Should i start over?

I am a very competitive player. In all games I play. Been playing MOBAs for 10 years now and always was top 1% of world players.
My start in this game was also bad, mediocre at best, because I did not read the guides. When I did I rerolled a few accounts and got Baze out of my 1st chromium (one of the best pulls if not the best) and then I realised...
You should play the game for fun. To be able to hit top 10 in the arena and stay there I would have to hoard free energy for 2 weeks (at least). Then hope that I dont get whaled over by paying players and have all my work done for naught.

On my 1st account I managed to keep floating around ~50 place in arena. So I get 100-150 crystals per day. Not the 300 or 500 it could be, but do I care? That is like 2 bucks a day. I am not going trough all that hustle for 2 bucks. If you intend to keep playing you will catch up eventually. So I scrapped my Baze and kept playing. Did not regret it once.

If you intend to play this game JUST for the PvP (and just arena/fleet, not even putting territory in here) then go for it.

As for fleet, the only starter character I saw mentioned by all guides was Biggs. And for good reason since he will just keep re-taunting and re-shielding himself every time you hit a target lock enemy. I am level 59 and about to go 60. I have a full phoenix squad. I am going in with the starter squad and hitting for biggs/boba/phoenix ships, in that order. I was leveling ackbar but I think overall Mace is better for starters.

I know for a fact the latest shard is pretty fresh. Maybe has 1000 people in it. A friend of mine hit 28 2 days ago and was placed 19500. So the old shard just ended. So your call.

Remember to play the game for fun above all. And this is coming from a hardcore MOBA player.

Thanks for the advice!

I think i will start a new one to go for phoenix. It seems to be the best start.

Should i also still avoid the daily activities?

If you've already paid and gotten ST Han, just keep the account. Pretend that your first Chromium was ST Han instead of Lobot. You have not hit level 28 yet right?

no i have not hit it yet, but i am about to

Well, stop leveling already. Check when the next arena leaderboard is opening and store up some bonus energy in the mean time.

Thanks a ton to both of you! Great help.

Starting with Pheonix means a weak start in Fleet (instead of going with Wiggs/Ackbar, easy farm). Fleet gets you 200 crystals per day if you finish on top 10. You won't have strong pilots by the time you reach Lv65, Ghost and Phantom are long to farm.
Choose your priority, PVP or Fleet. Fleet pays more (crystals) but Pheonix will get you through GW almost all the time (15 shards per day).
Spend your crystals on energy only (cantina first), don't buy cards or anything else.
If you spend money it's different, you shall definitely go for Pheonix first and buy ships and crew later on.
Only Lv up to get gear accessible and don't aquire too many toons (very tempting), keep a balanced roster.

I'm in a similar situation as OP. I've been trying to choose which account to use. I started a new one, but arena still seems to stick me with higher lvl powered characters. A bit puzzled by this. Figured it would be easier.

I have a question. Reading guide someone posted above, "When you hit level 28, you will be placed on arena shard. Shards are filling up to 20 000 players, after that space is filled, a new shard starts. After being put in such shard, there is no way to change it – you will always play along the 20k people that you had at your shard at the start.". My question is, no new characters are ever added? Thanks.

"Skyfrager59;c-1436200" wrote:
Starting with Pheonix means a weak start in Fleet (instead of going with Wiggs/Ackbar, easy farm). Fleet gets you 200 crystals per day if you finish on top 10. You won't have strong pilots by the time you reach Lv65, Ghost and Phantom are long to farm.
Choose your priority, PVP or Fleet. Fleet pays more (crystals) but Pheonix will get you through GW almost all the time (15 shards per day).
Spend your crystals on energy only (cantina first), don't buy cards or anything else.
If you spend money it's different, you shall definitely go for Pheonix first and buy ships and crew later on.
Only Lv up to get gear accessible and don't aquire too many toons (very tempting), keep a balanced roster.

Thanks for this awnser!
i have rerolled to a phoenix squad. And the fleet situation is making me doubt wether or not to completely hoard my normal energy for a jump between 27 and level 40. i am torn between hoarding it all, or hoarding while clearing 5 hard nodes for JC every day (this to prepare for fleet arena). What do you think? (after i farm hera and ezra, i will be farming for ashoka 5* for fleet too)

would love some more advice concerning this.

i hear you!
i find it fun to start out in a good way tho, i dont want to end up in the smack middle of my shard (where i am stuck now, becuase of a long break i took). so now i rerolled to a new account, going for that sweet sweet phoenix.

i dont think i will be able to make the new shard anytime soon. i have alot of cantina farming ahead of me still.

not necceserally aiming for top 10, i just want to be up there competing for some more crystals. after all, im not going to whale, no income for that kind of play.

So now its just minor details im working out, like how much energy i need to hoard before hitting 28. And whether or not i should farm JC (hard node) in the meantime, meaning i would have to spend 60 energy each day while hoarding. any advice?