"RaylekZen;c-1452908" wrote:
I just started a couple days ago, so i'm not entirely sure if I'll be ready for an event. Only level 37, but I think I'll end up buying the bundle just to be safe.
that bundle will not even be enough to unlock Palp, let alone get him 7 starred. I am also quite new, 1 month in the game, and the rule of "only spend on refreshes" has proven itself more times than once. Lets number crunch:
Emperor's demise bundle costs 40$. You get 30 Hilbilly luke shards, 25 Liea, 30 SThan, and 2x50 Hoth bros. 2k crystals and 1.5m creds. Looks good.
While there is not a crystal pack for 40$, you have either 2x chests worth 5600 crystals. If you take the 50$ pack and multiply it by 0.8 (take 10$ off) you get 5900 crystals. Lets substract 2000 crystals from the first pack for the sake of comparison. Putting 3900 crystals in comparison to the shards you get.
3900 crystals nets you 39x120 = 4680 cantina energy or 9360 normal energy. I normally spend my gems in the cantina for the phoenix squad I am building. So for 4700 cantina energy you get:
It is safe to assume you get 1 shard per 4 cantina attempts. While it is RNG this has proven to hold in my case. Sometimes I do 20 runs and get 3 shards. Sometimes I get 8 shards per 15 runs. You could even push for 1 shard per 3 runs but I would not stretch it that far. So lets say 1 per 4, 146.8 shards. If done on 1 per 3, 195.8 shards. This was calculated using the lowest cantina battle cost, 8 energy. You will also get 13 cantina shop tokens per run, so 7640 cantina tokens. That is 95 shards for any toon out of the cantina shop.
You also get A LOT of XP, which is crucial to this game. More important than any shard you can get for a starting player. Soon you will hit 40 and unlock GW, which is a good source of shards and crystals and a lot of other things if you can clear it. But wait, there is more!
You also get credits, upgrade tokens, training bots, Everything a growing player needs in his diet.
So you get 185 fixed shards that dont add up to even clearing first 3 levels of the event, creds and crystals that we removed for the same of comparison. For those shards and creds you get 150 shards of your choosing, as long as you can farm them, 95 shards of your chosing as long as you can buy them from the cantina shop, XP, training bots, creds. You can use the normal refreshes also which will yield more shards in total, but they are not as easily farmable since you are limited to 5 attempts per day.
The downside of refreshes is that after 3 refreshes the price goes up, this was calculated with 100 crystal refresh price. It will take you 2 weeks to be able to spend it all on the 100 crystal price. A small price to pay, but you might be in a rush. Personal taste.
Even whales and year-long players will tell you that this game is a marathon and not a sprint. It will take time investment to progress no matte how much you spend. So I favor refreshes. Once again, personal taste.
