Use ship currency for ship shards? Or toon shards?

Having geared/leveled/starred pilots is more important than having high star count ships. For example, my 4-star Hounds Tooth is more powerful than my 7-star TIE Silencer. The difference is the pilots gear. My Bossk is G11 (one piece from G12) and my KRU is G8 (two pieces from G9). My Bossk also has a zeta and all abilities but his unique (another zeta) maxed. KRU doesn't have any omegas, but all abilities level 7.

Obviously, my Hounds Tooth would be better at 7 stars than 4 stars, but a 4 star ship with a maxed or nearly maxed pilot is much better than a 7-star ship with pilot that isn't geared or leveled.

In summary, pick your 6 ships you want to use, plus a capital ship, and buy the shards/blueprints for those ships/pilots only, and get those pilots geared up as fast as possible. I recommend Vader, Biggs, ITF to start, with the two Phoenix ships and KRU or HoundsTooth as your reinforcements, running with Executrix. (Once your Executrix is 7 stars, you can add a fourth reinforcement.)

You can also buy a lot of ship shards in the Galactic War store. There are a few good toons in that store, but a few that aren't very valuable, so you can use your currency to buy ship shards instead.

Zeb, Cad Bane (now), Biggs are the best characters to farm in that store.
IG-86 is good if you have Droids, Resistance Pilot is good if you run zFinn, Phasma is good for First Order, and MagmaTrooper is fairly useful.

I'd rank Bodhi, K2SO, Lumi, NS Initiate, Teebo, Dathcha, Poggle, and Tusken Raider as less valuable than the ships that rotate in that store. I forget all the ships, but I think Geonosians and Rebels show up there pretty frequently.

Whale out and buy the ships.

Use the currency to buy zetas.

Dathcha is good from GW store if you want to solo P1 of HAAT.

"2smooth;c-1652832" wrote:
Most people saying farm ships probably run Phoenix as main lineup and have no need to farm toons there 2 main ships have pilots at 7* already lol

I am level 85, have never used Phoenix in arena, still haven't maxed them. Only toons I have used fleet shards on so far are Fives and Sun Fac and both take a back seat to ship shards.

I did have three 7* pilots from my arena team though - Biggs, Consular and Kylo unmasked. It really helps.