I am using Bastilla, old Ben, JKA, Ashoka and Luminara. I’ve read that you should use DS ships for zeta farming but I can’t even beat the 2nd node. Is it still good advice to go after the DS ships or should I be trying to use ships for the chars I have maxed?
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If you are having trouble with fleet battles remember to also upgrade your pilots. Improving their crew power will also improve their ships.
Level the crew
Gear the crew
Put high grade (5 dot, ideally gold) mods on the crew
Hounds Tooth would be a great ship to get for this purpose but it is a bit higher up the food chain and ideally you will have this challenge locked down before you farm HT to 5 stars.
I really like Vader and his ship. But it will take a while for you to unlock it. It shows up in the fleet store, but not often. It has a node in fleet battles, but its going to take a while to build a fleet strong enough to get that node unlocked.
Imperial tie fighter is a great ship under executrix(or chimera down the road) and you'll have access to its node sooner. It also shows up in the fleet store and gw store fairly often I believe.
A good tank is needed for your fleet. Sun Fac is tank, but not a particularly good one, IMO. I still think Hounds Tooth is one of the best tanks in the game, and can plug and play in any fleet. And you have bossk for a pilot, who is the only bounty hunter tank(a great one,IMO). Hyena bomber is a good tank to go with your geo ships, and its hard to kill(at least under malevolence. I don't think I've seen it used outside of there). Imperial tie bomber is good as well, but IMO, it needs either gauntlet or emporers shuttle to really shine since they can boost its protection.
Final thought. I would keep building your dark side ships until you unlock the final tier of the ship ability material challenge. That way you'll get six zeta mats a week, and ship omegas. You need to get the omegas to realize the full potential of your ships.
I remember when I reached level 60 I hated them. I wasn't able to beat the first nodes and the arena fleet battles were a PIAS.
I focused a lot on building a decent squad because I wanted to start farming zetas ASAP. I started climbing up on the arena fleet. I settled on the top 50 and I started to love them. Now I reach every day top 10, and twice a week top 5. I have a "solid" squad for my early shard and I'm building an empire squad because I love the empire.
So my advice would be to start farming geos ASAP. Farm KRU and TIE Silencer at least to 5 stars, I don't like Silencer but is really easy to farm. Avoid farming Slave I, is long farming and it doesn't work well as a starter either as a reinforcement (Ahsoka annihilates it). Imperial TIE fighter is a good ship to unlock the zeta mat challenge, easy to farm, fast, and works really well with Executrix. Use your galactic war tokens to purchase ships.
What I was trying to express is that you shouldn't focus on Slave 1 as a key ship for your arena team and unlocking zeta mats challenge. I spent a lot of resources on getting Slave 1 ASAP because I've read a lot of great things about it. I remember feeling really disappointed the day I used it for the first time in the arena. It was literally annihilated the 5 times.
Now I'm farming it on the fleet store, but I don't remember the last time I used it.
Slave I used to be an amzing ship, but yeah, nowadays you can't really get off its best ability. If they reworked it to make that ability not start on cooldown, I think a lot more people would run it again.
Someone said Sun Fac is not a very good tank, and while he may not be as good as HT or Hyena Bomber, I think it's still good as it's pretty much a constant taunt as long as the opponent is buffed. I think the geos could be a great starting fleet until you can get HT.
I started focusing on ships at level 70. Like others have said, its much easier to be competitive in fleet arena than squad, for those all important crystals. In a newer shard, it always seemed that the best hounds tooth(mine usually) won.
I’m at lvl 81 and only have one decent DS ship, Imperial Tie Fignter. Ugh.