Thrawn event is a colossal waste of time

Help me out here, cos I just finished 6 of the most frustration days of my life and I know I'm about to see it all go away without anything to show for it except a strong pheonix team that I sunk loads into and can't use anywhere else in this game without the reminder pain of this event surfacing.
Here's what I keep seeing: loads and loads of "it didn't work for me until i..."and then it's a wide bunch of things, from swapping mods to bringing in chopper (which I don't have) to all manner of gear levels, to zetas.
But what I don't understand is, after trying all of these, and I have, how could we just explain away the fact that, given a sequence of any 4-5 enemies firing, someone dies, followed by any 3 or 4 after that?
How could it be that suddenly, things like Thrawn blowing away someone on backup plan then immediately Fracturing him as he rezzes back, to death, stop happening? Mods don't magically remove that kind of lethality. Or...level 85. Or gear 9, 10... whatever - nothing, it seems, but RNG.
That seems to be the only reason I could find where I can fight certain battles where Thrawn misses or buffs someone instead of constantly attacking and immediately slaughtering someone in a single hit, and I can take out a DT or 2...but eventually reality always returns and everyone resumes dying.
I can see that it's not just me, all the threads in this section is about this ordeal, but the answers just don't explain it for me. I also see many who reply "thanks for the help, it worked" but I just don't see how! Just like that, "it" worked? What, really, is "it"?

One of the things I found was helpful was actually not using backup plan on the first fracture and instead taunting with the toon that wasnt fractured. This allowed me to survive it and allowed me to save Backup plan for another toon that took a ton of damage or was starting to get low on health with healing block on them. From there it was swapping taunts between Kanan and Chopper until Kanan got one shot with just Thrawn and a Storm trooper left. Quiet honestly for me it was so close near the end that if I didnt use Hera's assist ability on Zeb that landed a stun on him I wouldnt have made it. He would have killed me with only half his health left and honestly I wouldnt have tried it again because I never was even remotely close to beating this prior to that. So I feel everyones pain.

"Mhmacleod;c-1310592" wrote:
Help me out here, cos I just finished 6 of the most frustration days of my life and I know I'm about to see it all go away without anything to show for it except a strong pheonix team that I sunk loads into and can't use anywhere else in this game without the reminder pain of this event surfacing.
Here's what I keep seeing: loads and loads of "it didn't work for me until i..."and then it's a wide bunch of things, from swapping mods to bringing in chopper (which I don't have) to all manner of gear levels, to zetas.
But what I don't understand is, after trying all of these, and I have, how could we just explain away the fact that, given a sequence of any 4-5 enemies firing, someone dies, followed by any 3 or 4 after that?
How could it be that suddenly, things like Thrawn blowing away someone on backup plan then immediately Fracturing him as he rezzes back, to death, stop happening? Mods don't magically remove that kind of lethality. Or...level 85. Or gear 9, 10... whatever - nothing, it seems, but RNG.
That seems to be the only reason I could find where I can fight certain battles where Thrawn misses or buffs someone instead of constantly attacking and immediately slaughtering someone in a single hit, and I can take out a DT or 2...but eventually reality always returns and everyone resumes dying.
I can see that it's not just me, all the threads in this section is about this ordeal, but the answers just don't explain it for me. I also see many who reply "thanks for the help, it worked" but I just don't see how! Just like that, "it" worked? What, really, is "it"?

I was totally in the same spot. I would wipe so fast that I couldnt do anything. Some rounds I'd get lucky maybe I could kill 1 or two DTs. I burned credit heist $ to upgrade mods and that made the difference.

What is your speed? If your toons are too slow the attacks will appear to keep coming 2-3 to your one. In my opinion, speed trumps gear level in this event.

RNG is important but it isn't enough. Managing the pace via speed allows you to implement strategy. Otherwise the attacks come too fast.

Problem with speed is that the speed secondaries are too hard to come by. I only had one +30 arrow and I put that on Ezra. The other 5 or 6 mods I had with speed were like 4 to 7 total so there wasnt much. I heard someone say they increased the difficulty of the event because they added Zeta's, but im not so sure thats the case. I will say I dont remember as many people having such a hard time the first time around but that could just be conjecture.

Here's another trick in light of today's credit heist. Upgrade gray mods to lvl 3 (green). When a speed secondary shows up, upgrade it. Sell back those you don't want.

I don't get it either. I'm so discouraged. I've got whole squad at 85, omegas, good- great mods and thoughtful strategy. Still unable to beat it, truly unbelievable that others are able to get this with weaker teams using same strat. If rng is king then I've played enough for the odds to favour me just once. One should not need God mods, 1/6 specific toons and perfect rng for this. I paid my dues, got PS to 7* 85, g8+ to 9+. Sad to say I'm actually angry to not be rewarded for my hard work and see many supposedly get it with equal or less. smh

"Sirlagzalott;c-1310734" wrote:
Here's another trick in light of today's credit heist. Upgrade gray mods to lvl 3 (green). When a speed secondary shows up, upgrade it. Sell back those you don't want.

This will get you, at the most, 6 speed. This is not the way to get good speed secondaries.

I just popped one for +12 so not sure where you're getting 6. I agree this isn't the way to go long term. However if you're scrambling, it's as good as any.

"Sirlagzalott;c-1311476" wrote:
I just popped one for +12 so not sure where you're getting 6. I agree this isn't the way to go long term. However if you're scrambling, it's as good as any.

If you got +12, it wasn't a gray mod (unless you're talking about a low star speed primary arrow). A gray mod can only get each secondary once, and the most you can get from a single speed secondary is 6. The only way to get more than that is to start with a speed secondary already on the mod at level 1, which means it's not gray.

Correction it was +10 not 12. However I've only upgraded to lvl 12.

It was a health data bus (circle) and most definitely a secondary. Can't remember what the initial speed was when I upgraded to level 3 (when 1 secondary appears). Think it might have been six to start with. However after upgrading to lvl12 it jumped to +10. Definitely more than 6.