The Mod Changes Megathread

"3pourr2;c-1622080" wrote:
I think they should add slicing materials to mod challenges a week before they drop the update so we can gain some materials .

That would be a great idea! I just hope they aren't as bad as reinforcement mats for fleet.

Here's my perspective as a relatively new player.

I've found mod's to be the most prohibitive aspect of the game for me. I've been regularly farming mods since I could and due to terrible RNG luck I have 3-4 mods that have gone past the +10 point. I'm certain it's mods that are stopping me breaking the top 50 in squad arena consistently as I face so many lesser gear'd teams that wipe the floor with me due to speed. With this in mind I feel there's some both good and bad parts of these changes for me.

1. Lower cost for upgrading mods - good change. Even just for throwing trash mods on pilots this makes it a lot easier.
2. Mod store currency changes (ship credits) - I hate this. I understand it's probably popular with longer players but I've only just finished leveling the core of my fleet. To expand my roster and experiment with new ships will be taking all my ship credits for quite some time. I've given up on checking the mod store because every time I see a mod I want; I realize it's for ship credits and I can't afford it. So although point 1 is helpful; point 2 actually makes it harder for me to get mods I really want.
3. Slicing - I'm optimistic. Due to my bad RNG luck this could be a way to bring some of my poor mods up to a solid standard. Or it could drive me insane. I guess the verdict will come after I see how rare the slicing materials are or if they make any other changes to the mod battles which award nothing of any value right now.
4. Mod management - yes please! All good things here.
5. Removal of challenge requirements - again. Good times for me. Happy with this.
6. Mod energy - All good for me! I have so many cantina farms this will free me up to make faster progress on these characters and still allow me to farm mods without using all my fleet arena crystals on refreshes.
7. 6 dot mods - probably the best way they could have introduced these so that's fine but as per point 3; the rarity of the slicing materials will really depend on how much this either helps or hinders me. I'll have to slice a LOT of mods to keep my fleet arena toons up to speed; which means either slicing crap mods just to 6 dot them or waiting until I have mods worth investing in. Either way COULD be a total PITA but it really depends on what happens with the mod battle table in the end.

TL;DR - These changes sound positive from my perspective but there's still plenty of scope for it to turn out to be horrible. Cautiously optimistic.

"benjammin;c-1616177" wrote:
@CG_SBCrumb - 13,000 guild currency spent on Jawa Engineer - worth nothing now honestly. (You and I both know he’s not that great of a healer...). That's 3 MK 5 furnaces I could have farmed, 5* Scavenger Rey for RJT, etc...... Crit Damage was easily the most restrictive mod challenge in the game since there are only 5 Jawa even in the game. I think the fact it has received no increases from the update shows how valuable it was to have exclusive access to.

I hope there is some kind of plan for a Jawa only event to fill the void left from farming these chars. C-3PO Legendary event requiring Jawas maybe? Or a monthly Jawa-only event that awards slicing mats? Some kind of benefit for the Jawa farms needs to be paired with this release if you’re really concerned with “protecting the investment” of players in my opinion.

Every other faction for mod challenges had multiple options to farm, and every single one of them has a legendary or Assault Battle that requires them. So, they have ongoing benefits to having been farmed even with the mod challenges requirement going away.

I’m just asking you to please pair some kind of benefit to having these Jawa farmed up with this mod release

@CG_TopHat @CG_Carrie @CG_SBCrumb - Please tell me you’ve got something planned for those of us who invested in Jawa (especially Engineer) with no real use for them now. :-)

First off, Jawa Engineer is not worthless. Just wait until the Droid meta comes back around. You will be glad you have him, and glad you got him to 7*.

Also, for those of us who were around when mods first came out, the First Order mod section only had 5. So it's not like Jawa are unique in only having 5 of them.

Also, don't expect anything in "compensation."

How do you think those of us who farmed Rey and Anakin from only 2 hard nodes felt when Rey became available on the Guild store and Anakin became available in the Cantina? That was a good year plus of farming changed down to a few weeks of farming. No one expected compensation then, nor should you now. Oh and I have news for you. If you think farming from the Guild store is a "difficult farm" you may be playing the wrong game. That's one of the easiest farms there is.

Just a thought, for the players that have spent the time and effort and resources to farm Jawas just for the mods :
- A monthly event could be added with 3 tiers of difficulty (with 0 - 3 - 5 star requirement), that will require only Jawas and no other faction, even with just small rewards like for example 100k credits, 2 ability mats, 1 omegas, per respective tier.

Nothing much to create a benifit for the players that have Jawas already, but enough to reduce the sadness of the effort put on them.

Personally I finished tier 3 of CD mod challenge not long ago, and had since then no real time or cantina energy priority yet to work on the CD mod farming, and it really feels bad for the effort I put just for that ...

Hopefully someone from game might read this, and find it a possible good idea. Thanks

I would like to know if they are going to make the most worthless primary mod accuracy into something worth placing. I don't think I have seen 1 mod loadout that require the use of accuracy mods and if they are they are rare. It's hands down the the least used primary mods.

"QuiGonJinn;c-1624486" wrote:


Hopefully someone from game might read this, and find it a possible good idea. Thanks

This is actually a pretty cool idea, though I would add they should just make an OG Tatooine event that uses Jawas and/or Tuskens ONLY. Make gear the primary reward (Carbantis, Cuffs, and Guns) because, well, Jawas are scavengers after all...

Im actually in favor of this time frame patching why issue client restarts during prime American hours. Asia is likely the lowest market so pushing clients during there early morning is probably the most ideal time.

"icanectc;c-1629102" wrote:

"DarjeloSalas;c-1629085" wrote:
Let me guess, you are American?

So it’s ideal for you.

Like many other European players I had woken up, burned my Hard node refreshes, then got the client update. If you can’t see why that’s not “ideal” I don’t think I can help you.

It's not relevant where i am. Getting put into a patch cycle that limits the downtime to the most people/players regardless of geolocation is what's relevant.

That's fine. Giving us a day's notice that we should save energy would solve it all. And CG actually promised they'd do that. But.. well.. didn't. Again.

Has anyone try mod swapping after update? Before update mods that you release from the character was sorted from the high level to lowest level. So if you have a bunch of low level mods 12 and under it was easy to swap since all your character you have mods on have most likey level 15 mods. Now it sorta by original tier (color of mods Gold, Purple, Blue, Green, White) . If you have hundred of mods in your mods pool it take such a long time to find the mod you just release to swap to another character. Anyone have any suggestion to make mods easier?

Please... focus the real problem: the drop rate of these new materials in very close to zero......