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Wazy226's avatar
9 years ago

Spend or Save Galactic War Tokens

Phasma, Luminara, and probably Teebo are the essential GW heroes to acquire. Poggle and 86 are both good heroes to have in your roster, but the rest of the GW heroes are generally not worth it unless you're building a faction/role-specific squad. So what do you do with your plethora of GW tokens?

I'd love to spend them on the lesser heroes in the GW shop, like Resistance Pilot, Biggs, and Magmatrooper, and hope they get a buff in the future, but I doubt that will happen.

It seems the more sound approach, given the credit crunch, is to convert your GW tokens to Shard tokens and hope that relevant, hard-to-farm heroes pop up in the Shard Shop. Essentially every 10 shards you would have gotten from GW convert to 1 shard from the Shard Shop, so it is rather steep, but it might be worth it. Otherwise you end up with lots of heroes sitting at level one in your roster with shards enough to get them to 7 stars.

So what do you think? Do you spend your GW tokens on lesser heroes in the GW shop? Or do you hold out until there are heroes in the Shard Shop that you want?

10 Replies

  • 10 to 1just seems so wrong that i wont even think about converting shards before i have 330 shards for every available toon from GW.
  • See I'm a HUGE fan of GG and when I saw him I was so excited! I saw how long the farm was for him and decided he wasn't worth it. His stats imo aren't there at all! I've already farmed Lumi, Phasma, 86, Tusken Raider, Teebo, Poggle, and Cad Bane to 7* and I have RP at 5* but I'm working on Biggs who is 4* atm just for my Rebel team. I would just farm the ones in there for depth.
  • "Super123;473023" wrote:
    I will collect all of them, or use those tokens to get General Grievous.


    Grievous is a hard grind
    "leef;473047" wrote:
    10 to 1just seems so wrong that i wont even think about converting shards before i have 330 shards for every available toon from GW.


    I agree the conversion rate is horrid. The only reason I think the Shard Shop might be the way to go is because with credits being the bottleneck for progressing multiple heroes, most of the 330 shards would be useless anyway. Unless you've got a lot of credits stacked up. But I really don't know, because a 10:1 conversion rate is extremely unappealing as well.
  • "Wazy;473087" wrote:
    "Super123;473023" wrote:
    I will collect all of them, or use those tokens to get General Grievous.


    Grievous is a hard grind
    "leef;473047" wrote:
    10 to 1just seems so wrong that i wont even think about converting shards before i have 330 shards for every available toon from GW.


    I agree the conversion rate is horrid. The only reason I think the Shard Shop might be the way to go is because with credits being the bottleneck for progressing multiple heroes, most of the 330 shards would be useless anyway. Unless you've got a lot of credits stacked up. But I really don't know, because a 10:1 conversion rate is extremely unappealing as well.


    I agree, i will probably just leave the extra characters locked with 330 shards ready. I just refuse to use the 10 to 1 conversion rate, eventhough i kinda agree that using the shard shop might be a more effective use of the GW tokens.
  • Just keep farming until you've got them all. I leave a couple thousand in the bank in case Vader shows up in the shop.
  • Stockpile a bit and then use them for shard shop or the other toons so you can 7 star them a little faster in the future. I stockpiled before the cap increase and use some to get ss tokens for GG. I may be behind on toons like magnaguard but I can't upgade most of them anyhow due to gear and credit crunch. I try to leave a floor of 2000.
  • I'm simply not spending them in the hopes a character I would like is dropped into the GW shop. Sadly it's not guaranteed that I finish GW everyday, so the stockpile is necessary
  • I'm hoping Dengar will show up in GW. I'm currently using 400 tokens/day slowly building NI, and saving the other 800 per day for a better future character.
  • Resistance Pilot is amazing, she is a total asset in raids.

    Currently I have Lumi, Phasma, Teebo, Tusken, Poggle, and Pilot done, finally working on 86 now. And that's after taking a 3 month hiatus.

    I might start saving after 86 is done, but Biggs could be a necessity for ship battles.
  • If you can finish GW daily, it's worth it to increase your roster in case there's an event which restricts the types of units you can use. I'm expecting an Empire only event (Empre Strikes Back... DEVS! You know you want to name it that =P) and a scoundrel only event (due bane being available on GW, Dengar as a daily login bonus and the new Zam Wesell on chromium).

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