Mods Effect on F2P: A Case Study

I agree. I'm going to see how it plays out for a week or so...

Yeah the credit crunch has gotten far worse between the 3m+ credits I spent on mods and starting to level/star/gear my synergy squads (mostly scoundrels at this point who were minimum necessary for the event).

On the other hand, T5 health mods are easy to 3* and are great right now (and you can reuse them later as you get speed/crit/etc).

"Amalthea;548160" wrote:
Yeah the credit crunch has gotten far worse between the 3m+ credits I spent on mods and starting to level/star/gear my synergy squads (mostly scoundrels at this point who were minimum necessary for the event).

On the other hand, T5 health mods are easy to 3* and are great right now (and you can reuse them later as you get speed/crit/etc).

Everyone is able to get the health mods. That will be baseline. But it's not enough to make you nearly competitive in the Top 10 Arena and it's definitely not enough to beat the node 11/12 whale teams in GW.

Duh. U guys are clueless.

Solution is use your arena team to get health mods at 5 dots. And go back to crushing arena.

Quit.

It took me 20 minutes to figure out mods. Play around. To make an omelette u gotta break some eggs. So what if u make a few mistakes. Is a game. And it's thousands of credits at stake. Not millions. Well say a mil per toon, for all 5 dot lvl 15 mods.

Exactly. U don't understand mods, yet. Ur like a 60 yr old complaining about that darn Internet. Try it, first. It takes a single refresh to unlock and do a ton of HEALTH mods with PRIMARY stats (which are the MAIN feature, but also give a small health bonus in pairs). Not 3 or 4 days. 2 days, tops.

Even 3 or 4 days..... err..... so the French what?!?!?

Oh yeah, mods also have a semi random number of secondary bonuses. Which are hardly worth mentioning and are practically the sole area of rng. Whales are not going to get much better mods by farm8ng or thru synergy challenges. But if u spent one day doing it before crying foul, u would understand that.

I am going to call it right now. The BEST mods will be primary protection and offense up, in general. With speed up also useful. Potency for ben and teebo. And the only secondary stats that will be awesome is getting a few points of speed and or accuracy along with the big helping of whoopaz.

There is another point. Health mods don't just give you health. One of mine gives me 49% potency as primary stat. I don't need the potency mod bonus, I can do just fine with this one I got from tier III challenge and a few hundreds of credits. This same applies to protection bonuses, armor etc.

The key is what Barrok told you guys, and I just kept my high arena rank with the same tip: use your arena team to auto the tables 1-3, go to challenges and open tier I-III of the health bonus mods. Then farm those. If you do 100 crystal refresh (free from just complete dailies + your arena payout) on this one alone for two days you get enough mods to level up and stay competitive.

This change is a new mechanic, just as was the protection patch. This new mechanic however opens lots of fun possibilities, and I am loving those! Even with just health mods, that are the baseline. With very little stuff you can get competitive, people are freaking out without even trying, that is the issue.

The other mods, yes, they need time, just like anything in the game so far. Raid gear, purple gear, they all require months to catch up and P2P players could get them from shipments. The difference is again time vs money.

My tip would be: save credits and level MK5 or MK4 mods, so you get best max results.

"DarthCyren;548213" wrote:

"Barrok;548196" wrote:
Getting "modded up" is not as hard as you guys are claiming it is. If you have 5 strong characters for Arena, then use those same 5 for the health mod challenges. Do that till you are fully maxed on your arena team. GG. Everyone flips out about this when they need to step back and just wait a bit and see how it plays out. GW and Raids might be affected negatively (GW is still up in the air if you ask me) but Arena just won't be that hard to get back up to the top. Whales might have a few day head start, but they can only use 5 guys just like you, and you are on offense. So it shouldn't be a problem (once you got your mods).

Let me tell you this.

On a November Shard I'm rank 300 uaually. I occasionally buy credits, crystals...

But I didn't hoarse crystals, credits and everything else by troves in anicipation if a game changing mechanic that dropped out of left field in a hurry.

