Well this topic was uhh interesting read. First thing i want to say is that DS TB is here for a 3 months now, so there is no surprise if your guild expect you to have troopers ready by now. When DS TB first came my guild got 1 shard, only one person had troopers good enough. This TB we got 30 shards, so 15 people managed to get them strong enough, we expect about 10 more people to be ready for next one. Thing is, that nobody had to force people to farm them, everybody is working on them at their own speed, usually as side project while working on their arena or different teams as well. They are great for whole DS TB, they will be decent squad for TW, especialy to beat the bloody nightsisters and of course DT and Shore have one of the best ships in the game.
I did the mission with 7* G11 zVeers, G9 snow, 6* G10 DT and Shore, G8 Starck.I had pretty garbage mods on them. It was bit closer than i would like, but once i get my troopers bit stronger or better modded it will be quite easy.
You say they have only one purpose and that IPD mission, but thats no different from rogue one, bounty hunters, FO that is only needed for BB8 and there is so many other factions that are not needed for anything. If you dont want to farm them that is your own choice and if the guild gonna kick you because of it, well too bad. They are fully F2P factions, except Shore they are all easy to farm, DT and Shore are only 2 fairly hard to gear up, but if you dont want to spend guild currency or energy to farm gear and gonna wait if raid will drop what you want, you will never have them ready.
