Is RJT worth sinking gear into?

"DoomeyEyes;c-1391949" wrote:
People keep saying she's behind a pay wall... I got her f2p, and it was easy... but maybe im the exception... I do tend to hoard crystals and gear...

to answer your question... yes she is worth it... if you have the roster to back her up. I took her str8 to g12, zeta'd her leader and bb8's unique and took him from g11-12... then I took my 4* MT and took her to g11, stuck them all in my arena team with my g12 GK and went from tough battles using CLS, RHhan, R2, GK and Thrawn to total cakewalks... I can even auto most battles (not that I recommend it)

Old Ben may be a better choice than GK, but I don't have him geared and I used most of what I had saved to do the above. My team may not be the "optimal" team the developers have in mind, but it pwns. RJT ftw!

She's not f2p unless you, as you said, hoarded for months. It took me nearly 20k crystals to get the vets ready day 1 by farming from cantina. If you have to hoard for that long imo it's not f2p

"Shenanigans052;c-1392013" wrote:

"Ender22;c-1391875" wrote:
Not that hard to gear!? 8 mk4 data pads, 5 stun guns, 3 stun cuffs, 7 carbanti, and other tough gear pieces is not hard to gear? Phaw.

Data pads are challenge gear as is the 5, not 7 carbantis, and the rest can be farmed. You don't have to rely on rng raid gear so yeah, easy. Should be able to fully gear her in under 2 weeks. Quicker if you prepared for it

This is all true. Good points. Except the gold gear but that is cheap. I’d call it 2.5 weeks if you’re buying carbanti (which isn’t 7, it was 5)

"Shenanigans052;c-1392013" wrote:

"Ender22;c-1391875" wrote:
Not that hard to gear!? 8 mk4 data pads, 5 stun guns, 3 stun cuffs, 7 carbanti, and other tough gear pieces is not hard to gear? Phaw.

Data pads are challenge gear as is the 5, not 7 carbantis, and the rest can be farmed. You don't have to rely on rng raid gear so yeah, easy. Should be able to fully gear her in under 2 weeks. Quicker if you prepared for it

Regardless, 3 cuffs, 5 guns & 5 carbs removes her from the "easy to gear" pile pretty soundly.

Zeta her leader ability... it doesn't do much for bb8, but it allows her to cycle through her abilities faster (unless you are facing a zeta DN) and it does something amazing with R2... if he doesn't get debuffed, he will cycle through his 2 specials, back and forth... let's you perma-stealth R2 and anyone slower than him (other than your GK or whoever else you're using as a meat shield, and probably not bb8 or RJT since they get so much tm from secret intel... so R2 and whoever your 5th is... MT being a good choice) and his aoe is a great source of crits to expose and boost tm.

"DedrickRogue;c-1392045" wrote:

"Shenanigans052;c-1392013" wrote:

"Ender22;c-1391875" wrote:
Not that hard to gear!? 8 mk4 data pads, 5 stun guns, 3 stun cuffs, 7 carbanti, and other tough gear pieces is not hard to gear? Phaw.

Data pads are challenge gear as is the 5, not 7 carbantis, and the rest can be farmed. You don't have to rely on rng raid gear so yeah, easy. Should be able to fully gear her in under 2 weeks. Quicker if you prepared for it

Regardless, 3 cuffs, 5 guns & 5 carbs removes her from the "easy to gear" pile pretty soundly.

Have you tried gearing toons than need even just 3 pieces of raid gear? Or even tried GK? Being able to farm a toon to gear 12 in 2 weeks is pretty darn reasonable.

I don't believe that 3 cuffs, 5 guns & 5 carbs alone is farmable in 2 weeks. I'm not sure who came up with that mythical number, but it's flat out unrealistic.

Edit: Not sure which toons require 3 pieces of raid gear, so probably. I have geared GK. Not sure what that has to do with Rey though, since my argument was against calling her an easy gear, not suggesting she was the hardest in the game.

I'll first say that I did not spend a dime on anything to acquire and max out RJT 10 minutes after release. I bought the vets shards in the shops when they first arrived to 4*. Started hoarding crystals, omegas, zetas, gear, and credits a week before double drops...finished vets this past Monday...by last night, had 8 carbs, 6 guns, and 4 cuffs, enough crystals to buy the 2 pieces of gold gear to get her to g12 and throw on 2 zetas. How did I do this? I didn't use any of those items on any other toon in anticipation of RJT. This game is about resource management. That has been said many times before by several different people who reside at the top of the arenas. The people who say it is not possible to obtain RJT and max her out immediately have to admit to themselves at some point that until they completely embrace the fact that the most important skill in the game is managing your resources, they will assume (incorrectly) that the only way to compete is spend money.