So if I don't spend money it will take 3 ir 4 days to even unlock mid challenges for Mr and even when I do I don't have the irregular teM composition it calls for to unlock the beat mods, will take me a few months to gear my rosterling on semi decent mods.

Whales had it in 12 hours.
I can't have a Whale from the gate have a 2 or 3 month headstart on me.

I will neverify be able to catch up and compete again as the meta shifts

Sorry bro, but life's not fair. If I paid to have an advantage, I think I should have it. If I don't want to pay, then I understand that this choice means I will not be competitive with those who do...at least to begin with.

I personally only buy enough crystals to keep up with the 100 crystal refreshes each day, so I know I'm gonna get passed up. And I knew days ahead of time that the Cantina credits would be at a premium so I spent the same crystals each day and built up a stockpile of Cantina energy. Likewise on the credits, I saved my credits since they announced the day the update would come out. Sooooo, yep, I'm ahead of you with my arena team being almost fully geared with 5• health and defense mods. Plan ahead next time, don't cry about it now.

Plenty of things to complain about though...
1. Node 12 GW maxed out droid team that is currently unbeatable.
2. Too much of a time sink in this game...why does it have to take this long?
3. Overall credit crunch made worse by the mods requiring leveling up but no REAL and appreciated increase in credit availability(except by purchase I guess). I already have 3 toon's that I have been holding off promoting...what else do I sacrifice to promote a toon?
4. No real investment into guild management for leaders and officers.
5. etc, etc, so forth and so on...see the other forum posts and fill in the rest...lol.

"DarthCyren;548213" wrote:

"Barrok;548196" wrote:
Getting "modded up" is not as hard as you guys are claiming it is. If you have 5 strong characters for Arena, then use those same 5 for the health mod challenges. Do that till you are fully maxed on your arena team. GG. Everyone flips out about this when they need to step back and just wait a bit and see how it plays out. GW and Raids might be affected negatively (GW is still up in the air if you ask me) but Arena just won't be that hard to get back up to the top. Whales might have a few day head start, but they can only use 5 guys just like you, and you are on offense. So it shouldn't be a problem (once you got your mods).

Let me tell you this.

On a November Shard I'm rank 300 uaually. I occasionally buy credits, crystals...

But I didn't hoarse crystals, credits and everything else by troves in anicipation if a game changing mechanic that dropped out of left field in a hurry.

So if I don't spend money it will take 3 ir 4 days to even unlock mid challenges for Mr and even when I do I don't have the irregular teM composition it calls for to unlock the beat mods, will take me a few months to gear my rosterling on semi decent mods.

Whales had it in 12 hours.
I can't have a Whale from the gate have a 2 or 3 month headstart on me.

I will neverify be able to catch up and compete again as the meta shifts

Sorry bro, but life's not fair. If I paid to have an advantage, I think I should have it. If I don't want to pay, then I understand that this choice means I will not be competitive with those who do...at least to begin with.

I personally only buy enough crystals to keep up with the 100 crystal refreshes each day, so I know I'm gonna get passed up. And I knew days ahead of time that the Cantina credits would be at a premium so I spent the same crystals each day and built up a stockpile of Cantina energy. Likewise on the credits, I saved my credits since they announced the day the update would come out. Sooooo, yep, I'm ahead of you with my arena team being almost fully geared with 5• health and defense mods. Plan ahead next time, don't cry about it now.

Plenty of things to complain about though...
1. Node 12 GW maxed out droid team that is currently unbeatable.
2. Too much of a time sink in this game...why does it have to take this long?
3. Overall credit crunch made worse by the mods requiring leveling up but no REAL and appreciated increase in credit availability(except by purchase I guess). I already have 3 toon's that I have been holding off promoting...what else do I sacrifice to promote a toon?
4. No real investment into guild management for leaders and officers.
5. etc, etc, so forth and so on...see the other forum posts and fill in the rest...lol.