The Perfect Guide for the Perfect Start 2017 Winter Edition

Prev13
Bartrollomeo1
18 posts Member
edited November 2017
Hello there,
since there are no actual guides on that, I have decided to write one myself.

English is not my native language, I can use it decently, but my writing skills are not the best for sure. Looking for some suggestions on upgrading this - it is basicly just a wall of text, for sure it needs some smoothing.
I am also asking about some commentary and help about the content.
Enjoy.

The Perfect Guide for the Perfect Start 2017 Winter Edition

Since most of the guides on the forum are outdated and left behind by their authors I have decided to write one on my own.

We are focusing at levels 1-27 to create a huge headstart when arena race starts.

WHY SHOULD I FOLLOW THIS GUIDE
When you hit level 28, you will be placed on arena shard. Shards are filling up to 20 000 players, after that space is filled, a new shard starts. After being put in such shard, there is no way to change it – you will always play along the 20k people that you had at your shard at the start.

Why we want to score top in arena?
It's obvious – arena is the best place to gather crystals as f2p users.

Why we want to prepare for arena with this guide?
When you are put in a shard, race begins. Those who are ahead become even more ahead, because of great arena rewards that let you refresh. They spend more energy than you, they have higher level than you, they have better gear and ability level than you.

Since you don't want to spend on the game, with low arena rank you won't be able to do as many energy refreshes as whales, so you will – faster or slower – fall behind.

With enough patience and preparation, you can tighten that gap, given enough luck you can even have whale-ish gameplay.

PHASE ZERO

TIME ZONE
You may want to manipulate your time zone so you have your collection/fighting time at more convenient hours. Time them well, once set, they can never be changed.
Especially be careful about arena and fleet arena payouts, since you will probably need to keep an eye on the game at this time.

Collecting/Refreshing hours are: 0 h (all activities reset, Arena and GW store refresh, shipments, new challenges), 6h (shipments, GW store refresh, Arena store refresh), 12h (free energy, free cantina energy, all shops refresh, shipments), 18h (collect arena reward, free energy, new shipments, guild + fleet + arena store refresh), 19h (collect fleet arena reward), 21h (collect free energy, guild + fleet store refresh).

PHASE ONE
CREATING AN ACCOUNT levels 1-5

You picked your timezone, you have created a new account. What now?
We play the game to level 5. Play a couple of Light Side 1 missions, do enough of them to get to level 5. DON'T SIM ANYTHING

And stop right there.
After you hit level 5, you will gather a couple of crystals from the achievements and most of all – you can connect your account to Facebook for extra 200 crystals.
That amount, plus the amount we have from dailies and achievements gives us enough crystals to get our hands on our first chromium pack.

You can link multiple swgoh acconts to one Facebook accounts.
*Another way – if you don't want to do a fake Facebook account, doing all your dailies will give you a level 12 and enough crystals to buy a a chromium.

FIRST CHROMIUM
First chromium is almost always guaranteed to be a full character. That's why we don't want to waste this one on a useless toon. We want a good one, which can be later utilised in our game. That 2* Resistance Trooper ain't helping you at all.

Toons we want
Baze – probably the best you can get now, great autotank whom slows opponents down, have a mass dispell and a single target dispell, part of a Chaze combo with Chirrut
Rex – great leader, can be used in tons of squads
Wedge – used later with Biggs for a Wiggs combo, devastating rebel duo, also great rebel lead

*Chirrut – part of a said combo, not that great without Baze, still a solid pick. We favour Baze, since only way of getting him as f2p is hard node 9 and TB store, which unlock in game later than Chirrut who is easily obtainable from a fleet store.
*Lando – nice 4*, Scoundrel for a credit heist but since he is easy to obtain from cantina he is not that great

It will take some time, Wedge may not be obtainable according to some players who did a ton of rerolls and never seen one.
Info from DarthZannaH user "close to 200 rerolls, no Wedge. Been doing this since August. Seem like 20 bazes, 15 chirruts, a lot of Lando's, Rex'es, Jyn's, etc..."

Unless we get a good toon, we keep on rerolling accounts. But don't forget them entirely – write down the Google Play account you created - we will need them later in game, details in a section below.

You may want to use an android emulator, not to spam your phone with a shitton of Google Play accounts, guides are easily found on the Internet.

