I haven't been playing for that long so I didn't buy in to all the rumors about Darth Revan just because of a couple of marquees, as I didn't really know their release history that well. But when he suddenly came, I figured I should farm the characters like there's no tomorrow to make sure I'd catch him next time, and now I'm done in a day or two. And still these past two months I've been able to farm other characters from the normal hard nodes as well. I get 175-275 crystals a day from arenas, and I think most people should be able to place moderately high in both arenas if they try, fleet arena is especially easy and rewarding.
It was perfectly doable f2p man, if you had just prioritized better, and made sure to get at least a certain number of shards per character each day. Oh and there were double drops a couple of days didn't you use that to your advantage while farming the required toons?
