It is scary how much these relics cost.

"TVF;c-1962042" wrote:

"keknoby;c-1961946" wrote:
this is the end of guild exchange, with the huge amount of gear needed to make this relics, the guild donations will brutally decrease
one more step to kill altruism and encourage selfishness

Might need a new guild.

Still waiting or where you being facetious.

Why would anyone want to be competitive in this game? Its a fun ftp, toon collecting game and thats it. The only way to truly win in this game is to not spend money. If you dont see that, youve already lost.

i got my one and only G13 Char GG to Relic Level 4 and i can´t really complain about the "gear costs".

i spent no money on it. yea, now it gets more and more exhausting collecting the necessary gear but i would say, any 2.5m GP Player ( like me ) should be able to put any G13 Char to Relic Lvl.4 without spending any money.

And yes, R4 is a huge impact on GG!

I got my darth revan to r7 ftp and most of the rest of my arena team to r3.

I'm not super worried about running out of gear for relics here's why.

1. I took 7 characters to r1 almost immediately and most of those to r2. Yes, it did deplete some stockpiles of gear. But to get any more relics, I gave to both farm the signal data and/or get more characters to g13. That isn't happening all that quickly. For higher tiers it takes a few days of cantina refreshes to have the signal data and for the lower tiers are already done on my backlog of g13. So while I farm signal data, I get more gear from challenges. Unless you whale out on gear 13, you should be able to keep up gearing most important characters.

2. For higher relic tiers, it does require better gear salvage. But you have the option of what salvage to use and you get salvage from hstr, tb, tw, ect. And you can now use previously useless pieces you have extra of.

Are you going to be able to never have to wait on gear for a relic tier. Probably not. But when have you ever been able to instantly take a character to max level for free?

"Ruark_Icefire;d-213573" wrote:
I mean it took over a thousand pieces of equipment just get 1 relic to lvl 2. What is gonna happen once our stockpiles are exhausted?

I used 700 Mk 1 Medpacs ... better than a thousand but still quite a lot

"Ultra;c-1959696" wrote:

"EventineElessedil;c-1959693" wrote:
What I don't get is why some gear doesn't show up in the available gear list. Example: Mk 4 stun guns.

Each scrap has its own requirement of gear that can be scrapped

See: Bronzium Wiring

That takes Mk 4 Stun Guns

"Ruark_Icefire;c-1959697" wrote:

"EventineElessedil;c-1959693" wrote:
What I don't get is why some gear doesn't show up in the available gear list. Example: Mk 4 stun guns.

Mk 4 stun guns are used to craft Bronzium Wiring. Each kind of scrap requires different gear.

ah i see. thank you. lol this is crazy.

"USAFmedic129;c-1959720" wrote:
Interested to see how CG handles Trump once he finishes gutting the vap industry. If Baron plays this, it could be her next target

Baron can be a Kraken and lose nothing

Relics will now dominate this game.

I just took my GMY up two Relic tiers, just because I was curious about both the process and how much better your toons would get.

After adding 2 relic tiers, the total bonuses are MUCH less than I get from my mods, and that's just for the stats that are actually increased. In addition my mods increase Speed, but the Relic tiers don't. My GMY had +2900 special damage, +3600 Health, and +94 speed from mods, the three most relevant stats for GMY. I can see the bonus I would get if I boosted him to RelicTier3 (even though I haven't given him that boost yet). At relic Tier3, I would get +6800 Health (so this is a better health bonus than the mods), but +1160 Special Damage and +ZERO speed.

So it's basically like removing his Offense set, giving him 2 Health Sets, but keeping primaries the same and wiping out all speed bonuses. That's for THREE relic tiers.

In other words, Relic tiers are not close to as good as a set of mods that is appropriate to the character. Yes, very, very top-tier Relics will dominate. Low-tier Relics will have an effect, but not close to the effect of a good mod set.

tbh: I'm super happy that I have exactly 1 G13 char (Han Solo) on my 2 accounts. thereby I don't need to bother with this relics too much.

I like my Han Solo doing 7K damage with these new relics. :)