*Bonus
You may entirely skip this 'don't do anything past level 12, go straight to level 22 to unlock guilds. By getting 200 crystals from facebook connect, another 100 from achievement you get by joining the guild, daily rewards and daily activities you will have enough to buy a second Chromium pack. You will most likely get a huge dissapointment by getting some random shards but if you dare to test your luck, go ahead. In best case scenario, you get two nice toons for free.

**Bonus BONUS – you don't even need to go straight to level 22 asap, you can get 280 crystals from login rewards. If you are patient enough you can just collect them and try your luck, up to you.

But most probably your next Chromium will be just a waste of resources and big dissapointment.

PHASE ONE AND A HALF levels 5-8
Play the game until you hit level 8.
Stop right there, proceed to phase two.

PHASE TWO levels 8-27
STOP GAINING EXP OTHER THAN CANTINA ENERGY.
You rolled a great toon from your chromium, you are ready to move on to the next step. In this part of the game, we want to spend only CANTINA ENERGY.
We will avoid doing daily activities and spending normal energy. Why?
The math:
After getting to level 8 you will gather ~260 experience.
To get to level 27 (almost to 28) you will need ~2600 more.
By going there with normal energy and dailies, you miss opportunities to get more shards, ability mats and cantina tokens. Sure, you cant go straight to level 27 and just hoard from there, but you will be doing nothing but challenges and collecting energy, missing opportunities to gather more shards and stuff from cantina.
2600 energy is 325 attempts at 8 energy node, which will in return give you ~107 character shards – enough to have a 4* character even before “energy hoarding” phase.
It gives you 4225 cantina tokens, which exhange to 10 purchases – 50 character shards from cantina store, enough for a 3* character.

By doing this, you will depart to your arena with good characters at the start.
(not to mention you will later have them even better when you finally spend all of your energy)

With daily cantina energy regen of 165, this part of the game should take around two weeks.

WHO TO FARM?
For f2p players there are two approaches on the game:
'Classic' rebels – as in written in RAW's guide. All that team has is a lot of DMG and extra TM from STH taunt. Probably good choice if you somehow get Wedge from your chromium. You focus on Lando in cantina, Boba in cantina store. This later leads to Biggs from GW store and STH from arena (and much, much later Wedge from fleet/cantina). While this approach is still viable – you are investing in long-term profit characters, you get your scoundrels for heist, your pilots for fleet – they miss one thing. That thing is synergy – early game shards favours teams that have OP synergy. They just may not be enough for crazy-synergistic teams like Phoenix Squadron and Nighsisters, which will probably flood your early game.

Phoenix Squadron – rebel squad with amazing synergy. Needed for Thrawn, can do Palpatine. Easy to farm as a f2p, they are in different stores so you can farm them simultaneously (exception on Hera and Ezra, but after getting Hera a couple of stars, you can focus on Ezra). They fall off midgame, so you probably want to prepare to switch them later on. But they are still needed for Thrawn, so you will eventually farm them.
Later on farming this squad will be problem, because you will lack scoundrels and pilots, but you may just leave them at 5* and unlock Lando, Boba and Biggs in preparation to midgame, where they stop shining. They also help you clear your GW easily.

AS FOR NOW – NIGHTSISTERS ERA
If you start playing now – your shards will probably be flooded with whales with nighsister teams (90% of top50 in my shard formed like two weeks ago). Clasic rebel team will lack that OP synergy that Phoenix have – in fact, a Phoenix Squad is the only one competetive f2p squad that is still able to cut through nighsister zombie **** and still place in top5.
I highly recommend Phoenix Squad. But remember to let them go in time – they really start to fall down when the midgame (65-70lvl) strikes. You will eventually want them starred and geared to get 7* Thrawn, but it is a long way ahead of you.
Another profit of Phoenix that they will lead you to Palpatine AND Thrawn – that cuts your empire team to get R2D2 to just 3 more toons (clasic rebels only get you Palpatine, so you still need 4 toons).

After you picked the characters you want to focus on, you just focus on farming the cantina nodes of that characters:
Hera and Erza from cantina, Chopper from cantina store for Phoenix
Lando from cantina, Boba from cantina store for clasic rebel start
In the meantime, we will do all challenges, collect every bit of free energy, dail y login rewards, every free bronzium, achievement and gear salvage from shipments. We just avoid getting any exp other than from cantina battles. This gives us a stockpile of credits, gear, ability mats to finally use when we depart to our game.

