Shard Economy Changes [MEGA]

As a player since just after launch (before even Grand Master Yoda) who made collecting my focus, this hurts to see. I've narrowed down my list of farms, over 5 years, to only 17 characters. 4 of those are Galactic Legends, 1 is a Journey character, and 2 are drops from Territory Battles that take forever to accumulate.

That means I've only got 10 characters on nodes to farm. Guess what? The freaking majority are goddamn new characters. Mothma, Piett, Cara Dune, Mando, Grieff, Krennic, Traya, Chewpio, Resisitance Hero Poe, and one more. I get a bonus farming Krennic (already 5*). Yay.

But whatever, it's to help new players, doesn't really hurt me, right? But now my gear grind, already laborious, has had a significant deceleration because of this shard shop nonsense. So the grind I've been putting off to focus on character farming is harder than ever, whilst anyone who focused on gear now can catch my farming twice as fast. It's enough to consider quitting.