I'm just saying, they are a problem either way.

I think easing the gear crunch to g12 would be particularly good for newer players. Way back when, we had to gear our Phoenix or Ewoks or whatever, and it was painful, but we got the new shiny for it, and then we got to pause and hoard while we waited for the next thing. New players are trying to gear their arena teams, TB teams, and raid teams while at the same time having to throw multiple stun guns on Kanan so they can get Thrawn. It’s…not fun. I’m sure it frustrates a lot of people into spending (yay!) but surely it also makes a ton of people give up and quit (boo!).

Adding a drop to dailies that gives 2 or 3 of either stun guns or cuffs would help and I don’t think it would result in anyone swimming in the things. We get kyros every day and it’s nice but I think most people are still hurting for kyros.