Advice for a returning player

"MasterSeedy;c-2221805" wrote:
Separately, Jedinight1 is correct about the need for Thrawn. That means you'll need your Phoenix squad.

Shipments:
Generally you buy all 4 of those pieces of basic, low-level equipment available for cash. You do that every single time the store refreshes (which is 4x per day) for a total of 24 16 purchases. Purchase them even if you don't think you need them because they can always be scrapped and converted into relic materials in the late stages of the game. Having a large store of otherwise useless gear available to be scrapped is going to be very useful to you later.

Fixed your math & I 2nd this, just before relics came out I had stopped purchasing half of these since they seemed useless, then they announced the scavenger & I was like, DOH.

There are also useful bits of more important gear (and rare gear) available here for crystals. I recommend that you never buy gear for crystals unless it is:

• Mk3 Holo Projectors (300 crystals per completed piece, which contains 20 salvage)
  
• Mk8 BioTech Impant Prototypes (AKA "gold eyeball thingies"). You can get 50 salvage for 750 crystals, the same price per salvage as Mk3 Holos. Make sure you don't confuse these with Mk8 BioTech Implant Salvage (which you'll get from daily challenges).
  
• Mk5 Stun Gun Salvage (1300 crystals per 50 salvage, so not quite double the price as the others, but so rare compared to how often they are needed that sometimes you'll just get desperate and buy them)
  
• Kyrotech salvage (both the shock prods and the computers, they sell for 1400 crystals for 50 salvage). I wouldn't buy any of these for a long time, but the highest-end characters require so many of them that you'll have trouble keeping up when you unlock Padmé or a Galactica Legend that eventually, maybe a year from now, you might start buying these (sparingly!)
  

1. I'm not a fan of buying gear w/ crystals, but this is a solid list for the few times you do.
2. MIND BLOWN, 22 months in the game & I had never caught onto the gold/black eyeballs being that cheep Great option here for when you have lots of Gold/White parts but out of Gold/Black parts. Especially when your doing G12's that only require the Gold/Black half. AND, unlike the other 3 listed or any other item in there, this is actually about the same price/return that you'd get from the first 3 Gold Energy refreshes at 50 crystals a piece each day. THANKS!! I can't believe I missed this all this time...DOH
3. Which leads to not paying for gear if your not doing all 3 Gold Refreshes every day of the week. And Stun Guns should be a priority with that gold energy as well as Kyros since their crystal price is pretty bad.
4. The other piece I'd add to this list is the Mk5 Fully Crafted Droid Callers. I found those to be a solid buy for the price of 1400 & the rarity of them dropping in PIT raids.

Weekly Shipments.
Buy the Characters Shards for 1M credits per 10-shard lot. There are two of them each week.
I wouldn't buy anything else unless it's the same 5 gear types mentioned under regular shipments, and only for the same reasons and under the same conditions.

Back when I had a credits crunch I never purchased the characters, now I wish I had, free shards for gear is worth it once you realize how big the gear crunch is.

Cantina Battles:
Buy the following characters in the following order, one at a time until you reach the goal specified, then move to the next one. If there is no goal specified, the goal is to complete the character at 7 stars.

1. Chopper
3. Old daka
2. Hoth Rebel Scout (5* should be enough to get Rolo Shards, let the rest come via Bronziums)
7. Stormtrooper =>5*
5. Cassian's U-Wing

I tweaked the order a bit myself & honestly, the other characters are purely optional IMO & your better off switching to gear conversion at an earlier rate & going back for them as you finally get to them.

Guild Store:
If you take my advice, you'd buy no gear here for at least the next 6 months. Some people have a hard time with that though. Gear is so important and it's right there. It's so tempting. So if you're going to buy gear, set only 2 toons (usually ones that need very different gear - like an attacker and a tank or healer) ........

17. Jyn
14. Colonel Starck (5* minimum early)
5. Dengar
3. Logray
23. Young Han Solo => 6*
12. FO Special Forces Pilot => 6*
13. FO Special Forces TIE Fighter

Also, remember that a lot of toons that you take to 5* or 6* you'll want to finish at some point, just not right away. If you're working on a character lower on the list when you realize that it's time for your strategy to finish your clones, stop and finish your clones before continuing down the list. And, as always, don't for get that if there's not a goal like 5* or 6* listed, the goal is to complete the toon or ship with 7 stars.

Okay, here I differ a bit.
1. I would say to ALWAYS buy gear over Toons on the list. The few I've left are the only ones you should buy here as they are the only ones that DON'T have any other source of shards. So never buy the rest of the list here, you can get it elsewhere.
2. That said, I FULLY agree with the statement about prioritize who your gearing & ONLY be gearing a couple people at once. Personally I think focusing on 1 team at a time for Shards & a max of 3 characters at a time for gear. Why 3? Because I need at least 1 source of my LS, DS, & Fleet energy based on what is going towards guild tokens for the daily guild events bonuses. If I can farm all 3 pieces on a single person...... say M3 Carbanti (Light), M5 Stungun (Dark), M4 Bacta Gel (Fleet) for 1 toon then 1 toon is all I'm farming for. But often its more like a G12 Piece for Fleet, a Kryo for Light, a Stungun for Dark for 3 different toons on the same team.
3. I also agree that you want to focus your purchases on "Finishing" a piece. For instance I won't bother starting a Droid Caller or Security Scanner till the PIT raid drops a stack of 25 in my lap, then I'll start buying the 2nd batch of 25. That way I'm not randomly buying a Furnace, Caller, & Scanner all at the same time & taking forever to complete any single 1 of them.
4. I tweaked the list order based on the ease of the event I guess in

Squad Arena Store:

Same rules as above. Let's do this:

1. Kanan Jarrus
4. Cassian
2. Assaj Ventress

Savage isn't used for anything anymore is he?
And Greedo can't be used for Falcon so I would suggest IG-88 for BH team for double use.
If your doing LS Hoth you might do Cassian before Asajj, otherwise if you are able to farm NS then keep Assaj ahead.


As usual I agree with most of what Master Seedy is suggesting, always good advice, just tossed in a few tweaks that I'd make based on my own experiences over the last 22 months & stuff I learned.