Mods are going to make me quit

Use the mod shipments, if there is a speed primary buy it. Always worth it in my book.

It's not the mods themselves imo its the random multiple bumps to the same stats. Especially speed.

If they would just make it gold mods is just an open book, what you see is what you get... that would do wonders.

Though I would guess it would severely hurt the mod shop since farming/grey mods could actually be useful.

"Easybee;88282" wrote:
I've been playing the game for well over a year. Lots of starred.and geared characters. Even spent money occasionally. But I have been avoiding mods, and it is starting to be my bottleneck.

I hate them. I hate farming them, with drop rates that are crazy low. I just don't seem to get anything worthwhile from challenges... The right side of all my characters are empty. I save up for mod packs, but they are rare. I would buy them ,but rarely see 5 dots for sale for cash.

Am i missing something? I see F2P players with full rosters of five dot mods... Did they just get them at the beginning before the drop rate nerf?

If there isn't an easier way that banging my head against a .01% drop rate for the next year and a half, I am ready to call it quits.

How to mod?

I am F2P and have a pretty solid collection of mods. https://swgoh.gg/u/indominable%20j/mods/

I didn't get anything before the drop rate nerf (I'm not sure I completed any of the challenges at that point). I've gotten my mods by farming, farming, farming, as well as trolling the store for mods for credits. (Note, if you're not getting many 5 dots for credits,have you completed tier 3 of the defense mod challenge? Completing that tier increases the rate 5 dots show in the shop).

You have to focus on mods, at least for periods of time. I will farm a challenge for a week or two in between farming characters from cantina. Without mods you **cannot** compete at higher levels.

Farm them like everybody else..
I almost quit when mods were released. Didn't even play the whole first week they were introduced because I did not like them either.
I soon realized they aren't that bad and actually add a whole new, fun dimension to the game. It's fun to make certain characters even better then what they are good at. For instance; it's fun to make my yoda super fast and throw out foresight+ tenacity. It's fun to make lando aoe for 20k. It's fun to have people try over and over to stun/shock my sf because he is at 90 tenacity. It's fun to stack protection on my gk and give him insane amounts of protection. It really is fun.

A big reason why I hated mods at the beginning is because I feel it was a very greedy, terrible way to add another grind; since we were already going through a huge grind at that time. Plus the way the released it was terrible with all the bugged drop rate and all the info they gave us in 1 day.
I didn't play the first week of mods and did not benefit from the first day of mods, sadly :(

But I grew to like mods after I started farming them. I was in the same situation as you; just not as long as you.
I suggest start farming them and check them out.

Getting 5* isn't exactly hard, getting arena/aat raid mods worthy though... thats a all different story.
After 4 weeks of spending 4 refreshes per day, of checking mod shipments, and buying credit packs (till the daily cap), I have yet to find an upgrade to my arena/raid mods.. so, yes, it's frustrating to say the least.

"Maljr1980;858724" wrote:
If your goal is to have 6 5* mods each with 20+ speed on your arena team it's not going to happen. The best thing to do is unlock the last tier of health mod challenges and start farming for 4 and 5 star mods. Use all your cantina energy and refreshes on them for a week. Sell the 1-3* mods if you want. Start equipping them on your core group of characters.
Even if they aren't great mods, you will get +30% health, some extra protection, and increased offense and defense and other key stats. You will at least have a team of characters with greater power, probably in a more balanced fashion, it would be like adding a couple gear levels or stars to your team and help you climb in arena and galactic war.
Once you have that base, then you can look to specialize mods on key characters and start looking for mods with key attributes.

This.

"pathfinder6800;858699" wrote:
It's gonna be even worse when the 6-7 rarity mods are coming...

With the way the first round of mods went and all the rage quits, I think they will be hesitant to put those out any time soon.

"phatphil3;858733" wrote:

"Maljr1980;858724" wrote:
If your goal is to have 6 5* mods each with 20+ speed on your arena team it's not going to happen. The best thing to do is unlock the last tier of health mod challenges and start farming for 4 and 5 star mods. Use all your cantina energy and refreshes on them for a week. Sell the 1-3* mods if you want. Start equipping them on your core group of characters.
Even if they aren't great mods, you will get +30% health, some extra protection, and increased offense and defense and other key stats. You will at least have a team of characters with greater power, probably in a more balanced fashion, it would be like adding a couple gear levels or stars to your team and help you climb in arena and galactic war.
Once you have that base, then you can look to specialize mods on key characters and start looking for mods with key attributes.

This.

This was exactly my problem when I started to farm for mods...

I would get white 5dot mods and level them up. After about a month (or a few weeks) of farming, I ended up getting frustrated as I couldn't find any speed secondaries.

So in frustration I sold off every mod that didn't have speed secondaries...
DO NOT do that, I've regret my rage since most of my characters now are under modded... (back then I didn't even consider putting the mod on).

Keep farming, the drop rates are low but it's worth it in the long run. Also, save up credits and look in the mod shipments. They have some pretty some good ones now and then.

"Austin09370;858752" wrote:
The avoidance strategy rarely works out. Being that you've avoided mods since it's implementation, your problem is that rather then the drop rates. With that said, religiously check mod shipments for speed secondaries that are purchasable by credits, farm the mod challenges for rarity 5 a couple times a week, and if mod packs are available again I'd suggest loading up on those to makeup for lost time.

I tried my luck with mod packs the last time they were out. I only got 3-4 dot mods but all were green/blue tier... was it just RNG that I got those? Or is 5 dot mods just rarer to get?

The layers upon layers of RNG (dots, color, primary stat, speed secondary, which secondaries upgrade, no mod drop at all, etc) is a bit excessive and unenjoyable. Mod management is a nightmare. Not being able to sort by primary/secondary, not being able to nickname, not being able to create sets that stay together for easy swapping between characters...these are all QoL things they could implement to make mod management less painful.