I had a bumpy start but kept trying to learn along the way to make more efficient decisions. Thus I sat down and mapped a bunch of things out; primarily towards the goal of earning the event characters + scoundrels. Since that in itself requires multiple squads, which then I can just aim for key characters to accent that further.
Well.. I'm getting lost in the mess of it all. The events are not going as previously planned anymore.. which placed a big monkey wrench in the cog machine. So I need advice on how to get back on the right track.
I'm a light spender - mostly a 20$ crystal pack a month for a couple cantina refreshes; splurge on the cheaper bundles if it's a hard farm character. So not really looking for advice that suggest go all-in on chromiums or something weird please. Thanks!
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You need Empire to get R2. You've got a good Empire team - Vader, Thrawn, Moff, RG and TFP. Farm all of them.
You could do with getting Wiggs. And then have Wedge, Biggs, Leia, STHan and Lando as your Arena team. Eventually switch Lando for R2. Or maybe play a wild card and have Thrawn instead of Lando. Why not?
You only really need 3 good scoundrels for heists - if you follow the above you'll already be farming STHan and Lando...so farm Boba too.
So...
Boost up the abve characters you already have and farm the ones you don't yet have.
For your fleet aim to get 5 non—capital dark side ships at 4* and 8 non—capital ships of any alignment at 5*. This will give you access to gaining zeta materials. Also keep building your Phoenix and rebel ships to prepare for the Chimaera event. Scimitar, Tie Advanced, Slave 1 and Reaper are good dark side ships for the challenge (along with your current DS ships) and also do well in fleet arena (3 of them are used in most top teams).
If you have any spare credits, spend them to boost your pilots. Your phoenix pilots are good for obvious reasons, but especially your FOTP, TFP, Biggs and JC are trailing. Improving their skills and giving them mods (any 5* / lvl 15 mods will do.) also strengtgens your ships.
Your best fleet for arena currently would be Ghost, Phantom, Biggs, Imperial Tie and FO Tie with JC as your first replacement.
Mods:
Wauw! You have a 20 speed secondary already? My best is still 17 after 2 years of playing. It looks like your mods are pretty well sorted. Good job! :—)
However, if you complete tier 3 of the defense mod challenge, you will see mods of higher quality appearing quite frequently in mod shipments.
Good point. However, he might as well farm it as soon as he's able to. It's a long farm.
Agreed - I just hit 82 and started the farm. Too bad I can't farm DT yet.
Maybe it's just me.
Phoenix is just about complete - considering their headache of gearing. Ezra/Hera are almost g10 each (for next Thrawn/Palpatine), and I could potentially aim for g10 Chopper if needed.
Lando/Boba/STH are just about considered complete (for Hiest) as well. Soon to be all 7* and aiming for g8's.
That leaves my Empire something to be desired. Luckily I finally found a luck streak of Vader shards in Fleet after a long drought which finished him off, and now to finish the rest.
Not really sure which direction be great for Empire; other than the obvious EP(L), Vader, and Tarkin. I have a few sorta fill-ins that could be plausible but just not sure what the last two spots should be.
List of suspects;
Colonel Stark - 6*
Royal Guard - 4*
Stormtrooper - 4*
Snowtrooper - 5*
Tie Fighter Pilot - 4*
Admiral Thrawn - 6* (might not be an event to 7* for awhile)
PS: Ships should finally be progressing again too in Galactic shipments since Biggs is almost done. I already purchase Tie Advanced and Slave 1 when possible. Though they are long and slow grinds.
The kind of tank you need to handle that is ideally one who pretaunts (Kylo Ren unmasked, Shoretrooper, Sith Trooper, Baze, etc.) and can prevent your other team members from getting targeted for fracture, shock, etc. at the beginning of combat. Sion also has a selective taunt that can be useful.
Royal Guard, Sith Trooper, and General Kenobi have conditional taunts that can help as well. So your Royal Guard can have some use, but he's going to need to be modded with lots of health and protection to take punishment in order to be effective, and at 4* he's too easy to kill. But get him to 7* and he's an option for you.
Agree you don't need a tank in an Empire squad for arena, and TFP is a great pilot (for now).
So anyway the recommendation is Palp(L), Vader, Thrawn, TFP, and Tarkin? Sounds good to me.
A quick alternate farm for this could be magma out of gw, it’s what I’m doing atm because I thought palp was coming back first but started my farm one day late. Could help you if you don’t want to take away from cantina/hard nodes.
Edit: magma can also be used for a trooper team until you get shore/death trooper
OP should be able to get Palpatine rather easily with his Phoenix team, so there's that.
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I thought about doing Magma, but I feel like it will be far more advantageous to stick to ship farming through GW now to catch up. Hence that avenue is taxed. I'm most likely just going to finish off Stormtrooper as an expendable 5th in case I don't unlock 7*Thrawn next round (though I should be able to by then). Although I'd very much like to finish another star on FOO first. In hopes of at least a 5* BB-8 to go with my 5* R2-D2.
Basically mentioned how I already have a 6* 100/100 Stark but haven't forked the 1m out due to being broke as a joke due to my OCD and needing to promote all the time.
So I detoured for Hiest characters (which are a smidge off from being 7* and working towards g8).
I thought about going Magma but my GW currency is a taxed avenue since I'm trying to farm 3 ships to catch up. (FO Tie & Tie Fighter and Biggs' X-Wing.)
I think after I finish up FOO (to keep on pace for atleast a BB-8 unlock, I'll go back to Stormtrooper and finish that as a backup toon in case I don't get 7* Thrawn next time.
Storm just seems easier than Royal Guard, since so many necessary characters are from cantina battles. We shall see! I appreciate the continued feedback and discussions!