DON'T SIM ANYTHING
We stop this part of the game when we reach level 27 with 90% exp to level 28.

PHASE THREE level 27 HOARDING
We have reached our maximim. We stop spending cantina energy. We should have plenty of character shards, gear and mats. Thats where the boring part of the game begins.

All that we do now is stuff we already did in phase two – getting challenges etc.
More than that, we just collect free cantina energy everyday and wait.

We want to gather energy enough to get us to AT LEAST level 40 in one day. This will unlock GW for us – another place to farm shards easily.
Level 44 would be even better since you will unlock gear level 5 in one run, so your arena team will be most likely, unbeatable to regular players and only to be vulunerable to heavy spenders.

The Math:
Level 40 ~7000 exp more from level 28
Level 44 ~12800 exp more from level 28

From this number we will cut 760 energy that you will get from doing all dailies:
Level 40 ~6200
Level 44 ~12000

After finishing Phase Two (without spending normal energy) – we should have ~2k normal energy to spend (1890 from 14 days of 135 free energy hoarding, not really counting free energy you get from levelups). That cuts another 2k.
Level 40 ~4200
Level 44 ~10000

Everyday you can hoard 180 energy (3x normal, 1x cantina). That means:
Level 40 ~24 days of hoarding
Level 44 ~55 days of hoarding

It depends on you, level 44 means another month of hoarding, and the benefit of starting at level 44 will only last for a couple of days. Getting into play at level 40 is fine.

PHASE FOUR Departing into play SHARD HUNTING

So you have your energy, you have your shards, gear, ability mats and credits. You are finally going to jump into that sweet, sweet shard to destroy everyone.

You get your level 28 aaaaaand...
You get placed at 15k place in a week old shard, with top players already having 50~ level.
You have wasted everything you worked on.

To avoid that, you need to know how shards are formed.

As stated in the beginning, new arena shards starts when the old one fills all 20k places.
Long time ago it took 2-3 days to fill a shard, now they are filling at 1-1,5k/day rate, so going in blindly really places you in risk of getting to a shard that started over week ago, at bad place, witout any chance to catch up on top players. But there is a way to 'hunt' the new shard forming.

Remember all that accounts that you made while rerolling your first chromiums? This is their time. During the phase two and three level that accounts up to level 27 (you just need to sim through dailies twice or thrice, nothing more).
When your main account is ready, let them hit level 28 so they get their arena placement. Doing so will give you the dynamics of the shard forming. Jump in with character once a day, see the movement of the previous shard and try to predict the date of a new shard.
Then, on that date level them once every 2-3 hours. When you finally hit the new shard, immidiately follow with your main account. If you do this right, you may be able to jump into top 50 at the very beginning of your journey.
Exploit that as much as you can, get that free crystals and run from your shardmates.

BONUS PHASE Your first day
You may use your free 300 crystals (200 facebook connect, 100 guild achievement) to buy 200 sim tickets from shipments. Using all that energy manually will take a lot of time.

Keep focusing the cantina nodes of toons of your choice, spend it all. Keep buying from cantina store every refresh, dont miss any. You will have a ton of cantina currency to spend early on.

Do all light and dark side missions you can. Do every single hard node missions – they consume more energy in the shorter time. Farm all the gear you need, spend the rest to level up to 40 ASAP

Enjoy your advantage, use it as much as you can. Whales will come to your shard eventually, but by following this guide, you shall be prepared and stay competetive.

SPENDING BONUS
You may speed up the hoarding energy by buying energy every other day.
Maximum cantina energy, at which you can still buy refreshes is 999, for normal energy its 1999. By doing so you can start hoarding phase with a ton of energy already.
Go and buy some SIM tickets, so you don't waste all day going through auto battles.

