Galactic War Difficulty

Resistance is the best advice I can give. This is my GW strat (and it never fails):

- 1st Node I stack TM on Resistance (zFinn, zR2, Poe, RT, Rey)
- Then I play with whatever team I'm testing until they lose. Repeat with random teams until node 11 or 12.
- Bring Resistance in to finish off last one or two nodes. Save GK in case you run into a Sith squad and have to replace Rey with GK. This team never loses woth even a little preloaded TM and no abilities on CD.

"ExarTheKun;c-1231572" wrote:
Resistance is the best advice I can give. This is my GW strat (and it never fails):

- 1st Node I stack TM on Resistance (zFinn, zR2, Poe, RT, Rey)
- Then I play with whatever team I'm testing until they lose. Repeat with random teams until node 11 or 12.
- Bring Resistance in to finish off last one or two nodes. Save GK in case you run into a Sith squad and have to replace Rey with GK. This team never loses woth even a little preloaded TM and no abilities on CD.

Having to gear, star, level up and zeta a full team of 5 toons is not only really long but really hard to dedicate to when you also should farm Thrawn, R2 and Luke, who are three really key toons. And i don't even talk about the huge amount of material to gear them since only Raids RNG matters in that department.

Devs should care about new players, sadly the don't. Old players are bored and new players will stop playing since they won't be able to complete daily content such as GWs.

If things aren't going to change i'll simply quit, i won't waste some precious time with dailies i can't achieve anymore because of bad design, power creep and broken balance. Less credits, less crystals and way more time to waste on unbeatable teams - No thanks.

@CG This is game, make it fun at least.

@zombiwan_kenobi Resistance took me 10 weeks to max from scratch. That's gear and stars. Farming Resistance takes less effort than farming Thrawn, and has infinitely more value in terms of PvE. If you choose to chase one toon over an entire squad, that's on you.

Edit: I have Thrawn, level 1 with no gear. His grind is ridiculous and there are a dozen other equally viable arena toons.

"ExarTheKun;c-1232171" wrote:
@zombiwan_kenobi Resistance took me 10 weeks to max from scratch. That's gear and stars. Farming Resistance takes less effort than farming Thrawn, and has infinitely more value in terms of PvE. If you choose to chase one toon over an entire squad, that's on you.

Edit: I have Thrawn, level 1 with no gear. His grind is ridiculous and there are a dozen other equally viable arena toons.

It's a win win situation i guess, Thrawn helps a lot in GWs & Haat (fracture and more protection) and is definitely powerful in arena too. But as far as i'm concerned it's also a personal choice cause i still don't have a decent darkside team and thought Thrawn was a good start to build one. ^ ^

Anyway i already had Ezra gear XI (along with a jedi team) so it's not such a hard grind, i only needed 4 more toons with barely viable gear, nothing as time & material consuming as a fully geared Resistance team.

But it won't solve GW balance issues, i don't think using broken mechanics (Resistance huge TM gain) is the smart way to fix such things. GWs were not made to be run by only one kind of team in the first place, nor making us fight the same overpowered team again and again - The fun and balance issues will still remain.

@zombiwan_kenobi Resistance mechanics are working as intended. It's in the description of Finns zeta ability. You're describing a leader ability as an issue, when any number of leader abilities are just as powerful (in their own way).

For example, QGJ provides a massive speed boost, as well as foresight at the beginning of a match, and whenever an ally dies. On top of that, he provides an offense boost.

Another example is Maul, who gives a TM gain at the start of a match, allowing Sith to land their initial barrage, and also provides a significant dodge rate, with a stealth mechanic that also gives advantage.

If you're telling me that Resistance are OP in any way, you obviously have no clue as to how this game is meant to be played. Their are plenty of viable teams that can complete GW on their own. Imperial Troopers, Phoenix Squad, and Rebels are all viable teams to finish GW without having to use other team (90% of the time). Resistance just happens to be the easiest farm, and is why I made the suggestion.

I believe that your problem isn't in your roster. It's with your mentality. "Resistance is broken, so I'll spend my 9 carbantis on Thrawn instead."

If that isn't a waste, I don't know what is. You can gear whole squads with the amount of carbatis Thrawn takes. That's what I was referring to as his grind. He isnt hard to unlock. He is hard to make arena and PvE viable after his unlock.

"ExarTheKun;c-1232354" wrote:
I believe that your problem isn't in your roster. It's with your mentality. "Resistance is broken, so I'll spend my 9 carbantis on Thrawn instead."

What are you even talking about. If you want me to say something i can do it by myself so please don't make up thing or insult my "mentality".

Now i never said Resistance wasn't working as intended, by broken i mean such a huge TM gain and CD reduction is making most content quite obsolete since they're basically playing alone.

I already play Jedis and Rebels and as stated in many threads, GWs are nearly unbeatable since i'm facing such teams (full geared zeta'ed etc.) eveywhere. So no, Rebels or Jedis aren't enough to "easy farm" GWs, there's a huge wall of gear/zeta/mods and "rare toons at some point.

