All credit here to
@Poxx - this is his Trooper squad, I'm just lending a hand with the post. Great videos here showing Troopers against some elite squads many see. This is a high damage comp with solid health, heal / taunt skills, and a tremendous swarm ability when enemies fall. Cleanse is a weakness obviously, but these videos show rock solid evidence that a Trooper-based squad can compete. Phoenix squad they are not; Snowtrooper is dealing 27k crits on basic and 22k on AOE, DT is 20k+ on his basic, Veers is dishing out a lot of damage with his assist call and solid 15k+ crit on basic.
I don't have the screen shots, but these fights took
@Poxx to #1 on his Nov '15 shard with all Trooper battles. Great stuff here, almost have my Troopers G11 and looking forward to using them in various aspects of them game. Thanks Poxx for putting these videos together and taking the time to share.
@danflorian1984 just FYI
Vs. Jedi:
http://youtu.be/GxT_GCYXyCo
Vs. Sith (this one was most surprising):
http://youtu.be/GHTKQDkiA8I
Vs. 3x Classic Cleanse (also surprising)
http://youtu.be/dkn1fYRJOrI
Vs. zDV Empire (very surprising here given debuffs, TM pin, and GK gets absolutely rolled early in the match and is essentially a non-factor):
http://youtu.be/lM1CUhITdzQ
Will they break the meta as currently constructed - no that's not likely - they have holes and are a balanced team. Are they a capable team? The evidence in the videos is pretty clear they are a very capable team.
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You have taken it a step further to dissuade the misinformed from perpetrating Trooper's inability to compete. Thank u much. I hope this helps those that were on the fence.
Arena needs more diversity.
@JohnnySteelAlpha
I would like to thank AhnaldT101, Warrior and MobileGamer as well. It was only after watching their videos that I decided I could make this work. Just had to put my own spin on it. Thx guyz.
vs Sith
https://youtu.be/exYU7Ol_olo
vs Jedi
https://youtu.be/88F8sb-PdmU
vs First Order
https://youtu.be/_exRyRPboWE
All old videos, kind of waiting to get Death to gear 11 before I make more, but maybe I'll do some tomorrow.
Storm is very, very tanky. I have no trouble keeping him alive even vs SA under Maul. He's honestly my favorite trooper at the moment and I plan to get some good footage soon to showcase why, but watch the turn meter removal in the above video, particularly that first one I posted vs Sith.
Stormtrooper gains Defense for each empire ally. Not armor. Defense include both Armor and Resistance, so it will reduce the damage from Sith Assassins special. His armor is just higher than his Resistance so it won't do quite as much damage reduction as it would if it were a Physical damage attack.
Oh, I wasn't implying anything against that. I was only stating that I think a lot of people are overlooking the usefulness of Stormtrooper. I still need to gear up my GK but I'vd been thinking of using the same team as you only with Stormtrooper instead of Shore.
His zeta has no effect on his ability to taunt, absorb damage, and remove enemy turn meter, which is why you would choose him to begin with.
For what it is worth though, whenever I lose characters in Arena, Stormtrooper always seems to be the last one standing. I might actually get his zeta, but again it has no effect at all on how well he does his primary job.
Ok, that's legit!
Very nice bro, I have veers,snow,DT, shore all maxed I just need my GK unlock and gear to be able to run the same squad.
It's hard to run troopers as efficiently as you without GK
I think the Troopers would work extremely well under a Krennic lead (especially Zeta'd). Anyone try Krennic (Z-L), DT, Snow, Shore, Veers?
Palpatine is turn meter gain, not removal, on debuffs. That said, I think it's worth exploring considering the Veers zeta is on his unique and not leader. The major downside is one less trooper to gain stats from and to get big turn meter on kills, as well as less speed, but it could be worth it. I know some are testing out Krennic lead troopers, haven't heard back much from them.
The Zeta Krennic lead with the Troopers seems like they'd be gaining a lot of protection as they seem to crit a lot. Plus they'd also gain protection from the Veers zeta on a kill. They'd lose some direct offense though.
I'd like to see your mods! Can I get a gg link?
@Mazurka
So it is. That could do well in replacing the speed drop from taking out Veers, plus you'd have Palp stunning and shocking as well. Do the troopers debuff much though apart from DT? Snowtrooper seems to be a lot less potent with his basic ability block (was never great anyway tbh) since the update
On the other hand with a Krennic lead you'd also get the extra synergy with Deathtrooper too.
Then if Tarkin's lead gets a zeta in his rework could he be a viable lead as well? A few possibilities for leader which is more than most squads can say
The big part of his lead is the +30% offense. That gives the Troopers the kick they need to drop someone.
Speaking of raids, I was able to do this in P4 of the HAAT.
I'm hoping taking Death Trooper to gear 11, filling in the remaining gear slots (they all have great stat improving gear at gear 11) and some better mods will really push this score through the roof. Currently the tank takes one turn between topples, but I am very close to consistently toppling it before it takes a turn.
When I am comparing the empire pass with the Phoenix release I am not saying that IT are as weak as the Phoenix squad, and honestly maybe some people could use them too with succes in PVP, I am saying that they are both fun teams with potential that are going to go overlooked since the current top toons/ squads own by most people can to at least good if not bettter for a lot less hassle.
How can you can convince someone to farm and gear them when they can just farm Chaze and Rex a lot easier and faster than IT + add their R2 and DN they received for free? For probable better results?
Could have the IT rework been a lot better? Absolutely. Yet, is the team functional in all phases of the game now? Again, absolutely. Like you said though, they are only comparable or slightly worse than teams most established players already have, which isn't necessarily bad it just means there's no motivation to farm then.
From my point of view, that's not a big deal. So Troopers won't infest the top of arena like Sith and triple cleanse, big deal. But to all the trooper fans out there, you have a really fun team to work towards which is all you could have ask for (but of course we always want them to be better!)