Why you shouldn’t 6* mods.

"DarkHelmet1138;c-1722220" wrote:

"Liath;c-1722212" wrote:

"DarkHelmet1138;c-1722205" wrote:

"Liath;c-1722203" wrote:

"Mr_Sausage;c-1722195" wrote:
I don’t see any good reason in the OP to not upgrade to 6*. Am I missing something?

The issue is that if you want to try to do events like C3PO at the minimum possible gear level, you want to compensate for the lack of gear by moving your best mods to the team, but the team won’t be able to use 6* mods because they aren’t g12.

I still don't see that as much of an issue. If the event is of the easy type, the gear os easy to get. If it's of the hard type, the team is usually good enough that putting h12 on one or more toons isn't wasted gear.

And for the hard type I don't like pulling my arena mods unless absolutely necessary. It's a pain to have to move them around and you fall too far if the event takes more than a few hours. Better to just farm more good mods and only use arena mods if absolutely needed. Even if it means gearing more than needed.

This is a matter of play style, in part, and what teams you like and want to work on at the time. Gearing Ewoks or BH isn’t wasted, I agree, but some people might not want to do it at the time they are completing the events if they don’t have to because they simply have other priorities.

The claim that if the event is of the easy type the gear is easy to get isn’t necessarily true either. Thrawn event is a lot easier than these two legendaries but Phoenix gear is miserable. They require a boat load of stun guns to get past g8, so running the event at g8 with good mods was far preferable to me at the time I did it than gearing them up more.

I was thinking more of the revan event. I don't have revan because of stars but gearing a toon fron g1 to g9 is really quick.

Part of it is also that the low level gear is easier to get now then it was two years ago. Part of it is being end game I'm sure but not all of it. I did Pheonix when we didn't have a guild events store.

I also only had limited mods at the time. Now I can get decent mods on a team without pulling them from other teams rather easily. I have probably 50 speed arrows and dozens if mods with +10 or more speed secondaies. My arena mods have +18 or +19 but if you put +10 or more on a team for events with speed arrows, then you'll do fine in most cases.

It does vary depending on what part of the game you're in. If you're a new player and only have a handful of mods, you'll probably need to move them. But by the time you have g12 characters to put 6 dit mods on, you should be able to get +10 or +15 speed mods quickly enough from events that you'll always have some that still need slicing. So by the time you have a handful of g12 characters, you have plenty of mods that slicing them isn't detrimental.

Sure, it’s a matter of what you have, how close you are cutting it to the minimum possible, and all of that. Maybe at an even lower gear level you can do it with the +20 mods when you can’t do it with the +10. It’s always going to be marginal. I am not the OP and wouldn’t have phrased the topic as “why you shouldn’t” so much as “why you should think carefully.” Not everybody finds +15 mods easy to come by.

The other concern, aside from events, is the occasional marquee character that is really useful, even for arena, at lower stars. For somebody who isn’t going to pay for such a character but might still want to use it in arena, making sure to have some good mods available for such an occurrence could also be important.