Perhaps you're playing since beta but i, and a lot of players, don't.

"zombiwan_kenobi;c-1232515" wrote:

"ExarTheKun;c-1232354" wrote:
I believe that your problem isn't in your roster. It's with your mentality. "Resistance is broken, so I'll spend my 9 carbantis on Thrawn instead."

What are you even talking about. If you want me to say something i can do it by myself so please don't make up thing or insult my "mentality".

Now i never said Resistance wasn't working as intended, by broken i mean such a huge TM gain and CD reduction is making most content quite obsolete since they're basically playing alone.

I already play Jedis and Rebels and as stated in many threads, GWs are nearly unbeatable since i'm facing such teams (full geared zeta'ed etc.) eveywhere. So no, Rebels or Jedis aren't enough to "easy farm" GWs, there's a huge wall of gear/zeta/mods and "rare toons at some point.

Perhaps you're playing since beta but i, and a lot of players, don't.

I've been playing since February of this year. Also, I never mentioned that Jedi do well in GW. I listed Imps, Resistance, Phoenix and Rebels. A rebel squad that consistently beats GW is fully zetad R1. I never said that any random five rebels could take on GW solo. You would obviously have to put in a little effort and do the research to find a suitable rebel squad for GW.

After unlocking Vader, I also found GW to be frustratingly difficult. I beat it maybe a handful of times until I hit level 85, at which point I began catching up. One thing I will ask first is, what level are you, and are you already facing zeta squads and such?

Since I have hit level 85, I have been having consistent success with GW using only a handful of squads. At one point I completed almost 40 in a row without getting stumped, which I felt was pretty good considering the luck I had earlier in the game. I will note here, however, that at this point I only encounter the occasional zeta squad, but I have seen some of my guildies getting hopelessly screwed against teams with 5 fully maxed, zeta'ed characters that there is no hope of beating. But yeah, with that in mind...

The squads that I have used are as follows:

Rebel Squad: Wedge Lead, Biggs, Lando, Chirrut, StHan/Leia (as needed for extra defense or extra attack)
- Chirrut is a major game changer here, before I had him my rebel team was terrible. His attack is potent at a high level, however, and his debuff cleanse and attack special are both battle-changing also. Wedge and Biggs are both high-powered crit machines, as is Lando, and with STHan's taunt you can totally destroy enemy teams before they can even touch any of your other guys.

Jedi Squad: Lumi Lead, Consular, JKA (sometimes lead if needed for dmg), Ahsoka, Mace.
- Recently just got QGJ as my first zeta, he really changes Jedi squads, but I still found success before with my Lumi lead Jedi Squad against the filler battles

Jawa Squad: Chief Nebit lead, Dathcha, Jawa, Jawa Scavenger, Jawa Engineer
-This all-jawa squad is not super sexy compared to rebels, sith, etc, but the bomb mechanics are devastating and their speed, coupled with Engineer's unique (TM generation and crit chance up), means you can pretty much kill at least 1, if not 2 of their guys before they have a chance to attack.

Sith Squad: DN Lead, EP, Vader, Maul, Dooku
-This squad is perfect when you want to debuff the kitten out of an enemy. EP and dooku deliver stun, Maul has daze, Vader has damage over time and ability block, DN with cooldown extension and annihilate. Very potent squad, on a technical basis they are my "weakest" of these top 4 squads, yet I tend to use them most frequently due to their devastating effects with each other.

Imperial Trooper Squad: Veers lead, Snowtrooper, Magmatrooper, Death Trooper, Shoretrooper
- this is my just for fun squad currently, but due to their synergy they can really wreak some havoc too.



Between these 5 squads, I am able to beat GWs 90% of the time, if not more. For most of this duration that I have been finding consistent success, also bear in mind that a large portion of my characters have not been level 85, or properly modded. I simply do my best to strategize, using my weaker squads first and saving my jawas and rebels for the harder battles. The extra HP and protection can really save you in some of those situations. Also, making sure you aren't playing into the enemy's hands is important. If you're going up against a rebel squad with your empire boys, Biggs is gonna have a field day on you. Hopefully this helps, if not you may be among the ranks of the hopelessly screwed like some of my guild mates. If that is the case, I hope they fix GWs soon for all our sakes

@Bonezy if you could provide a starting point that would be great. Your swgoh.gg profile would be best. If you don’t want to post that or at least pm me then your ally code would be next best.

I have the same problem. I cannot longer beat node 11... sometimes even node 9.
Most of times I've to defeat a maxed team with cl leader, r2, Han Solo, gen kenobi, thrawn.
As I get Commander Luke in my own rooster, GW become impossibile to win.
Today I found at node 9 another very strong team (cl, r2, old Ben, fulcrum, gk) which costs me EP and zMaul!
This is getting ridiculous, I simply can't beat GW anymore.