I'm at a dead end in gear farming - how do I continue?
I started playing around 2 months ago now and was lucky to find the Farming road map guides rather early, taking the Phoenix route and so on.
Fast forward, I'm currently lvl 77 with my Phoenix squad around G9, except for Kanan and Zeb. I wanted to continue down this road for a bit longer, to make sure I can get 7* Thrawn next time he's around.
And this is where I hit the road block.
To continue gearing Zeb and Kanan I need to start farming the dreaded mk 5 Stun Guns, which become available as soon as Dark Side node 7E. However, in my DS battles, I'm currently up to 5J (normal) and am starting to struggle already.
I wanted to know, at this point, should I leave Phoenix for what it is and start working on an Empire squad? I thought Scoundrels were even more important, but they're not good enough for a full DS squad because I went for STHan and Lando.
If I were to put together my strongest DS toons right now, it'd be Boba, Cad Bane, EP, Vader and Thrawn. Switch over to farming something like TFP/Tarkin is going to take ages, and I went the rebel/ackbar route in Fleet arena so it would probably hurt my ships too. Do I try to gear up the aforementioned EP/Thrawn/Vader/Cad/Boba squad hoping for the best? I'm already short on mk III materials for their abilities so I need to be sure before I make my next step here.
I'll add my swgoh.gg here for those who want to take a closer look.
https://swgoh.gg/u/livid617/collection/
I really hope someone can help me out here and show me the way.
Fast forward, I'm currently lvl 77 with my Phoenix squad around G9, except for Kanan and Zeb. I wanted to continue down this road for a bit longer, to make sure I can get 7* Thrawn next time he's around.
And this is where I hit the road block.
To continue gearing Zeb and Kanan I need to start farming the dreaded mk 5 Stun Guns, which become available as soon as Dark Side node 7E. However, in my DS battles, I'm currently up to 5J (normal) and am starting to struggle already.
I wanted to know, at this point, should I leave Phoenix for what it is and start working on an Empire squad? I thought Scoundrels were even more important, but they're not good enough for a full DS squad because I went for STHan and Lando.
If I were to put together my strongest DS toons right now, it'd be Boba, Cad Bane, EP, Vader and Thrawn. Switch over to farming something like TFP/Tarkin is going to take ages, and I went the rebel/ackbar route in Fleet arena so it would probably hurt my ships too. Do I try to gear up the aforementioned EP/Thrawn/Vader/Cad/Boba squad hoping for the best? I'm already short on mk III materials for their abilities so I need to be sure before I make my next step here.
I'll add my swgoh.gg here for those who want to take a closer look.
https://swgoh.gg/u/livid617/collection/
I really hope someone can help me out here and show me the way.
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Oh and you'll be wanting no less than 5 dot mods sooner rather than later. Anything with speed preferably. Though don't go too mad as change is a coming shortly.
You can dump Cad bane (just keep him around for heists) in favour of one of the above two.
Also see about gathering some stupidly powerful allies for the LS/DS/Cantina battles too. They'll make a big difference. That said, 3 starring node 9 Cantinas is going to be a lot of trouble for me right now even with big shots helping.
You'll be continually short on mk iii purple mats for at least the next few months, just the way it works. Eventually that turns into omegas, and then purples and omegas and zetas.
There's always something.
DS healers are few and far between and make thos missions easier.
If you are hitting the wall on LS or DS missions it's already past time to be working on that team. Phoenix is a good start. But once you have palp and 6* thrawn, move on until you have a better chance to focus on a 7* thrawn.
I'd think strongly about Tarkin and TFP for two reasons - first, Tarkin's leadership gives you a pretty good speed boost for the DS missions and his offense down / TM removal specials can really help. TFP gives you a second AoE as well. Second, you will need those to get Tarkin's capital ship to 5* so you can complete the zeta ship materials challenge. A starting five with Tarkin / TFP / EP / DV and Thrawn should get you where you need to be on those missions with enough gear.
Hey! aren't the cad bane rework rumors kind of... well, like almost confirmed?? Besides.. considering the clone wars momentum of this month and bane being a jedi hunter... and not to mention that mod assigned image ( which is the only real proof) maybe it wouldn't be that bad to go for bane
I personally started with a NS squad and had the opposite problem, LS battles kicked my butt. Basically I believe a good strategy is to always go for whatever unlocks the content you want/need next. You're at a point you need DS farming, go Empire (you want Thrawn 7* and Empire makes most sense). After you can farm both sides you'll want to focus on Events, pay attention to the calendar and then see if you can farm that content before it's out. Empire unlocks R2 for example. First Order is this month's big event. My hunch is next month will be Rogue One. CLS and JTR are huge for raids, you'll have to do multiple events for them.
Just my opinion.
He’s the most useful character outside of a pure Phoenix squad and essential if you run Jedi in Arena eventually.
No one in the top 350 in my shard runs a Jedi team, I just double checked. Does that change at some point? Personally I don't see how it would. It's 70% Empire from what I see.
I never bank my development on rumors and would never recommend that on an early game player.
Early game should be focused on toons with diverse usefulness.
Jedi are top in my Shard - but no Traya teams.
They are stronger than zeta EP lead Sith teams
BUT - you need a Zeta Bastila and GMY minimum to do this
The best Jedi Team that can go Top 10 against the Sith is:
zBastila, zEzra, zGMY, Hoda and Old Ben/GK
Obviously as a lower level player you won’t be running this! BUT if you do focus on just one character for your Phoenix team it should be Ezra because he’s useful later on....
I have Bane and don't really like him. Maybe the rework will improve him, but I'm not impressed by him at all. Daka and Ventress are good directions to go since they are essential for Nightsister squads later on. I also work on time that have ships before I do regular toons, typically.
Get into a guild doing Heroic rancor asap. Just wait for the gear to drop and be patient. Pump all your crystals into cantina and regular energy to get yourself up to 85.
I still farm odds and ends, mostly for toons I'm leveling up but burning energy specifically for 1/20 or heaven forbid 1/50 salvage parts generally isn't worth it. Better to farm character shards and get salvage as a side-benefit.
At this point Cantina, Mods and Fleet are generally better investments for energy refresh. (I do the 50 crystal refreshes for regular to farm character shards but no more thsn thst)
Part of the reason it's so important to get to 85 is you start to get an omega material and an extra reward box for your daily activity completion. You need to get to 85 asap, and energy is the best way to do it.
Depending on your crystal income (from fleets, arena, and any you buy), cantina energy is also extremely valuable to refresh, and it gets you currency for the cantina store as well, and there are great characters in that store.
At 85 you get one free omega for completing your daily activities.
Anyways, I am going to switch focus and move towards my Empire squad, gearing up EP/Thrawn/Vader and getting my Tarkin/TFP to 7*, as it seems like the way to go for now, as most of you have suggested.
Regarding Daka/Asajj as a DS healer, I read their skillsets but if I'm not mistaken, it seems as if they only heal other NS, and not just the whole squad?