Wampa and Hoda

I solely farmed Hyoda first then Wampa and didn’t buy any gear. My guild got 35-38* I don’t remember it taking too long. Have had Wampa for a good 3 months now. Maybe took 3-4 months each but so much more worth it than a few more gear levels on characters. Plus together form one of the best p2 hSTR teams.

You can get Wampa shards from the Bounty Hunter event.

"ChristophIV;c-1614752" wrote:
You can get Wampa shards from the Bounty Hunter event.

Except this requires you to gear BH's to gear 11-12 just to get 10 shards. For other legendary events gearing up the right team unlocks the whole character. Seems odd to have a character that can't be purchased or is so difficult to acquire. Doesn't seem to fit the purchase model CG employs.

They're designed specifically for late-game players and not intended to be farmed quickly at low / mid-game levels. Once you build up to a guild that regularly does 40+ stars on LS and DSTB the farm is fairly quick (if you completely ignore gear and other character shards in there).

Like everything in this game you're presented a choice on how you want to progress through the game. I see those options as follows:

1) ignore everything in that store and farm Hoda and Wampa - this gives you an advantage over other players that started the same time as you for arena / HAAT & Pit, but provides a disadvantage in that you have less depth in your roster because you spent currency that could be used to gear your toons on character shards

2) you ignore those two toons and farm gear. this provides you a well rounded roster that provides an advantage in TB, TW, and HSTR. Really, any game mechanic that requires a large, well geared roster of toons.

My advice, ignore them until you are around 2 million total GP. Farm as many MKV Stun Guns as you can from guild event store. Gear your ideal arena team and legendary / hero toons to G12 (dont worry about the G12 gear unless you must). Start farming Hoda or Wampa and focus 100% of Guild Event Tokens on that character until they're 7*.

For reference, I'm 3.3 million GP and have Hoda at 7* and Wampa at 6*. I focused on gear for a long time and now I'm exclusively farming Wampa until 7*. It's frustrating because there's obviously a gear crunch, but i stay focused on my goal because trying to do both would just make both farms longer.

"Rebel_yell;c-1614758" wrote:
For reference, I'm 3.3 million GP and have Hoda at 7* and Wampa at 6*. I focused on gear for a long time and now I'm exclusively farming Wampa until 7*. It's frustrating because there's obviously a gear crunch, but i stay focused on my goal because trying to do both would just make both farms longer.

How long did this farm take you though. I saw someone break down the math on reddit and based on that math it takes roughly 5 months to 7*. This seems particularly unreasonable to me.

Does seem like a long time, but that's probably shorter than a hard node farm from scratch.

"ChristophIV;c-1614768" wrote:
Does seem like a long time, but that's probably shorter than a hard node farm from scratch.

True BUT most characters that can only be farmed from a hard node are generally available through alternative means as well, like shipments (crystals), stores (currency), events or even packs ($). Wampa and Hoda seem to be the only ones that don't fit this model (outside the newly introduced BH events that don't really offer much in comparison).

"GTazDevil;c-1614764" wrote:

"Rebel_yell;c-1614758" wrote:
For reference, I'm 3.3 million GP and have Hoda at 7* and Wampa at 6*. I focused on gear for a long time and now I'm exclusively farming Wampa until 7*. It's frustrating because there's obviously a gear crunch, but i stay focused on my goal because trying to do both would just make both farms longer.

How long did this farm take you though. I saw someone break down the math on reddit and based on that math it takes roughly 5 months to 7*. This seems particularly unreasonable to me.

It's shorter than a 20 energy hard node farm. This game is about getting you to commit long-term. I've done some numbers below:

Assumptions: 40* in both DS/LS TB, 100 million GP guild, Wins every TW, has between 45 - 50 guild members, you're starting from 0 shards

** I don't know the reward structure for DSTB, so I've simply used LSTB GET star reward structure

6600 GET per TB from rewards, 1250 per TB from SMs, 1350 per TW for successful Win = 21,100 GET per month (2 TB and 4 TW)

Each shard of Hoda or Wampa costs 270, so 330 / (21,100 / 270) = 4.22 cycles of 2 TBs and 4 TWs or approx 4 1/2 months (rounding up) the fewer stars you earn, the lower your guild GP, the fewer TWs you win all push this up. So 5 - 6 months doesn't sound like bad math.

That's really not terrible for such high caliber toons and you'll also be getting Hyoda shards as you move up the accomplishment ladder for TB stars earned. I'm not saying it's easy, but relative to Baze, Shoretrooper, Wicket, MT, and others, I find this one to be a lot less frustrating. It's just about committing yourself to a single goal.

I'm leaving them until later myself.

As a rising player I need gear, and our guild currently only knocks out about 13-14 stars in TB.

They seem intended as "Done it all? Here's something else to do" pair of toons.

5 months is reasonable compared to most single hard node farms.

Never farmed Hoda and while have few shards initially spent that ccy on other stuff. Around Jan decided wanted Wampa and was very focused on it. Guild is around 70m GP so decent number from TB but not huge. Got him to 7* about a month ago.

Still not farming Hoda, want G12 bits then will do that. Decisions, decisions......