Summary of the mechanics so far (at least that I've seen):
Eclipse Battle Path
Needed Battle Coins:
- Ranks: 6,000 per rank through rank 50 (49 ranks) = 294,000
- Ranks: 18,000 per rank 51 through 60 (10 ranks) = 180,000
- 80 parts at 350 each (only buy Rare offers or better) = 28,000, but probably closer to 25,000
- Total to rank 50 including parts vehicle: around 319,000 - 322,000
- Grand total to rank 60: 499,000 - 502,000. Call it an even 500k.
Available Battle Coins:
- Repeatables: 180 x 700 = 126,000
- Challenges: 10 x 8,000 = 80,000
- Mission chains: 3 x 4,500 + 1 x 17,500 = 31,000
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Store (reasonable daily average): 180 x ~135 = 24,300
- This assumes no re-rolling, because re-rolling is almost always a net loss. Don't be lured in by the few lucky people who score big - it's gambling, and it greatly favors the house.
- Total Available BC: 261,300
That means that to just get to rank 50 and the parts vehicle you’ll need about 58,000 coins from grinding. A decent chunk of that will come from coins earned simply doing the repeatables unless you spend gold to bypass too many of them along the way, but you’ll likely still need to use boosters which average around 2,500 each in PvE. (To avoid using boosters would require you to average a little over 16 missions per day for 180 days at 20 BC per mission.)
Getting the Jaguar will require an additional 180,000 BC for a total of about 238,000, which is a pretty crazy grind or an expensive amount of whaling. To put it in perspective that’s an additional 9,000 missions at 20 BC per mission, which is 50 extra missions per day for a total of 66 missions per day. Or it is ~9 x 25k BC purchases at 10k gold each which is 90,000 gold. Even buying the largest gold pack repeatedly (24k gold for 100 EUR/$$) that’s 375 EUR/$$. The Jaguar is not a free-to-play reward; you're going to have to pay for it one way or another.
Other notes:
- You can also earn 2 x 500 BC certificates each week by doing the weekend Spec Ops. 180 days = 25 weeks = 25,000 potential BC to help offset the massive grind to get the Jaguar. Since it is reasonably easy to set up platoons to grind through these, it’s highly recommended to do so for this BP.
- If you participated in the original Perihelion event, you will already have several prizes that are being given out in this BP and will receive a total of 22,000 BC in compensation when you reach the appropriate ranks.
- Rank 59 in the overprogression ranks awards a US Marine Corps flag. If you already have it somehow, you will instead receive 25,000 BC which is enough to instantly unlock rank 60 and get the Jaguar.