Thrawn is doing serious work in arena. The 3 teams on my shard that added him are holding much better. 2 are empire heavy squads. His AI is actually not bad at all especially if you have him modded correctly. I've made it to payout each of the last 4 days without using a battle to stay top 5 at the start of my payout hour. This is with a g9 Thrawn. I think we are in for a round 2 of bring back Palp threads except this time it's Thrawn.
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full rebel squad (a.k.a. Phoenix) was BEFORE the pass.
R2 requires EMPIRE.
Too lazy to post all here's the gallery all in the top 20
https://imgur.com/a/Hjs5W
Phoenix didn't come out in close proximity to gar Saxon and company? If I remember correctly they came out afterwards. Even still we got one viable character. Yay....
Looking forward to it. When you say they do well, what do you mean? Are they dropping less than then triple cleanse and maul teams? I find that no matter which team I use, I typically drop from 1st to about 15th over 24 hours. If empire is dropping around the same, there isn't much incentive to train switch squads.
I posted them. They stay in the top 30 I'd say consistently. Maul died completely on my shard. Only 1 in the top 50.
Edit it was mainly Tarkin lead.
@ItsJarJarBinkz Do you have any teams w/o GK? Just wondering who would fit well there as I don't have GK yet but kinda wanna try a Zader setup after I gear Thrawn. Also Krennic is out of the question as well lol. I have Chaze, but the whole point of going to Zader is that I wouldn't be using Chaze but if I have to I could run Zader, Chaze, Thrawn, DT or Nihilus or someone else.
People need to stop acting like most of the shard are different now. Most shards everybody at the top has 100 plus toons unlocked and we all started mods at he same time. For all I care they could merge all the shards.
Here I am currently on my shard. You can see I didn't even need my 5 battles today. The other Thrawn team is studly as well.
Tarkin is perfect for F2P who want a ton of utility form 1 toon. He is great in raids ships arena and GW. He is easy to gear and you can pass on his zeta's. He is a very solid toon across many parts of the game.
INCONCEIVABLE!
No thrawn was the end of the pass
One and instead of GK it's Palpatine at rant 28.
People who find empire or Thrawn don't hold well on D probably just have comparably poor mods to the rest of their shard and their Rex lead has helped them hide that fact. It is indefensible to say a number 1 team on many shards (Thrawn gk DT DN and ShT) would fall to 50 overnight.
Yes all shards are different. Some are tougher than others. But at the end of the day the teams collecting 500 crystals are going to be able to build squads similar to the squads collecting 500 crystals a day on a different shard. A lot of people are under the impression that because their whole shard is made of triple cleanse it makes it tough. News flash, the more triple cleanse you see on your shard the easier it probably is. Most of the top guilds are running comps focused around the reworked empire or the new Ahsoka. If you roll down TI rosters you will see plenty of wedge lead. Wedge lead can't be that bad if people who can pick from a list of all the toons are deciding to use him.
@Olddumper This is interesting, those Thrawn teams had already been flagged up by a guildmate and it definitely has massive potential. What @Skykraker fails to realise is that most developed shards have their own chats where people discuss the finer points of the team comps and how they fare on defence. My guildmate gets to talk to people that have faced his team who tell him it is infinitely harder than his triple cleanse or Rebel/Fatz comps etc etc.
Only caveat is that it's new. Often new comps gain traction in the short term because they may require minor adjustments to tactics or mods to deal with. My resources have taken a real bashing recently but I for one will be at least putting a little more effort into Empire.
Thrawn L DT nih shore GK
It's insane. Extremely good if you can get speed on everyone. They get a bunch of tm quickly and it's beautiful to watch on full auto, even with all the pointless cleanses. Thanks man!
Even as I am finally bringing my own FTP Chaze team online I am planning out future resource usage to make sure I can switch back to empire if it becomes necessary.
I run that arena team also. It's so fun. Unbeatable on offense. Everyone is beatable on defense but I don't drop far overnight.
I consider empire pass the healthy way to update. Though I'm not sure future releases/passes will follow suit. So it's downhill for empire from here forth.
As f2p I'm on the edge of doing empire for the fun of it, or just stick with triple cleanse and keep hoarding.
May not be the best topic to ask for this; what's your opinion on zetaing ebb&flow (thrawn unique)?
Wedge leads made a strong comeback with r2. Especially with ATF and good mods, these teams hold top 10 easily on my shard.