Omnicron drop rate

"Acymetric;c-2311313" wrote:
I don't understand how people are still confused or upset by this. It is the same thing as omegas. It seemed obvious to me that was how it would be as soon as it was announced...I get that for some reason some people expected something different, but it's been explained like 50 times now...

Did people really think they were going to be able to just farm the crap out of a brand new material on easily farms Cantina nodes that everyone was already farming at some point anyway?

well given how much grind and frustration is in the game right now. I totally understand their upset mood

"CCyrilS;c-2311533" wrote:

"Whatelse73;c-2311530" wrote:

"NicWester;c-2311498" wrote:

"Whatelse73;c-2311460" wrote:
The drop rate is less than 1%, just like everything else you really need in the game. Don't worry, just spend 8 hours a day in conquest and you'll get a few after 2 weeks.

Alternatively--do GC and you'll get 4 per week.

For real, people, you guys would be complaining less if they hadn't put them in Cantina at all.

Huh?

He's saying get them from GC, not cantina. And that there would be less complaining if there were none at all, rather a few bonus mats, however rare they may be.

No I got that, I'm confused on how he's doing 2 GC's each week. I've got 3 of them so far and 1 was from cantina, the other two were from the ONE GC we did last week...

At least Galactic Challenges give a decent amount, given you can get Max Crate, which is not something that hard. Omicrons is one of the (few) things I'm not annoyed or mad about in this game, though I hope we can use them with older characters soon, like they said.

"Granolo;c-2311960" wrote:
At least Galactic Challenges give a decent amount, given you can get Max Crate, which is not something that hard.

You don't even have to red box. Gold box gives 2 also!

Super easy to farm these.

I have 4 omicrons so far: i got 2 farming signal data with cantina energy and 2 from GC rewards

"vincentlondon;c-2312063" wrote:
I have 4 omicrons so far: i got 2 farming signal data with cantina energy and 2 from GC rewards

How do I have 6? Didn’t see any on cantina drops and was farming chirpa and paploo for the majority of the past week.

I really don't care about omicron yet. The only character that has been announced to use them is 3 mo away. So no use for them right now. And 3 mo is generous for most players. By the time you unlock and gear, 5 mo is more reasonable for most. Personally, I'm probably going to buy gear and just unlock over 5 conquests since with current projects, I'm likely bot going to have the gear for him anyway. It is also likely that the number of microns needed will take 4 or 5 mo ftp but have a pack available for whales. So no hurry. We'll get there.

I'll worry any other characters that need them once I see the ability and if it adds much utility. Like Zetas the best course is probably patience anyway.

I just don't get all the freaking out about a material you can't even use yet.

"DarkHelmet1138;c-2312097" wrote:
I really don't care about omicron yet. The only character that has been announced to use them is 3 mo away. So no use for them right now. And 3 mo is generous for most players. By the time you unlock and gear, 5 mo is more reasonable for most. Personally, I'm probably going to buy gear and just unlock over 5 conquests since with current projects, I'm likely bot going to have the gear for him anyway. It is also likely that the number of microns needed will take 4 or 5 mo ftp but have a pack available for whales. So no hurry. We'll get there.

I'll worry any other characters that need them once I see the ability and if it adds much utility. Like Zetas the best course is probably patience anyway.

I just don't get all the freaking out about a material you can't even use yet.

From the RA:

Omicrons are available primarily as rewards from Galactic Challenges, but a small amount can also be earned in Conquest and from Cantina nodes. Weekly Shipments will also provide Omicrons for Shard Shop currency. These are initial sources for Omicrons as we build up a library of characters with mode specific abilities
While many upcoming characters will have mode specific abilities, existing characters will also be reworked in future updates to also have new abilities that are tied to different modes in the game. The following characters will be given an additional tier of Mode Specific Abilities over the next several updates. (Approximately 2 per update after this Title Update):

Rose Tico
Captain Phasma
Rebel Officer Leia Organa
Darth Sidious
Qui-Gon Jinn
Zam Wesell
Chief Chirpa
Chief Nebit
Imperial Probe Droid
Hera Syndulla

So more than 1 in the next handful of updates..

"CCyrilS;c-2312105" wrote:

"DarkHelmet1138;c-2312097" wrote:
I really don't care about omicron yet. The only character that has been announced to use them is 3 mo away. So no use for them right now. And 3 mo is generous for most players. By the time you unlock and gear, 5 mo is more reasonable for most. Personally, I'm probably going to buy gear and just unlock over 5 conquests since with current projects, I'm likely bot going to have the gear for him anyway. It is also likely that the number of microns needed will take 4 or 5 mo ftp but have a pack available for whales. So no hurry. We'll get there.

I'll worry any other characters that need them once I see the ability and if it adds much utility. Like Zetas the best course is probably patience anyway.

I just don't get all the freaking out about a material you can't even use yet.

That's not a reasonable argument in a resource management game. Looking ahead and planning is not only valid, it's crititcal.

You can plan ahead but only to the extent of what you can control.

For omicrons, the only thing I can control is trying to get max crate on GC. I already do that. Further than that, we don't have enough information to decide which character abilities are best. And plenty of time to plan that out after you get close to getting a character that uses one or they rework a character.

I agree that planning ahead is critical but planning with incomplete information is foolish.

"twstdbydsn;c-2312106" wrote:

"DarkHelmet1138;c-2312097" wrote:
I really don't care about omicron yet. The only character that has been announced to use them is 3 mo away. So no use for them right now. And 3 mo is generous for most players. By the time you unlock and gear, 5 mo is more reasonable for most. Personally, I'm probably going to buy gear and just unlock over 5 conquests since with current projects, I'm likely bot going to have the gear for him anyway. It is also likely that the number of microns needed will take 4 or 5 mo ftp but have a pack available for whales. So no hurry. We'll get there.

I'll worry any other characters that need them once I see the ability and if it adds much utility. Like Zetas the best course is probably patience anyway.

I just don't get all the freaking out about a material you can't even use yet.

From the RA:

Omicrons are available primarily as rewards from Galactic Challenges, but a small amount can also be earned in Conquest and from Cantina nodes. Weekly Shipments will also provide Omicrons for Shard Shop currency. These are initial sources for Omicrons as we build up a library of characters with mode specific abilities
While many upcoming characters will have mode specific abilities, existing characters will also be reworked in future updates to also have new abilities that are tied to different modes in the game. The following characters will be given an additional tier of Mode Specific Abilities over the next several updates. (Approximately 2 per update after this Title Update):

Rose Tico
Captain Phasma
Rebel Officer Leia Organa
Darth Sidious
Qui-Gon Jinn
Zam Wesell
Chief Chirpa
Chief Nebit
Imperial Probe Droid
Hera Syndulla

So more than 1 in the next handful of updates..

Yeah I saw that. There isn't enough information there to even begin to plan on what characters to put it on.

We don't know what ability will be better or what game modes it'll effect or really anything needed to plan on how to use the omicron.

So my policy is to wait until we know more.