"skywhopper;c-1283380" wrote:
Wait, were you able to get more from the fleet shop? I've gotten a ton of stun gun salvage from shard shop 2.0 already. I never once thought the fleet shop rate was worthwhile. I'm seriously confused by all the complaints around this change. For me, it's way easier now to get good gear.
I really like the new Shard Shop, but to be fair I understand where some of the complaints are coming from.
Some people really don't like ship battles so they would use the fleet tokens to buy gear. Now all they can get are ships, which they don't like, and characters, which they may not need. So they're doing a thing they don't like and getting a currency that only allows them to do more of the thing they don't like.
Another point of view is that of a person who just hit 85 and has an okay roster, but is still in the process of farming characters. For you and me it's easy, we earn spare shards for 7* characters all the time--Galactic War, bronzium packs, daily login characters--and probably have at least the GW and Cantina stores fully 7* so we can take those currencies and convert them into shard shop currency with a free conscience. But if you still need folks, then they've taken away an avenue of gearing them.
As I said, I love the improved shard shop. Once I finish Mob Enforcer I'll be getting 300 shard shop bucks a day, enough for 10 cuffs a day. That's a huge bonus for me. But not everyone is in my position.