"CamMitchell;c-2180444" wrote:
"DarkHelmet1138;c-2174978" wrote:
I think how quickly you get to relics depend on several factors.
For veteran players that have most ship nodes, cantina nodes, and hard nodes done it isn't that bad.
However newer players that still need to farm shards from those nodes face a much longer timeline.
If you are still having to farm characters from cantina, relic signal data is very slow to get. If you are still farming your ship node characters, g12 gear takes longer. If you are still farming hard nodes, kyros take longer.
The guild event store is great to reduce the stun gun crunch but if you are still getting hoda, wampa, gas, or malak from there that option doesn't help.
I don't think the gear crunch is as bad for players that have played for 5 years. However, for newer players it is a pretty steep climb. Adding another challenge tier with stun guns and kyros would go a long way to make to better.
Well said. The other thing I would add to this is what shard you are on because that explicitly determines your available crystals for refreshes. I have been playing since nearly the beginning and took a few months break around when Aurra Sing was released. I cannot break top 100 in Squad Arena, let alone reach top 10 or #1, because I am on an old shard with GLs at the top and maxed out, god-tier speed modded DR and GAS squads below that. I have been doing my best in a competitive guild and been focus-farming for top meta characters for over a year now, but I rarely have enough crystals to do more than 1 refresh on a node, or more than the 50 crystal refreshes on energy.
Have you tried a counter team? I took an 8 month break and with the vader rework it only took a couple of months to get to the top again.
Darth revan can be countered by a mirror match with gmy in for tenacity up. If their dr is faster you also need a pretaunt.
GAS can be countered with Darth revan and raid han to stun rex early.
Rey can be countered easily with vader, thrawn, wat (5 star low gear is fine), darth revan, and dark Bastilla.
Kylo teams that aren't all fo can be countered with thrawn, vader, wat, raid han (to stun hux), and a pre taunt (I used brood alpha.)
So you can build enough counters to climb pretty quick.
