Shark Tea Needs Four of the New Gear Pieces - Enjoy!

"TVF;c-1879071" wrote:
Super pet peeve alert - noone

(I know this is petty, sorry)

I'm a big fan of petty.

I'm not a fan of hundreds of pieces of greed gear being added to all new toons (even Marquee nobodys) on top of all the other gear we're always short of. I'm also not a fan of being lied to that it's an effort to alleviate the gear crunch. It's a whale tax, and it sucks.

Shaak ti is an anagram of AKA sh!t

"TVF;c-1877083" wrote:
Man I can't win. I'm a CG employee right up until the time when I suggest there's one thing in the game I don't like and then I'm just like every other serial whiner here.

This. I get quoted by Kyno saying "this " and get called a fan boy and a shill one week - then a few days later I've "never posted anything positive...ever.".

It's like people don't read anything and only want to be right or something.

"Vos_Landeck;c-1876877" wrote:
They already told us this will be standard gear for all new characters...nothing surprising there. She only needs 1 stun gun so that's good.

ALL??!!! seriously, not just legendary etc , all? i totally missed that, guess the nailis already in the coffin for me then, unless they become farmable or available another way besides crystals

Whatever. Dont think every new char needs 66855435442368 stun guns, carbantis and gold eye balls are better.

on normal nodes so don't know what ur refreshing....is drop rates that are bad and as mentioned earlier only other way is to spend...perhaps they'll give us dogs a bone and add them to rewards somewhere

"DarjeloSalas;c-1876960" wrote:

"KKatarn;c-1876930" wrote:

"Kyno;c-1876897" wrote:

"jayjonbeach;c-1876892" wrote:

"Vos_Landeck;c-1876877" wrote:
They already told us this will be standard gear for all new characters...nothing surprising there. She only needs 1 stun gun so that's good.

ALL??!!! seriously, not just legendary etc , all? i totally missed that, guess the nailis already in the coffin for me then, unless they become farmable or available another way besides crystals

They are already farmable.

https://swgoh.gg/db/gear/173Salvage/mk-9-kyrotech-battle-computer-prototype-salvage/
https://swgoh.gg/db/gear/172Salvage/mk-7-kyrotech-shock-prod-prototype-salvage/

With only 5 battles per day plus the fact every new character will need those pieces and that we also need energy to farm characters shards and it will likely take months to farm those gears even with 3 refreshes per day. So that is not really a viable option.

Unless those new gear pieces become available on this new store/ new arena mode I suspect this will turn to be a even worse bottleneck than stun cuffs, stun guns and carbantis.

Aren’t they on normal nodes? So no need to refresh?

I stand corrected in this point then.

If every/almost every new character will be needing them and they would remain to be obtainable only through farming it would be a pretty horrible bottle neck, worse even than stun guns and golden eyes. With the new tb and ga championship and the new currencies (and a hint at updated challenge rewards) it is entirely possible that we will get more ways to obtain them soon. Fingers crossed!

Guys this is probably a good thing, it almost certainly means the new pieces are becoming more accessible. It's not like they'd remain exclusive forever. I'm guessing, but 99% certain those pieces will show up in the new stores, and from what I gather pretty much anyone should be able to get the currency. You don't even have to win the GAC battles you can just focus on feats if you're hopelessly outmatched.

My guess is they’re going to add additional ways to acquire them, but before they do they need to ensure there is a demand. Probably in either of the new shipments or in geo TB prize boxes.