Ever since hitting 60 (68 now) i've dumped virtually all of my resources into strengthening my fleet arena team. I started out around rank 120 (newer shard).
I started farming FOTP, ITP, and Biggs, and their ships. Also getting slave 1 and tie adv shards when available. The plan was to get into the top 50. Instead i've actually dropped ranks to around 210.
Did i chose the wrong characters? How can I be pushing all resources into fleet only to be falling behind?
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What are other people in your shard running? Are you fighting tons of whaled Hound's Tooth or fleets similar to your own?
How strong are your pilots and ships? 7 stars? Less? Gear level? Are the pilots modded?
Which capital ship are you using and how strong is its commander?
Who are you using for reinforcements? ITF/FOTF/Biggs is a decent starting lineup, but reinforcements can swing the match big time.
Of course there are going to be whales, but not 200 of them. It's a shard with 75% of the population using phoenix. Meaning 75% of the population didnt start on their fleet lineup until i did. This appears to be a fairly long term plan. I'm just having trouble seeing how both TIE ships are great. They get crushed by virtually everything i face; in damage, utility, and survivability. And before the speculators question, they're both almost always higher power than the opposition.
One last thing though. I really wanted to work BH team next and needed the next few months of arena tokens for greedo/ig88. Will i be hurting myself by not rushing Tarkin to 7 star?
I appreciate the advise. So they're glass cannons and I should focus on Biggs before them? Also it seems like at the moment I'm having trouble keeping up target lock. Should I have FoTF on reserve for the guaranteed lock?
I leveled my jc csp1 itf and kru to around 60. Jc and csp1 are still there. You Need at least csp1 until you get Biggs.
I climbed from about 500 to top 50 in about a week (less i think actually) doing that.
Now I'm in top 20 easy without really putting much effort in with some amalgamation of biggs Vader itf phantom ghost kru ahsoka boba.
Working on sun fac for tarkin challenges. Scimitar too.
Wedge and bistans eventually for chimaera. But that'll be a slog and less of a priority than tarkin ability mat challenges.
I've said it before elsewhere but it applies here too .. pay attention to where you want to be, what you want to have, 6 months to a year down the road, but you have to have something to hold your spot until you get there .. because it's a lot harder to move up once everyone else is leveled up and motivated too.
The biggest problem is pilots - mine were g6-7a and 5-7 stars within a day or so (if they weren't already) when i hit fleet arena, including jc and csp1. I did get a lot of drops from bronze cards so i was lucky.
Also upgrade the basic abilities on the ships. Not purple mats except on ships you'll use long term.
The amount of mats and credits to have gotten the starter ships to just basic level 60 is minimal comparatively.
Not sure whether any of this was helpful or not, but that was just my experience starting off.
True. My alt still uses JC's ship as reinforcement more than a year after joining the fleet arena. Bringing JC's ship in as a reinforcement calling Tie Advanced with offense up to assist is great burst damage.
(My alt took 1st yesterday — 382k GP Chimaera lead fleet. No bugs yet).