SO exactly how viable can first order be? I love them as a faction and Kylo Ren is easily my favourite character in the series but how viable are they in this game? Sadly executioner still is not f2p but i have been farming unmasked kylo and his ship because the value of the node is just so high. Would a team of unmasked(zleader), masked, phasma, officer, and pilot do alright? they already do well for me in raids and hopefully executioner will make that even better but are the viable outside of this?
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ah good to hear! sadly im in a early december shard so it is dominated by godly teams lol nice to hear they can hold their own tho
Im on a december 2016 shard and stay around 80-150. KRU fo teams with both kylos and FOST are one of the few teams that can time me out.
KRU’s stun dispels buffs. FOE can dispel on his special(I run a 3* FOE so it can work). Shortrooper should be zero problem for a KRU lead FO team. I’m on a Feb 2016 shard.
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There are plenty of others at high ranks on older shards.
The reason I ask is because in a new account I started, I've been farming the FOTP right from the moment I unlocked both his hard nodes to get ahead of it (almost have him at 7* now), and KRU has been a part of my fleet/arena team for a while as well. However, I'm nowhere near ready to start farming them as a faction, so I'm asking is it worthwhile to keep using my GW currency on other toons/ships and start FOST in hard nodes, or do I need Phasma?
Which would be the better team:
Kylo Ren Unmasked (L)
Firs Order Storm Trooper
Kylo Ren
First Order Officer
First Order Tie Pilot
or
Kylo Ren Unmasked (L)
Captain Phasma
Kylo Ren
First Order Officer
First Order Tie Pilot
I'm not necessarily looking to run them in the arena, so it'll mostly be for mods, assault battles, raids, etc.
The most common lineup is Kylo Unmasked (KRU), Regular Kylo (Kylo), First Order Officer (FOO), First Order Stormtrooper (FOST) and either First Order Tie Pilot (FOTP) or First Order Executioner (FOE).
FO is all about turn meter. FOO has the highest speed in the faction. He should go before any enemy other than a speed-stacked Vader (once all speed bonuses are applied, Vader has slightly higher speed if mods are equal; if you have better speed on mods, he can be faster than Vader). FOO uses marching orders on either regular Kylo (who uses Lash Out) or FOST (who taunts). Either of those moves give the entire squad 25 percent turn meter, meaning they will go immediately. KRU uses stun/cleanse on tank, FOTP can one-shot a glass canon like Palp, FOST taunts, giving opponent two taunts to break through to get to FOTP and FOO (your most vulnerable characters).
From there, you should be well ahead. The team gets lots of turn meter bonuses along with Advantage. Kylo and FOTP/FOE are doing most of the damage while KRU and FOST provide crowd control. FOST basic cleanses buffs from enemy as does KRU stun and FOE special. So getting through taunts should not be a problem. KRU and Kylo get stuns. FOO gives turn meter through marching orders and removes turn meter from enemy via Pinning Shot.
Phasma is useless if she is not the leader, she is too weak to keep as a support, the first lineup is the ideal FO team with the potential to switch out pilot with executioner
Kylo Ren Unmasked (L)
Visas Marr
Kylo Ren
First Order Officer
First Order Tie Pilot
Visas is able to heal them if they get to lower health and rez them if they die.
Edit: FO may not be great on defense, but I find nothing is great on defense if you arent in contact with your arena shard. And if you are, you tend not to fall too far. Shame it works this way but its the way it is. I'm taking top 5 in a fairly competitive March 2016 shard. I often run into teams with +130-140 speed mods and I do alright.
And they get you BB8...
Who gets you the best character in the game.
BB8 gets you Darth Traya?
Had much experience using her?
Spoken with many others that have?
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Ha ha nooo just a (more or less) educated guess. But I do have Rey at gear 12 and while certainly good I have a feeling Traya will be something else. Sorry offtopic rambling.
With that being said, they are superb in TB, very good in HAAT for players that don’t have the characters to solo phases (they can reach 2 million damage in phase 2 with zeta Phasma or 3-4 million in phase 2 with zeta kru), and good in TW.
They’re a very fun team, and for that reason alone you should farm them. Plus, we have to assume that a FO capital ship will be coming in the near future.
I'd definitely like to know with which mods you can bring them into the top 10, been playing them since April 2017 and there's nothing, imo, you can do at the moment to beat a JTR team with equal mods, Empire is something else, you can beat them if they've got a bad RNG, otherwise you loose 70% of the time
I don't use FO, but a guild mate of mine does and he gets around rank 20 with like +80 to 90 speed on his characters. He would be higher if he had +120 speed on his characters like the enemy teams he faces. I use droids to get top 5 everyday on a march 2016 shard but it will be a similar level of difficulty to do it with FO. As for beating RJT, i think he has trouble beating those as well, but i would imagine using kylo's 2 turn stun on RJT would be key to winning.
Thrawn really makes it winnable. JTR and zEP teams are easier to manage with him. I'm enjoying playing them and don't face much difficulty beating them. Against empire you need really really good speed mods on First Order Officer so that you can outspeed Darth Vader. That would be your biggest hurdle. Against JTR teams speed isn't a big issue
This isn't me by chance, is it? I'm literally the only dude running an fo team
I've been running a fo team since ukr got dropped in a shard that's about two years old, and I sit between rank 100-rank 50 depending who I leave in on defense. Just waiting on that snoke/hux drop and then I'll see you suckers at the top
Then it's RNG if you go next
My team consist of: Kylo Ren unmasked, Kylo Ren, First Order Officer, First Order Executioner and First Order Stormtrooper.
Also FOST cleanses buffs when his basic is omega'd. So you can cleanse almost constantly between him and KRU.