"DarjeloSalas;c-2145913" wrote:
"DarjeloSalas;c-2145901" wrote:
"Potato211;c-2145893" wrote:
I don't know what RNG you guys get but mine is always screwing me over with either 1 shard or none for His, Mando, B1 and Enfys. It's rare for me to see 2, alone 5 shards from a Hard node.
We get exactly the same RNG as you do.
Here’s the results of tracking drops:
Cara dune: 42shards/110attempts (38.2%)
Mando: 40/110 (36.4%)
Greef: 32/105 (32.4%)
That’s in 11 days, costing me 75 crystals a day to refresh and 100 crystals a day to refresh fleet energy twice.
So, for 1925 crystals I’ve obtained 114 shards, which is roughly 17 crystals per shard.
Saving to buy that many shards would have cost me 9120 crystals. Now, I’m taking around 850 a day from arenas on average, so it would take roughly 11 days to save that many crystals.
By farming, I’ve managed to keep 7000 ish crystals for other things like gear or cantina refreshes to get the last few relic mats for the SLKR requirements.
If this doesn’t convince you that you’re doing things the wrong way, I wish you the very best of luck @Potato211 .
The first 5 attempts every day were free, which means you got roughly half your shards without spending crystals. You only spent crystals on additional attempts. For those 1925 crystals you've obtain approximately 57 shards - the others were free.
But your point still stands of course. It much cheaper to farm shards with refreshes than to buy shards from shipments.