If I'm right with what I posted above, it's not really about changing the way we play--it's just about not burning through all your energy each day, which is what I do now.

Instead, it's about saving it for the day it's optimal to use.

Correct. With regular energy, you stop 12-13 hours before you play the day it matters. For Cantina, you stop 24-26 hours before. Almost makes it so you can set it aside on Saturday and enjoy your life!

Exactly. In fact, using the schedule I posted, you can very nearly be F2P and still do everything needed.

Obviously, only the whaliest of whale guilds will hit Tier VII daily. But if we can straddle the line b/w 5 and 6, I think we'll be fine. Hopefully, Tier V is the sweet spot for rewards with 6 and 7 being diminished returns. We'll see Sunday.

But Jury has the right idea here. It's about playing smarter.

For regular energy, Monday and Thursday become gear farming days while Wednesday is shard farming.

No big deal.

Good point. I added that point to my list.

Yup, and you also saving crystals for strategic purchasing.

Can someone please instruct me on how to use LINE? I downloaded the app and am completely lost where to do from there. Step by step would be appreciated! Here's the info I was given:

http://line.me/ti/g/igjIvCXS6h

Thank you!!

Download.
Create account.
Click link for group.

That's all I did.

Oh, and thanks for liaisoning for us to find a guild to join as a group, Josh!

Figured it out but the app crashes alot.

NP I just wanted to bail you out is all

100%! When they enable the feature, I'll share some shards with you.

Worked great for me. Click the link and the app opened it right up and put me in the group.

I think I was just having problems keeping the app opened. It seems to be working fine now.

how do you find the group?

Opened the link above on my phone.

Click here once you've installed the app: http://line.me/ti/g/igjIvCXS6h

It'll open it right up and add you.

I was thinking about the GW day and everyone needing almost a full clear. Can't you start the one the day before and just not play it until Wednesday? Then use Wednesday's reset. Each person could get 24 this way. Or am I crazy?

Protection needs to be removed from the game. Let's be honest, GW is really the only mode where protection has any significant impact. None of the other modes play any differently since the patch, so I'm not sure why it was even added other than to make the last few nodes of GW artificially difficult.

No, that's exactly right, except I would want to kill myself having to do 24 GW nodes in a day.

Here's some good info regarding allocation of Guild resources

First, props to El Guapo for the fantastic Guild Challenge Guide. Based on the great work in that article, I have made a daily checklist which quantifies how you need to approach your daily game play in order to hit heroic status. The checklist details when to do things, when not to do things, and lines out required prep to hit future daily goals. This checklist will require discipline and timing…or extra crystals. Specifically, the tasks that are bolded below must happen at specific times right after your daily achievement counter resets. For me that is 1:00am, but you can substitute whatever time that is for you. If you miss out on the bolded times, it is important to do what is described in the bolded section the next morning as soon as possible. If you cannot do it with the correct timing, you may also have to sim on a lower node count or do an extra crystal refresh to get your required sims in. This can definitely be achieved by any level of player.

Sunday

Focus: Cantina- sim 62 Cantina Battles each

Cantina: at any time during the day on Sunday before the reset, hit Cantina refreshes for at least 100. Prior to reset sim your cantina energy all the way down on any 8 energy node. If you do 100 you will do 30 sims. If you followed the plan on Friday and Saturday, you have now pulled your weight for this challenge. If you have the resources, do the 200 crystal refresh and pull some extra weight.

Galactic War: finish galactic war if possible

Light side: throughout the day, do not sim light side missions, buy refreshes 50/50/100/100 and the 3 free refreshes, on Sunday night going into Monday morning as soon as your daily resets, you should be sitting on 735 energy to spend on light side missions. Sim all of that energy down on a 10 cost light side node that has Purple gear you need, and that will count as 73 sims towards your Monday goal

Dark side: throughout the day, do not sim dark side missions

Squad Arena: dominate

Challenges- finish all challenges

Crystal Priorities: 100 crystals towards Cantina Refresh, 300 crystals towards light and dark side refreshes


Monday

Focus: Light Side Battles- sim 92 light side battles

Cantina: farm as desired

Galactic War: finish galactic war if possible

Light side: buy crystal refreshes 50/50/100/100 and the 3 free refreshes, you should accumulate an additional 735 energy to spend on light side missions throughout the day. Sim all of that energy down as desired on at least 3 light side hard modes and any other light side nodes you would like to farm. As long as you did Sunday correctly you will easily get the 20 needed sims to pull your weight. If you have the resources do additional crystal refreshes to pull some extra weight.

