Mod Farming Insanity

You need 50 pieces of stun gun salvage for one gear piece on one character, so you need to sim ~150-250 times to get one stun gun depending on your luck. Would you say that you've simmed close to that many times to find one good crit damage triangle?
Plus, I think the demand for mods is a lot more finite than the demand for gear pieces. One stun gun is a drop in the bucket of gear we need for all the characters. Darth Revan needs 3 stun guns for max gear on top of all of his other gear, but he only needs 1 crit damage triangle with good speed to be used. It's almost like comparing the number of cars a lawyer needs versus the number of white shirts or ties he needs. Because he only needs one car and that car will single-handedly change his life in a fundamental way, it's a lot more expensive (obviously there are other reasons too like cost to produce, etc).
I guess that's my rationale, but it absolutely sucks that in the useless Mod Battles mode we can sim for whatever specific mod slot AND set we are needing but it only drops useless garbage mods, while mod challenges that actually drop useful mods (most of the time) only let you pick the set. Farming is a stupid way to get mods and it's aggravating. I wish I was sitting on hundreds of millions of credits like some players, then I could take advantage of the mod shipments more often than once every 15-20 days when the credit heist comes back around.

If you get one good mod, you can use it forever, shifting it to whichever character needs it whenever you want.

Once you equip a stun gun, it's gone. You'll probably not see much usefulness from it once that equipped character falls out of the meta.

And a mod is way more powerful that a stun gun. It should be harder to acquire.

Any time someone want things to be easier, I think no, because the easier things are, the smaller my advantage is.

And my advantage is not money, my advantage is managing my resources.

IMO your odds of getting a CD primary offense triangle in the shop is >>>>> than of battle simming.

"PaumeGadet;d-205246" wrote:
I can't be the only one who thinks the current system for farming mods is completely asinine, can I?
For two weeks, I've been farming nothing but offense mods, doing multiple refreshes a day, trying to get a CD triangle.
At this point, i don't even care if it has speed secondaries or not...i just would like to see one drop, so i know it's possible.
Why is this the system we have for farming mods?
If i need a Mk 5 stun gun, i farm for a Mk 5 stun gun. Yes, it's RNG dependant as to whether i get one or not, but i don't go to a completely generic gear farming area where i could potentially get any random piece of gear, and if i do get the gear piece i want hope it's not Mk 4 or Mk 3!
Why can i not farm for a specific mod the same way, and without the potential for a utterly useless 3 or 4 dot mods dropping?
Yes, i know i have the option to buy specific mods from the store. But, i also have the option to buy a specific gear piece with crystals AND farm that specific gear piece AND buy that specific gear piece with multiple different forms of currency in multiple different shipment locations.
Why don't these same options apply to mods?
Or at least give us another mod tier for 20 energy that only drops 5 dot mods with the option to farm specific primaries. I wouldn't even care if it dropped at a 1 in 10 rate or 1 in 20 even. 5% is astoundingly better than the 0% drop rate I've had over the last two weeks.

"PaumeGadet;c-1874036" wrote:
But it looks like everyone else besides me thinks the current b system is a reasonable, effective, and adequate way to farm mods, so I'll let it die.

I neither like, nor dislike it.

It is what it is. A restriction of the game. A game without restrictions isn't a game any longer. The whole point is how you work towards, or get around these restrictions. Don't beat yourself up over things you can't change.

"DarthBrobdignagian;c-1874060" wrote:

"TVF;c-1873741" wrote:

"gusyud;c-1873737" wrote:
in my opinion, developer mistakenly use binary code as RNG. lately I only get 1 or 0 old republic shard and bounty hunter ship shard.

That is indeed an opinion.

At this point, it's not really an opinion. They nerf drop rates on certain things for a certain amount of time when that thing has an event on the horizon.

I see Logray in the store every single day if not 3 or 4 times and when I tell you he didn't didn't appear a single time for 2 solid months before the last C3PO event, that is fact and beyond RNG.

We are seeing it now with Darth Revan needed toons, drops are 0 or 1 out of 10 every day for a month now. Not RNG, at least not truly random in that there are weighted odds and not even across all things...

The odd part is, no one who makes these claims ever has any data to back it up..... so yes at this point it is an opinion and nothing more.

"DarthBrobdignagian;c-1874060" wrote:

"TVF;c-1873741" wrote:

"gusyud;c-1873737" wrote:
in my opinion, developer mistakenly use binary code as RNG. lately I only get 1 or 0 old republic shard and bounty hunter ship shard.

That is indeed an opinion.

At this point, it's not really an opinion. They nerf drop rates on certain things for a certain amount of time when that thing has an event on the horizon.

I see Logray in the store every single day if not 3 or 4 times and when I tell you he didn't didn't appear a single time for 2 solid months before the last C3PO event, that is fact and beyond RNG.

We are seeing it now with Darth Revan needed toons, drops are 0 or 1 out of 10 every day for a month now. Not RNG, at least not truly random in that there are weighted odds and not even across all things...

The devs have repeatedly said they don't do this. You are just calling them liars with no proof based on your own observational biases.

"DarthBrobdignagian;c-1874060" wrote:

"TVF;c-1873741" wrote:

"gusyud;c-1873737" wrote:
in my opinion, developer mistakenly use binary code as RNG. lately I only get 1 or 0 old republic shard and bounty hunter ship shard.

That is indeed an opinion.

At this point, it's not really an opinion. They nerf drop rates on certain things for a certain amount of time when that thing has an event on the horizon.

I see Logray in the store every single day if not 3 or 4 times and when I tell you he didn't didn't appear a single time for 2 solid months before the last C3PO event, that is fact and beyond RNG.

We are seeing it now with Darth Revan needed toons, drops are 0 or 1 out of 10 every day for a month now. Not RNG, at least not truly random in that there are weighted odds and not even across all things...

You are right, it's no longer an opinion, it's a conspiracy theory.

Devs don't adjust the drop rates. Sorry your RNG sucks. Mine has been great today, 6/10 on Carth, 4/10 on Badstilla and 5/10 on Juhani. All over the 33% drop rate evidenced by high sample tests.

I agree mods are more valuable. Which makes it so infuriating that who has the best mods is a crapshoot. With gear it’s RNG how long it takes you to get what you need, but eventually you do. Everyone gets there. With mods you can farm for months on end and never get speed you need for your arena teams.