Team Improvements and Future Focus for Arena and GW

TheWanderer

Hey everyone,

I'm currently running an Arena team consisting of:

QGJ (5* - leader)
Lumi (7*)
JC (7*)
Sidious (7*)
Old Daka (5*)

and it's been working pretty good. I'm having trouble getting past rank 20th though, so I was curious to hear if anyone had any suggestions on improving the line up, substitutions, and what to farm next? Should I try to farm Dooku, Rey, or Fives?

I'm currently working on finishing QGJ in Cantina, Poggle on GW, and starting on IG-88 on Arena.

I do have GS 3* and IG-86 3* on the back bench, but I mostly use them for the GW. My intent is to bring them out when Poggle is unlocked.

xJazzx

You are basically chasing the meta here. You sure this is what you want to do?

TheWanderer

I'm just trying to remain competitive in the Arena so I can continue to farm shards at a good rate from it. I usually tend to rank around the 30's, but am being steadily pushed up (this morning I was down to 117).

DanTom

xJazzx wrote: »

You are basically chasing the meta here. You sure this is what you want to do?

This.

Chasing the meta usually ends badly. That said, I would 7* QGJ and get rid of JC for arena.

Where do you usually finish in arena? If below top ten, focus on your GW roster and make a run for top 10 when you are ready.

TheWanderer

Why would you replace JC? I ask to see whether it's because he's not that good a character (he tends to be one of my better performers) or my team has a role which needs fulfilling which he doesn't.

I have indeed thought of replacing him (in fact, with Dooku, Rey, or Fives, since these are pretty effective themselves) but am not entirely sure what role (and therefore character) I should be bolstering to improve the team.

Fair point on GW. I just recently was able to beat it again after the changes to difficulty and have been working on a Team B for it. I worry though that as the population of my shard matures, it'll become harder to get into the top of the Arena; ergo my focus on it.

Dilligaf

The high power of your JC has already made your GW harder.

I found 4* Dooku more useful in Arena than 6* JC

TheWanderer

Yeah, I just read the other day how the Arena team affects your GW; I should stop pumping power into it.

I'm tempted to go for CT-5555. Not only is he a tough character which can slow down attackers, but he also has the ability to call in an ally for a hit. In a group of strong hitters, that could be another kill. Plus he's farmable in the Cantina Shipments (though I'll wait until QGJ is 7* for that).

So maybe drop JC for GS and Daka for 5's?

DrewN76

I started 5'sbefore QGJ was put out and I am going to finish him before I go much more on QGJ got him to 4* for myBen and Poe and went right back to 5's. I realized about a week ago I was in trouble as far as GW and for the past 3 days I have finished GW everyday. I run three teams there plus fodder teams. I will have 2 7* Lumi and Sid. All the others are 5-3*. I rank currently at 250 in arena dropped some skipping the focus but I have been able to work on phasma and Poggle to aid more in GW. Currently I farm Kylo in cantina missions fives in shop, starting 88 in arena, phasma and Poggle inGW, and Dooku in hard missions. I run a Sid, fives, dooku, Kylo, Lumi in arena. Once phasma is competitive she will swap out Sid. The multi attacks on this team are insane. I have taken out Sid and Dooku extremely fast. It works for me.

Moral is you won't regret 5's if you go for him.

TheWanderer

Thanks for the info. I've decided to go ahead and farm 5's on regular nodes in order to replace JC. Like you said, multi-attacks give you the chance to focus fire much more easily (even for the AI); it's saved my life when QGJ missed Sid, but then Lumi kills him with the followup.

After, I may go for IG-86 and replace Daka.