I only have one question about this challenge: Who's the drunkard at EA who came up with the idea that you can beat this at level 82 with 6x5* ships?
One tip: Play your own game for a sec, guys
i almost won it once
there was only one clone ship left and i had 4 ships but all at red or yellow hp
lost by a hair all ships of mine dead opponent clone ship left with red hp
never did get to that point ever again
Ok, so I finally beat it after 100+ attempts.
I have a slightly different ship composition (no Plo), but the general result was as a few others have mentioned. Here's how I played it:
1. If you lose a ship during the initial assault, restart.
2. Target Ahsoka first, then JC, then Clones then Rex last
3. If at any point during the battle Mace calls in reinforcements, restart.
I kept this going for a *very* long time, until suddenly Mace didn't call in reinforcements. I'm sure it's possible to beat it even if he does, but at least for my part, it's far less infuriating to just go by those 3 rules, as it's just rinse and repeat that way and you don't end up sitting at *almost* beating it.
I don't know how much this will help but - if you have Resistance Pilot leveled up, that X-wing is quietly one of the more solid Ships in the fleet imo. Don't use her much now other than as an occasional Reinforcement; and my RP is still only Gear VIII (toon is 7* / ship was still 5* at the time) but she was crucial, applying target lock and expose. I guess she got usage in my fleet because other than Biggs I am light on Rebels.
i almost won it once
there was only one clone ship left and i had 4 ships but all at red or yellow hp
lost by a hair all ships of mine dead opponent clone ship left with red hp
never did get to that point ever again
So much this.
Came close to winning once, then ever since they've blown me out.
Considering Tier V for Tarkin is SUPER easy, Tier V for Mace and Ackbar is ridiculously hard and all 3 need to be the same: all easy, all moderate or all hard. Pick one.
My plan for Mace's Tier V is to bring Rex's and Fives's ships to 5*s and then just continuously use taunt and protection up on Rex.
i almost won it once
there was only one clone ship left and i had 4 ships but all at red or yellow hp
lost by a hair all ships of mine dead opponent clone ship left with red hp
never did get to that point ever again
So much this.
Came close to winning once, then ever since they've blown me out.
Considering Tier V for Tarkin is SUPER easy, Tier V for Mace and Ackbar is ridiculously hard and all 3 need to be the same: all easy, all moderate or all hard. Pick one.
My plan for Mace's Tier V is to bring Rex's and Fives's ships to 5*s and then just continuously use taunt and protection up on Rex.
That's my plan too, it's just hard starring up ships you don't use while farming shards for those you do. I think most players like me have a couple strong DS ships and a couple strong LS ships. Nice for zeta challenge, not so good for capital ship challenges.
I just beat this on Sunday with the following:
lvl 66 Ackbar G8 with level 46 Home One
lvl 85 Plo Koon G9 with 7 star level 85 Ship
lvl 78 JC G9 with 7 star level 85 ship
lvl 80 Rex G11 with 5 star ship
lvl 78 Clone Sergeant G9 with level 85 6 star ship
lvl 78 Fives G9 with level 85 5 star ship
Backup:
lvl 75 Ahsoka G9 with lvl 80 5 star ship
lvl 73 Biggs G9 with lvl 63 5 star ship
lvl 61 Poe G8 with lvl 60 5 star ship.
Just had to keep restarting until I survived the opening onslaught and took out Rex immediately after. Plo goes first, I use his attack first time up, then give him tm with Rex, then give everyone tm with Plo. Consular was second, Ahsoka 3rd. AI reinforced 3 times: Consular and 2 clone sergeants. Finished up Ahsoka and then went onto the second consular. Then I just had to take out the 3 clone sergeants. Only lost my clone sergeant.
Giving tm back and forth between Plo and Rex whenever someone isn't in desperate need of Protection from Rex is why I won. That's also why I had to zerg Rex down first on their side. Can't be having all that protection restoration and tm gain. I never once used Plo's taunt ability, He hits way too hard and so do they. Putting a taunt up is just asking for one of my ships to die.
