Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes

November 19th, 2017 by

In the interest of diversifying the content of the blog, this is the third post in a row, I am not doing Brady post, and the second game post in a row. There are some Brady posts written, but I am crafting them a bit. Also, some blogs about blogging in the future. Gotta keep things fresh.

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I have been playing Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes for several months now. I admit to spending some money recently. Though I have been against doing so and stated such in past blogs. There is a Nightsisters Character, Old Daka, whom I wanted, and in spite of my best efforts, was unable to get shards for her. Then there is the impatience factor.

One of the keys to being successful in a free to play game, is patience. The one thing I greatly lack, is patience. I have gotten better over the years, instead of being a two year old on sugar rush, I am a three year old. It might take you two months to get a character in SW:GoH, but if you have patience, it will happen. Along with patience, there is the playing it smart aspect. YouTube is loaded now with fellow gamers giving advice on how to play it smart.

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Shards are the way to build a character up. Each level up requires more shards. The only way to earn shards in SW:GoH is to play events or do the holo tables or you can pay money. The holo tables are battles that allow you to earn character shards. Once you have completed the battle, and won at a three star level, you can simply mine for shards.

My mistake in regards to Old Daka, due to impatience, is in not playing the holo tables. Recently I was playing the Dark Side of the holo table and won a battle that gave me an Old Daka shard. Since I won the battle to the three star level, I can go back and mine Old Daka shards. If I had done this before, it would have taken me an extensive amount of time to mine for Old Daka shards, but I would not have had to purchase the character. Oh well, lesson learned.

Mining for shards means you just use Sim Dollars to pay for possible character shards. Sim dollars are earned when you complete daily tasks or get power ups once a day. Yeah it is intricate, but fun.

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Events happen from time to time. In order to play an event, you might need certain characters whom are at a certain level, and/or on the light or dark side. The events are tiered. Winning each tier will give you a certain number of shards for a specific character, as well as loot to build up characters. Recently I had played the Nightsister events, and got Mother Tala, and I had tried to get Old Daka. Though I did not have certain characters built up enough to win. There was also the First Order Events where I breezed through to get Kylo Ren without Mask, and his ship, as well as First Order Tie Pilot with ship.

Now I plan on focussing on holo table battles. Because I am impatient, I was not focusing on holo table battles. Each battle takes time. Most of the time I play SW:GoH during breakfast before I go to work. When I get home, maybe after everything else is dealt with, I will play the game for a few minutes, usually to mine for shards for certain characters I want. Now I realize it is better to open up the entire holo table as well as the canteen table. I can go back to the battles where I won with one or two stars only, and since I have more powerful characters than the time I had originally played, I can get those battles to three stars.

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As stated, getting a three star means you can just spend sim dollars to possibly get character shards. Unfortunately you have to spend multiple sim dollars on the battle. Usually there is a 30% chance to get a character shard. That is why in the daily achievements list, you have to play three dark side and three light side battles. Sim three hard dark side and light side battles of a character you want to get, and you will probably get one shard. The three hard battles count to the daily achievement of hard won in which you have to win 10 hard level battles.

3 Sim dollars = 1 (possible) Character Shard. 3 Hard Battles Won count toward win Light Side or Dark Side battles as well as Hard Won Daily Achievement. Spend 6 Sim dollars and get 2 character shards as well as clear away two daily achievements (Light and Dark), and be sixty percent complete of the Hard Won achievement.

Got to love the math and logic of the game.

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