The first time I played it I completed it...barely. The second and now third and fourth attempts I can't get past 6 stages. The people I am playing against are way ahead of me. It just doesn't make sense. Has anyone else been able to progress? Do you know how they pick the opponents? Can I make it easier so I can get rewards, lol?

They do focus my consular and talia now. Feels bad

"Miss_Doll;6770" wrote:I have a feeling that the bot nowadays is way more tactical. They will wash all your healer away with +6000 damage focusing on one healer in a single turn and then your leader. If you don't have the ultimate op healer you don't have much healer left in 7-8 wavelol, pretty much

So a few days have passed since I wrote this. The issue is getting worse. Everyday I go less and less farther in the war. I'm down to 3-4 matches won now. I'm doing everything I can each day but my characters aren't gaining the power they need. So..is this some weird bug or am I never going to complete this again?

ive noticed the ai targetting healers a lot more today as well.

There was likely a shift in the AI since the mini patch yesterday... it seems to be much more capable of focus fire on all the tables, taking a weak toon down like a human opponent would. It does feel like it recognizes and prioritizes healers. Playing brinksmanship with low-HP toons is more dangerous for sure now... and in a freebie player mode with only Talia and Jedi Consular available to heal, things get very dicey.I managed to beat GW today at L42 for the first time... a few scary moments along the way for sure. There is some measure of luck in the opponents you draw, so that is another factor.

How does Galactic War pick your opponents?

mazzlemel
9 years ago
"CorruptCollector;10806" wrote:
Often, in the last set, i lose Consular before he even has a chance to heal, be healed, or even for Chewy to taunt.

Have you been retreating? Depending on the speed of your characters and theirs, and/or the debuffs/buffs they are applying, it could mean the difference between a win and a loss.

For example, if you have a fast team where two of yours attack first, you could theoretically attack once, retreat, rinse, repeat, and win the battle. Very slowly, but it's doable. I've used that tactic to beat groups higher level and better geared than my own where I normally would have given up on GW for the day.
nosnibor1020
9 years ago
"SiriTa;10815" wrote:
"CorruptCollector;10806" wrote:
Often, in the last set, i lose Consular before he even has a chance to heal, be healed, or even for Chewy to taunt.

Have you been retreating? Depending on the speed of your characters and theirs, and/or the debuffs/buffs they are applying, it could mean the difference between a win and a loss.

For example, if you have a fast team where two of yours attack first, you could theoretically attack once, retreat, rinse, repeat, and win the battle. Very slowly, but it's doable. I've used that tactic to beat groups higher level and better geared than my own where I normally would have given up on GW for the day.

How do you retreat? Close the game?
rk260395
9 years ago
"Nosnibor;11400" wrote:
How do you retreat? Close the game?

Top left corner icon is options. Click that and select retreat. You stop that battle and then can reselect it and both your team and the other team have the same health and same ability timers as when you left off.

For example against a hard team I will bring in my 'C' team that has a lot of high damage / low level chars. I bring them in, I get one round in focus firing their lowest health guy (except Sid - don't focus him). I usually lose 2-3 guys and then I retreat after that first round. I do this against big AOE teams as well since they'll waste their AOEs on my crap guys and won't have those abilities for my A team.

Then I bring back in my A team and finish off the wounded guy or deal with AOE guys w/o AOE. Then I either continue the fight or tactically retreat if I feel that my characters are low health or I want to remove a debuff from the other team.

Whenever you have a low health char sub him/her out. Bring them back in when you're fighting Baress or Chewy as their final guy and then heal them or at least charge their heal abilities.