There's enough healing abilities in my squad that I was able to win despite him reinforcing 3 times and taunting 5 times.
All my shiprs were 7* level 85. I had Arc Clone S ship, Biggs, Wedge, Jedi Consular, Resistance, and Poe but only 5*. I took an evening and said I would not give up until I completed it. It must have took more perhaps 100 tries until the RNG gods lined up. I was finally able to do it though.
With Poe (78 - 6* - G8) and Bistan (70 - 5* - G7/G8) in reserve.
Got lucky on assists calling Biggs and then Biggs landing his turn lock / taunt refresh. JC / Ashoka went down fast, then went after Rex. I had to deal with full reinforcements but managed to keep biggs alive / taunted long enough to have a numbers advantage and used that to win out. Poe's guaranteed, unavoidable crit on unprotected ships is a nice reinforcement to have as well.
This mission is crazy. 5 star and level 82, bull kitten. I've got 8 ships level 85, captains at 85 on all but one, 78. 6 ships are 7 star, 1 is 6 and the other is 5. Tried no less than 100 times.
Biggs 7 stars level 85 gear xi, Wedge, same. Ahsoka 7 stars level 85 gear x. JC, same. Ghost, 6 stars level 85, Phx squad are all 85 gear 8 and 7 stars. 5 star level 85 Phantom off the bench wit clone Sgt and resistance pilot 5 star 85 gear 7 and 8 respectivly. Akbar is maxed as well as his capital ship, Maxxed.
I've tried a hundred times and I've never even been close, I have seen way weaker rosters finish this event. Beyond frustrated.
Just for further feedback as I'm sure people are trying hard for this for TB.... I just finished this with Biggs 7* g10, Ghost 6* g8, phantom 5* g8, ashoka 7* g10, and Consular 7* g8.... All lvl 85. Had three reserves, but these five were all alive at the end.
Key was killing their ashoka so she couldn't clear Biggs taunt and then getting insanely lucky with rng. Leave Rex till last no matter what. Mace did reinforce 3 times with clone sarg each time, but I had numbers.
It's so so so rng dependent it's crazy. Tried over 50 times again this morning.
Ok I may be beating a dead horse but this challenge is ridiculous. A few problems:
1. It's glitchy, some of my attacks don't even register. I mean doesn't say dodged, resisted, nothing.
2. Tenacity of the enemy is WAYYYYY too high. Why do I even waste mats raising abilities to debuff if 75% of my attacks are resisted. Target lock is the biggest problem
3. Enemy has to high of a critical chance. 8/10 times I lose a ship in the first move because of criticals. These ships don't even have critical buffs so I don't know where they come from.
4. The recommended criteria are way too low for what it should be. This battle should not be harder than 7* legendary character battles. Then was easier to get then a 6* home one.
I may not have a stellar squad, but it should at least stand a chance. Granted I only have 6 ships available, and one of them have a weak unheated crew, but I should be doing better than I am with what I got
Totally think this game sucks because of ridiculous fights like this.
5 star lol
Enemy has 4 of the same ship, how is this even possible?
They all attack first, target lock without fail and attack the same player ship.
Reinforces with the same ship again.
Who writes the code for this game, it's absurd?
Whole games gone to the dogs, just a frustrating unbalanced mess.
I use to spend big money on this game , over $1000 in two years but I refuse to spend a cent more.
Same goes for the GW rubbish , always gold gears commander Luke's or gold Chaze and Wiggs teams stopping much lower level players from completing daily GW.
EA, you are just frustrating players
Fix this mess already
Finally defeated this with these ships: lvl 75 Home One; 78 Jedi Const.; 75 Clone Sgt., Biggs, Wedge, Umbaran, Bistan, Resistance (all 5*, except 4* Umbaran and Bistan). Changed around which ships were in reinforcements but don't know if that made a difference.
This **** me off... because I have way more upgraded ships than this, yet I'm not even close.
He's lying m8, those enemy ships can one shot a six star ship.
Biggs get destroyed and another player ship immediately.
Mace then spams his ****, enemy spams target lock and its all over.
It's a total **** fight in an attempt to make you spend money but actually it just makes people leave.
