Resistance vs. First Order
April 11, 2018 11:51PM
edited April 2018
I'm working on an alt at the moment, and hit my limit with Nightsisters because I'm not willing to sink a lot more money into shards for Zombie and Talzin. I've started to look at alternatives to help me maintain a decent rank in arena (I'm typically in the top 200 in my shard with my Nightsisters), but need some help deciding.
I was leaning towards a Resistance squad, both because it'd allow me to open up lightside nodes for gear farming and for the pilots, but then realized it's going to be a while before I'm able to get Finn's zeta (I'm level 65 on my alt).
Would it be better to run a Resistance squad of Finn/Poe/Trooper/Rey/Pilot even without Finn's zeta? Or would I be better off working towards a KRU/Kylo/Phasma/Officer/FOST squad?
~Morningfrost
I was leaning towards a Resistance squad, both because it'd allow me to open up lightside nodes for gear farming and for the pilots, but then realized it's going to be a while before I'm able to get Finn's zeta (I'm level 65 on my alt).
Would it be better to run a Resistance squad of Finn/Poe/Trooper/Rey/Pilot even without Finn's zeta? Or would I be better off working towards a KRU/Kylo/Phasma/Officer/FOST squad?
~Morningfrost
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My NS are already about as far as I can take them, with Acolyte, Daka and Talia all at 7-stars and gear 7, and Ventress almost at 7-stars and gear 7...but zombie is only 4-stars and Talzin is only 3-stars (both also gear 7) and with their new nodes being so far up there's no way for me to get them maxed in anything resembling a reasonable amount of time.
I'm not looking for Finn and a Resistance squad to be an instant-win team, just looking to remain competitive so I can farm arena tokens a bit easier lol. Like I said, not looking for anything crazy, just to maintain a place in the top 200.
As for FO...I do like Phasma for the turn meter boost, but at some point she'd be replaced by one of the FO Pilots.
~Morningfrost
Is this a post from April 10th?
No, it's not. If you look at the rest of my post, my alt is only level 65, and is not capable of farming the hard nodes for Talzin and Zombie. And even if I could, a single 20-energy hard node takes literally forever to farm...on my main account I have been farming Nihilus for months and I've still got 144 shards left until I've maxed him (so in probably 3-4 months I've gotten roughly halfway to maxing Nihilus).
So in other words, my NS squad has been taken as far as I can atm without spending more crystals on shards, and since I've already sunk about $150 into various NS packs and the shards to get Zombie to 4-stars, I'm unwilling to dump more money into the team.
~Morningfrost
Phasmas tm boost is the only positive she has when she isnt the leader, it honestly isnt worth having her in the team if she wont be the leader, put anyone other than her in the team and its a much bigger improvement, its sad but its a fact that her basic is just...too ordinary and uninteresting while her AoE is too weak to be effective
Having said that I should preface it with I’m p2p, not f2p so my perspective is not going to be the same as a f2p player.
@freshprince19888 Clearly you’re not sure what you’re talking about. Played right, zFinn is an instant win. I have a very fast Poe and the team works like a charm. I was able to put in just Poe, RT, and Finn and beat a very geared and developed palp team. Also, they are not “useless
In the arena.” I can’t beat nightsisters normally, but I can put in zFinn and walk over gear 11 and twelve night sisters. Just put in a better defensive team overnight for holding. So to the main question, RESISTANCE RESISTANCE RESISTANCE. Farm the vets for Rey and farm first order on the side. They don’t need good gear for bb8
I don't have a problem with farming FOST at all. Already have him unlocked, and with 2 hard nodes he's a lot easier to farm than Zombie or Talzin. Still not as quick as others, but so be it. FOE would be interesting, but will be a little bit slower since I would already have KRU and Kylo to farm using cantina energy.
I'm still a P2P player to a certain extent, but am limiting myself to energy and cantina energy refreshes rather than outright buying shards, just because it's more economical lol.
Again though, it will be quite a while before I'm able to zeta Finn, and the question is whether I'll be able to maintain a decent arena ranking without the zeta in the meantime. How well does Finn/Poe/Trooper/Rey/Pilot work without Finn's zeta?
~Morningfrost
And the problem with zFinn in arena is not offense, but defense. You sink like a stone.
Everything is relative...no character is ever an "instant win".
And I don't see Finn, zetaed or otherwise, in any of the top squads. None at all. There's a reason for that.
@freshprince19888 Clearly you’re not sure what you’re talking about. Played right, zFinn is an instant win. I have a very fast Poe and the team works like a charm. I was able to put in just Poe, RT, and Finn and beat a very geared and developed palp team. Also, they are not “useless
In the arena.” I can’t
zFinn is not good for arena, since the AI is unable to keep up with the strategy required to use him. JTR can, but at level 65, you don't have her.
And you don't fall much much further when you keep them in on defense? I doubt that very much.
This, for me, is the key. If you want Jedi Rey (you need BB8) then you know what you have to do. And should start doing it right now.
(To avoid panic farming and general whinging.)
Just to test I kept them in last night and fell 30 spots which is about average for me. Was it luck? I couldn’t tell you.