We need to talk about Kyrotechs

These will be the bottleneck for quite some time.  I'm down to 69 toons not yet to g13, so that is a minimum of 6900 kyros that I need, plus what ever extras for my under g12 toons.  That is quite a few, especially with the rate they are adding toons at this point.  I feel that we have gotten to the point that R5 is the minimum "safe" place for a toon to be.  Just look at the GL Ahsoka requirements released so far:  two R9, one R8, three R7, and two R5.  Hence why R5 has become a minimum place to take a toon to avoid massive panic farming.

Except if you didn't start with 1.0 you likely can't do all the assault battles. Sure, it's a game of management, but it's much easier when you spend and much easier when you started in the beginning.  That's a big flaw in this game, start now and you can't really compete for this stuff for over a year. Forget getting to K level in GAC for 2 or 3 years if not more.

Zeffo and Mandalore? please. The elite guilds do that. That's what? 20% of the player base, if that.  My comments are in general, not to those fighting it out in K1/K2 at top guilds. 

Sure, it's not too bad if you've maxed everything out. The overwhelming majority of people have not. So, they loose quite a bit from that so-called total you've listed.

I stand by the bottom line. Kyro's are much more of a bottleneck than there was before. Much more. Providing more avenues for the elites doesn't remove that restriction for the other 90% of people.

I remember when they were stun guns. Carbantis have always been just behind the main bottleneck for me.

Of course, they have increased the cost of the Kyrotech bundle to $6.99, which I refuse to purchase because of the element of luck and the price per each Kyrotech went up (slightly).  I don't mind playing the odds when using crystals (although I don't very often), but I refuse when I'm spending money.   I'm a 10+ million GP player and I'm about done with this money pit of a game.  The good thing is the Kyro bundle was the only thing I spent money on other than when the crystal packs are on sale like May 4th, so I'm saving money.  :)

Sort of true, but as this person said,  the kyros are not only late game needs, he has toons at G10. You aren't getting anywhere close to kyros in assault battles at that point...so, mark off the 150 per month. No Mangalore either. For most players they are getting 90 per month. Not near enough to level up one toon over 5 months.

Considering that since, what? August? They've added Enoch, Peridia trooper, night trooper, morgan, sisters, marrok, shin, and Luthen (who i guess was towards the end of July).  Not to mentioned they just finished dropping POW, MQG, QA, and 5 gungans....

Just since august that's 3200-4000 kyro's someone.

3ish years ago or so, they did a 'oops sorry about all the consecutive marquees' for this exact reason. I get that unless you spend like a drunken sailor that the game is about choices, but having the data to make the choice helps immensely. Asohka, for example. It's hard to know if you have to time to devote to Baylon when you don't know what you need for the second half of Asohka...But, i'm sure they're counting on that so people will panic buy. As if that 10 figure profit line to date isn't enough.

2,800 if Luthen was July as you said. 3,200 if you want to go a full 3 months back (which would include Luthen). 

4,000 isn't anywhere possible with the toons you listed (which for this purpose I'm assuming is correct).