Hoth Rebel Scout(HRS)
Does anyone have any experience leveling this toon up and maxing his gear lvl? His base speed doesn't look that slow and his TM gain abilities seem interesting. I currently have him sitting around G8 and 7* but i'm wondering if he is worth gearing to max and inserting worthy mods into, or have I already wasted too much on him. I don't expect arena worthiness but just curious if he would be a good alt rebel for GW or a B team on raids. Any insight from someone who has him maxed would be appreciated.
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Interesting, appreciate the reply. I need to replace STH anyway in my rebel super team, which is just barely super with him still included.
Chaze is definitely on my list, but even with the vault, it might take me some time. That's why I was curious on the utility of HRS since I already have a head start on him, but it might be more useful for me just to save my G9-11 mats for that duo.
Yup, load him up with crit chance and he's taking turns twice as often as everyone else. He's also super fun for the LS missions where it's all Empire enemies cuz he'll gain almost full TM when you kill two of 'em. His unique is also helpful for the tank raid because he's guaranteed to start the topple with at least 22.5% TM as you have to kill the turrets to topple, and if you kill more than one at a time, he can be pretty close to full TM going into the topple. He was one of my first characters to gear X, used to use him in the arena, but had to take him out. He's still a great character for a rebel team in the raid though.
Under Ackbar lead my HRS (g10, maxed abilities/Omegas, 8500 power) only gets about 12-14k on his special and about another 8-9k on his basic immediately following that. I don't regret gearing him up but really only gets spot duty these days. Not a primary option but sounds like you're just looking to mix things up, in which case he's a fine toon.
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Try and get his crit chance to at least 50/55% so you can maximize the effectiveness of his special before you start going for crit damage. If you aren't running Leia/Raid Han you might want to go with more crit chance and less crit damage as well. I think I only have a crit damage primary on mine and usually move some mods from Ahsoka and Sidious onto him when I put him in the raid. But for GW I put a bit more health on him so he's less squishy.
I have Ackbar, Wiggs, and Leia G11, and some decent speed crit mods laying around in reserve. I'll probably throw in a set of crit dmg, and crit chance. I think Leia can bring that crit chance to 55% no problem. I'll probably be moving Raid Han up soon too but he's not leveled or geared at all atm, and not quite 7*.
Yeah as long as you have Leia/Raid Han in there to buff crit chance should be fine. But even with them I recommend at least 45 if you can. His base crit chance is about 34% so with crit chance up buff he's at about 60%, but if you can get his base chance to 45 he'll be at 70% which should be even more reliable, and 45% is doable with crit dmg sets as long as you can get a few decent crit chance secondaries in there. Mines at 46% before I move the crit damage mods on from Ahsoka/Sid and I think its usually still about 43/44% with that set.
SRP is a lot slower, deals a lot less damage and has a 100% chance to grant 15% TM (15% avg). HRS has a 40% chance to give 25% TM (10% avg). So yeah you average more TM gain from SRP's basic, but he won't be using his basic nearly as often as HRS. HRS is about 30% faster at unmodded speed, which doesn't mean much, but he's certainly faster. But HRS can also grant HIMSELF 25% TM. SRP only grants 15% TM to everyone else, not himself. So HRS will be compounding his speed with his own TM gain, as well as just being able to do a lot more damage. Especially when it comes to ackbar lead and the assists because HRS can give himself 25% TM out of turn and then go more often, if you call SRP to assist he does a lot less damage and can't give himself TM so he won't be able to keep spreading TM.
Oh yeah HRS was the MVP of my rebel team in the EP event by far. Stun + 100% TM gain, then give more TM to team, then gets call to assist and RG goes down. Gives himself 25% TM and then 45% from unique and he's back at 70% TM and goes next lol. HRS is a TMG champ, and definitely underrated.
Too bad all of his skills already have omegas :c
He isn't terrible but there is so many other good rebels that outclass him.
All he does is give a bit of tm to your rebels and he can stun somebody with his special. Just not that useful anymore. I wouldn't invest much into him. He was never arena worthy and he definitely isn't anymore
Yeah I love using him. Part of what I look forward to for AAT raids, and for a while I used him in my rancor team. Teebo (L), STH, Fives, QGJ, HRSc. Didn't have too many TMR people so I used him to boost TM for Teebo and QGJ lol. Was able to solo p1 with that team, but wasn't really good enough for the full raid by a lot.
And that's exactly where he is going. P4HAAT with my rebels. Good to know.