Forum FAQ - By the players, for the players
Hello there! This thread is designed to help answer some of the FAQs players have about SWGoH. It will evolve over time and will be quite lengthy. This is the first version, and when similar quest...
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2. Drop Rates and Farming (or “The Curious Case of RNG”)
2.1. “What are the drop rates of gear and shards?”
CG has never explicitly stated the drop rates of shards and gear. The tracked data for shards it around 33%. Gear and relic data are different. Players tend to remember the bad runs of luck, and not the days where they go 5/5 on their Piett farm. Small sample sizes will have extremes, but the folks over at reddit track these things with large volumes of data. The drop rates are not adjusted by the Dev team, nor are there algorithms to reduce your drop rate as you get closer to completing a gear piece/character farm.
Shard data: https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/ckb8kn/character_shards_droprate_15k_observations/
Signal data tracking: https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/dbcjnu/signal_data_drop_rates/
Kyrotech appears to be around 20% (further links in threads):
https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/c2xmvg/kyrotech_droprate_statistics_after_1715_attempts/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/c2vmph/kyrotech_droprate_statistics_after_500_sim/
2.2.1. “The rewards say two, but I only received one”
On a node, the gear and signal data are listed as the maximum “possible” drops. In the case of signal data,”2” is listed for all three variants, but 0 and 1 are also possible drops. Some gear states 3 or more, and again, lower drops are possible. The same applies to challenges, and yes, people do receive 7 carbs from challenges occasionally. Character shards are a fixed amount. If they say “2”, you’ll get two with every drop.
2.2.2. “Why is the Rebel Roundup Assault Battle only giving me 10 shards? The rewards say 20!”
This is the exception to the “If they say “X”, you’ll get X” rule. It shows up to 20 as a possible maximum drop as it’s possible to have the same character drop twice. You’ll either get two drops of 10 shards for different characters, or one drop of 20 shards for the same character.
2.3. “Why is (insert name of character here) only awarding one shard? Shouldn’t it be two?”
We have two types of character: Accelerated and Original rate. Original rate characters are either exclusive to events, require premium currency, or have in the game less than a year. Marquee characters (so far the only ones to change from Original Rate to Accelerated since the initial Shard Economy changes) become an Accelerated Character and move to 2 shards per drop around their one year anniversary. Handy place to keep track of release dates as a guide for when a character with become Accelerated: https://swgohevents.com/marquee
2.1. “What are the drop rates of gear and shards?”
CG has never explicitly stated the drop rates of shards and gear. The tracked data for shards it around 33%. Gear and relic data are different. Players tend to remember the bad runs of luck, and not the days where they go 5/5 on their Piett farm. Small sample sizes will have extremes, but the folks over at reddit track these things with large volumes of data. The drop rates are not adjusted by the Dev team, nor are there algorithms to reduce your drop rate as you get closer to completing a gear piece/character farm.
Shard data: https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/ckb8kn/character_shards_droprate_15k_observations/
Signal data tracking: https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/dbcjnu/signal_data_drop_rates/
Kyrotech appears to be around 20% (further links in threads):
https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/c2xmvg/kyrotech_droprate_statistics_after_1715_attempts/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/c2vmph/kyrotech_droprate_statistics_after_500_sim/
2.2.1. “The rewards say two, but I only received one”
On a node, the gear and signal data are listed as the maximum “possible” drops. In the case of signal data,”2” is listed for all three variants, but 0 and 1 are also possible drops. Some gear states 3 or more, and again, lower drops are possible. The same applies to challenges, and yes, people do receive 7 carbs from challenges occasionally. Character shards are a fixed amount. If they say “2”, you’ll get two with every drop.
2.2.2. “Why is the Rebel Roundup Assault Battle only giving me 10 shards? The rewards say 20!”
This is the exception to the “If they say “X”, you’ll get X” rule. It shows up to 20 as a possible maximum drop as it’s possible to have the same character drop twice. You’ll either get two drops of 10 shards for different characters, or one drop of 20 shards for the same character.
2.3. “Why is (insert name of character here) only awarding one shard? Shouldn’t it be two?”
We have two types of character: Accelerated and Original rate. Original rate characters are either exclusive to events, require premium currency, or have in the game less than a year. Marquee characters (so far the only ones to change from Original Rate to Accelerated since the initial Shard Economy changes) become an Accelerated Character and move to 2 shards per drop around their one year anniversary. Handy place to keep track of release dates as a guide for when a character with become Accelerated: https://swgohevents.com/marquee
