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Cool, thanks, I'll do that. I'm at 1400-ish crystals now. I may dump some money into the game if they release a good bundle soon (most expired today, so they must have something they are going to put up soon).

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Flash, something from EA forums which I agree with which may factor into your decision:

"don't buy Chromium unless you have thousands to drop because you could unlock a pay-for character. Without spending more to level them, they're useless... "

I mean, this is the carrot of the game. Chromium only characters which require you to buy more packs in the "hopes" of getting them. Go watch YT as there are a few videos of people dropping hundreds on chrome packs and getting very very little for their return.

The funny thing is the more I think about it, you get a better (and I mean MUCH BETTER) return on F2P farming than spending money on packs. Almost embarrassingly so.

Right now, the whales are dropping thousands getting QKJ to 7* because he's ridiculously overpowered as leader. At L90, teams will be unstoppable with him.

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Also, Flash, I would suggest farming Geo Solider for a solid DS attacker. He's only 10 shards to start with and you can get to 3* with him easily. He packs a major punch.

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I refresh the Cantina as well once a day. It really helps getting the shards for those cantina only characters. I've been farming Kylo maybe for a week an a half in the Cantina, and I'm already at 50/80

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Nice, thanks for all the tips. I agree it does seem stupid to buy the packs. I'll look into it some more but I definitely don't plan on buying more than a single 8 pack, so I should probably just skip it. But man, it's so much fun opening "packs", haha.

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I have a hunch the packs are offers for new players. I haven't had any non-chrome and non-credit offers in weeks. This is probably why I no longer see the packs you see.

Or there's a bug with my app. Chase, what offers do you have?

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Once the offers expire, you don't get any new ones. The last "new" offer I saw was for the 7 days of crystals for $5

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I bought the Droid Assassin pack on Saturday. I had already pulled IG-100 out of a Bronzium pack, so I figured I could get 4 out of the 5 droids in a squad and cause some mayhem. I don't know if their Synergy is not working as intended or what, but they're definitely not as powerful as you'd think they would be, espescially vs Jedi (which is supposed to be one their strengths). I found an equal level all-Jedi squad in Arena and got my butt kicked. Literally all 5 of mine dead, and didn't kill any of his. I've been focusing on leveling them up to see if I can get better results, but so far its been pretty meh. I'm torn whether or not to go for Poggle the Lesser to pull them all together, or just cut my losses and focus on something else. But it seems like Poggles abilities could really make them an offensive juggernaut.

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That makes alot of sense to me. Poggle is a great character to have anyway, so you really can't go wrong. I think the issue with Droids is that they are all offense and no defense. Mine tend to get killed pretty early on.

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So energy refills cost fluctuates eh? What are the ranges they fluctuate and how often?

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After browsing through that SWGoH website, it seems like once all their abilities get up to Lvl 7 they'd be really devastating together. Of course getting them all that high is easier said than done. I'll probably stick with it. I use HK-47 and IG-88 in my Arena squad and I'm rank #115 on my server, so they're definitely useful offensive weapons. Granted I've only been playing a week so my tactics will probably change if/when I start unlocking better characters.

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Fluctuate isn't the right word. You can do two regular energy refreshes every day for 50 crystals each. After that they increase, starting at 100.

Cantina is 100 for the first refresh and 200 for the second. Never went beyond that.

200 for those 3 refreshes every day is enough for me.

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Ah okay thanks pinata. I like the 200 a day idea, I'll see how that works for me.

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Josh, I'm curious, what's your Arena lineup you use and their power level?

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Just started they gave me the name Mol Eliza 411-699-518

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I now have five allies with the name "Mol Eliza".

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You've been Catfished, SW Style...

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I'm still tinkering but right now (8800):

Chewie
JC
Luke (unlocked him, had a ridiculous run of shard drops)
FOTP (has zero defense but his offense is insane b/c of double and triple shots)
Talia

I would really like to unlock a pure second healer and will have one when I get Lumi by the end of next week. I will probably swap her for Talia.

My general arena strategy is to kill the healers first and then go after the big guns. I tend to leave Chewie for last as when he taunts he gets attacked anyway.

