"Tezza23;c-1914952" wrote:
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I deny this statement. First because there are plenty of people that compete without spending. And second because skill is not a deciding factor in any current PvP. Lack of skill can be, but when every interaction is against an AI there isn't a great deal of skill needed.
I’m f2p.. been playing for 3+ years.. I’m basically stuck in between rank 100 - 200 in squad arena. I win about the same amount as I lose. It’s become very boring, and stagnant.
Then you are doing something wrong, and that has nothing to do with $$.
Really ? How did you come to that conclusion? If all f2p have the same idea which is go for the current meta they should all reach the meta teams at the same time basically resulting in no progress. I saw this with JTR where I couldn’t break from 100-200 . I splashed like £300 on light reven and got to rank 2 yes rank 2 . I refused to buy darth revean so when I got him f2p I’m currently 50-100 and everyone around me also now has darth reven.
Staying in the top 50 as a F2P player is definitely a challenge. Sometimes you have to skip a meta and go for an easier to acquire anti meta. All last summer I can a Rex (L), DN, CLS, Thrawn, Nest team to climb through the Traya teams that dominated the meta. And there was a month or so of work that went into figuring out a good counter.
Another strategy that often goes hand in hand is hoarding gear and crystals to jump on a new meta or anti meta immediately. This is the path that would have likely yielded the best results this time around. A 6 star Padme or G13 GG can get to the top of most arenas. You'd just need a way to acquire and build the characters and teams rapidly. Meaning resource management.
Your £300 alleviated the need for resource management (i.e. hoarding).
Well light reven you couldn’t possibly prepare for if you were 100-200 his required characters were only farmable for 5 mins before he dropped. Nearly every guild demands max energy be used and you 50 crystals a day can’t be saved.
Darth reven same 5 mins to farm but also with the added challenge of new gear which you couldn’t farm.
Then gear 13 most top 20 have all gear 13 squad first week.
So that’s 3 metas you’d missed out on being f2p.
You get more crystals than just your arena payout (daily activities, GW, daily login sometimes), plus there's also fleet arena if you chose to focus on that. So yes, it is possible to do a 50 crystal refresh to get your 600 and also save crystals at SA rank 100-200 if you choose to do so.
Darth Revan requirements were actually farmable longer than JKR and there were only 4 of them, so getting DR was easier. And the kyrotechs were farmable from the beginning.
Not all f2p are in the same position. If, prior to JKR, you were placing high in arena, which was more about being in a HSTR guild than about spending, then you could have saved up the crystals necessary to do all of these things. So it is in no way true that all f2p will get there at the same rate.