Dark side: sim three hard dark side missions and stop

Squad Arena: dominate

Challenges- finish all challenges

Crystal Priorities: 300 crystals towards light side refresh



Tuesday

Focus: Finish Galactic War

Cantina: farm as desired

Galactic War: you must finish galactic war

Light side: farm as desired

Dark side: farm as desired

Squad Arena: dominate

Challenges- finish all challenges

Crystal Priorities: spend as desired or save up for later in the week if you are on a tight crystal budget



Wednesday

Focus: Hard Mode- sim 45 hard mode battles

Cantina: farm as desired

Galactic War: finish galactic war if possible

Light side: buy crystal refreshes 50/50/100/100 and the 3 free refreshes, you should accumulate 735 energy to spend on light side or dark side missions throughout the day. Sim all of that energy down as desired on light side hard modes or dark side hard nodes that are 16 cost nodes and you will have exactly 46. So if you want to sim on 20 cost nodes, you need to buy another refresh of crystals or offset those with 12 cost nodes. If you have the resources do additional crystal refreshes to pull some extra weight. Also… Wednesday night going into Thursday morning immediately after dailies reset sim 3 hard light side missions to count towards your Thursday daily and stop

Dark side: see notes for light side for dark side hard node sims and Wednesday night going into Thursday morning immediately after dailies reset sim 3 hard dark side missions to count towards your Thursday daily and stop

Squad Arena: dominate

Challenges- finish all challenges

Crystal Priorities: 300 crystals towards light and dark side missions


Thursday

Focus: Daily Challenges- finish 11 challenges

Cantina: farm as desired

Galactic War: finish galactic war if possible

Light side: throughout the day, do not sim light side missions

Dark side: throughout the day, do not sim dark side missions, buy refreshes 50/50/100/100 and the 3 free refreshes, on Thursday night going into Friday morning as soon as your daily resets, you should be sitting on 735 energy to spend on light side missions. Sim all of that energy down on a 10 cost dark side node that has Purple gear you need, and that will count as 73 sims towards your Friday goal

Squad Arena: dominate

Challenges- finish all challenges- right now there are only 8 available per day, so we will see how they accommodate for this

Crystal Priorities: 300 crystals towards dark side missions



Friday

Focus: Dark side Battles- sim 92 dark side battles

Cantina: farm as desired until 6pm and then stop. On Friday night going into Saturday morning at 1:00 am when your daily activities refresh sim exactly 3 cantina battles to hit your Saturday daily goal and stop to store up for the Sunday challenge

Galactic War: finish galactic war if possible

Light side: sim three hard light side missions and stop

Dark side: buy crystal refreshes 50/50/100/100 and the 3 free refreshes, you should accumulate an additional 735 energy to spend on dark side missions throughout the day. Sim all of that energy down as desired on at least 3 dark side hard modes and any other dark side nodes you would like to farm. As long as you did Thursday correctly you will easily get the 20 needed sims to pull your weight. If you have the resources do additional crystal refreshes to pull some extra weight.

Squad Arena: dominate

Challenges- finish all challenges

Crystal Priorities: 300 crystals towards dark side missions



Saturday

Focus: PVP

Cantina: do not do any Cantina battles today, hit Cantina refreshes for 100 and 200 as late as possible in the day Saturday before the daily activities reset or once your meter is full. On Saturday day night going into Sunday morning immediately after dailies reset sim your cantina energy all the way down on any 8 energy node. This will get you to 45 Cantina battles towards Sunday’s goal

Galactic War: finish galactic war if possible

Light side: sim as desired- Saturday day night going into Sunday morning immediately after dailies reset sim 3 hard light side missions to count towards your Sunday daily and stop

Dark side: sim as desired- Saturday day night going into Sunday morning immediately after dailies reset sim 3 dark side missions to count towards your Sunday daily and stop

Squad Arena: dominate, you must complete 10 battles today so use at least one crystal refresh

Challenges- finish all challenges

Crystal Priorities: 300 crystals towards Cantina Refresh, 50 tokens towards PVP refresh

Until we get the hang of this, it's going to be a confusing slog. Luckily our guild doesn't seem to care about Tier 7 at this point. Has anyone scaled that chart to Tier 6 or Tier 5 expectations? It would be handy to put any of that information in a Google Doc or persistent URL and link to it in the LINE Group's "Notes" tab.

You can't save 136 Cantina energy on Saturday until you're level 77, just FYI.

The guide is definitely helpful, but shouldn't we wait to see what the rewards are before entirely changing the way we play every day. It seems like if you skip light/dark side battles for days at a time you'd be sacrificing quite a bit of upgrade progress (gear, shards, etc) that you could otherwise be making on your characters. And then after saving up days worth of energy, you're gonna waste it all on some low level battle that probably has some insignificant reward just so you can achieve a certain number of battles for that specific day. I mean, the guild rewards better be pretty f'n fantastic if that's what's expected of everybody.

You are still doing everything, just shifting the day you do them. So no progress should be lost. However, I don't want anyone altering their team plans for this. Stay on course for whatever it is you want to do!

Well I do the RG hard battles every day trying to promote him (slow and painful I know, but he seems like a valuable character to have). That will basically have to stop if we follow this plan because that alone takes up a full day of energy every day. And all the bonus energy and refreshes each day goes toward slowly accumulating other characters shards. This new strategy is basically saying save up all your energy and use it on some normal difficulty battle (other than the hard battle day of course), so no it's not really doing what I've been doing. All my 'important' characters are gear 8, so exepending ALL that energy just to get some more purple gear on a normal battle probably won't benefit me.

But like I said, if the reward for reaching a certain tier is worth it then absolutely. But if it's just more gear or credits or something ordinary, I don't know. I guess we'll wait see.