Cost to be competitive?

"thedrjojo;c-1592735" wrote:
Swgoh.gg you can make an account and link it to let others see what you currently got.

Might be wise to look at one of the new player farming guides. But most of them are consistent:

Phoenix squad is a very useful team. The best thing they do is help you unlock Grand Admiral Thrawn who is one of the best characters in the game. Phoenix isn't hard to get in general, can be done in about a month. Two characters use cantina energy (hera/ezra), one cantina currency (chopper), one galactic war currency (zeb) and one arena currency (kanan). Sabine is the hardest but least important. You just need to clear galactic war every day and use 3 energy refreshes to farm hera/Ezra. So you can get them in a month for about 1 or 2 $20 crystal pack investment (or a single $50 pack). Or totally free for a little longer time investment. Thrawn event is in 2 weeks so you won't be able to get them ready for that, so you would be looking at about 2-3 month wait.

Commander Luke Skywalker (you just missed his event) is a great toon as well, and requires 7* farm boy Luke, old Ben, Leia, stormtrooper Han, and r2d2. You likely have made some progress on some of these characters. To get 7* r2d2 you need an empire team, which Emperor Palpatine is probably the most used leader for the top arena teams. So if you can get him, definitely do. Vader is also very good and useful, so 7* him as well.

Sith is actually overpowered currently. This is because Darth traya (only can be gotten from the sith raid so unlikely you will get her anytime soon), Darth Nihilus, and Darth Sion (all 3 from Knights of the Old Republic games). DN and DS are both farm able from hard nodes, but take a while. You can also buy crystals and buy their shards from shipments. Each cost 80 crystals/shard, and they are viable characters at 3 stars each, so you could start using them after 50 shards, or 4000 crystals, which would be about $30 or so each. To get them 7* I think it's somewhere like $150 each. But current meta involves both of them, and you asked about costs.

Emperor Palpatine, Vader, thrawn, Nihilus and Sion is the current meta, only cause traya isn't widely available, but she replaces Vader in most teams.