The 5-star Era milestone is smoke and mirrors
I want to share feedback on the Era Level material economy, based on a full investment across the entire Era.
My goal for this Era was to bring the 5 core Era characters as well as the Legendary character (Rotta the Hutt) to 5 stars, and push their Era Level toward the stated Relic 4 + Zeta milestone (Era Level 125), which is the achievable limit with 5-star characters. I did reach 5 stars on all 6 characters (Rotta included), which required consistent and rigorous resource planning over the full 3 months.
The problem: once at 5 stars, actually pushing Era Level past 110 (short of the Relic 4/Zeta tier that the 5-star cap implies) requires Era materials that, as far as I can tell, are not obtainable through any free source, nor even at a moderate cost. The only apparent way to close that gap is buying material packs priced at several tens of dollars, or pushing Era characters to 7 stars, which is also out of reach with the resources I have available.
This creates a real disconnect: the star-tier system communicates 3/4/5-star caps as directly tied to Gear 12/13/Relic-Zeta outcomes, but in practice the free material inflow doesn't keep up to reach the top of that range. Players who plan their Era around the stated milestones (as I did, in good faith) end up falling short despite doing everything asked of them. This gap wasn't even something we could have anticipated, since in the previous Era all materials were given out for free, and the tiers changed again compared to the Era before that.
My request: please review the free material inflow at the higher Era Level brackets (110+), so that the stated 5-star/Relic-Zeta milestone is ACTUALLY ACHIEVABLE as implied, not just the base 110 tier. If the intent is for the higher tiers to require spending, and if the real limit is actually affordable materials rather than star count as communicated, that's a legitimate design choice, but it should be clearly communicated upfront rather than discovered after months of investment. It's frankly shameful to dangle rewards like this in front of players when they turn out to be smoke and mirrors. Thank you for reading this, I hope it will be taken into account for the planning of future Eras, and even in acknowledging the investment I made that is now going to waste.
As things stand, I will never again farm an Era to Relic 5 — it's simply too costly for no actual result.
Arakyuzø
