Noob (4 months) diary of sorts! Now updated!
Okay, I clearly must have no clue what I'm doing. I'm hearing people with 6 star this and 7 star that, when all I've got is 4 star crap! I'm a little angry but I'm going to relent and list what I have...
Forum Discussion
You don't have to start over.In my opinion the ability to get to the top of the arena (at least at the moment) depends more on how many whales there are on your server than anything else - its hard to beat those whales. Your level 70 7* characters are as good as anyone elses and should allow you to climb the ranks when you get them - they don't get better with age.
I understand it must be depressing to have dropped money on this game and not gotten much for it and you may have better luck in the arena if you start again - but you don't have to.
The good news is that there is a lot you can do for free.
Make sure you get all your daily rewards - this is key to leveling up. It takes a couple of days to level up in the 50s/60s, so you should be hitting max level in about a month or so.
Secondly - use crystals on refreshes. One cantina + two normal energy at a minimum. My personal preferrence is not to farm anyone on hard nodes that is available anywhere else (I'm looking at you dooku) as it seems really inefficient, but to have a couple of long term projects like Rey that you can't get anywhere else.
You didn't say where you were in arena, but if you can break the top 200 you can get 10 shards a day towards a character, if you complete GW every day that gives 15 shards a day to a character. Thats 2.5 seven* characters every month (ish).
Getting sid and lumi up in stars will help your arena no end. Focus on either poe or QGJ in cantina rewards - poe isn't as good as he was, but is still a strong character against slightly slower teams.
Farm GS from cantina nodes. With one refresh a day, you should be able to get about 8ish shards a day, meaning you can have him 6 star in about a month, less if you do more refreshes or are lucky with the RNG.
With that you should have a 7 star sid, lumi, 6 star GS, 5 or 6 star poe/qgj + 1 other in about a month (ig86 might be a good quick option as he has multiple farming options - I worked out that if I focused all attention on him (GW+cantina+nodes) he would take 12 days to go from 0 to 7 stars.
I understand it must be depressing to have dropped money on this game and not gotten much for it and you may have better luck in the arena if you start again - but you don't have to.
The good news is that there is a lot you can do for free.
Make sure you get all your daily rewards - this is key to leveling up. It takes a couple of days to level up in the 50s/60s, so you should be hitting max level in about a month or so.
Secondly - use crystals on refreshes. One cantina + two normal energy at a minimum. My personal preferrence is not to farm anyone on hard nodes that is available anywhere else (I'm looking at you dooku) as it seems really inefficient, but to have a couple of long term projects like Rey that you can't get anywhere else.
You didn't say where you were in arena, but if you can break the top 200 you can get 10 shards a day towards a character, if you complete GW every day that gives 15 shards a day to a character. Thats 2.5 seven* characters every month (ish).
Getting sid and lumi up in stars will help your arena no end. Focus on either poe or QGJ in cantina rewards - poe isn't as good as he was, but is still a strong character against slightly slower teams.
Farm GS from cantina nodes. With one refresh a day, you should be able to get about 8ish shards a day, meaning you can have him 6 star in about a month, less if you do more refreshes or are lucky with the RNG.
With that you should have a 7 star sid, lumi, 6 star GS, 5 or 6 star poe/qgj + 1 other in about a month (ig86 might be a good quick option as he has multiple farming options - I worked out that if I focused all attention on him (GW+cantina+nodes) he would take 12 days to go from 0 to 7 stars.
