"dimi4a;c-1620895" wrote:
"Dirty_Litle_Smuggler;c-1618642" wrote:
"Rebel_yell;c-1617530" wrote:
Ships 2.0 is going to be a slow moving transition. People are going to farm the ships that have a pilot that is raid or arena viable until they've reached a point that they can focus on ship pilots. Plus, some of the lesser known ships are difficult farms. It was nice that they put Sion with Kylo's Command Shuttle, but now that I'm done with Sion I really don't want to keep farming that node when I need to get Bossk and Holdo to 7*. MilFalcon is paired with Scav Rey, so if you have a 7* Rey, what's the point of farming the ship when you probably have Raid toons you want to focus on?
Basically, until there's another Ship piloted by an arena viable toon, you're not going to see a big shakeup in fleet squads outside of the bigger spenders. I have no desire to gear up Geo Spy when I can get into the top 20 already without him.
This is the main issue with ships 2.0. There are actually several metas available, but the one that everyone already has farmed is Biggs + TIEs, since they were the old meta. Geos are good on offense, but horrible on D, so not exactly what I’d consider the “best” meta as D is the biggest defining factor in how valuable a team is. Honestly, the most difficult team in my shard for me is tarkin with Biggs + Phoenix, since they are designed to counter crits (which is what chimaera relies on). There are other viable teams as well, it’s just that ships take so long to farm, not only with pilot gear but also omega mats now, that we haven’t had enough time for people to explore those. I bet in about 3-6 months you’ll see a lot more diversity, which, until the grind speeds up, is just gonna be how long it takes to change a ship meta.
And until that time comes, there may be new meta ships added to the game.
which will be good for people who only care about ships or whales with hSTR in farm mode...the 99 percent of game not HSTR ready are ONLY farming stuff that can HSTR...lets count HSTR pilots that are viable.
Resistance Pilot : HSTR usable not optimal. Ship would be glorious with more resistance ships but until then is horrible (well a horrible option) with full resistance team the assists would be glorious
KRU : Great HSTR option for certain phases, Good ship with the right lineup easy farm
Falcon 1.0 : JTR no need to mention HSTR. Finn good everywhere else. 2.0 rework of ship is horrible IMO but if you only care about HSTR you will have at least one of the toons geared.... small synergy with RP ship would still get crushed in meta
Command Shuttle : again P2 HSTR synergy works great with silencer not ship meta worthy but does appear
Reaper : DT P3 no need to mention him for HSTR. Most consider ship worthless after 2.0 although he is maxxed in my fleet as 4th reinforcment or as a needed dispel never really use him just there as no one at top of ship shard ever get's to 4th reinforce.
Phoenix : P2 good team gear requirments sick Fleet is actually meta worthy against certain fleets. May be a top option for new shards as they are needed for many things.
Tano : P1 jedi team ??? who knows. Ship not that good except for emergency call in dispel
Rex : ??? meh
Now there is no real META team to be had in that mix...
And YES it does depend on peoples priorites.. But for the 99 percent of guilds and people who can't do HSTR these are prob the toons and ships they are farming..
New ships being released would prob make way more $$$$ on pilots that have some kind of HSTR synergy
Ships will still be awesome until the power creep model hits here...thankfully new falcon and Sith fighter were not ungodly OP... hopefully they stay off the power creep as long as they can in ships and let's hope Seperatists get rework so Genoshans can be used as a team in TB and TW...
EDIT : Just the way it goes...You don't have to run Genos to win, you don't have to run Biggs Vader to win you can win with a lot...as long as they don't release a meta that can win all the time on Defense complaints will be a minimum I guess I love all the new features and stuff but still hate TB ships big time