Best Ways to Get Stardust Now?
I used to rely on daily gym bonuses to get stardust, but now that's no longer an option.
What's the best/most efficient way to get stardust now?
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I've hatched 61 eggs over the past 3+ weeks, and haven't gotten a single 10K in return. Not one! For the past 8 days, I've only hatched 5K eggs, because I haven't gottten any 2K either. I am now, and have been, only using the free incubator and hatch 2 or 3 eggs a day. I used to buy an incubator for every 10K egg I got, and then use the extra on 5K.
If you are a free player, catching pokemon is about the only good option. In particular, I have been catching a lot more evolved forms (e.g. Pidgeottos, Ledians, etc.) that I used to ignore, due to their higher stardust payouts.
Hatching eggs is good, but with free gym coins now being limited to 50/day, I'm reluctant to purchase incubators for anything other than 10km eggs. If you don't mind spending real money, hatching is probably the quickest way to accumulate dust.
And feed those nanabs to other people's gym pokemon every chance you get. It's not much but a few hundred extra dust per day is better than throwing out the berries to make room for useful items.
This is where I think the level of a Pokemon you catch now supersedes its IV's in regards to determining whether or not you chose to evolve it.
With the fact that stardust is now the primary bottleneck, I think you have to consider evolving Pokemon with lower IV's if they are already a high level. With the new gym structure, CP being negated and the fact that the difference between a 0 IV Pokemon and a 100 IV Pokemon is only 10%, the only relevancy IV's will have is potential PvP and and trading, if/when that ever becomes part of the game.
Your argument is null!
The difference between a 0 IV and 100 IV D'nite or T'tar at level 35 is over 400CP. A Rhydon, over 200.
T'tar and Rhydon are both important in 5 out of 7 of the level 3 raids, if you are going to solo them. I'll take those high IV, and high CP, and invest in them all day long!
Agreed - stardust is a big problem right now, for two reasons.
1) With the shift in the meta game, people have found themselves with totally different goals and things to get done, requiring more dust to do them. Used to want tough Blissey, Snorlax, Dragonite to park in gyms. Now, parking is bad, you end up with no coins until they come home, and then just the 50. Three long time gym mons come home the same day, you get 50, not 150. And you can't control when they come back.
2) Taking dust away from gyms is the other issue, increasing the rarity, just when we need it the most to get back on track.
Niantic almost has to do some sort of event to give out lots of dust. It's not even like you can buy it with coins, right?
And to all the people complaining that the new gym system ruins it, everyone will have Ttars and so on, they are missing the point - everyone will have level 20 Ttars. Dedicated players will have enough dust to have many higher level Ttars, while casual players will have 1. And you need at least 3-4 to dent raid bosses, if not 6. 6 level 20 Ttars won't take down a 'Zam, but 6 level 35's will crush it. Or if 'Zam is too easy, sub in Mew or Mewtoo, when they come out.
The game used to be driven by rare mon candy - D'nite, 'Lax, Blissey. Now it's driven by stardust and raid boss availability; that's the real paradigm shift.
That's what many people forget who are upset about lower level players getting tyranitar (first they have to catch him and not let someone else in the group do it for them). My level 31.5 (not even maxed for my level) evolved Tyranitar with B/C is a beast... No way will they get their lvl 20 anywhere close to 30 with the scarcity of dust (and candy).
No, if it's the highest of a two form evolution (e.g., Raticate), you get 300 stardust (and a bit more candy). If it's the highest of a three form evolution (Butterfree, Beedrill), you get 500 stardust and yet a little more candy. This was kind of slipped in a couple months ago with little fanfare. It was easy to miss!