Look how many players left over the whole light side hard 9a b and c with spam area attacks.
So boring.
Ever wondered why negative posts get removed so quickly on forums?
They even delete posts outright , even though they say they won't.
It's EA little cash grab, borderline criminal if you ask me.
I'm over it.
So people really have had them not reinforce or use their special? Because, I just had a run where mace used his taunt 3 times and his immunity special 2 times before Akbars special was off cooldown.
People just say this rubbish.
I've attempted it over 30 times, is always the same unbalanced fight.
I have gear 10 characters, all max skills, around 14k to 15K power each, some ships over 32k power each.
I get slaughtered.
Enemy has 3-4 ships all the same, each capable of target locking.
Maces timer is already maxed, he just taunts, then red dot spams.
No way can this be done with 5 star toons. Impossible.
Enemy has twice as much health and protection as my guys
It's a stupid unbalanced fight.
Ok I may be beating a dead horse but this challenge is ridiculous. A few problems:
1. It's glitchy, some of my attacks don't even register. I mean doesn't say dodged, resisted, nothing.
2. Tenacity of the enemy is WAYYYYY too high. Why do I even waste mats raising abilities to debuff if 75% of my attacks are resisted. Target lock is the biggest problem
3. Enemy has to high of a critical chance. 8/10 times I lose a ship in the first move because of criticals. These ships don't even have critical buffs so I don't know where they come from.
4. The recommended criteria are way too low for what it should be. This battle should not be harder than 7* legendary character battles. Then was easier to get then a 6* home one.
I may not have a stellar squad, but it should at least stand a chance. Granted I only have 6 ships available, and one of them have a weak unheated crew, but I should be doing better than I am with what I got
Kinda posting me off. I understand my u wing is weak, but my main four shouldnt die by turn 3.
Yours is like mine.
Considering how easy tier 4 was, your team should easily beat tier V but due to EA stacking same enemy, Mace at full TM, full team of target locking hug health huge protection enemy, we get slaughterer.
This game use to be fun, now it's just regarded.
Enemy team should not have multiple of the same OP craft, what **** is that?
The critical hits.. OMG kill one to two fully geared top ships I have.
It's like a bad casino, you can blatantly see the dealers cheating but can't do a **** thing to stop it.
EA don't fix anything for balance here.
Look at Commander Luke ....
Look at Chaze duo....
Balance has nothing to do with this game, they just create a stupidly hard impossible fight in the hopes it will keep you playing.
If like me you just say enough is enough and cut your credit card up and play better games....then enjoy.
My mates all left thisgame due to the **** from last couple updates.
A fight that is purely and solely based on RNG is preposterous. This should not exist in the first place. I understand it should be challenging, but this is not challenging, except maybe towards our patience, because it is only and pure luck.
Have failed around 100 times so far, I run (all lvl85):
- ashoka 7*, pilot 7* g9
- jc 6*, pilot 7* g8
- biggs 7*, pilot 7*, g9
- wedge 6*, pilot 7* g8
- cassian 7*, all pilots 7* g8
Reinforcements:
- phantom II 6*, all pilots 7* g8 except ezra g10
- ghost 6*, all pilots 7* g8
I systematically get obliterated, I've never been anywhere close to a win.
Devs simply never tested it and don't care about it.
Replies
One tip: Play your own game for a sec, guys
there was only one clone ship left and i had 4 ships but all at red or yellow hp
lost by a hair all ships of mine dead opponent clone ship left with red hp
never did get to that point ever again
Biggs 7*/G11
Wedge 7*/G11
Ahsoka 7*/G11
JC 7*/G10
Bistan/RPF 7*/G8
Plo 7*/G7
I have a slightly different ship composition (no Plo), but the general result was as a few others have mentioned. Here's how I played it:
1. If you lose a ship during the initial assault, restart.
2. Target Ahsoka first, then JC, then Clones then Rex last
3. If at any point during the battle Mace calls in reinforcements, restart.
I kept this going for a *very* long time, until suddenly Mace didn't call in reinforcements. I'm sure it's possible to beat it even if he does, but at least for my part, it's far less infuriating to just go by those 3 rules, as it's just rinse and repeat that way and you don't end up sitting at *almost* beating it.
