Poll: Who would you bet will become the shining star of the new Raid?

Tiggus

The same way Teebo unexpectedly became the key to break the million-damage mark in the Rancor Raid, who would you bet will be THE character that breaks the new Raid, ultimately?

I'm listing the currently expected suspects and a few recent hot ones, but I fully expect the winner to be in one of the "others" category.

Chosen_One

Eeth Koth or Ima Gun Di

Eeth Koth, finally.

grotesque_ah

One of the 5 Jawas

Surely as advertised it will be jawa scavenger.. Theyl release a update to fix his passive and then each aoe sticks toms of thermaldetonators on all enemy droids.. And maybe they give jawas a 300% dmg boost .. Cuz theys said theyre key to victory.. Otherwise it could be hk47 lead droids.. Which anyway go first haha.. Also aa lead rebels could work well.

CptCaveman

One of the 5 Jawas

Scavenger gets my vote as well. Tenacity down, defense down, offense down, offense up, defense up, and stacking detonators on each hit to be exploded with scrap bomb. Percentage health effects will be reduced, but I think the detonators will still end up doing a lot of damage.

Tuftedpaper85

One of the 5 Jawas

Jawa and Datcha--should be able to keep a constant stun of the B2 battle droids allowing you to focus fire on the boss.
Scavenger--dropping crazy thermals whenever his jawa bros get attacked

I think those three are your solid core team.

vincentlondon

Ugnaught

How can we answer this poll when the new raid is not even out ??

It s like asking "is your ice cream good?" When you are still in the line to buy your ice cream

Tuftedpaper85

One of the 5 Jawas

vincentlondon wrote: »

How can we answer this poll when the new raid is not even out ??

It s like asking "is your ice cream good?" When you are still in the line to buy your ice cream

We have enough information to start guessing. We know instead of a Rancor there's going to be an AAT tank and that instead of Gamorreans there's going to be droids. I think that's enough info to at least start planning your strategies around

Tiggus

An Empire baddie

vincentlondon wrote: »

How can we answer this poll when the new raid is not even out ??

It s like asking "is your ice cream good?" When you are still in the line to buy your ice cream

True, the same way you can bet on who's going to win the world cup (of soccer for instance) before the 1st match has started... When you're down to the semi-finals, it gets a little too easy to guess right

But the winner doesn't get much more than the right of bragging "I said it first!"

I voted for Vader, blowing up all the dots or bombs. Oh wait, I won't have it 7*, so that won't work for sure!

BrtStlnd

Eeth Koth or Ima Gun Di

Against droid arena teams my IGD hits for 18-22k on crits for his basic. I don't know if he'll be the mvp of the new raid but I know he will throw down some big damage.

Zombie961

One of the 5 Jawas

Dathcha's leader ability

Darth_Azrael

One of the 5 Jawas

Probably Jawas. But i cannot farm jawas for a while... I want some heroes that compete in the same farm spots and work in 5 new chars from zero... I dont have resources for this.

Kapp

Answer is pretty simple. Everyone is focusing on the droid add phase. There will be multiple phases with one big boss.
Star will still be Teebo. Even at 50% TM reduction he will still make a huge difference, much more than any other single character.

KeKattia

Ugnaught

I'm gonna go with my man Ugh. I started farming him when JE came out because I could see droid becoming a big deal in arena and he's more than decent against droid teams.

Would like to see how often he gets hit if there are 5-6 droids there in a phase, in addition his basic hits hard and his AoE-droid-stun is reliable

Tiggus

An Empire baddie

As new information pours in (See this thread with latest datamined info), it looks like Jawas (who receive extra potency) are still the favourite pick, alongside Jedi. I'd vote for Yoda now.

On the other hand, the Rancor raid's description was really hinting at "taunt" as being a winning factor.

carloshnas

I think a good team will be a mix between jawas and jedis. This Will be a different raid, no longer focused in single Target. so heal and AoE Will make difference instead TM removal.The star could be bariss.

Tiggus

An Empire baddie

Hmm Barriss, that's an interesting one... There's lots of AoE damage, things to be dispelled... why not?

SnokeTrooper

One of the 5 Jawas

So when tank raid comes out the rancor raid is done forever?

Tiggus

An Empire baddie

SnokeTrooper wrote: »

So when tank raid comes out the rancor raid is done forever?

I assume both Raids will be available and it's up to the leader of the guild to start one or the other (see below). I also assume that most guilds will want to play with the new toy and so they will choose the AAT raid over the Rancor one for at least a week or two. Then it will depend on how the rewards compare, but I guess the current Raid salvage are becoming a bit stale by now, and higher level mods (the announced rewards for the AAT raid) will be tempting. Not sure what happens with Han Solo shards though.

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Edit: @SnokeTrooper
It's been announced by Jesse (here) that Guilds will be able to play both Raids independently of each other, so we get to hunt Droids AND finish our Han Solo's!

cheetah2114

Someone unexpected beyond reason, like a Nightsister?

Lobot

Tiggus

An Empire baddie

cheetah2114 wrote: »

Lobot

If that turns out to be true, you'll have earned the rights to shout "I told you first!" bro!

EscapeArtist51

Lando

Lando or Ima gun Di. Most likely both. Lando can RAIN aoe's for high damage. Ima gun Di has very good damage vs droids plus he is a great leader.

Tiggus

An Empire baddie

Having a bit more mileage now with the Emperor, I think he'll totally own that Raid. If there are more than 3 enemies at a time, once he's shocked a few, he'll keep taking turns and playing solo until they're all dead.

Zooey

Palpatine

You know how Grievous has that 100% TM every 7 hits thing? Well....... Palpatine

JJWZP5

Seems like Dengar/b2 will be useful for the aoe tenacity down

Tiggus

An Empire baddie

Verdict in a few days now!

Go Palpatine!

JediGhost117

Eeth Koth or Ima Gun Di

Jedi in general are going to be decent in this raid but since these two do bonus damage to droids I'd would assume that they will be the heavy hitters.

Achilles

Someone unexpected beyond reason, like a Nightsister?

JKG

tetete15

Eeth Koth or Ima Gun Di

Tiggus wrote: »

SnokeTrooper wrote: »

So when tank raid comes out the rancor raid is done forever?

I assume both Raids will be available and it's up to the leader of the guild to start one or the other. I also assume that most guilds will want to play with the new toy and so they will choose the AAT raid over the Rancor one for at least a week or two. Then it will depend on how the rewards compare, but I guess the current Raid salvage are becoming a bit stale by now, and higher level mods (the announced rewards for the AAT raid) will be tempting. Not sure what happens with Han Solo shards though.

I'm pretty sure they said that there will be separate bank currency for each raid and they can both be run at the same time.

Sticare_Courts_0073

Someone unexpected beyond reason, like a Nightsister?

Same as before the TMR raidmeta: Rey-GS

Doing tons of damage on the adds doesn't register as raid damage.

Predian

Ima

Achilles

Someone unexpected beyond reason, like a Nightsister?

Sticare_Courts_0073 wrote: »

Doing tons of damage on the adds doesn't register as raid damage.

It does ... just try to sum the damage done by chars and compare it with your total score after you added some bombs/detonators/damage over time effects on captain piggy or rancor.
With adds you mean the additional chars (like the 2 pig guards left and right of the captain), right? then true ... they dont count.