Cost to be competitive?

"VonZant;c-1593863" wrote:
No way would I start over. I have spent a little on the game in about 1.5 years and its usually to get the $10 pack to get a marquee character to 4* just because I like playing with new things. Those dont get me an edge in arena at all. I'm in a guild that only recently started doing heroic tank and we do T4 Sith raid, get 27 stars in TB and have mediocre results in TW. I'm 30-60 range in arena and 1-30 range in ships. My Arena team is 10-15k less GP (Edit: I just looked and its actually 25k less) than everyone around me. I ran a 3* Sion and 4* Nihilus for a long time in top 100 -150 arena. You dont have to spend a lot of, or any, money. F2P Jedi are an option now too. And with TW and TB there is a use for some of the "weaker" characters that you may have.

Just have a plan and learn how to use mods. Most people still dont understand them or use them properly and they are the most important part of the game. A g10 or g11 Vader with good mods is way better than a g12+5 with **** ones.

I think you are missing one of the main points. The OP and myself in a similar position, will never be able to get to that level of either arena, even if we spent a small fortune, because we are TWO years behind everyone else in our older shards. I have EP & Vader at G10 with good mods, and I can barely hold 350-400 in arena, all the other teams are 30K higher in GP or more, all G12 with Zetas, etc, all things I don't have, and don't even have access too, yet.

For me, being that high arena isn't everything, but it would be nice for the crystals, which is the one thing that would make starting over tempting, and to actually be competitive again and get good rewards for it, but throwing away 6 months of hard work to get to where I am now, and the thought of doing it all again, is enough to stop me I think