All my ships are 6/85 except Plo 4/80 and pilot at g6 lol
Biggs
JC
Sarge
Ahsoka
Fives
Plo
Wedge
Did it with:
Ahsoka lvl 85 7* G10, ship 7*
Biggs lvl 85 7* G10, ship 7*
Wedge lvl 85 7* G10, ship 7*
JC lvl 85 7* G8, ship 6*
Bistan 4* lvl 71 G7 / 4* lvl 65 G7, ship 5*
Clone Sergeant 5* lvl 64 G6, ship 5*
All ships, including AA are lvl 85.
So much this.
Came close to winning once, then ever since they've blown me out.
Considering Tier V for Tarkin is SUPER easy, Tier V for Mace and Ackbar is ridiculously hard and all 3 need to be the same: all easy, all moderate or all hard. Pick one.
My plan for Mace's Tier V is to bring Rex's and Fives's ships to 5*s and then just continuously use taunt and protection up on Rex.
That's my plan too, it's just hard starring up ships you don't use while farming shards for those you do. I think most players like me have a couple strong DS ships and a couple strong LS ships. Nice for zeta challenge, not so good for capital ship challenges.
lvl 66 Ackbar G8 with level 46 Home One
lvl 85 Plo Koon G9 with 7 star level 85 Ship
lvl 78 JC G9 with 7 star level 85 ship
lvl 80 Rex G11 with 5 star ship
lvl 78 Clone Sergeant G9 with level 85 6 star ship
lvl 78 Fives G9 with level 85 5 star ship
Backup:
lvl 75 Ahsoka G9 with lvl 80 5 star ship
lvl 73 Biggs G9 with lvl 63 5 star ship
lvl 61 Poe G8 with lvl 60 5 star ship.
Just had to keep restarting until I survived the opening onslaught and took out Rex immediately after. Plo goes first, I use his attack first time up, then give him tm with Rex, then give everyone tm with Plo. Consular was second, Ahsoka 3rd. AI reinforced 3 times: Consular and 2 clone sergeants. Finished up Ahsoka and then went onto the second consular. Then I just had to take out the 3 clone sergeants. Only lost my clone sergeant.
Giving tm back and forth between Plo and Rex whenever someone isn't in desperate need of Protection from Rex is why I won. That's also why I had to zerg Rex down first on their side. Can't be having all that protection restoration and tm gain. I never once used Plo's taunt ability, He hits way too hard and so do they. Putting a taunt up is just asking for one of my ships to die.
There's enough healing abilities in my squad that I was able to win despite him reinforcing 3 times and taunting 5 times.
Backup
You can't use dark side ships when doing the Tier V Ackbar/Mace challenge.
JC (85 - 7* - G8)
Biggs (85 - 7* - G8)
Wedge (85 - 7* - G9)
Ashoka (85 - 7* - G8)
Fives (85 - 7* - G9)
With Poe (78 - 6* - G8) and Bistan (70 - 5* - G7/G8) in reserve.
Got lucky on assists calling Biggs and then Biggs landing his turn lock / taunt refresh. JC / Ashoka went down fast, then went after Rex. I had to deal with full reinforcements but managed to keep biggs alive / taunted long enough to have a numbers advantage and used that to win out. Poe's guaranteed, unavoidable crit on unprotected ships is a nice reinforcement to have as well.
I've tried a hundred times and I've never even been close, I have seen way weaker rosters finish this event. Beyond frustrated.
Key was killing their ashoka so she couldn't clear Biggs taunt and then getting insanely lucky with rng. Leave Rex till last no matter what. Mace did reinforce 3 times with clone sarg each time, but I had numbers.
It's so so so rng dependent it's crazy. Tried over 50 times again this morning.
Finally RNGsus was with me and I got it.