LOLZBONUS
This one needs some special conditions appearing in the game.
First of all, you need some special promotion in the game which gives you free 7* character (like actual Rey and Google Play promo).
Second of all, you need some HPIT and HAAT guild.
Third of all, since no HPIT and HAAT guild will let you leech them off, you need another account that will provide 600 DRT and is usefull for TB.
Forth of all, it needs raids to be run in between TB, so your useful-to-guild-account can participate in TB.
Then, after providing 600 DRT, you leave with one account, then join with your hoarding account and hour before raid starts. You go in, score 0 dmg and still get raid shards. With enough patience and time, you may enter arena with General Kenobi. Bonus – you get a lot of a guild currency, so you can farm even more character shards. (we don't speak about Han, since his last tier only gives one shard. But still, with enough determination)

That's all, go and destroy your shards. Cheers.
Post edited by Bartrollomeo1 on

Replies

  • Hi Bart,

    usefull guide, but in another guide wrtitten that player is put into arena shard on level 8.
    https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/86076/the-perfect-guide-for-the-perfect-start
    Who is correct?
  • i would really love to know how to reroll gmail accounts.. i canßt find a working work-around for the phone verification problem,...
  • chocolat wrote: »
    Hi Bart,

    usefull guide, but in another guide wrtitten that player is put into arena shard on level 8.
    https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/86076/the-perfect-guide-for-the-perfect-start
    Who is correct?

    Its 28 now. that guide is old
  • i would really love to know how to reroll gmail accounts.. i canßt find a working work-around for the phone verification problem,...

    Hey GhostRider. I can't help you with gmail, but I've been using Yahoo mail for these rerolls. I've made like 10 so far and they don't seem to care that I keep verifying with the same phone number. Also I am on iOS, so I'm not sure if you are on android, and if so not sure how that works. Best of luck.
  • i would really love to know how to reroll gmail accounts.. i canßt find a working work-around for the phone verification problem,...
    There is no way to re-roll a gmail account, they only way to not have to create a new gmail account for every re-roll is to use an emulator. Common ones are bluestacks, memu and NOX. You can basically change your device id and run a new guest account everytime until you get a good starting toon then link a gmail account to it.

  • I've done about ~12 rolls since i started a few days. best ive gotten is two chirruts, two aayla secura, plo koon, and admiral ackbar. I already have chirrut on my main so im hoping to keep trying until i get rex, wedge, or baze.

    I wish I could reconnect my facebook everytime at level 5 and grab 200 crystals then, but i cant. i think its because im on iphone
  • DarthSurdious
    34 posts Member
    edited November 2017
    Hmm
  • Preparing my account with Baze)))
    Guys, could you explain how to understand that the shard old or new. How to find such info?
  • but i need a gmail account to use the play store don´t i????
    i´ve tried bluestacks but couldn´t get it work yet.
    i´ve done more than 25 re-rolls with gmail accounts on andy but i didn´t see a way around gmail to get into the game via play store.... :s
  • chocolat
    6 posts Member
    edited November 2017
    but i need a gmail account to use the play store don´t i????
    i´ve tried bluestacks but couldn´t get it work yet.
    i´ve done more than 25 re-rolls with gmail accounts on andy but i didn´t see a way around gmail to get into the game via play store.... :s

    Don' t login into Play Games until you will get needed hero.
    Or use parallel space app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lbe.parallel.intl&hl=ru to launch another instance of the game on smartphone.
    Post edited by chocolat on
  • @chocolat I have written it in Phase Four, what excatly you don't understand from it? I know my writing skills are bad, so don't hesitate to tell me what's unclear there so I can fix it and help you.
  • chocolat
    6 posts Member
    edited November 2017
    @chocolat I have written it in Phase Four, what excatly you don't understand from it? I know my writing skills are bad, so don't hesitate to tell me what's unclear there so I can fix it and help you.
    @Bartrollomeo1 not an issue. Will try to explain my misunderstanding - in phase 4 you described how to find new shard, but I don't understand how to see current shard is new or old. Is there any way to see count of person in the shard or date when it was created?
    May be it is a dummy question and I need to open some menu for that - I am new in the game.
  • @chocolat Shards are now getting about 1000-1500 player per day. So number of your 'burner account' placement divided by this number gets you the days of shard.
    TL;DR placing in the top 200 makes the shard brand new.
    And as for existing shards you cannot check it, can just do guessing game by knowing how long it takes to get to lvls that top players have. And if all of them are 85 it's impossible I guess.
  • @Bartrollomeo1 Thank you - I understand that only way to check how old is current shard for 'burner account' is just analyze levels of top players.
  • hey guys I am using memu android emulator for creating new accounts, havent got a single Kylo Ren with lvl 8... not even with the first account, any suggestions why this is happening ?
  • Need a new device ID each time
  • Naraic
    2243 posts Member
    Did anyone hit level 28 recently if so when and how big is your shard?
  • @Naraic Last shard that I have track of formed 25.11.
    According to rates this shard is filling next shard will be up 02.12.

