I've been grinding Mace in Cantina and Koth in arena JUST to get get a starred up Yoda. Just wondering if he's worth it. Have Lumi at 7, Koth at 5, JC at 4, , QGJ at 4 and Mace at 4. I'll have them at least at 5 before next Yoda go-around, possibly at 6.
Koth is worthless though (right?) - and I could be grinding GS or something more useful in Cantina I think. thoughts?
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At 7*, max gear, max level, and max ranks on abilities:
His Basic hits for about 3000-ish non-critical (so pretty strong, comparatively), and if you whack someone over 50% health you are guaranteed Foresight and 25% Turn Meter. It's VERY strong, if you have a team that doesn't rely on killing 2 people round 1.
His AoE Hits for 2-2.5kish (big range there, for some reason), and super-buffs him depending on what the enemy team has.
His big special hit does 4-4.5k , has a high chance to remove a nice chunk of turn meter, and if they're under 50%, is a guaranteed stun.
His Tenacity Up combined with high speed by itself can be game-changing if you're facing a team with strong debuffs. If the meta changes and games go longer, it will also be useful as a way to steal buffs and steroid your team out of a hole (plus stealing and sharing Retribution for 2 turns is absolutely hilarious)
You'll never use his leader ability, unless debuff-heavy teams become the meta somehow, which they never will because of his Tenacity buff making teams entirely immune to debuffs.
He is overall a unique character, and would be a good addition to your roster just for that Tenacity buff. Even without it, he is strong, fast, and has a respectable health pool and survivability.
Is it worth dropping everything to farm? That's your choice, not mine. He is worth getting at some point though.
And, are Mace and Koth pretty useless as I suspect? I guess I could grind Barriss instead of Mace, but, shes not even at 1* yet.
But as of now it seems like a huge waste of time starring up Jedi that won't get much use ever again when I could be working on Sid, GS, Phasma, and a couple others that will get regular use.
No full starred and leveled character is useless, because GW gets harder as you get better, and you just need cannon fodder.
That being said, it sounds like you're struggling to get your roster off the ground. Having some 7* characters is vital, mainly because the increased health pool from stars gives survivability. It's amazing how much of a difference an extra 800-1000 health makes on low-health characters.
I would also farm Barriss over Mace, by the way. She makes the Yoda challenge much easier at 6 and 7*, where Yoda starts hitting like a freakin truck and there are 2 jedi with him as well.
Loving QGJ but he's only 4* still.
problem is
1) you having to wait on the enemy to provide said buffs
2) it takes 2 turns for yoda to steal the buffs and then to share them with the team.
3) you have to surive those buffed characters a turn before yoda can share them with whats LEFT, not likely to be many, of your squad.
great idea but not very practical....day late and a dollar short yoda is. Not to say he's horrible but he's not a high priority unit. Hell i'd imagine any number of people would say that a f2p no name unit that has no business challenging the likes of jedi, GS, is far more desirable.
So as of now hes decent enough to go after, but in the future i think he will be, what hes supposed to be.
Thats the fun of this, for me, strategizing; planning; building.
I have slipped in arena somewhat. Wake up in the 20s, and have some offensive issues. Used to be able to win any fight, and im not sure if its cause i dedicated so much to jedis or the speed meta. Probably a combo of both. Run a QGJ lead but my poe is sitting at 5* (only because of the yoda event). So its a gamble but the returns are good either way.
I stopped farming Eeth K after 5* and am currently farming barris to get her to 7*
For the 5* i used QGJ Lumi Mace JediC and Eeth
For the 6* i used QGJ Lumi Mace JediC and Ahsoka.
For 7* Mace is being replaced by Barris.
Id say go for it.. would be nice to know if there will be a 3rd round yoda event for those contemplating as you are.
He is not a top 5 character but in the top 15.
He is not weak but if resources are tight then go for GS, Rey or QGJ or whoever else you consider as meta.
1) Lumi is a good character to have at 7*.
2) JC and Barriss are essential to GW so having them at 7* is not a bad move.
3) QGJ is awesome.
That means to me that since those are all characters I want to have anyway, that I only need to go out of my way to acquire a single Jedi to 7* to get Yoda to 7*.
In my case the price is the boring Eeth Koth, but an obvious choice to me.
Ahsoka is easy to farm and steals health
Yoda is fun and ok, you way better off farming Rey or another DPS than a Jedi
Ahsoka is easy to farm and steals health
Other one is a sacrificial lamb to unlock the little goblin. Additional GW cannon fodder if nothing else.
Do wish I hadn't done so many shards on Mace wishing he would be worth it after being "balanced" as he still doesn't seem very good, but thems the breaks. Eoth is no A lister either and needed to farm for QGJ anyhow, is what I keep rationalizing in my head!
but it depends hwat you care about ... if you care about having Yoda, then ofc it is. If you care about having best Arena team and winning GW every time, it's a bad idea.