My team is:
Luminara as the leader
FO tie fighter
Old Daka
Sidious
Kylo Ren
Bench:
Captain phasma (leader only)
That's it, you won't need anyone else
So strategy. Basically just using this team, you can crush everything up to last battle or 2, where I occasionally will lose daka or luminara. Then I sub in phasma
Every battle, your kill order should be lowest health to highest. with these exceptions
Luminara's heal can devastate you, but with a stun from daka you can hold her off. If the stun fails, take her first
Bariss may be bad, but if you have heal block on, you should not worry about her. I always leave bariss for last
If anyone has evasion up, ignore them. Even luminara, use daka stun on someone else and hope the stun transfers
Dooku, don't bother him unless he's stunned. But, with a strong enough tie fighter you can almost always 1 shot him.
sidious enemy is tricky, try to avoid aoe because he'll just heal up. or try to heal block him and let the aoe/tie fighter do work. If you are at risk of needing a heal, he needs to die to prevent a heal block on you
Any characters that self revive ignore, they don't deal enough damage to be a threat
So if tie fighter dies, retreat and try again. He is your big damage dealer, and every turn he goes, you will kill one of the enemy
Sid and kylo work very well together, locking down a heal block on others, and have really powerful aoe that when combined can drop the entire enemy team to 50%
Save luminara heal only for last resort
Whenever 2+ is 60%, use daka heal
If someone dies, and there's a possibility to daka heal, do that even if it's a few turns away, but if that fails, retreat
At the end, let one of your healers die, you're damage with phasma added will be crazy, and you will crush the final 2 teams
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(my money never actually went to any of them, and my FO pilot is still 4 star only from farming shards)
I don't know if that's the case for you or not. I do know that many people have had a similar "this ain't so bad" attitude until one day they run into this:
Here's what will happen when you run into this team:
- Poe will taunt, exposing probably 2 or 3 of your guys.
- Rey will one-shot your one of your guys unless you are lucky and she attacks Kylo, in which case he will "only" be reduced to near nothing.
- FOTP, Jinn and GS will kill 1 or 2 more of your guys.
Now it will be your turn. You have a couple of AoEs but not enough to kill anyone. You can't target anybody but Poe. Maybe your Lumi lives long enough to get a heal off, but maybe not. Even if she does, you just die one round later.
Bottom line: everyone has a different GW experience, some fights are harder than others, and there are no easy solutions. There aren't meant to be.
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Qeltar, that is true, but people who have that problem should continue to report to EA because they stated GW should be challenging, not impossible
I fight challenging teams, including ones about similar to that, imo the most important thing is to continually try to kill poe first, even if he doesn't have taunt up. If you put in phasma and get a lucky shot from FO on a leader bonus, then use FO before he taunts on a reg turn, you might win
Or, use retreat to your advantage. Keep retreating until expose screws up and only gets 1 ally. I've retreated many times until his expose screws up
Sure, I do that. But then you aren't breezing through with just 6 guys, right? You can't put level 1s in, the AI is smart enough not to waste specials usually unless you put in at least one real threat.
And there are people facing 3 of these in a row. Then what?
Got to agree you are not walking that team through my run of typically 6+ Poe DPS teams all max level star and gear mate, sorry. You lack fast damage. Your cannon is slow and will be obliterated by one of those 3 1 hitters Poe or no Poe because 2 of them are Turn 7 and faster than you. If your FOTP is sparred he will die after Poes taunt.
Your team may get lucky with RNG and squeeze by this team, but it will not be intact, sorry man, but it is just realty. The team Qeltar showed I hit everyday and is one of the best builds there is. Your team, albiet it a nice build, would be slaughtered by it and they'd say thank you may I have some more.
Now take that team and go to the next fight
QGJ Lead
Poe
Leia
Rey
FOTP
Then to your next team that is easier now to give you a break after the previous two.
Sid Lead
Poe
FOTP
GS
QGJ
Your team does not walk through that my friend, sorry.
Like Qeltar said you mean well, but reality is anyone who walks through GW with one team is not hitting a string of Poe/DPS teams back to back to Poe not as bad, back to Poe/DPS which is becoming more and more regular.
Yesterday I had and "easy" I faced in my first 5 fights 3 Poe teams, only 1 was Poe/DPS, then I only hit 3 more Poe teams, all Poe DPS but scattered over the last 7 fights. That was an "easy" day of GW for me. I could not 1 team it and I'm consonantly top 5 in my bracket on and old bracket with whales.
Gotta agree with Qeltar 100% here.
I have no problem facing 1 of those teams per day, its when you get 3 in a row...
GS is so helpful at 7* gear 9 in the fight. Gives you a chance to survive every fight with his cannon shot and his speed and fast cooldown. GW renders Poe not real useful for you. I typically save him until I'm stuck on cooldowns late in the run and use him as a sacrifice to pound a tough team and get my cooldowns reset.
Lumi has a big heal, however most hitters can negate that heal 1 shot later. I know I use a maxed out Lumi myself.
Fodder, retreat is how you go. I have 5 teams that can throw down quite well. There are days I use all my fodder and most of them.
Sid
Leia
Rey
Poe
GS
I met that wonderful little team from the fiery pits of I will jack you up not 1, not 2, but 3 times, not separate, but in a row battle 8,9,10 after multiple maxed out matches already.
Draw Poes taunt with Fodder. Here is your issue still. They are all turn 7 speed. 3 of them can 1 hit you. This team required a fodder, and not a softener, but a team that could throw down some DPS and kill at least 2 of the cannons. Then the main team, which by then Poes taunt is back. Sure you could fodder again, but t fight 8 do you want to waste 3 teams? No, and I have a very deep bench.
