Panic Farm?

"IDinDooNuffin;c-1760313" wrote:

"Ecksom;c-1760224" wrote:

"Kalano;c-1760216" wrote:

"Lethoiun;c-1760171" wrote:
Some people farmed non stop and still a little behind. I have T3 left, yes i planned at the fastest pace.

How is that possible? I farmed non stop as well and finished at the end of November

It is all down to how many gems you earn and can spend. Some people don’t do refreshes or can’t afford them in their farms. Or save them for gear.

You get enough free gems daily to reload cantina 3 times. If you decided not to, then you werent farming and its not panic farming today

I don’t mean to be contrary, but that is fake news. The most you can refill cantina (100 crystals each for the first 3 refills) from daily activity free crystals/GW completion is twice, and that is only if you were to get a very good ‘pull’ from the level 85 box (I have received 100 crystals from it at least twice, but 5 or 10 is much more common).

Sure, there will be days when you can complete a 2nd and even a 3rd refill for free from Daily log ins, event completions, achievements, TB payouts, etc., but is difficult to account for most of those in a planned farm.

Normal energy at 50 crystals a refill (for the first three) is another story, and perhaps that was what you were thinking of?.

"TheJEFFtm;c-1760405" wrote:

"IDinDooNuffin;c-1760313" wrote:

"Ecksom;c-1760224" wrote:

"Kalano;c-1760216" wrote:

"Lethoiun;c-1760171" wrote:
Some people farmed non stop and still a little behind. I have T3 left, yes i planned at the fastest pace.

How is that possible? I farmed non stop as well and finished at the end of November

It is all down to how many gems you earn and can spend. Some people don’t do refreshes or can’t afford them in their farms. Or save them for gear.

You get enough free gems daily to reload cantina 3 times. If you decided not to, then you werent farming and its not panic farming today

I don’t mean to be contrary, but that is fake news. The most you can refill cantina (100 crystals each for the first 3 refills) from daily activity free crystals/GW completion is twice, and that is only if you were to get a very good ‘pull’ from the level 85 box (I have received 100 crystals from it at least twice, but 5 or 10 is much more common).

Sure, there will be days when you can complete a 2nd and even a 3rd refill for free from Daily log ins, event completions, achievements, TB payouts, etc., but is difficult to account for most of those in a planned farm.

Normal energy at 50 crystals a refill (for the first three) is another story, and perhaps that was what you were thinking of?.

You are correct t3 is a cantina farm.

"DigitalLime2;c-1760172" wrote:
Clearly you don’t know what a panic is do you?

Induced. Panic Farm. I.e. CG/EA trying to get people to panic farm.

"Kyno;c-1760264" wrote:
IMO, a panic farm is when you dont know what is going to be needed until shortly before the event.

If the toon has been around a while, it's hard to call it a panic farm. If the characters are known, but the release time is not, it's still not really a panic farm. You know exactly what to focus on, not having time or resources to do so, is not really in the devs control. New players start all the time, they cant hold a release to make sure everyone gets them the second time around.

But that's just me.

But panic farming has nothing to do with devs. It’s a personal experience. When you find yourself in a position where you need to farm a lot of shards in a short time to get what you want, you are in panic farm mode.
The devs, the reasons you got there, whereas the requirements are known or not, have been in the game for a long time or not, all of this is 100% irrelevant to the state of affairs : you need a lot of shards, and it’s going to be a race against the clock.

"Kalano;c-1760216" wrote:

"Lethoiun;c-1760171" wrote:
Some people farmed non stop and still a little behind. I have T3 left, yes i planned at the fastest pace.

How is that possible? I farmed non stop as well and finished at the end of November

RNG. Until the last few weeks I was farming since the first event. I've put at least 100 crystals per day (200 often and 300 occasionally) into Mission/T3 and did both 25 refreshes on Jolee/Z in DS/LS nodes and a 50 refresh plus ran the 8 ship nodes on one of them daily. 48 sims per day for those 2. I had Bastila to 7* at the original event. Well, I still have 17 Z to go and its why I'm really questioning 33% drop rates. I did flip to BH ships the last few days of December through Tuesday this week to get the Falcon to 5* I put at least 40 sims in those 2 nodes daily over that time. Sometimes 48. I started from 3* on both ships with an additional 25 shards combined so I only needed about 160 shards. I've actually quit working on Z now. Giving him a break for a few days. Yesterday was 1 shard in 16 sims. Wed was 2 for 24, Tues 0 of 8, 3 of 8 on Monday and 1 of 8 on Sunday. For the year I'm also at 15% drop rate on zetas from challenges. I've received exactly 6 out of 40 possible.

What this ended up meaning for me was that when they pushed that garbage TW on us it was an easy decision to close my wallet permanently to EA. When things dont drop it's hard to spend money. I'd really prefer something like spend 30 (or 60 for those 20 energy hard nodes) energy here, get a shard.

I'm panic farming for Revan right now and have been for a while. I had to beef up my team for Chewie for a little bit and thus delayed my farming. So yes you can panic farm. Its just a rush farm where you aren't sure you'll be ready by the deadline.

A panic farm would probably be if they release the last 2 OR (Juhani and carth) characters into farmable locations a week before a Darth revan event or something like that.

I agree at this point for regular JKR it's not a panic farm. I think the panic farm moniker is more aptly used for brand new legendary or hero's journey releases that happen shortly after the required characters are released into the general farming population.

"IDinDooNuffin;c-1760302" wrote:

"Lethoiun;c-1760171" wrote:
Some people farmed non stop and still a little behind. I have T3 left, yes i planned at the fastest pace.

You didnt farm non stop then. T3 is a 3 week 3 to 7 star using only refreshes afforded by completing your daily tasks. If youve been farming from the last revan drop til now. Youd be done.

Ive worked on mission and zaalbar together for a while and just finished them a like 2 weeks ago. Now can focus catina on T3. Been doing crystal refresh as much as i can.

Some of us are behind because regardless of what the official drop rate is, some toons drop 5 shards a day. Sometimes toons won't drop 5 shards in a week. Ergo, rage induced panic farm.

"Rogenhamen;c-1760670" wrote:
I thought I was fine, happy to plug away at the OR thinking of how much fun it'll be when I get Revan. Now after learning Revan's coming back the 31st I'm not so sure. 164 shards to go on Mission, that's doable, right? It'll be a panic farm but it's doable... right?

Are you refreshing 3 times a day (300 crystals x 14 days = 4500 crystals, or about $30 in crystals)? You have roughtly 14 days, at an average of 10ish a day that's only 140ish... Might need to buy a 25 shipment (for 2000 crystals, roughly $15) or buy the $30 pack for 50 shards (plus 50 for big z for shard shop currency) and not have as much of a panic...