FTP player here since 12/1. I was top 10 in arena for a while, slipping now to to the 40 to 60 range, and always complete GW. So by no means a novice.
One of the reasons I've slipped in arena is being consistently one step behind the meta. E.g., I just finished five starring Poe. My 7 stars is fairly typical for FTP - Sid, lumi, Poogle, 88, ren, phasma. Daka is only four stars and rather useless. I just unlocked qui gon jinn. I'm notably behind the curve on Jedi and fast heroes.
Where to go from here.? Current farms are qui gon jinn, mace, eeth koth, and 86. Gradually working on dooku via HM. It's going to be quite a while before I can compete with the current meta (and some of my farms are aimed more at the Jedi challenge). What to do in the short/ medium/long term?
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Lumi, sid, 5's, ig88, phasma
My 5 and 6 star almost max gear toons:
Jc, dooku, poggle, kylo
And i have an almost 4 star 142 speed poe.
I was farming ig86, ek, dooku and poe when the update hit.
I am doing the same except switching qgj in cantina shipments.
I don't know where to focus for my arena team.
For gw purposes, I am considering farming bariss rather than dooku but i like dooku's' anti jedi ability.
Without fast damage dealers maybe i need to use tanky aoe and counter attck. But yesterday i dropped in arena from 14 to 40 something.
Really hurt by wasting almost 300 shards on fives and boba fett ;though fives a least has been somewhat useful; boba fett not so much).
Not really complaining, but the recent update seems to have hit FTP players pretty hard.
Rey is a long term project through hard modes.
The very essence of being f2p is that you will most likely ALWAYS be behind the meta. Since people who spend money will get there faster. All you can do is follow the update anouncements and try to think ahead (hands down - that is not easy with EA annoucing only the half-truth).
You can always try to break the meta which gets easier the larger your toon base gets. So you (we) will need some patience I guess.
Farm Geo Soldier in Cantina to start. He's very very strong, especially combined with Poe and QGJ. If Poggle assists him, you will see some rather unbelievable numbers. He's also relatively easy to farm, and goes to G9, with 145ish speed.
If you can build a Sid/Phasma (L), Poe, GS, Poggle, QGJ team, you will not be disappointed with the current meta. That's a very strong setup. QGJ (L) , Poe, Poggle, GS, IG86 would also be very strong.
I could very easily see Boba becoming the new Sid meta if base damage gets toned down (or even if it doesn't); at level 8 his Leader gives 50% Crit Multi and 10% crit chance, which is far better than Sid's, and he would fit in well on an AoE team.
I second the Geo Soldier pick. You need to get him ASAP. Yoda will be very difficult to get to 7* for F2P and I'm not sure he'll be viable in arena at 5* since he will be very squishy, so farming Mace/Barriss instead of GS is not the best option - unless you reaalllly want Yoda so you can play GW with him
GS also gets better when we move into the next meta with the level 80 cap because his next Special upgrade is "Cooldown -1"...which means he will be firing an assist special every time he moves.
Chasing the meta just lets me keep up.
OP seems to have a desire to get back to performing well in Arena, so I think recommendations of strong characters are what is needed here.
For myself, I "like" playing characters that perform the best, so going after these characters is worthwhile to me.
I agree, but the strong characters are "changing." Taking advice will most likely be wrong by the time FTP players actually get them geared. It was said FTP players should farm Poe/Poggle/Droids, but that is hardly tier 1 at the moment. I can spout a list of strong characters. By the time a true FTP player gets them and geared up, they will be dust. GS is really strong right now, but will probably be trash in the next update when everyone gets gear IX and X. Considering PVP is vs AI you can take a well geared group of 5 and manage a victory, same with Galactic Wars.
And as a FTP that will probably always be the case. No one has the meta figured out, since its only been a few days. QGJ has been real strong and with Koth he is pretty fast, toss some other jedi in the mix you can have a pretty cool FTP team and the ability to farm Yoda if you do not have him already.