Buying Shards With Crystal's?

So I feel if you are level 85 with a couple of 60k-90k powered ls / darkside teams it's not good value as refreshes and playing the nodes would treble the shards gained.

However as this section is for new players... That said tou wouldn't be able to unlock characters like darth nihilus until end game level. Getting to dark side 9a and with 3 stars is quite difficult for even seasoned players.

Like others have said even darth nihilus/bastila shan/ talzin /zombie at 4 stars would help arena and raid teams anyway.

Buying refreshes with crystals gets you:
* shards
* gear
* in-game currency
* cantina tokens (cantina battles only)
* xp (level up faster)

Buying shards with crystals gets you:
* shards

Buying impossible characters to get is the best choice. If u can unlock sion and dn do it. They are meta and work great in arena. All u need is to unlock them.

I've spent a lot of crystals on shards on two occasions:

To get Tie Adv for fleet
To get Sion to 4* for Empire squad

Both of these pushed me into top 10 fleet and top 50 arena, and allowed me to continue the extra crystals daily. If you get them early enough, they actually pay for themselves and become free. It's true that the energy increase is more efficient, perhaps moreso now that you can farm Bastila at lower levels, but those two purchases for me as a F2P were priceless in my progress.

Thanks to Traya and getting high in arena I started having crystals on bossk to 7*. It does help a good bit I got him to 7* much quicker than usual. Buying 4shards is like buying a day and a half. It builds up over time could cut your farming time by a month. Depends on your crystal situation of course

Don't spend crystals on shards, as the famous AA says...

ITS A TRAP

I only spend crystals on shards if it’s the only way to get them. Got Bastila to 6 stars and 14/100 with crystals, but now exclusively farming her two nodes.