How does one get crazy secondary speed mods

"Legend91;c-1743592" wrote:

"enlguy;c-1743532" wrote:
tl;dr: Are Arena rankings, based so much on speed, really just luck at a certain point

No.
Rock doesn't beat sciccors no matter how much speed your rock has.

If engines like Poe or FOO or Boba or Zam or Vader or Sith Assasin or Nest get to go first, a far lesser team can easily beat a far greater gear team. In the case of Poe or Vader you may never get to move at all. Speed is not the only important stat, but at least right now it is the most important stat.

"VonZant;c-1743769" wrote:

"Legend91;c-1743592" wrote:

"enlguy;c-1743532" wrote:
tl;dr: Are Arena rankings, based so much on speed, really just luck at a certain point

No.
Rock doesn't beat sciccors no matter how much speed your rock has.

If engines like Poe or FOO or Boba or Zam or Vader or Sith Assasin or Nest get to go first, a far lesser team can easily beat a far greater gear team. In the case of Poe or Vader you may never get to move at all. Speed is not the only important stat, but at least right now it is the most important stat.

That last sentence has applied to every aspect of this game for the past 3+ years.

Luck.

"Jarvind;c-1743805" wrote:
Luck.

It’s not luck. I spent hundreds of millions of credits and ship currency on mods that didn’t level speed and got a couple dozen gems in the group.

You have to throw resources at it until the percentages work out in your favor.

"BrtStlnd;c-1743859" wrote:

"Jarvind;c-1743805" wrote:
Luck.

It’s not luck. I spent hundreds of millions of credits and ship currency on mods that didn’t level speed and got a couple dozen gems in the group.

You have to throw resources at it until the percentages work out in your favor.

Which is what luck is.

"BrtStlnd;c-1743859" wrote:
until the percentages work out in your favor.

This is also known as "luck."

"christopher152003;c-1743882" wrote:

"BrtStlnd;c-1743859" wrote:

"Jarvind;c-1743805" wrote:
Luck.

It’s not luck. I spent hundreds of millions of credits and ship currency on mods that didn’t level speed and got a couple dozen gems in the group.

You have to throw resources at it until the percentages work out in your favor.

Which is what luck is.

Luck is getting a 25 speed secondary on your 1st, 5th or 10th mod. Not on your 500th purchase of a 3.91m credit mod from the store.

I’m saying the answer to the original question is to invest tons of resources into mod farming.

"BrtStlnd;c-1743900" wrote:

"christopher152003;c-1743882" wrote:

"BrtStlnd;c-1743859" wrote:

"Jarvind;c-1743805" wrote:
Luck.

It’s not luck. I spent hundreds of millions of credits and ship currency on mods that didn’t level speed and got a couple dozen gems in the group.

You have to throw resources at it until the percentages work out in your favor.

Which is what luck is.

Luck is getting a 25 speed secondary on your 1st, 5th or 10th mod. Not on your 500th purchase of a 3.91m credit mod from the store.

I’m saying the answer to the original question is to invest tons of resources into mod farming.

I mean you're not wrong, I was just saying luck is the ultimate deciding factor. You can't win the lottery if you don't buy a ticket, of course, but even if you buy a million tickets you can still lose.

Case in point, I've been pretty steadily farming and slicing mods for 6 months and I still have yet to acquire a single mod with over 20 speed. I think my highest is an 18.

"BrtStlnd;c-1743900" wrote:

"christopher152003;c-1743882" wrote:

"BrtStlnd;c-1743859" wrote:

"Jarvind;c-1743805" wrote:
Luck.

It’s not luck. I spent hundreds of millions of credits and ship currency on mods that didn’t level speed and got a couple dozen gems in the group.

You have to throw resources at it until the percentages work out in your favor.

Which is what luck is.

Luck is getting a 25 speed secondary on your 1st, 5th or 10th mod. Not on your 500th purchase of a 3.91m credit mod from the store.

I’m saying the answer to the original question is to invest tons of resources into mod farming.

That’s the answer. I got to 57 20+ by sheer volume of purchases and the percentages working out over time. Luck would be someone hitting a substantially higher percent than the actual numbers are.

"Jarvind;c-1743902" wrote:

"BrtStlnd;c-1743900" wrote:

"christopher152003;c-1743882" wrote:

"BrtStlnd;c-1743859" wrote:

"Jarvind;c-1743805" wrote:
Luck.

It’s not luck. I spent hundreds of millions of credits and ship currency on mods that didn’t level speed and got a couple dozen gems in the group.

You have to throw resources at it until the percentages work out in your favor.

Which is what luck is.

Luck is getting a 25 speed secondary on your 1st, 5th or 10th mod. Not on your 500th purchase of a 3.91m credit mod from the store.

I’m saying the answer to the original question is to invest tons of resources into mod farming.

I mean you're not wrong, I was just saying luck is the ultimate deciding factor. You can't win the lottery if you don't buy a ticket, of course, but even if you buy a million tickets you can still lose.

Case in point, I've been pretty steadily farming and slicing mods for 6 months and I still have yet to acquire a single mod with over 20 speed. I think my highest is an 18.

Just to relay my case in point - I spent almost every single credit and ship currency I earned for probably 18 months on mods with speed secondaries from the mod store. I have somewhere around 125 mods at > 15 and probably 15 at > 20.