1. It's glitchy, some of my attacks don't even register. I mean doesn't say dodged, resisted, nothing.
2. Tenacity of the enemy is WAYYYYY too high. Why do I even waste mats raising abilities to debuff if 75% of my attacks are resisted. Target lock is the biggest problem
3. Enemy has to high of a critical chance. 8/10 times I lose a ship in the first move because of criticals. These ships don't even have critical buffs so I don't know where they come from.
4. The recommended criteria are way too low for what it should be. This battle should not be harder than 7* legendary character battles. Then was easier to get then a 6* home one.
I may not have a stellar squad, but it should at least stand a chance. Granted I only have 6 ships available, and one of them have a weak unheated crew, but I should be doing better than I am with what I got
Biggs 7* G10 - X-Wing (lv 82, ability 6 average, 7*)
Wedge 7* G10 - X-Wing (lv82, ability 6 average, 7*)
Ghost 6* Crew 7* G8 (lv 81, ability 4 average)
Phantom 6* Crew 7* G8/Ezra G9 (lv 81, ability 4 average)
Cassian U-Wing Crew 7* G5/6/7 (lv 74, ability average 1/2)
Jedi Consular 7* G8 - Ship (lv 81, ability 6 average)
Ackbar 7* G9 - Home One 5* (lv79, ability 4 average)
Kinda posting me off. I understand my u wing is weak, but my main four shouldnt die by turn 3.
5 star lol
Enemy has 4 of the same ship, how is this even possible?
They all attack first, target lock without fail and attack the same player ship.
Reinforces with the same ship again.
Who writes the code for this game, it's absurd?
Whole games gone to the dogs, just a frustrating unbalanced mess.
I use to spend big money on this game , over $1000 in two years but I refuse to spend a cent more.
Same goes for the GW rubbish , always gold gears commander Luke's or gold Chaze and Wiggs teams stopping much lower level players from completing daily GW.
EA, you are just frustrating players
Fix this mess already
He's lying m8, those enemy ships can one shot a six star ship.
Biggs get destroyed and another player ship immediately.
Mace then spams his ****, enemy spams target lock and its all over.
It's a total **** fight in an attempt to make you spend money but actually it just makes people leave.
Look how many players left over the whole light side hard 9a b and c with spam area attacks.
So boring.
Ever wondered why negative posts get removed so quickly on forums?
They even delete posts outright , even though they say they won't.
It's EA little cash grab, borderline criminal if you ask me.
I'm over it.
I've attempted it over 30 times, is always the same unbalanced fight.
I have gear 10 characters, all max skills, around 14k to 15K power each, some ships over 32k power each.
I get slaughtered.
Enemy has 3-4 ships all the same, each capable of target locking.
Maces timer is already maxed, he just taunts, then red dot spams.
No way can this be done with 5 star toons. Impossible.
Enemy has twice as much health and protection as my guys
It's a stupid unbalanced fight.
Yours is like mine.
Considering how easy tier 4 was, your team should easily beat tier V but due to EA stacking same enemy, Mace at full TM, full team of target locking hug health huge protection enemy, we get slaughterer.
This game use to be fun, now it's just regarded.
Enemy team should not have multiple of the same OP craft, what **** is that?
The critical hits.. OMG kill one to two fully geared top ships I have.
It's like a bad casino, you can blatantly see the dealers cheating but can't do a **** thing to stop it.
EA don't fix anything for balance here.
Look at Commander Luke ....
Look at Chaze duo....
Balance has nothing to do with this game, they just create a stupidly hard impossible fight in the hopes it will keep you playing.
If like me you just say enough is enough and cut your credit card up and play better games....then enjoy.
My mates all left thisgame due to the **** from last couple updates.
Have failed around 100 times so far, I run (all lvl85):
- ashoka 7*, pilot 7* g9
- jc 6*, pilot 7* g8
- biggs 7*, pilot 7*, g9
- wedge 6*, pilot 7* g8
- cassian 7*, all pilots 7* g8
Reinforcements:
- phantom II 6*, all pilots 7* g8 except ezra g10
- ghost 6*, all pilots 7* g8
I systematically get obliterated, I've never been anywhere close to a win.
Devs simply never tested it and don't care about it.