Why does it seem that everyone thinks FOST is so hard to farm?

"Anavel_Gato;c-1344371" wrote:
They're *expensive* to farm quickly.

I think that’s the key part. I farmed the Stormtrooper over a span of a couple months and barely noticed it. That was two nodes at 3x per day back then, too.

I did it then because I wanted to, not because I was under the gun for an event.

The moral of the story, I say, is to pick two character that are hard node only and do them every day until you finish and move onto a new pair.

"NicWester;c-1344379" wrote:

"Anavel_Gato;c-1344371" wrote:
They're *expensive* to farm quickly.

I think that’s the key part. I farmed the Stormtrooper over a span of a couple months and barely noticed it. That was two nodes at 3x per day back then, too.

I did it then because I wanted to, not because I was under the gun for an event.

The moral of the story, I say, is to pick two character that are hard node only and do them every day until you finish and move onto a new pair.

Yeah, I think it's that farming that many hard nodes a day means you have less energy for gear. Certainly FOST is a much quicker farm than Baze, Shore, Krennic, or Lobot.

When I was farming fost and fotp i finished fost first with a good gap. So I’d have to agree with you. I’m pretty sure you used to be able to get fost in bronziums too.

That was one of those I cherry picked to farm now and again since start - it was about a year before I had them 7* - that they would be needed eventually was obvious.

Some things are intentionally 'a pain' to prompt people to spend crystals to make it 'less of a pain' - those, and others with a single hard node - just need to be hit every day or so and just let it ride out, or pay to have it sooner.

Currently further along on Storm than Pilot or Officer. But all are 6* at least.

"crzydroid;c-1344492" wrote:

"NicWester;c-1344379" wrote:

"Anavel_Gato;c-1344371" wrote:
They're *expensive* to farm quickly.

I think that’s the key part. I farmed the Stormtrooper over a span of a couple months and barely noticed it. That was two nodes at 3x per day back then, too.

I did it then because I wanted to, not because I was under the gun for an event.

The moral of the story, I say, is to pick two character that are hard node only and do them every day until you finish and move onto a new pair.

Yeah, I think it's that farming that many hard nodes a day means you have less energy for gear. Certainly FOST is a much quicker farm than Baze, Shore, Krennic, or Lobot.

Surprisingly, Lobot’s an easier farm. He only has two nodes, but shows up in Bronzium packs. I unlocked him from a pack a month into playing, thought it’d be funny to 7* him so I farmed both nodes (16 energy) for two months, then got the last ~20 shards from another bronzium pull.

Those two pulls were sheer luck, but FOST isn’t in them at all.

FOST is not so hard to farm. 3 weeks for now and 80 shards. Not bad. Try to farm Deathtrooper or Shoretrooper.

My alt account is 50 shard away from a 7* FOTP. Never farmed the hard node. Hard nodes just take the longest is all.

You darn kids!!! Way back in my youth I farmed FOST and FOTP both to 7 star on a single node each with only 3 attempts per day! We didn't have those fancy 5 attempts per day or fotp in some sorta fleet shop. Now get off my lawn!

Pesky kids....

Why I oughta....(shakes fist furiously)