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coolnessda
Rising Newcomer
4 years ago

Best gear 12 salvage farming strategy

Of all the gear levels that are the worst to complete at least for me gear 12 is by far the most irritating. Virtually all the salvage can only be found in fleet battles which like cantina battles has the worst energy refill rate and of course the god awful drop rates of the salvage I need. Sure shard shop usually has some stuff and a vast majority can be purchased from guild event store but since these events dont occur enough to maintain a decent supply of currency, we are left with refreshing energy for potential poor drops or buying gear from daily shipments. And then there is the gear 12 finishers but that's a different nightmare. Am I better off just sticking to buying the salvage from event shop and shipments and minimal farming? I've gone days where I've blown through like 200 energy points and gotten either nothing or 1 or 2 pieces of salvage.
  • UC-mariogsh's avatar
    UC-mariogsh
    Seasoned Novice
    Fleet battles have been had the same energy refill that the normal/mods ones since like a year ago dude lol

    But yeah, droprates sucks, best advice? Shard shop, HSTR top 10, or crystals, if you have a good income of them

    Also, I see a LOT more frustrating G8-G9
    At least at G12 a character is useful lol
  • coolnessda's avatar
    coolnessda
    Rising Newcomer
    By refill rate I meant that it gets less energy rewards like light and dark side battles do making it harder to do more battles unless you're willing to part ways with 50 crystals for a refresh at the start vs the 25 for light/dark battles.
  • I like to say that I can take 1 toon per week to relic from g12+0, but honestly that's been cut down some now that so many in my guild have SLKR & I'm running GL Rey. Even so, I still get 1 per 8 days or so (and I hope it gets better again once I've got SLKR myself).

    With Kyros you need 2800 crystals to get your 100 salvage from shipments & you don't save that much farming them using regular energy. So I tend to just buy the things. This means that if someone needs more than 1 full Kyro, I have to spend 5600, which is more crystals than I can bank in a week after subtracting daily refreshes from my income.

    So for some toons, I can take 10-11 days for a purple gear tier, while g12+0 => relic is still 8. Those double-Kyro levels always end up being the most frustrating for me. This is particularly true since the right-side pieces that are the real work at g12 provide speed bumps & good boosts to other stats as well. A completed Kyro by itself doesn't help a whole lot. So the effort/reward ratio is still much better (and to me more tolerable) at g12.