I've been focusing on sith lately. I have 3 sith that are definitely staying on my team including maul, Palpatine and vader. Maul and Palpatine are gear 10 and 7 star. My vader is 4 shards away from 7 star and he will be gear 10 shortly. I always use dooku and sidious just because they're the only other 2 that I invested any time in. I was thinking dooku and is nihilus worth gearing up and using. I have no intentions on farming him to 7 stars until he's available to farm for free somewhere. So he would stay 3 stars in the mean time but I know that just adds health

"spotremix;997899" wrote:he's worth it but he's nothing special either. i'm working on him when i get something he needs. i use him occasionally in GW buts he's nothing great yet. he's a squishy POS most of the time unless you have the right toons with him. I see. Nothing special at all about the only toon in the game with an instant death button. As for the squishy part, just try putting this stuff called "gear" on him.

He is very useful at top end arena, not even necessarily in a Sith team.

Unfortunately with what Nihilus brings he's plug and play into different squads and you're almost at a disadvantage without him. Not to say you can't compete without him, because you can, he just adds a very powerful component to any squad.

IMO, Nihilus with his unique Zeta'd is pretty plug and play into most top end Arena teams.His unique Zeta'd spams DoTs to opponents with no debuffs, which leads to auto Force Drain on them by Nihilus when he uses it and reduces his Annihilate cooldown by 1 for each opponent who suffers Force Drain.So, basically, he can Annihilate an opponent pretty quickly. That's a game-changer when you can use it on the opposing Nihilus or a beefy attacker like Savage or Kylo.I highly recommend leveling and gearing him up.

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Armaturbatyr
9 years ago
Have zDN. Love him, but had to replace for Rex due to Zaul meta :/
ljcool110
Seasoned Veteran
9 years ago
Nihilus is awesome. Put everything you can into him and you will not be disappointed.
CrisRedfield100
9 years ago
Finally maxed sith assassin today, now DN is next :) looking at the gear he requires, it shouldn't take that long. He doesn't need cuffs :)
DarthxJay
9 years ago
"Darth_Skywalker;998703" wrote:
For me it's actually annhiliate in arena or gw matches that drags on longer so I one kill anyone, can't wait till I Omega his basic to reduce cooldowns, the key is having a healer and health and protection mods with speed secondaries, My max bariss keeps nihilus alive and has very good synergy with nihilus til I level sith trooper, I used savage and sidious and they would die quick without putting a dent on malbus or chirrut or shore trooper, now I don't have to worry so long I keep nihilus alive.I run ep lead,Vader, Royal guard, bariss nihilus so far I'm happy he is top 5 character.if you think my Royal guard is too weak he has 65k hp can withstand a few rounds of meta team so I can retaliate.

You need to zeta Savage and make sure hes at max gear, he's tough to kill straight-away without Boba or their own Nihilus.
billcarson1966
9 years ago
To all who say annhilate doesn't work in arena, I got hit twice by it yesterday by a 150 speed DN. Before I put him in my arena team, I had a hard time getting back into the top 50 after the overnight fall. Since, I haven't fallen out of it. Mine is 3 star, G8. I really have to work on gearing him. One more piece for Vader, 1 pilot to G9 then DN. Stun Gun and Droid caller hurts tho. Gonna be a few weeks.
platzman
9 years ago
Annihilate sure works in arena, especially when rather tanky Zavages, Zylos and other Nihiluses are meta, accompanied by teams healed by Zariss, Chirrut or reviving like Boba... Or Phoenix rebels.

Drain force - Basic - Basic on assist/retaliate - Drain force - Annihilate does not really take so long, it is 4th action.

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