Galactic War is definitely the most enjoyable game mode for me as a mostly FTP guy ($10) around upper 40 levels. Arena is stupid and the light side/dark side battles don't unlock often enough.
nosnibor1020
9 years ago
My little gear has been grayed out. I've been wondering what it does. I can't click on it. Am I missing something?
Gib_Resahp
9 years ago
Hmm retreat i have to check that option too. Yesterday a "fight" against Lvl58 (me 48) was over after 6 attacks from the opponent. 6k+ damage and on speed. But with retreat i let them waste the first attacks on a C team, and then lets see how far i get.
bilbomicahlei
9 years ago
doing quite well atm i spent only £4, rank 30-50 atm all my main characters are in level 6 gear and almost level 7 gear and level 50 all. I rely on the 150 crystals per day to rank up my talia and ct 5555
mazzlemel
9 years ago
"Nosnibor;11417" wrote:
My little gear has been grayed out. I've been wondering what it does. I can't click on it. Am I missing something?

You can't be on auto and you can only get into settings on your own turn. :)
KingLeBenj
9 years ago
I've actually never had a problem with the GWs. I think I've only not completed it twice and those were a few from the end.

Things that I think really help me:

I have some decent depth (12 characters that can realistically be used in a few battles, 7 of those at my current level)

I have a 4 star ewok elder which can be a lifesaver because you can revive someone and then retreat and bring them back later to get healed up.

Lobot and the Ewok Elder that can clear anything placed on my characters.

Finally, strategy. If the group I'm fighting is a bunch of healers, I'll put some of my higher damage guys in there. But if they are rockin guys that have skill/healing blocks I'll put in a bunch of healers and Lobot and just weather the storm. Kill a few off, retreat and put my damage guys back in, get the cool downs reset and proceed on.

As far as how it picks the opponents, I honestly think it knows which characters are weak. I get a heavy healing block team just about everytime I end the previous battle with characters that are hurtin on health. Also, don't just go by level. I've had tough battles with lower levels and easy battles with 60s. Took me a bit to realize the stars the characters have is just as important as the level. You'll get monster lvl 52 teams every now and then with 6 and 7 star guys.
joelightyear99
9 years ago
"DigitalKLB;11915" wrote:
I've actually never had a problem with the GWs. I think I've only not completed it twice and those were a few from the end.

Things that I think really help me:

I have some decent depth (12 characters that can realistically be used in a few battles, 7 of those at my current level)

I have a 4 star ewok elder which can be a lifesaver because you can revive someone and then retreat and bring them back later to get healed up.

Lobot and the Ewok Elder that can clear anything placed on my characters.

Finally, strategy. If the group I'm fighting is a bunch of healers, I'll put some of my higher damage guys in there. But if they are rockin guys that have skill/healing blocks I'll put in a bunch of healers and Lobot and just weather the storm. Kill a few off, retreat and put my damage guys back in, get the cool downs reset and proceed on.

As far as how it picks the opponents, I honestly think it knows which characters are weak. I get a heavy healing block team just about everytime I end the previous battle with characters that are hurtin on health. Also, don't just go by level. I've had tough battles with lower levels and easy battles with 60s. Took me a bit to realize the stars the characters have is just as important as the level. You'll get monster lvl 52 teams every now and then with 6 and 7 star guys.

I've only won GW once.
I have 14 characters lvl 60, almost all gear lvl 6,7 or 8. Sid 7*, jawa 6*, luminari 7*, JC 5*, IG86 5*, Barriss 4*, Vadar 4*, Chewe 4*, Douku 4*. But I come up against some outrageously strong teams. Today round 6 I got a team with four 7* characters and a 5* Barriss, destroyed my entire pack.
Sundodger47
9 years ago
"joelightyear;12822
I've only won GW once.
I have 14 characters lvl 60, almost all gear lvl 6,7 or 8. Sid 7*, jawa 6*, luminari 7*, JC 5*, IG86 5*, Barriss 4*, Vadar 4*, Chewe 4*, Douku 4*. But I come up against some outrageously strong teams. Today round 6 I got a team with four 7* characters and a 5* Barriss, destroyed my entire pack. [/quote wrote:

Today I relished running into Barriss, and tomorrow will be great running into 4* light geared Kylo Rens.

I'm not sure if there is anything to the last team you went in with, but I am generally throwing out a very weak team at the end of a fight to refresh a couple cooldowns before moving on to the next fight. Currently at level 47 and haven't not cleared a GW since getting Luminara (was really tough with just JC).