Returning player.

"IronCross;c-1982453" wrote:
Your definition of high level no longer is relevant.

Could you be a little more.... Helpful?

Start over and ruin any collection that he has saved up. Horrible idea

"Astendb5;c-1982654" wrote:
Actually I have about 60 characters? I was mainly just looking for advice on who to farm.. not bothered about arena I just play for a bit of fun. What teams are good right now? That sort of thing.

Do you have a swgoh.gg account? Can’t really see your roster to give advice.

"Crazylazyguy;c-1982658" wrote:
You can't farm anything without crystals, that is what I am trying to explain you.

Of course you can. The daily income with a low arena rank will be about 150 crystals on average. That's 3 energy refreshes. At OP's level it's enough to have a bit of fun.

When I say you have 15 characters, I mean 15 characters at mid-gear(g10/g11) which is definitely not enough.

Not enough for what? If it's enough for the OP to have a fun game, it's enough.

I don't count characters that are simply unlocked and sit at g1-g6 and at 3 or 4 stars. Believe me when I tell you, that the time you will spend catching up with this account, will be 100 times more, than with starting over.

I caught up to rank 20ish in squad arena and top ranks in fleet arena with a worse roster than OP's with an alt account, that was cryoed for 14 months at level 35. Yes, it took some time, but it was a fun and different experience.

In the end all that matters is, whether OP has fun playing his current/old account, and it seems like he does.

Honestly, two years absent really does beg for one to start over. I would play around on the existing account for a week or two to get back up to speed and then start a new account once you know when you need to focus on. While you may not really want to play arena, it is needed for the crystals for simple things like energy or node refreshes. While you will lose what you had, it is probably a lot easier to start over than try to compete with people who are miles ahead of you. As a ftp, just keeping up is very tough and that is with being close to current on all the toons.

I say this on every "returning player" post: I came back from a long break and ignored all the advice to restart. I had a few G10 characters (no legendaries because they didn't exist when I left), and surely that wasn't worth throwing away!

I really, REALLY wish I had. I just started breaking top 10 squad arena in the last month or so, after hammering away for a year and a half, and it won't be a regular occurrence unless the Mod Gods decide to be very generous.

I don't like arenas much either, but the folks saying you need crystals to progress at a good pace are right. Without a decent amount rolling in daily, the time it takes to farm and gear stuff up is dramatically longer - even more so now that g13 and relics are a thing- meaning you fall further and further behind the curve.

Ouch. 2 years? I'm sorry to say you really should start over imo.
You're free to keep plugging away of course... I'm just a random voice on the internet, what do I know.

If OP changes his mind and starts a new account he still needs to have high activity to reach top ranks of his arena shard and stay there. If he just plays casually, starting over really won't do much good. OP risks ending up in the bottom of his shard with not much chance of advancing since everyone is active on new shards. On his current account he can quickly reach top-1k and not drop, since only the top few hundred are active still.

I believe @littleMAC answered OP's question very well.

"Jarvind;c-1982963" wrote:
I say this on every "returning player" post: I came back from a long break and ignored all the advice to restart. I had a few G10 characters (no legendaries because they didn't exist when I left), and surely that wasn't worth throwing away!

I really, REALLY wish I had. I just started breaking top 10 squad arena in the last month or so, after hammering away for a year and a half, and it won't be a regular occurrence unless the Mod Gods decide to be very generous.

I don't like arenas much either, but the folks saying you need crystals to progress at a good pace are right. Without a decent amount rolling in daily, the time it takes to farm and gear stuff up is dramatically longer - even more so now that g13 and relics are a thing- meaning you fall further and further behind the curve.

This. I was well behind by the time I even thought to look for guides or forums. I still don't get a good payout. I was literally just collecting at the start, so I have every toon open now except for Wat and GAS. I'd say 80% of them are 85th level, G8, waiting on a stun gun while they kill my GP. Ugh.

You should find a game that doesn't penalize you for taking time off to the point of stating over