How to 7 star finalizer

You can refresh the bonus tier repeatedly for 999 crystals a shot.

You should be able to beat it with a bunch of g13/relic'd pilots

Yes. After the free bonus tier win you pay 999 crystals thereafter. Or wait like a year for free

At this current point, the bonus tier will be the only way for you to earn 10 shards twice a month. Refreshing is available for 999 crystals after you beat the bonus tier, but I'm unsure if that crystal price ever rises after using it.

Basically one earns 10 shards each time the event appears by beating the bonus tier. Keep up the attempts (it takes me 1-5 times or restarts each month). There are a couple of strategy videos that might help you, but it's only worked by grinding for me.

I have put no specific investment into the toons/ships required for that mission. so you may want to rethink what you think are the requirements.
boba and Cad g12
vader/TFP/KRU and Hux were all g12 when i started beating it, now they are various R levels for GLK, Vader is R3

I only just unlocked the 5th star so I didn't use Kylos shuttle, and i still dont really use it but its in the reinforcements.

the mission is more about kill order than anything else.

each time the event comes around you can repeat the final tier to earn shards, its farming like a node, but at a different pace.

Do you know what would be a cool QOL idea once you have gotten 3 stars x amount of times?

"LendersQuiz;c-2146709" wrote:
Do you know what would be a cool QOL idea once you have gotten 3 stars x amount of times?

Yeah, but I’d probably still battle since it’s about the only chance I get to use Finalizer. Sometimes in TW, but that’s it.

"SithVicious;c-2146713" wrote:
Yeah, but I’d probably still battle since it’s about the only chance I get to use Finalizer. Sometimes in TW, but that’s it.

Good thing that apart from the Rancor raid, all simmable battles can be done manually. Never did I say take away "battle" just add "sim". :)

"LendersQuiz;c-2146720" wrote:

"SithVicious;c-2146713" wrote:
Yeah, but I’d probably still battle since it’s about the only chance I get to use Finalizer. Sometimes in TW, but that’s it.

Good thing that apart from the Rancor raid, all simmable battles can be done manually. Never did I say take away "battle" just add "sim". :)

I know you didn’t...was just making conversation

KRCS, Silencer and HT in opening lineup. Once HT is taunting, use KRCS to steal HTs TM and pass it to everyone else. It'll keep HT taunting longer. Use every assist and the full TM swap from KRCS to keep using Silencer's basic. Can strategically stun everyone if you make sure you're attacking people with more than 50% TM.

Once Hux is G11+ you can open with 3 FO ships and use a similar strategy to above. I've had 675k from Silencer by the time the battle ends.

It is possible with g8 KRU, g8 Kylo shuttle crew, g8 FO Tie pilot, g11 cad bane, R4 Bossk, g12 Vader.

It takes a few tries each time, but doable.

But I think the main thrust of what op wanted to know was about the bonus tier. It is available for the 10 blueprint reward every time the event runs.