NS Team - Gear Zombie or Not?
So the dominant school of thought is to leave Zombie at a low star level and gear level so she dies and boost Vetriss dps.
BUT with her Omega wouldn’t it be better to gear her up so you increase the chance of her taunt being up more throughout the encounter in arena?
BUT with her Omega wouldn’t it be better to gear her up so you increase the chance of her taunt being up more throughout the encounter in arena?
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My plan is to 7* her and maybe not upgrade anything else until I’m closer to end game.
Ideally, I want her to die when the enemy tries to debuff her taunt because, boosting Serve Again and Rampage is better than having her standing around without taunt. Most debuffs hit like a wet noodle.
If you’re wanting to use her lower gear strategy, imo, go to gear 7(for speed boost), omega her abilities, keep her level 80, and give her the fastest mods you have, as a baseline. Then, tweak her to your specific needs.
Both are sound strategies as far as I’m concerned but, I like Ventress most so I let her die.
Yup that’s what I thought also, cheers
Lol, gear 1 zombie would be madness!
She gets a speed boost on gear levels 2 and 7 so that’s why I suggested gear level 7. Zombie needs to be fast to be truly effective.
ITs indefinite for the encounter I believe
Why is everyone getting her gear 7 again? Speed boost?
At green gear she has 88 speed, I'm guessing at gear 7 she gets the 120 speed?
True, imagine nightsisters with counter, oh wait... kenobi
If you gear her she can be fractured or get buff immunity so you want her undergeared for defense.
imo where it sounds like you are right now, I would stick with ungeared, since it is not absolutely *required* for you to gear her (like it is with other toons), you can focus your attention on maxing gear on the other 4.
Once the rest of your team is strong, I think making the switch to strong zombie is wise. You don't see a lot of paper zombies in the top tiers of arena. (They exist! But anecdotally the people who report having the toughest time with NS at top arena ranks are talking about teams with a maxed Zombie.)
But then ... your opponent will avoid her until they can fracture a more appealing target, like Talzin ...
imo getting a human opponent with Thrawn to fracture zombie is exactly what you want. Keeps fracture off your other, more valuable toons.
I have mine GL11 it works much better. If you are feeding Asajj there are way faster ways to do it, like letting anyone but acolyte and Asajj die, then hit the person with the highest hp, you'll get stacks based on your attacks not if they decide to attack your zombie.
G1 you cannot unlock unique it need to be g2
Why not? The mechanic is the same. If it comes down to only those two constantly alive, it doesn't matter, if zombie is killed instantly or staying alive
I prefer weak myself as the Troopers gain TM faster and use AoE's to demolish the non-taunters.
Strong Zombie with GK prolongs the battle a little longer but the result invariably ends the same unless RNG just doesn't want to be friendly.
Hence why low gear zombie is better. High gear zombie won't prevent people from beating your team ; the same people that can beat a low gear zombie can beat a high gear zombie. So it is a waste of gear.
Of course, but that was not the question
For the general question: i prefer a middle geared zombie...he stays alive in the beginning and after the tm works, he feeds asajj a lot. With a bit more health, he would be two hit and feet MT, too. So you have a lot of "extra turns".
For the question with acolyte I want to add, that especially with low geared zombie, acolyte works better. With high geared, you could also use talia as she can dispel his debuffs too and makes hin faster, so he taunts more often
No, she isn’t.
Same with me (G9), never fall more than 20 places in 24h, although I've only 75-90 + speed on them until now
Or we talk the first time about thinking and tactics instead of simply gearing a character w\ checking out mechanics and possibilities
When fully geared how does she hold up in battle compared to other tanks? Gearing her makes sense b/c sure Vent doesn’t get buffed as much BUT her auto taunt after her turn is a bit like K2 and auto revive assuming another toon is alive just seems quite amazing...
Is her dps on par with other similarly geared tanks also? and I assume she can revive a fellow NS ally on landing a killing blow under MT lead? I’ve never had her geared enuff to check this from a surviveability/dps perspective