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5 years ago
Most of the stuff you get for free isn't all that good anyway.
Vader is the exception of course. You'll unlock him for free from achievements before you can get him out of the fleet shop but to 7 star him you are better off to farm him from the fleet shop since getting 7 star through achievements alone would take a long time.
The same goes for ackbar and tarkin. You get them at 4 star but have to farm the rest. So farming them is alright if you so choose. Most of the other pilots also only give you a 1 or 2 star character so you can farm them without much fear of getting a free 7 star character later.
Various events give shards of either random characters or random characters from a faction but waiting to get them that way is going to take awhile.
You are far better off to farm the characters you will need with energy or use tokens in the stores they are in.
For regular energy you'll want to start with a few of the following:
Jedi knight anakin
Ashoka
Bastilla
Jolee
For cantina
Hera
Ezra's
Geo Solider
Geo spy
For the cantina store
Chopper
For the arena store
Kanan
For the gw store
Zeb
The hard nodes can take awhile to unlock but once you get there you can 7 star a character in a few months or quicker if you refresh nodes. For new players I recommend using the energy refreshes and farming several nodes rather than refreshing one or two. It takes longer to get each character but in the end you'll have them.
As to why those characters, Phoenix are needed for ep and thrawn and are a good starter team for arena. Geos have good ships and are good once you have the whole team. Jka is good in a padme team (which you can use geos to get) and has a good ship. Bastilla and jolee are both good and needed for revan anyway.
Basically you want to farm characters that are either good long term or needed for toons that are. Check out the journey guide for legendary character requirements. Those are always good to farm.
I would avoid putting gear on many of the starting toons to the extent possible as it is a waste in most cases as once you farm other toons they have little use.
These include
Clone wars chewie
Jedi counselor
Clone sergeant
Talia
Royal guard
Royal guard is a pilot for a decent ship later on but it isn't needed and talia is decent in a few situations with ns but not that great.
Jedi counselor is only useful for ships until you can unlock some better ships so a complete waste after that.
Hope that helps
Vader is the exception of course. You'll unlock him for free from achievements before you can get him out of the fleet shop but to 7 star him you are better off to farm him from the fleet shop since getting 7 star through achievements alone would take a long time.
The same goes for ackbar and tarkin. You get them at 4 star but have to farm the rest. So farming them is alright if you so choose. Most of the other pilots also only give you a 1 or 2 star character so you can farm them without much fear of getting a free 7 star character later.
Various events give shards of either random characters or random characters from a faction but waiting to get them that way is going to take awhile.
You are far better off to farm the characters you will need with energy or use tokens in the stores they are in.
For regular energy you'll want to start with a few of the following:
Jedi knight anakin
Ashoka
Bastilla
Jolee
For cantina
Hera
Ezra's
Geo Solider
Geo spy
For the cantina store
Chopper
For the arena store
Kanan
For the gw store
Zeb
The hard nodes can take awhile to unlock but once you get there you can 7 star a character in a few months or quicker if you refresh nodes. For new players I recommend using the energy refreshes and farming several nodes rather than refreshing one or two. It takes longer to get each character but in the end you'll have them.
As to why those characters, Phoenix are needed for ep and thrawn and are a good starter team for arena. Geos have good ships and are good once you have the whole team. Jka is good in a padme team (which you can use geos to get) and has a good ship. Bastilla and jolee are both good and needed for revan anyway.
Basically you want to farm characters that are either good long term or needed for toons that are. Check out the journey guide for legendary character requirements. Those are always good to farm.
I would avoid putting gear on many of the starting toons to the extent possible as it is a waste in most cases as once you farm other toons they have little use.
These include
Clone wars chewie
Jedi counselor
Clone sergeant
Talia
Royal guard
Royal guard is a pilot for a decent ship later on but it isn't needed and talia is decent in a few situations with ns but not that great.
Jedi counselor is only useful for ships until you can unlock some better ships so a complete waste after that.
Hope that helps
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