I should have DS by Wednesday at this rate. I will probably dump FOTP at that point as without buying a ton of chrome packs, he is not farmable. So by the end of the week, it will be:

Chewie
JC
Luke
DS
Lumi

Then in two weeks:

DS
JC
Luke
Lumi
Poe

By early Feb:

DS
JC
GS (he gets to be incredible offensively above 3*)
Lumi
Poe

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How do you deal with the tanks taunting though? I always find I'll start attacking a healer and then get interrupted by the tank taunting, and then a healer will get off a heal or two.

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Depends on who goes first. Tanks other than Poe tend to go last, so if my attackers go first, I will knock out the healer. I've thought some about just going after the taunter first. Still experimenting.

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As I said before, the best strategy for dealing with a taunter is to either block their ability before they get it off (Lumi) or clear their buff after they do (for me, Asajj).

If you can't deal with that, you just have to suck it up. Might as well target the taunter first because you know it's coming.

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Do we have a "JMN" here?

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I'd guess so, I got a request from him too. Unfortunately I declined since I didn't know who that was.

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Same. I'm not sure if it was a person from here, or someone who just beat me in pvp.

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Well I just encountered a massive whale in my server's PVP arena. This guy was L37 and ranked in top 250 with a power level 1k below mine so I figured, easy pickings.

Until I saw he had:

Finn
Darth
DS
Leia
JC

I couldn't quit fast enough. Although maybe in retrospect I should have let him beat me to try and friend him for allies. He easily spent $500 on the game so far. You have to buy Leia.

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Not necessarily. My current team is:
Leia
Lando
Chewie
DS
Luminara


While I've spent money, I haven't dropped anywhere close to $500. I can tell you though that I've burned through $100+ on iTunes cards I had laying around. In hindsight it was a waste, because since the premium characters aren't farmable, they will be replaced once I get high enough. Currently, I'm hovering right around 100 on my server.

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Started a 2nd account on a samsung device to get the free IG-86 and to try some different strategies from my main. So, yes..thats me too :)

596-476-536

Unlocked Luminara on my main, definitely going to help.

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You got VERY lucky on Leia and Lando. They are two of the hardest pulls in the game. Maul is a big difference.

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Kotaku has an article about this game

http://kotaku.com/the-star-wars-game...nth-1753751136

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Is Rey ridiculously over powered or something? Just fought on a team that had one that was like level 38 in GW, and she was hitting for 1500 damage, 2500 crit. Fucking stupid.

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Yup. Her special has a chance to hit three times.

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This thread has been a huge help learning the details about this game (and having high level help with battles)!

Funny story - worked my way up to level 35+ and to about 500 on the arena leader board without realizing that there were Arena Shipment you can purchase too, so started way too late buying Sidious shards. Have 4K+ arena tokens, so just need to remember to go buy shards every 6 hours.

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She definitely is. Also my server is getting tougher by the day. I used to be able to breeze through the first 6-7 GW battles. Now even the lower 30s teams I'm seeing have major premium characters. Luckily I'm really close to unlocking Lumi, DS and Poe and when that happens I will tear a new one into these people as I'm beating them now with largely free players.

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Luckily I've been able to hold onto top 2500, that's good enough for me. It is getting harder though, before I could drop down into the 1200-ish range now I'm at closer to 2000.

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I would have had DS tomorrow if not for these arena interlopers dropping me sub-200. I will be taunted by 300 tokens all day Thursday until 6pm when I believe I should be able to unlock him. Lumi is going to take longer than anticipated due to GW suddenly becoming much, much harder. Poe probably by end of month, catina tokens take forever to build up.

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Wish I had started with Poe instead of BF. I have about 30 shards left on him, so I'll just put Poe on the back burner for now.

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I blew it in GW today, I also have to wait an extra day now for Luminara.

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Same here. I was at like 20 shards when I heard that Poe was the way to go, but in hindsight I probably should of just bit the bullet then.

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She's so worth it though. I almost have her at 5 stars and Sid at 6. They should both be there by the weekend.