Ship Challenges 2.0 is Broken (Really)

Easy fix, Devs just need to change the text from Recommended level 75 to Recommended level 85.

From my experience you're wrong.

I was in exactly the same boat as you (but with vastly better ships due to the fact that I had concentrated on home one and rebel ships and ended up having to panic farm the dark side ones before I could upgrade my rebel ships - which sucks).

It was a lot worse before the 2.0 update. I was attempting it at every opportunity and putting all my resources into beating it. As soon as 2.0 launched I started to see immediately that I finally had a chance. Still getting stomped on - but could see victory looming. After a fair few attempts I did it, and it was a hell of a relief.

From my point of view the other commentators are correct - it's a hurdle we all need to get over. But 2.0 made it easier not harder (opinion - but opinion from experience).

Tbh though I sympathize - the challenge is way harder than it should be and it's made worse by the fact that the requirements are total bull. I don't know, maybe due to the challenge level CG wants you to have early access to give you an idea of how much of a pain in the rear it's gonna be.

I agree, ship challenges in 2.0 are terrible, anyone saying otherwise just obviously doesn't want you to get rewards or bonuses, or beat it pre 2.0 change. I know for a fact people who beat challenges the day BEFORE 2.0 came out could not beat the exact same challenge right after. I tested this myself at the time, I went from three starring THREE starring, to everything die'ing and the challenge being impossible.

They already changed the first set of challenges because they were impossible for new players, I don't know why they didn't change the later ones to be easier or rather, exactly the same difficulty prior to 2.0, which of course is easier then it is now.

You use near maxed ships and the five star recommended level has ships faster then the same ship on your team which is near maxed. The enemy ships stats are scaled way to high for what it should be.

It’s definitely true that ships 2.0 has made getting your tarkin to 5* a lot harder. Most of this, though, I think is due to tarkin’s ultimate no longer being a game ending wipe. It used to be that you just needed to have your ships survive long enough for the ultimate, and if you had just a fraction of health left on your tie fighter (which also used to dodge more) at ultimate time, you could kill like all 5 enemies as long as they only had about half their health left. Also, Phoenix ships got a huge boost with 2.0 which makes the opponents starting line a lot tougher. And without any good tanks, DS really struggles to kill that starting lineup before all your attackers are dead.
Only advice I could give you is keep trying, maybe start gearing your Bossk now and once HT hits shipments upgrade it to 4* so you can use it on the challenge (if you haven’t beat it by then). But fleets do require a lot of resources, so you’re going to have to choose between gearing your pilots, or your arena team. That’s why you see a lot of empire teams around your level, because they’re the only ones that can do both (Vader, Tarkin and even TFP do well under EP at your level). Good luck.

They are challenging for sure and the minimums are understated but you don't need maxed ships to win. I beat all three with a mix of 7, 6, 5 and 4* ships and 7-2* pilots. Hell, I even used a lvl 19 capital ship for one of em - Endurance.

Study the opposing ships' capabilities and find a way to break their starting lineup. That is the key.

The bigger problem is just how much value is locked up behind the one challenge - Executrix.