"GildoMcFlay;c-1323071" wrote:
"M9silent;c-1323062" wrote:
Reading all of this, including the very latest post, the OP can't seem to grasp the concept of 2 yrs to farm these heroes.
It isn't a 6-7 month farm. It's 1+ to 2+ years. It's unacceptable. It's absolutely unreasonable to think people will be hanging around for that long when the game itself hasn't even been out for that long. Also, the heroes will be entirely irrelevant by that point, g12 won't be a thing anymore (probably g14/15), zetas won't even matter, or the game will have shut down.
The length of this 7* grind is absolutely, 100%, garbage.
I fully grasp its a 2 year farm at this point...if you want to put zero resources into it and farm it at the slowest possible pace, which is why people crying about 2 year farm is ridiculous.
I also grasp you can cut that length in half doing 1 event refresh a month that overall you can fund with crystals from just doing your dailies even if you get zero arena payouts.
I also grasp that you can cut that farm down even further by buying some MT crystal packs if you place well enough in arenas to get crystals on payout.
I also grasp you can cut that farm down even further by doing exactly what the devs want you to do and buy the 9.99 pack for 25 shards(3 months off the farm right there) and/or buying some crystals for packs, and in 6 months from now when they are about to release a few more top tier toons with a similar release cadence we'll probably see an 80 shard MT pack for 20 bucks.
Is it a 6 month farm for everyone? Absolutely not. For some it was a 1 day farm. For others its going to be a 1 month farm, a 6 month farm, a year farm, or longer. Its really no different than previous legendary releases...this one just depends more on how you want to prioritize resources going forward rather than your total accumulation of past resources.
Dude. I don't have a particular problem with the event, but saying that it's no different from other legendary toon releases is ridiculous.
First of all, 2 year farm "if you want to put zero resources into it" -- no. You have to farm up a full g7-8 NS team just to start earning shards. That's not zero resources. And yes, as you say, it is possible for FTP players to accelerate the MT and Wicket farms by saving crystals.
The big differences here:
1) The resources you have to lay out to accelerate MT and Wicket farming are straight crystals. Using them for refreshes of the event give you only those refreshes and no other benefits. For other legendary toons, using resources to farm up the required team has the nice side benefit of giving you other powered up toons and increased GP. Further, using these crystals for refreshing the MT/Wicket events directly takes away from other uses of crystals, such as refreshing energy and farming gear or hard node/cantina toons.
2) For past new characters, those who paid to get them just got the new toon. Which is great; those new toons are often powerful. Paying to get MT and Wicket however also gets you a boatload of zetas ahead of everyone else, which is a new wrinkle.
I have been playing for 9 months and I am completely FTP and I have every legendary toon 7*, except CLS (who I will get soon) and bb8 (have 5*, will get 7* when it comes back around). I think your time estimate for how long it takes new players to get these things is off.
As FTP I don't really feel like I have the right to complain about the event, and I'm not. But saying that it is no different from other legendary releases is just wrong.
