How to spend crystals for the most gain.
This guide is intended to show the way to get the most bang for your buck out of your crystals. Now everybody gets a daily influx of a small amount of crystals which varies depending on what events yo...
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"Woodroward;89490" wrote:
So what is the most productive way to spend your crystals? Energy refreshes, hands down. Now if you are already spending enough crystals on energy refreshes to bring the cost up to several hundred per refresh, buying gear or shards out of shipments may actually be more profitable. I'm not at that level myself, so I have yet to work the math for that cutoff point, but if someone requested it, or I do reach that point, I will edit it in later.
I can help you there. Basically there are three types of gear in the shipment:
1) Farmable at 8 energy nodes, needs 20 salvage. The drop rate of those is about 27% in my estimation, so you need 29 energy per salvage, or a bit fewer than 600 energy to farm the full piece. Buying this from 50 crystal refreshes works out to about 250 crystals, while they cost 273 or 300 crystals in the shipment. So it is ok to farm them with 50 crystal refreshes, especially if you need the experience gain. Farming with 100 crystal refreshes really is only good for side benefits of xp and sim tickets gained (you gain 5 seem tickets per refresh here)
2) Farmable at 10 energy nodes, needs 50 salvage. The drop rate of those is about 22% in my estimation, so you need 45.5 energy per salvage, or about 2300 energy to farm the full piece. Buying this from 50 crystal refreshes works out to about 950 crystals, while they cost 1274 or 1400 crystals in the shipment (level 81+ gear is 750 or 1250 crystals with similar 950 crystals cost). So it is really ok to farm them with 50 crystal refreshes, especially if you need the experience gain. Farming with 100 crystal refreshes you are much better off than with the first type of gear but still only good for side benefits of xp and sim tickets gained (you gain 8 seem tickets per refresh here)
3) Full Rancor raid gear, farming is not really possible, so buying is advised if you need it, the price of 1400 crystals actually is not bad. Same for Tank raid gear (not full), which is even harder to "farm", buying is advised here as well.
Personally, I am level 84, so xp gain is not so important anymore. Also, I mostly get rank 1 in Arena for the last two months, so I stack crystals with 50 energy refreshes, and buy from shipments instead of farming for 100 crystal refreshes. I actually did 100 crystal refreshes until level 80 to keep pace with other top Arena players, and of course to get Omega mats as soon as possible.
