The Perfect Guide for the Perfect Start

"wizzydizzy;c-1260793" wrote:

"LordBane452501;c-1254171" wrote:
It comes and goes: in the beginning I crushed PS easily, then around 50 for a few days I couldnt get through that regenerating protection, and now at 55 I can beat them again.

"LordBane452501;c-1260695" wrote:
Well that is where my added advice comes in: by timing your entry in the shard to perfection you can make a real difference. I entered as full ftp with Boba as Bronzium pull (3* Plo as Chromium!) a shard rank 15, and have managed to hold nr 1 the first week, top 5 the second and now top 10 in the third week.

More and more whales flood in, but since I managed to level well, I can still beat DS teams or DN+Chaze+Wiggs a few levels lower (and luckily sometimes poorly modded). Mind you, holding on to level 10 will be hard, and if I had pulled a Jyn or other strong toon, I might have been able to hold top 3 longer than now. Another ftp joined with me, with Jyn and 9k energy and he still comfortably holds nr 2 every day.

Exactly, the perfect start guide works great. It can help keep you top 10 easily if you use it appropriately, and you save long enough. Yes IMO you need AT LEAST 2 months of saving now. Preferably 4, to make a dent and stay higher. Imagine doing this free start TheMegaSage is talking about with the Pheonix squad as he says, and being able to be level 65 instead of 55 because at the beginning you were top 3.... holding and gaining 500 crystals a day, which help you do 6 refreshes for free instead of just 3.... every day.... It helps. It's a huge difference.

Good points! I do see what you're talking about, but again, just looking at how my shard (3 weeks old) is doing, and everybody is ptw at the top of the arena. A full sith team, all 7 stars ... It doesn't matter if you have a Jyn, you're losing to that.

But I will give you that starting at level 1 with stored energy is going to be a *huge* advantage. There's absolutely no denying that.

So I guess I'll leave it as ... If you have the patience to level multiple accounts so you can "check in" on the current status of a shard, all the while building up stored energy on that account, then you totally deserve the huge head start you'll have before the ptw crowd catches up.

But that requires a great deal of discipline. Someone casually approaching this as "I get one good character and I'm first for the next two months" is deluding themselves.

So kudos to the people who do this well, because I'm sure it works incredibly. But you can also just say "meh" and be competitive in a couple of weeks without jumping through the hoops.

But I also realize ... Sometimes the hoop jumping is its own reward! So high five for those that do it, and do it well.