So, I'm fairly new to the game and still getting my first couple teams up and running. Currently focusing on farming phoenix squadron for thrawn/palp, planning to transition to farming jedi/old republic for GMY and JKR.
The problem with this is that it leaves me for a long time without a solid dark side team for the dark side nodes. My current dark side team is a mishmash of starting characters and whatever I've been lucky enough to unlock. It includes Tarkin, Talia, Dooku, Royal Guard, and Snowtrooper. I recently hit level 50, but I'm having trouble getting past dark side normal node 5-i. This is especially an issue since i'd like to be able to get a head start on farming Bastila from dark side hard node 5-B. My question is, what could I do quickly and cheaply (trying to stay mostly or entirely FTP) to improve my dark side team without distracting too much from my main character farming objectives? Any suggestions?
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You'll unlock Vader soon, if you haven't already, and then you can buy his shards in the Fleet store as he shows up.
[Here's] a spreadsheet that can help you make farming decisions.
If you've already finished Chopper in the Cantina Store, get Boba Fett from there; if you've already finished Kanan in the Squad Store, there's Greedo and IG-88 (both of them are squishy, Greedo can hit hard later on and IG-88 has a ship); add Cad Bane from the GW store, Dengar from the Guild Store, and either add a couple other darksiders to flesh out the team (Zam isn't really worth investing in; Bossk, Jango, Embo are late hard modes. And I'm pretty sure level 7 of the Cantina Table is still locked for you). I suppose the Imperial route wouldn't be amiss either; Magmatrooper (not great for R2 because tier 7 is immune to TMR), Colonel Stark, Snowtrooper, etc.
Look through that spreadsheet I linked earlier. You shouldn't have to worry too much about synergy at this point. You just need to invest in gear and ability levels for characters you'll want down the line, anyway. Tarkin and Vader are both those. Talia may be, depending on what future Nightsisters team you want to look into. Geonosians. Bounty Hunters. Empire. You may also want a higher level ally or three (my ally code is 634-478-835), who are willing to lend you powerful toons to help you three-star nodes you're struggling on.
Look at where you can flex on and where you'd really rather not and fit a Dark Side team in between. You can fine tune things later.
Whatever team he ends up using is probably going to be a little haphazard while he's focusing on Phoenix, Jedi, and Old Republic characters. That doesn't mean it won't work, only that it's non-optimal. Hence why I suggested things he'll need later and left the rest up to him (though, OP, think about putting some resources into Scoundrels; you don't need star levels for Credit Heist, but the game gets a lot slower if you don't have access to that influx of credits).
There's no question TFP fits better in an Empire lineup than Boba Fett, but farming him interferes with a very long list of players that you'll want to farm from the cantina early on. And if the goal is just to have a DS team that gets you through the nodes, I'd use the toons that I'll be farming anyway (there isn't a lot of early game competition for Cantina Store currency once you get Chopper out of the way).
Boba Fett's lead also gives its crit chance/damage bonuses to any allies, which makes him handy early on when you don't have a ton of dark side characters and even fewer with good leadership abilities.