How exactly do you get Zeta materials?

Well at the lowest ship rewards lvl you get 800 a day so you could get two mats every 5 days so in 50 days you could have enough for one. Of course if your higher up it's much easier. You can also get them by doing the tri weekly ablity mod challenges but only in tier three. However from what I have heard they show up almost never in the challenge. So if you don't want to wait 50 days you have to get good at ships.

I farm mainly for my arena team. I figured Rex and sun fac are good but not needed. I decided to farm zeta materials from the beginning. Any f2p can have a full set of zeta at this point.
You just got to farm what you think is most important. For me, it was zetas

"Jetlife;838251" wrote:
I farm mainly for my arena team. I figured Rex and sun fac are good but not needed. I decided to farm zeta materials from the beginning. Any f2p can have a full set of zeta at this point.
You just got to farm what you think is most important. For me, it was zetas

I guess that's what got me. I have really wanted Rex for a long time. So I had to go for him lol

"Jetlife;838251" wrote:
I farm mainly for my arena team. I figured Rex and sun fac are good but not needed. I decided to farm zeta materials from the beginning. Any f2p can have a full set of zeta at this point.
You just got to farm what you think is most important. For me, it was zetas

i'm still farming ships in order to get a steady "free" supply from the fleet challenges, turns out that the supply isn't going to be that steady at all :(

I see the word zeta being used a lot. What does it mean? Maxed attack & ability?

Thanks in advance!

I went for ships until i unlocked tier 3 ability mats. Now i still farm ships and vader shards :) i rank top 10 in ship arena but have dropped out of top 10 arena. Top arena has 2 characters zeta d already..

Well you do know about the zeta challenge...right? It drops up to 12 a week, unless you have had RNG like me a get none the past 2 weeks. You need the ships to do the challenge, but it's better than just buying them.

"NicolasRage;86307" wrote:
I see everyone saying, " The counter to blah blah is to zeta Maul" or "omg Barriss Zeta is so OP" and it seems like everyone has zeta'd characters. I must be missing something because last time I checked, it requires 20 zeta material for one character. The only way I see to get them is to buy them through fleet shipments, which seems like a terrible grind, when you could be getting shards or gear. Is it just mega whales that threw money at the game until zetas popped out? Do you any of you non-whale regular spenders like myself have zeta'd characters?

Place as high in Fleet arena as possible really. Also make sacrifices to RNGesus that you get the extra 12 Zetas from doing challenges a week(usually just get an extra 3). I get 1715 Fleet currency a day(fleet arena rank 3+115 from dailies) and I can usually bank on getting 3-4 Zetas from challenges which comes to a Zeta ability every 16-20 days. It's a slow grind regardless and is slightly faster placing Rank 1 or 2.

The math on it is:
40000 is the fleet currency price of a Zeta Ability

12000 is the converted price of 6 Zetas you get from completing Zeta challenges in 2 weeks(that's 1 per challenge)

1715 is the the amount of fleet currency I gain per day.

1715*17(days)=29,155+12,000= 41,155

So an ability can be acquired every 17 days. I left out a possible 2 challenges and set the variable to 1(because that's the chance that I've experienced it to be). Placing anywhere from 21-200 puts you in the 20-22 day range.

Overall with the terrible RNG I'm not sure working towards doing the challenge is the best way to obtain said Zetas. It helps but only marginally compared to a high Fleet Arena Rank.

"TronTheKhan;838481" wrote:
Overall with the terrible RNG I'm not sure working towards doing the challenge is the best way to obtain said Zetas. It helps but only marginally compared to a high Fleet Arena Rank.

I would say 1 per challenge is a pretty good average. This is probably what I am getting... I have hit 2 zetas fairly often. @35 zetas now, probably completed the challenge a week or 2 after launch. Placed top 3 each day for the most part.

If you can complete/3* the challenge you probably can compete in the arena at this time.

I keep upto 4k ship currency available, once I hit 4k I buy a zeta. This way I can jump on any vader, slave1 etc shards that pop up since they are so rare.

I am starting to slip in the arena since I am not putting any resources into it other than what you normally get... but its a slow slip.

Given we are getting more ships soon trying to save resources AND I really don't care that much now that I 3* the challenge. Zetas are really where its at for ships.