Executor is a beast? [MERGE]

"Starslayer;c-2288985" wrote:

"Kelthuzil;c-2288929" wrote:
Another thing I’ve seen thrown around a lot is “for the investment” regarding executor, while it’s true that it requires 2 r8 which is a pain in the butt, outside of that, I don’t see a hell of a lot of difference between that and any other meta fleet (save malebolence who skates by.)

r8, jka 7, fives 7, ashoka 5+, Rex 5+, up to you on plo adare etc but los have those relic as well.

Ackbar r2+, chewie Han 5+, srp bistan r0-3, biggs r3, wedge relic 5, up to you on rogue one.

Finalizer needs everyone mid to high relic.

Sure executor has slightly higher requirement, but it’s not like the other ships skate by with all g9 and expect to be competitive. If they make the ship unbeatable, they officially killed gac.

Except for ackbar, srp and bistan, every character from those fleets are either strong characters or prerequisites for GLs. For executor: Bounty hunters pilots are… bounty hunters, piett at r8 is crazy overgeared and tie fighter pilot is a benchwarmer (Vader is fine though). Usefulness of the pilots is a big part of the investment cost imo.

Absolutely r8 piett is overkill, so is bobba. That being said I had bobba and bossk r5 to begin with, and tfp was already r6 as well because my empire fleet is also leveled up, including Saxon and isc (talk about bad characters)

Every fleet has some dud pilots, and every fleet requires overgearing of some you sure as hell don’t want to gear. I’ll give you executor is on the steeper end of that vs say negotiator, but not by much.

Either way, executor is clearly at the top of the meta, but not unbeatable, if needs some tweaks to help 7 star over 4 star (really cg?) but outside of that it’s functioning as it should, If not what they intended. The argument though of “investment” doesn’t really hold water.