General Grievous - the Non-Whale Acquisition Guide
So here I am, fully F2P, one refresh day away from finally unlocking General Grievous. Have him at 75/80 and I need less than a thousand in Shard Shop currency to obtain him. Getting him to 7 stars is a whole different slog, but there isn't too much of a rush at this point since my goal was really just to have him as a character first. More importantly, it's only taken me a little over a month, about the time it takes to unlock a hard-mode only character, so time-wise it's doable. At this rate, 7 stars is feasible in about 4 months, but probably longer than that as I'll have to devote resources after the level cap to more important things.
Anyway, the important thing is to have a bunch of 7* characters spread out among the various shard sources. here's what I had prior to starting out:
GW 7 stars - Lumi, Phasma, IG-86.
Arena 7 stars - Sid, Ventress.
Cantina 7 star - Poe.
Cantina node 7 star - Geonosian Soldier.
Other 7 star - Jedi Consular.
What does this translate into? Daily, if I focus on farming the shards of these characters from all possible sources:
GW - 15 shards. Just complete every day and burn the 1200 GW currency on Lumi, Phasma and IG-86.
Arena - 10 shards. Stay within top 200 and burn on Sid and Ventress.
Cantina - actually spent this on other characters. Only used to get the 5 shards from Poe the last few days since it's the home stretch.
Cantina node - 10 shards at least (1 refill). At a full 129 cantina energy plus one refill, that gives you 31 attempts to get a GS shard. 1/3 is the average. I also only started doing this in the last week.
Hard nodes - 8-10 shards from 3 nodes of Lumi, 3 nodes of JC, 2 nodes of IG-86 and 2 nodes of Poe. Refills needed to maximize.
This works out to about 45 shards a day, 675 shard shop currency. So 30 GG shards in 10 days at the current exchange rate. Longer for me because, as I mentioned, I only went aggressive for GS shards in the last week. Also, because when I began, Poe and IG-86 were still at 6*.
If you've managed to 7* other characters with hard nodes then this exercise becomes even more rewarding, shards-wise.
Meanwhile, I've managed to get Dooku to 5*, Rey to 6* and Gear 8, farmed up QGJ to almost 5* from nothing, and gotten some gear and shards here and there for Barriss and Royal Guard. So I wouldn't say progress has halted completely in other aspects of the game.
Is GG a top-tier character worth all this trouble? Currently nope, but the level cap increase and changes to defense and slow character damage may just change this. And really, I just wanted to see if it was possible to snag him without spending a cent.
General Grievous: not just for whales.
P.S. if they make him available elsewhere or reduce his cost/conversion rate in the shard shop I am going to be so very peeved.
Anyway, the important thing is to have a bunch of 7* characters spread out among the various shard sources. here's what I had prior to starting out:
GW 7 stars - Lumi, Phasma, IG-86.
Arena 7 stars - Sid, Ventress.
Cantina 7 star - Poe.
Cantina node 7 star - Geonosian Soldier.
Other 7 star - Jedi Consular.
What does this translate into? Daily, if I focus on farming the shards of these characters from all possible sources:
GW - 15 shards. Just complete every day and burn the 1200 GW currency on Lumi, Phasma and IG-86.
Arena - 10 shards. Stay within top 200 and burn on Sid and Ventress.
Cantina - actually spent this on other characters. Only used to get the 5 shards from Poe the last few days since it's the home stretch.
Cantina node - 10 shards at least (1 refill). At a full 129 cantina energy plus one refill, that gives you 31 attempts to get a GS shard. 1/3 is the average. I also only started doing this in the last week.
Hard nodes - 8-10 shards from 3 nodes of Lumi, 3 nodes of JC, 2 nodes of IG-86 and 2 nodes of Poe. Refills needed to maximize.
This works out to about 45 shards a day, 675 shard shop currency. So 30 GG shards in 10 days at the current exchange rate. Longer for me because, as I mentioned, I only went aggressive for GS shards in the last week. Also, because when I began, Poe and IG-86 were still at 6*.
If you've managed to 7* other characters with hard nodes then this exercise becomes even more rewarding, shards-wise.
Meanwhile, I've managed to get Dooku to 5*, Rey to 6* and Gear 8, farmed up QGJ to almost 5* from nothing, and gotten some gear and shards here and there for Barriss and Royal Guard. So I wouldn't say progress has halted completely in other aspects of the game.
Is GG a top-tier character worth all this trouble? Currently nope, but the level cap increase and changes to defense and slow character damage may just change this. And really, I just wanted to see if it was possible to snag him without spending a cent.
General Grievous: not just for whales.
P.S. if they make him available elsewhere or reduce his cost/conversion rate in the shard shop I am going to be so very peeved.
