Would like some feedback on best shard farming strategies

It is presently impossible, the new requirements of old hard node characters plus new release hard node characters is a lock into cash unless you had everything farmed before Raddus. This is there new model, (read the Raddus developer insight) and expect the same for the next ship.... if you had everything farmed, you wouldn’t be asking... so I’m sorry to say, the 3 years you’ve played this game is no longer relevant....

pay to play or quit, those are your only choices now