Free to Play Tips: Acquiring the Raid Bot (STARSCREAM)

This week, Starscream, the Decepticon Air Commander, was announced as the prize for the raid event, with the 3-star and 2-star variants costing 10,000 and 1,000 Starscream chips respectively. Week-long raid events like these are not new, previously Shockwave was made available through similar mechanics. With events like these looking to be commonplace, what strategies should you adopt to make sure you’re brining home the bots 100% of the time? Here are 3 best practices you should consider:

Look out for these events, they are worth engaging in

Raid every time you can

Let’s get the obvious out of the way: do not let raid tickets waste away. Whenever you can, you should be raiding (as often as your time and scheduled permits). Raid tickets run on a 1-hour cooldown timer, so optimally, you’d want to be up raiding and pillaging every 3-hours. If you can plan your schedule around this, the battle is more than half won. Also, with effective planning, you can avoid using Energon to fund additional raids. You can learn more about cost-efficient Energon spending habits here.

Losing raids is better than not raiding

If you don’t have the time, raid anyway, but throw the raid. Putting your pride away and exiting your raids at the first fight will earn you anywhere from 50-60 chips (approximately 50% of what you would have earned if you won) with a significantly lower time and effort expenditure. It’s more effective to exit the raid and bring home half the prize. At the end of the day, as long as you’re making chips towards your 10,000 goal, who really cares how you do it?

You earn chips when you win and when you lose, so lose if you have to

Focus

If a new bot is what you want, go get it, at the expense of earning crystals in the arena or ores from story missions. If you can’t afford to fight 3 battles across 3 fronts, concentrate your efforts on raiding – the raid event lasts a week anyway, after which you’re free to spend your time as you please. It is not worth missing out on the featured raid bot for more crystals from the arena because in the raid event, the pay-out is guaranteed (if you just make the requirements), the same cannot be said for the arena (crystals don’t guarantee you the 3-star bot you want).

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