Hi all,
I'm very pleased with myself that I've now got BB8. Admittedly only at 5* but I've got all abilities maxed out (but not Zetaed), some reasonable mods on him (as best as I can currently do), and now in the process of gearing the little fella up.
Thing is, what do I do with him now? I don't run a Resistance team and don't have any great motivation to do so. I will however now start farming the JTR-required team although I don't think they have a huge amount of use anywhere else currently.
My Arena team is CLS, Rex, Old Ben, R2 and OG Han. Does he fit anywhere there or not bother?
If not - any ideas as to where/how I can use him?
Here's my roster -
https://swgoh.gg/u/coastaljames/collection/
Many thanks as always you lovely people!
James.
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Likely decent on a Droid team as well.
I do believe though that BB8 and JTR are designed to have great synergy.
I think that's a given mate I don't have JTR. And won't be getting her anytime soon.
That's pretty much what I figured to be honest. Can't see what I can do with him. Except JTR! In a good few 6 months from now.
I would have to say though, I've used him in a few Arena battles this morning, swopping Rex for him, and he's done really well. Very suprised. Even at the low gear level that he is.
He is an MVP in that team, but I don’t see much use for him outside of it.
1. BB8 under an Ackbar lead with CLS mean loads of turns for CLS (so lots of TM reduction and stuns). This setup is the basis of the P3/4 HAAT killer with zAsajj and Thrawn.
2. BB8 taunting with an all-droid team under HK-47. Not meta, but good fun and surprisingly useful (TW offence, Ewok event etc.)
See response directly below yours.
CostalJames I know one of my guildmates without JTR uses BB8 under a zader lead in STR to boost the damage done by Vader and Boba when exploding dots. But we only do T4/T5 so if you're doing higher tiers this doesn't work. With that said, BB8 can boost the damage of any team you put him in once he fires off ID.
I can see this happening. Everyone's kind and good ideas on here don't really grab me to be honest.
I think I'll just start farming for Rey.
Stick him in a few raid and TW squads for a giggle
BB8 rocks socks on a droid team. I use it instead of Jawa Engineer. You get a little less TM than with the Engineer's special, and you only get it at the start of the battle (unless it's multi-stage, in which case you get it at the start of each phase, in which case it's CLEARLY better) but you get it from the very start and it doesn't cost an action to use.
A lot of folks also use BB8 with Ackbar's leadership and Commander Luke, since it has a special with 0 cooldown and will call either Luke or Ackbar to attack every time it's used.
I do yes...and can see a half-decent team there. But for what return for my investment? Not sure I think it's worth it in regards progression. Great idea though, thanks.
Great advice on many fronts- thank you.
Yeah, droids still aeen’t great. But if there’s droid-only content (like Forest Moon Mythic, but you probably have Empire for that) in the future, now you know!
Boba (g12) lead, Zylo (g12), Rey scavenger (g11), R2 (g12), and bb8 (g9 or 10).
R2 stealths everyone but Zylo. Zylo keeps retribution up a good portion of the time. Boba does surprising damage here. Don't kill the adds till boba gets a bounty. Once he gets a bounty and 5 stack Pain he does up to and over 50k on basic. On double tap over 100k. Execution can hit hard after Sion taunts.
In p1 have to put a healer in for Rey (not visas!). After bb8 does his special and dn steals the buffs boba can execute for ridiculous damage...