Ok, yesterday I took my JC to 6 stars and since then I have been goofing around whitout a real purpose. I don't want Consular in my PVP team and for GW 6 stars are more than enough, so keeping on farming him is not an option.
I'm currently working on a AOE/Debuff/Critical team, with Sidious as a leader, Poe as a tank and IG-88 as the main Damage Dealer. Currently I'm running and loving Resistance Pilot and working on Luminara to sub-in for Consular when she's ready.
I realized I lack some control character, so i put away my idea of farming Kylo and at first looked at Finn, with his 65% stun on special. Then I noticed Luke ability to stun on crit and couldn't decide between them.
• FINN PROs:
- I already have 24 shards
- Higher life pool I think?
- Doesn't need crits to stun so he can fit in more teams in the future
- Sinergy with Dameron and Resistance Pilot whom I already have
• LUKE PROs
- Easier to farm with only 8 energy per run required instead of 10
- Higher Damage I think?
- Crit sinergy with the team
- Nice leader ability for future other teams
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Never heard about this, has it been somehow proved?
No... i have high drop rates for luke
I'd like to know how you drew those conclusions.
1) I've never seen evidence that drop rates are different at level 4 than level 1. The higher level missions provide more other stuff (droids/cantina tokens per energy/etc) but nobody has shown a higher shard drop rate.
2) On paper Finn's stun is more reliable however Luke crits very frequently and his low stun proc rate is due to his tendency to one-shot characters. With a sid led team and a poggle boost he pushes 7.5k damage for me on a crit and he's only 5*. Finn's attacks in arena tend to require 2 rounds before they start paying off with the expose plus stun combo.
I will say that the one unknown I have is his speed. If Finn is significantly faster than Luke and is able to get his stun off early in a round that changes things a lot. Late round stuns tend to be of minimal use. Also seeing Finns max HP would be interesting. Luke is not quite a glass cannon as he is up over 9k HP.
I also think the AI plays characters like Finn very poorly. His advantage up skill will get used more often in round one than his special attack. I do think Finn has a chance to be workable in some combinations (ie. Phasma lead) but since he competes with Ren for shards the latter is likely a better choice for Phasma teams.
FWIW I think cantina shard drops are actually random, sometimes I go 0 for 12, sometimes 9 for 12, and everything in between.
I am the exact opposite. Once I got Luke up to 4 stars I decided to try gen soldier. I refreshed every day and farmed him only for 3 days straight. I gave up and am still sitting at 7/10.... Luke on the other hand I have great luck with.
Is geno soldier really that good on his own, or does he need to be teamed with Peggle to really be worthwhile?
I actually plan to use Phasma lead with GS, Poe, Leia, and QGJ filling it out. I use Rey and FOTP currently over QGJ and GS but i think it's probably a mistake.
I also find it hard to muster much enthusiasm for farming a character like Geonesian Soldier. Okay he does a lot of damage but.. boring. There's always JC or IG-86.
I keep looking at nightsister acolyte, which nobody uses, wondering if there isn't some potential there somehow...
As for the drop rate post, it's a load of ****. To get him from 4* to 5* I was getting a drop rate of 1/2 for Luke, for Finn I'm lucky if I get 1/4. It's all random and purely down to luck.
Finn's Takedown is good but it's really the only good thing he has. His basic attack is awful (I don't know about the base damage, but a boost usable only once per enemy is fairly awful). Hold the Line? Meh. I am okay with a non-damaging ability that provides buffs or debuffs on the whole party, like Phasma's, but when they are only for one character they are IMO a waste of a turn in most cases.
He's not horrible just.. uninteresting, to me at least.
I have Luke at 7* and it has never stopped bothering me he has a gun. It feeeeeeels so wrong.
Weird. I tried farming Luke for a while and got maybe 1 or 2 a day from Cantina energy. Farming Finn and Kylo? 10. My assumption was that it had something to do with level of the fight. Same thing happens on the DS/LS missions. Harder levels seem to be much better at dropping everything.