See Poes taunt is one problem you face in this team, high speed is another, high DPS is a 3rd.
This was nearly the first GW not completed in over 40 strait earlier this week.
If you draw out the taunt, the AOE, the stealth you can manage it. Still though if even 2 of those cannons go before you act, best case you are down only 1 toon. I know since I had to let Lumi fall here on fight 10. Her, Sid or Geo were not walking out alive no matter how many times I tried it, one would fall. geo is more valable than any of them, Sid over Lumi as I have more healers, but not another Heal Immune turn 7 with a decent AOE.
One part of GW strategy these days is to choose who you can press on without at times. Could I have saved Lumi by swaping teams around, yes, but I'd have broken up Synergy of 2 other good teams, lost more than 1 of them to save her, with 2 unknown opponents left.
I chose wisely as fight 11 was
QGJ lead
Secura
Old Ben
Poe
Rey
The final fight was the ever deadly Droid team
Poggle lead
Poe
GS
86
88
Lumi would have been nice, but had I not had those other 2 teams intact i'd have failed. Ironically one was a not maxed, but decent droid team,lol.
Your strategy is good, just sometimes the buzzsaw chews up the best strategy.
No I'm not one of the nerf Poe folks either. Just a realist who faces nightmares in GW daily, but love the feeling of completing it after such a bloodbath.
Honestly I don't know how some of us act like wrecking balls on noob teams in GW, while others are smacking a pencil against a steel wall
Personally, I started the AM after launch, only missing that first night
I immediately spent 50 bucks the first month, and haven't dropped a dime since
I'm top 200 in arena, but I don't try (I do 3 autopilot fights just trying to grab allies for story mode table)
I'm lvl 69, and currently building a light side team
Since the update changing retreat, I won every guild war with flying colors
So EA needs to balance out, reducing the hard battles for you, increasing them for me (only fair, I'm not about me me me, I'm about us us us)
Not 70 yet means you do not earn enough crystal to refill cantina and mission x2 per day.
Have fun beat gw but you're going to fall behind.
If you don't care about rank why bother to complete gw daily. You'll max your toon eventually as casual.
Phasma
Daka
Dooku/GS
Asajj
Lumi/Sid
This squad has enough tools to disect the toughest squads in GW with the right RNG, and doesn't need to be max ☆ to do it, however many retreats may be needed to keep them all alive. Won't be as good when Asajj gets nerfed though.
Guild: Fear The Boot
For this situation, you need a throwaway team. I keep a couple of level 40ish tanks with about 4-7k hp if possible, and any of my level 1-20 instadie chars. Ideally Poe burns taunt, and you can get some other chars to burn a cooldown also.
Once that happens, put your A team back in and while it might be tough you at least have an easier time than before.
I've completed every GW this month with this lineup:
HK47, IG88, IG86, JC (super low cd heal) and 5th person doesn't matter. Sometimes I put in my lower level Daka or Barris just to get in an extra heal, or I sub in Poe for the really tough teams.
I clear it every Day with this team
I face 3+ teams like these back to back at least 2 times a week, and I've never had a trouble clearing GW. There are easy tactics to get around Poe in GW. The way to beat these teams is not AOE.
Btw, how do you like the update sorry but it just made me extremely happy to see Poe not getting majorly nerfed. Mostly because I know how much it got to you .
If so then I will happily slip back to rank 900 and win full GW rewards because my squad can't break into the 200s yet and won't for a while until I level-up
Thank god you're not a nerf poe whiner I think they're having a nervous breakdown after the new update not nerfing poe much.
The best way to deal with that team @Qeltar posted is quite easy. PM me if you want to know it, I mean I'm sure you already know it, it's something that's really obvious and should be common sense.
Thanks. I face 3-5 teams like that a day in GW and I clear it.
Did u use a suicide squad to get rid of poes taunt, rey's special, qgj's special and geo's special?
If you did that, it would be much easier, but still somewhat hard
I am quite a new player and so is my server. I'm level 51 and have yet to see someone higher than level 63 on this server.
Until a couple of days, I used to clear GW every day. But since I hit level 50 and managed to gear my JC in purple gear, this game mode became a true nightmare !
The difficulty raised so much that I'm not able to reach the 9th node anymore... I think that the game considers me now as a "grown player" since I hit level 50 and match me up against higher opponents. But since my server is quite new, I guess there aren't that much players in this level area. Therefore, I end up facing team with 10+ levels at only the 7th node...
I am literally facing a wall. Or at least, My current skill level doesn't allow me to pass it.
Here is a screen of my team :
And a screen of the teams I have to face at the 8th node only. (7th node team was full of lvl 58 purple gear...)
I'm sure that there are much better players than me on this forum so I'm asking you: do you think it's actually possible to beat this kind of opponent with my current setup ? Or is it purely a bad matchmaking coming from EA ?
That would be stupid to have to rely on luck in order to beat these GW....
@Pikasiet tbh I didn't start beating GW until I hit the lvl cap. Because I had the same problem as you, where enemies were much stronger than my core team. So, just don't worry about downing GW because no one else on your server can either. But, your best bet would be 2 healers, 2 bulky dps, and a glass Cannon
In your team I see Luminara, Consular healer, bulky dps Sidious, glass Cannon GS, and then use either Darth Maul or Resistance trooper. The best leader ability would be Luminara, but make sidious leader when you need extra dps to down the enemy glass cannons