Drop Rate

I am convinced that the more you collect, the worse the drop rate gets. 7th Star always seems to be like 1 in 10.
I farm cantina one at a time again but hard nodes simming 5 at once. Gear in sets of 4.

Just realize it's a grind in this game, the drop rate has basically been established right around 30%, when you hit hard node only characters, then the real fun begins. The only other way to get shards is $$$. Good luck, and may the force be with you.

"Darthtater;c-1490494" wrote:
Just realize it's a grind in this game, the drop rate has basically been established right around 30%, when you hit hard node only characters, then the real fun begins. The only other way to get shards is $$$. Good luck, and may the force be with you.

This. There have been people and even entire guilds that have carefully tracked drop rates. Character shards are 30-33% regardless as to node, method, one at a time, 15 at a time, etc. It's virtually a given.

There isn't really a more effective way some people will say to only sim 1 or 3 battles at a time but in reality that's probably just confirmation bias. 1/3 is the average sometimes you go 2/15 sometimes you go 12/15. Usually 4-6/15 is gonna be average

Okay, but is there a faster way to get lando or wedge to 7 stars?
Or any other character that is good and viable?

Also , how do you get geat needed ? I'm struggling with mk 8 blasttech weapon mod and mk 6 chiewav hypo syringe

4 - 5 shards in 15 attempts is not actually that bad...

I'd kill for a 30% drop rate. I'm getting about 10-15% . I just spent about 400 energy too, not 1 character shard or gear item.
So glad I don't waste crystals for energy refreshes.

1/3 is the normal drop rate. Like has been said, sometimes you get 1/12, sometimes 7/12, but in the long run it should average out to about 4/12.

"Ishm0zThePresident;c-1488601" wrote:
Okay, but is there a faster way to get lando or wedge to 7 stars?
Or any other character that is good and viable?

You can buy 5 shards of Wedge for 400 fleet currency when he shows up (though your ship farming may suffer). Or you can spend crystals for extra cantina energy refreshes (you should probably be doing this anyway for all the 100-crystal refreshes). Or you can spend crystals if their shards show up in the shipments. They're both very good Rebels. If you get Wedge, be sure to also get Biggs (from GW store).

"Ishm0zThePresident;c-1488603" wrote:
Also , how do you get geat needed ? I'm struggling with mk 8 blasttech weapon mod and mk 6 chiewav hypo syringe

Request them from guildmates. Farm a normal node like crazy (using energy refreshes). Farm a hard node with a character you want that also has gear you want (using energy refreshes). Use guild currency, guild event currency, or shard shop currency to buy gear you need. Or spend crystals to buy them in shipments.

getting shards for vet han and chewie is even worse wouldn't farm them except that i want jedi training rey