"davidwanqwerty;c-2140040" wrote:
the thing tho is that it's gonna be hard for me to get to top 200 in arena when i'm not lvl 85 yet and my team is https://swgoh.gg/p/839194799/. i'm also using all of my energy trying to gear up tarkin or leia, and i feel that the journey guide pack is the fastest option for me because there's really no other use for my crystals at this point.
i'm getting around 100-200 crystals a day, and i'm currently spending them on the jedi journey guide packs, and phoenix is right after that. since the pack has 8 cards and 1 guaranteed character, and phoenix squad has only 6 members, i feel like opening a couple of those when i can will help me get phoenix squad a lot faster. that's my thought right now because it's literally impossible for me to get top 200 in arena, and i don't care at all about my ships yet.
As a general rule energy refreshes are more efficient than any packs for Crystals for either gear or shards. At least up to 50 Crystals normal and 100 cantina refreshes.
The 100 energy normal are also more efficient if you are farming enough hard modes to be worth it. But when focusing on one character, it gets more expensive as you have to also refresh the node multiple times.
The store is often quicker in those cases. But that really is only relevant if you bring in sufficient Crystal's to do that. At 100-200 a day, you pretty much have enough for a few energy refreshes a day.
Once you hit top of both arena and have 900 crystals a day, then you can do gear from the stores. But the packs are usually a huge gamble. Most of the time you end up paying 1200 crystals for 5 or 7 shards. Occasionally you get lucky. I once hit 144 on darth sion.
But even if you have the crystals, Phoenix isn't game changing enough to be worth paying the premium for. I reserve that for new characters that are arena viable at a low star count but not actually farmable. Sion was one such character back in the day. But with relics, I doubt we'll ever see another.
