What paywalls?

"Liath;c-1980742" wrote:

"Mzee;c-1980741" wrote:
That's cool you got Anakin for free. What people are missing is that it involves a lot of guesswork with planning in farming the right characters and gear levels for these events. If people don't guess right then that is potentially hundreds of dollars for a single character.

It doesn’t require any guess work in gearing if you just hoard the gear and crystals and wait for the requirements to be announced. (It doesn’t require guess work in farming either if you just farm everything there is, but that requires having played long enough and focused on farming everything for an extended period of time first).

Hoarding is usually effective, but I would have to argue tgat in this case it was not. I hard farmed shak ti, and had the stars just fine. (only about 50 short on shak ti). And a few thosand crystals solved that easily.

I had 30k in crystals saved and that easily got both teams above the minimum. However, the minimum required to actually beat the event is having several of the characters at g13 and almost all of them at g12 with g12+ pieces.

So to get this the first time ftp, you not only had to hoard but also had to have guessed correctly in gearing so that you were already at g12 on everyone before you started using your stash.

Either that or you had to have a stash way higher than mine. The g12+, kryos, and finishers just burn through crystals far faster than previous gear tiers.