Hey all. I've decided to make a helpline to help anyone who has questions about droids. I love droids so much that I have created a brand new account and played a droid team exclusively since that time. Now it's already been over a month and I'm consistently in the top 10 in my shard. I've also written a diary that outlines my adventure from account creation till today. Everything I did since making that account to my present current team. I have had a lot of help when I asked questions so I decided to help those who needs help. Just ask me anything to do with droids, their synergy, squad formation, etc. No question is too trivial, so feel free to ask anything.
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@Triqui sure! We both share a passion for droids!
I have a team of (all max gear 7*):
Poggle
Poe
IG-88
IG-86
HK-47 (L)
Is there a way without farming GS, to improve the viability of this team in high-end arena (I'm on a November server with a fair few whales).
With the changes to Poe, this team just doesn't cut it in the speed meta.
I'm an advocate of GS. GS is a single hero who will improve every single match up you have, fits in almost any team, fast, and hits like an enormous truck.
If you won't farm him then you have to find someone who can replace his spot.
The current meta is speed and damage. Even whales also use many free heroes in their team because they are so good. Examples are that are GS, QGJ, Lumi, etc.
When you go and fight them you need your droids to be able to withstand the first few moves. Therefore you need high health heroes. Usually in a fight vs QGJ team he will call an assist which will hit one of your team members. So if you have IG88 he will most likely die.
At max gear lvl 70 the health is as follows.
HK47 14916
IG88 9048
IG86 10961
IG100 16053
Poggle 12863
Poe 13517
As you can see IG88 has the lowest health. What you could change in your current line up is the former.
Then your team will be HK-47 (L), Poggle, Poe, IG-86. Last spot will depend on your roster and who you really like.
This is the reason. Even with GS, you are slower than true fast teams. You can overcome it because AI targeting sucks and dont kill GS first all the time.
We would need a fast droid to be viable without GS
@Triqui my guildmate just asked me a question about speed. With Lobot as leader droids gain 23 speed. So if we were to use IG88 who has a speed of 118, he will then have 141 speed. If Poggle buff adds 25% speed to droids then IG88 will have 141+35=176 speed. If that's the case it seems he would be faster than yoda under QGJ leadership 151+23=174 speed.
Only after Poggle acts. So that's speed 142, and 88 is dead by then
True, with such low health IG88 is not viable in this meta. What I would suggest is one with more health.
IG100 with anti-Jedi, area damage, counter, offense down, offense up,turn meter gain, turn meter reduction could be the answer we were looking for. I'll start farming him up to see how he performs. With the recent patch buffing him he could be viable for a droid team just like how RG became viable.
Yes, under a HK47 lead crits can often lead to devastating results! I use GS in my alt's team. He's a force to be reckoned with. GS calling a droid who crits and help droid allies gain 30% TM.
I'm seriously thinking about commiting effort to General Grievous. If there is no char in the next upgrade that I really like in GW/arena I'll go for it
GG would be an awesome addition to the droids team I reckon. I watched a few youtube videos and he seems to work well in a droid team.
Win or Lose?
Played with GG today. Lend him from a whale for a DS mission. Was fun but he aint worth it. Then you could also play 88 together with RG and hope that the one-shots on him fail
Or add Daka to the squad, as another focus fire for defense
I don't have him yet! I'll farm him eventually as my alt account is mainly a droid account so I'll get everyone who is related to droids.
Thats why I currently farm Datcha next to my 3 droids
RG/Daka could be very useful to Toolio. The only problem is how fast RG could be farmed. Daka is available from cantina shipments so it would be a much easier farm.
Lol. Nope it's 1800 droids.
Yes hopes he get released soon.
Jawa Engineer Description: High-speed Jawa Healer with a Critical Chance buff and both Jawas and Droid synergy
Miniaturized Detonator (Basic) : Apply a Detonator to target enemy that detonates after 1 turn, dealing damage. (No increase at any rank in the descriptions. It probably only increases damage.)
Patch Up : Jawa Engineer revives a random Droid ally at 1% Health, and then all allies recover 30% of their Max Health.
Recalibrate : All allies gain Critical Chance Up for 2 turns. Jawa and Droid allies also gain 45% Turn Meter.
Crunch Time (Unique): Jawa Engineer has +12 Speed for each Jawa or Droid ally.
I share your love of droids :-)
Out of interest where do you get this information from? Secret droid sources?
This new charcter sounds great although I expect you can only get him as part of some expensive challenge or offer...
@Pooket Are you on a new server or older one? At what stars are the heroes in your droid team?
Top 30 is pretty good! Droid teams are better used as offense. In defense AI stuffs up the kill order. Do you have GS? I would suggest getting him as he is a multi fit character who also fit in a droid team and with Poggle u will have geonosian synergy.
Otherwise droids rule arena
Droids could well become the new meta like before with Poe before the patch.
I too adore all things driod. I'm currently running a 4 driod set-up with HK as lead and poggle.
I will be putting Lobot in as leader once I've 6* him. I would've kicked HK out and had all 3 IG droids in, but since the update I think ig100 has lost his teeth.
Any pointers?
@IG1066
Great to hear u adore droids too! What's your current four droids set up atm and at what stars? I would need more info in order to give you some pointers on what to do. What kind of opponents do you face and what rank are you usually?
Seriously? How can you decide he is or is not "worth it".
We only will start to see 7* GG drop today from NZ and AU. More tomorrow as the Time Zones catch up. He has to be geared and skilled up before anyone can make rational judgment. Remember, people thought Rey and Poe were not worth it, those "opinions" were soon proven very wrong.
Credible information is the best way to help people on these forums.
My team fails hugely with counter attackers and by the way I yo-yo defence must be very bad. I face alot of kylo, phantasm and Poe.
Hmmmm, suppose I could push for GS, but I'm trying to keep my squad themed and fluffy.
I could be wrong since my HK-47 is not arena ready but my understanding of his leadership ability was only the droid that crit got the 30% turn meter not all of the droid allies.
Well, thx for the lesson!
Forgot to mention that the one I borrowed was six stars and well developed as far as the health bar suggested ...
Didnt say he is bad but compared to the effort ...
If you are not a whale ...
Why please should one get him, since you could have ten instead of him?