I am smart enough not to have wasted 20 zetas for an ability that seems completely pointless, but when ever I face a squad with Vader who has that zeta I feel like it is entirely pointless to have! First of all there's so much ability block and stuns that it's so easy to stop Vader. If you use Titans you can stun him, if you use Rey with Thrawn you can stun him even easier...
Vader isn't a priority target so he's pretty much left for last or next to last in I'll order. This means he's almost always going to be stunned and ability blocked.
I feel horrible for people who literally wasted 20 zetas, the only thing that this may help with is his ships stats which really aren't even necessary to beat any squad out there. I would like to see the zeta reworked to add some other aspect, ability block immunity would be awesome. This way a Rey/Thrawn cannot stun him cause Thrawn's basic needs the ability block to apply stun. Or just make him immune to stun alternatively.
Generally speaking I'm glad I didn't zeta him, but if I had, I would have been mad because it would feel like I wasted zetas which isn't exactly the most abundant resource in the game.
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That's not true.
I’m always eager to see how the game modes, (raids, TW, TB and arena) and new character introductions could improve or make powerful this zeta.
If you're running EP teams against Bastila teams you are going to lose no matter what Sith you put in there.
I beat them on offense pretty easy, but if I'm not paying attention I can time out. Want to kill them quicker is all. Just have to last until their protection drops.
False. Put marauder in and profit $$. His pot up is pretty much game over for bastilla, unless they are running an aoe cleanser (which no one does).
Oh did not think about him and dont have him farmed. How does it work?
Tell me tell me tell me how you do that trick.
Yeah but then you're running marauder in arena...
Hahahahaha, touché.
Search up nightmare marauder vs bastilla on youtube. Basically, you start with marauder's special which grants potency up to all sith allies in the team; and that's enough to penetrate bastilla's insane tenacity (;P).
Only on hAAT at this point.
In both the cases, he's already ability blocked/dazed. Which makes him taking a turn useless anyway.
It's a great zeta for the ship, but overall? Hardly useful. Only good counter is against raid han, and hardly anyone runs him these days.
There is more to the game than arena.
Totally useless, no. It speeds his ship up, therefore it has at least 1 use.
On top of that, raids, TW, and TB. He is a great lead and that zeta adds survivability which is very important in all those game modes.
Plus it bumps the stats on his still awesome TF.
My personal gripe
There are 9 ships faster than Vader, really has nothing to do with anything.
Has everything to do with fleet. If vader goes first and target locks and tiefighter and biggs uses specials it is a completely different scenario than an rng target lock tie fighter goes first.
With the tarkin zetas the speed increase vs other ships is evident with zeta addition. Vader zeta addition has zero effect that is noticeable in Fleet arena. So in effect both zetas are worthless when it comes to fleet battles. Poor choice for zeta spending.
You must not play fleet on a very active shard to not realize this kevsmart.
Pilot zetas have little impact on ship power.
Suprisingly, my g12 vader has never been the first to succumb in all those, and i don't even have the zeta. I'm sure i never thought "Oh man, if only i had that zeta". And fyi, i like him a lot and run him everywhere.
Look at his health steal from culling blade, his own hp, the durability. Don't let newcomers invest in poor zetas wth?
But they have impact on the ships speed. A fully maxed out Vader grant the Tie Advanced at 7* 178 Speed.
Without both zetas the Speed of the ship is 176. It is all about speed in Arena. ^^
Yes but back to my original point you proved.
A two zeta many omega toon like vader should gain a real advantage of some level.
He is still number 10 fast with two zetas or without in fleet arena. That is my point. His two zetas are worthless in fleet.
Contrary to popular opinion fleet arena is far more important to game progress than toon arena. All things equal zeta is the current wall andfleet is the path to Zeta.