Mods Effect on F2P: A Case Study

"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.