    Shards are always filling up to 20k players.
  • Naraic
    2243 posts Member
    Thanks I got into that shard at 2.5 or 3k and I'm number 1 in it now. Thanks.
  • Ghost270Rider
    11 posts Member
    edited December 2017
    ...
    Post edited by Ghost270Rider on
  • Naraic
    2243 posts Member
    @Naraic Last shard that I have track of formed 25.11.
    According to rates this shard is filling next shard will be up 02.12.

    Shards are always filling up to 20k players.

    Interestingly of the top 50 in this shard 21 are under level 40 still. 29 are over level 40.

    Why is level 40 interesting to me? It's the point where galactic war starts. 29 people in the top 50 have the extra free potential to earn 15 shards a day and 21 are lagging behind. It's just another area where those to the party early have an advantage, they are bigger and can lead their shards in the early phase getting crystals to help them stay bigger and they are getting galaxy war before some people have joined the shard.

    I'm spending a little to get ahead the regular crystals from arena will keep things going. Mainly a small pack of crystals to give me a head start and a phoenix pack (to give me a starting team).
  • tazer89 wrote: »
    i would really love to know how to reroll gmail accounts.. i canßt find a working work-around for the phone verification problem,...

    Hey GhostRider. I can't help you with gmail, but I've been using Yahoo mail for these rerolls. I've made like 10 so far and they don't seem to care that I keep verifying with the same phone number. Also I am on iOS, so I'm not sure if you are on android, and if so not sure how that works. Best of luck.

    How do you make a new account? Do you have to log out of your iCloud and keep deleting the game after you roll every time and then log back in to iCloud when you get a good roll?

  • For iOS you need to create new Apple ID/Gamecentre ID.
  • If you're advocating going Phoenix, and none of the starter "best toons" help that, shouldn't we go for Lando so that we're that much closer to a Scoundrel squad for heists? Is it really worth it to roll Baze or Rex if we're going to not use them in any near future?
  • Naraic
    2243 posts Member
    edited December 2017
    whitemeat wrote: »
    If you're advocating going Phoenix, and none of the starter "best toons" help that, shouldn't we go for Lando so that we're that much closer to a Scoundrel squad for heists? Is it really worth it to roll Baze or Rex if we're going to not use them in any near future?

    I'd agree with you here. Lando is probably the best option.

    That said you might want to have an initial arena squad of whatever of the best toons, paired with whatever free toons you have until phoenix are at 3 star.
  • On the older version for the pre lvl 28 part you said to level hera till lvl 16 then Ezra till 27 so you have them both 2* for arena at lvl 28. Is this still the best way to do it or should I just focus on getting 4* Hera then 7* Ezra?
  • tkavers
    2 posts Member
    edited December 2017
    In the meantime, we will do all challenges, collect every bit of free energy, dail y login rewards, every free bronzium, achievement and gear salvage from shipments. We just avoid getting any exp other than from cantina battles. This gives us a stockpile of credits, gear, ability mats to finally use when we depart to our game.

    I may be missing something here...So I pulled a 3* Baze and got my 4* Kylo promotion along with the standard drops. So I'm currently farming the Hera node what should I be doing with the few toons I have level wise. Should I lvl them up to x and not mod so I can at least progress on the cantina nodes?

  • This is guide where you stop at level 27 and stockpile energy not using any energy or cantina energy for over a month but claiming the free daily energy. If you are at a level where you can mod you are not following this guide.
  • Naraic wrote: »
    This is guide where you stop at level 27 and stockpile energy not using any energy or cantina energy for over a month but claiming the free daily energy. If you are at a level where you can mod you are not following this guide.

    Sorry I didn't mean mod but gear up (thats my fault).I'm currently lvl 18. But my charaters for example are Kylo l16 and Baze l15. Should these have stayed at lowest possible.
  • tkavers wrote: »
    Naraic wrote: »
    This is guide where you stop at level 27 and stockpile energy not using any energy or cantina energy for over a month but claiming the free daily energy. If you are at a level where you can mod you are not following this guide.

    Sorry I didn't mean mod but gear up (thats my fault).I'm currently lvl 18. But my charaters for example are Kylo l16 and Baze l15. Should these have stayed at lowest possible.

    No you can level up your characters. It's player level that needs to stop at level 27.
Sign In or Register to comment.