The grind for him is ridiculous now that guilds have moved onto ROTE and his shards are inaccessible. His shards should be added to ROTE or put onto cantina energy or equivalent so we can still farm him. 2000 tier 3 guild tokens for 5 shards is a joke.
*offers crappy suggestion*
*gets snarky because no one wants to follow crappy suggestion"
If you want KAM, the fastest way to acquire him is to merc for a few months in a LS Geo guild that gets 40+ shards per TB. Don't snap at someone because they told exactly that.
You really think you’re funny, don’t you?
Way to miss the point. The so-called “snarkiness” was because OP felt the pointless need to be condescending.
Since the likelihood of CG changing KAM farming is non-existent, I'd like to see your ideas for how OP might get him. Other than an LSB, the only other method of getting him is, to the surprise of nobody, farming his mission.
If you add up the value of the shards' current cost, dropping down to LS Geo TB is MORE than worth it at 40 shards/guild. There is also an omicron that can make KAM shards nearly automatic. And if you really needed help for your guild to get to 40+ successes per TB, I can honestly say that there are a number of people at 50 Shards who would be happy to open up the streaming channels again. The old days with streaming KAM runs were the best.
So while it's not bad to ask CG to change the price of KAM shards to something more commensurate with his current value (and/or to add him to Galactic Bounties or something similar), it's not actually bad value to do LS Geo if KAM is what you need and if you can find a guild (or a group of players who want to form a temporary guild) who have the toons to score 40 shards.
In fact, I calculated the break-even point a while back and it was way under 40 shards. I don't remember what it actually was, but I wouldn't be surprised at high teens or low twenties. Certainly it was below 30.
The long and short is that doing LS Geo is not bad advice so long as CG doesn't introduce new methods of acquisition or change the price. The bad advice is doing ROTE and paying the high costs. So if you're interested in efficiency, either skip KAM until CG makes changes or go for LS Geo. Those are the current best choices.
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