Buff epics?

In some ways, I see the point though.

Epic items are in this weird middle ground. They're not common enough to be your staple items like Rares (three chests a week, just from questing and logging in, plus you can reasonably assemble them from pieces and upgrade as a F2Per) but not powerful enough like a Legendary (where if you get a complete item from a chest, just start using it right away because it's better than its Rare will ever become.)

Edit: Well forget all of that, you can't pull a complete Legendary item from a chest.

Personally, I'd like to be able to recycle my Epic pieces downward into Rares. Ditto the parts and cells. Maybe a 2x multiplier?

 

Oh.

Well in that case Legendary items can go pound sand then. Rares4Life

 

Personally, I think a F2Per using or hoping to use Epics is an anomaly, and nowhere near what the general playerbase should be expecting to get.

I'd bet they've spent more, personally. Wasn't there a breakdown somewhere that said it cost something like $600 to "buy" a Legendary item? Now imagine having to get four of the same one. You're going to spend more than 4x the cost of finding "any one legendary" - you've gotta play the odds, and the house always wins.

Edit: This post - https://forum.battlebay.net/threads/what-does-a-legendary-item-actually-cost-cad-usd.7377/

In that one, there's some assumptions made -
1. You're buying the 3900-pearl Crates (10x Premium Chest) and not getting any extra Legendary pieces from luck
2. You'll need to open 27 of the 3900-pearl Crates to get 10 of the same color of piece to combine

 

Not disagreeing with you there. Just saying that the vast majority of more casual F2P gamers probably won't ever reach that point.

Wouldn't shock me. Even if I was born with a horseshoe in my diaper, and I managed to create exactly the Legendary item I wanted, every time, I'd need to get (for an Mk6/Mk7 Fixer) twelve of the same Reds, six Yellows, eighteen Greens, and twelve Blues - a total of 48 Legendary items. That's $28,800.

 

>mfw you opened three Rare Repair Pulses

I want a crate like that. But I'm a Fixer main. I'll probably open four Carronades, three Gear Lubes, two Rudders and a Ballpark Mortar.

 

That calculation is just quite inaccurate and misleading. The average amount of items you need to get a single item to tier 5 is 73. The consecutive items also gets much easier. Here's a full list of how many items you need to get on average to get N mount of different items to tier 5:

1. 73
2. 90
3. 102
4. 112
5. 120
6. 127
7. 134
8. 141
9. 147
10. 153
11. 159
12. 165
13.. 170
14. 176
15. 182
16. 187
17. 193
18. 199
19. 205
20. 211
21. 217
22. 224
23. 231
24. 238
25. 245
26. 254
27. 262
28. 272
29. 282
30. 294
31. 308
32. 324
33. 345
34. 375
35. 431

If we assume a player acquires 1 epic item per week on average it means in 4 years you would have ~20 T5E items. Not 1.

 

Player who plays their quests, opens the calendar everyday, opens all free boxes, opens some star boxes daily, buys the pieces from the shop, scraps items regularly, buys boxes with the free pearls they get etc. There are so many different sources for items that the combined flow is surprisingly high.

I have been playing the game for 76 weeks and I have collected 150 epic, out of which I can attribute roughly 30 items to paid boxes. And no, the items are not from the old system. I’m pretty sure my epic influx increased when going to the current system.