Thrawn Mythic

How I did it;
G11 Thrawn, zeta unique
G11 Shore
G11 Vader, zeta
G11 Palp, zeta
G11 Death
Only Death and Vader survived

"WookieWookie;c-1715330" wrote:
Other than that, if you can survive a round or two, ZPalp Lead+Vader will drain a TON of hp, especially from Ezra and Canan (both Rebl+Jedi), with Palp's unique.

You can't have any other lead than Thrawn in this event unfortunately

My biggest issue is the risk vs reward is not even worth it.

I have to run Thrawn, Palp, Tarkin, TFP and Vader.

Vader is G12 with a few 6 dot mods on him. Thrawn is G12 and the rest are G11.

TFP is dead before he gets a shot off, so he's completely useless and he's the fastest. Same with Tarkin.

That leaves the other three, though Palp is usually dead on the next salvo, so he's useless.

Thrawn can't do that much by himself, nor can Vader.

Conclusion, turn meter pre-load needs to stop being a thing and I need to spend another 14.8 years gearing up Death trooper and shoretrooper by the looks of things. Especially Shore as the pre-taunt is probably the only way to survive the opening barrage.

In any case I won't be doing it this time. It is literally impossible given current toons/gear. Over 200 speed with all of them and that makes not a lick of difference.

Yes and need to keep restarting when Ezra AND Chopper can strip Shore of his taunt anyway.

I wish my Kanan could Crit for 18.5k...

@DuneSeaFarmer

I'm with you. I've had the thought that Shore would help, but really, at least one of my toons dies before I get a single turn. That's always Vader, and then Phoenix gets 2-5 more turns. It's actually WORSE if only one toon dies, since that means they're spreading out their damage and as soon as you take one turn the counterattack will kill you.

zeta on Palp's unique would maybe help him last longer - one more hit, basically, but not even that when Ezra or Sabine is doing the hitting - but I count on 2 toons dying before Vader goes, then it's 50/50 whether another toon dies before my second toon gets a turn. Vader is over 200 before his speed bonus for fighting rebels. Thrawn is 245+ (I don't remember exactly).TFP is 240+. Palp is down around 205, but that's still not slow. I can't remember DT's or Tarkin's speeds (I've tried both), but I think I only have +50 or +60 on Tarkin. I did 6 restarts and they were averaging about 13 turns before Vader moved once (and that's the turns: with Ezra double-tapping and calling assists, there's more than 13 hits).

I'm g12 6-dot mods on Vader, same on Thrawn, but only 2 of his mods are 6-dot. I have one other g12 Empire toon (TFP), palp is g11 + 5/6. I usually use g11 & 4/6 DT as my 5th toon.

It would still be crazy, but it might be doable for me if Thrawn was in the Ally slot (even if it was my Thrawn - he's g12 + 4/6 with good mods and both zetas), especially if I could take 6 empire toons up against the 6 Phoenix toons.

Long term I guess I just have to gear my Shoretrooper (he's been sitting at g8 forever since there's always someone who needs a Stun Gun more than Shore). The thing is that I don't think I need him for anything other than this event - and maybe the equally crazy Ewok-mythic tier. Do I really want to drop multiple stun guns on one toon I don't need to beat 2 mythic tiers? For sure not any time soon. Maybe someday I'll be swimming in Stun Guns, but only after I finish Wampa in the GEStore.

All events like this do is drive players to other games. And then EA/CG wonders why they left. Ahh well such is life.

@Vendi1983

I'm sure you're right, but I'm currently winning every DS TB combat node and all the specials except the final IPD-required p6 special mission. Maybe I would do better in that one with Shore, but since IPD is only g7 at this point (only got to 7* in Nov) I think gearing up Sion and some others is the bigger priority.

And, yeah, pilots are always good, but I take 1st in Fleet Arena every day that I have time to fight, and I'm not sure he'd cause me to fall less overnight (I usually fall either to 3-4 or to 7-9 or to 11-13, depending on luck). So even as a pilot, Shore doesn't get that priority boost...

That's the thing: even when a toon is dead useful if there are 3-5 other toons more important, you can't spare the gear. And there always seems to be 3-5 toons more important than Shore. He's always close, but never quite hits top priority. ("Always the bride's maid, never the bride" comes to mind.)

Meanwhile, have you tried RangeT? If you thought your Troopers were deadly before, the offense boost from constant assists is terrifying - not to mention the counterattacks. You can't heal (so you can't stop the damn Plague from the NS squads), but constantly refreshing that +30% protection works just as well on most squads.

RangeT was a big part of winning my first Grand Arena by preventing protection loss then countering them to death.

@MasterSeedy @Kisakee

That's exactly what I'm building towards! 30/100 so far on Range. Shore is 6*, Starck is 5*. Surprisingly they decimated in GA, better than my G12 multi-Zeta arena team...

@Vendi1983 @Kisakee

My RangeT is 91/100, so I couldn't use it in the Thrawn Mythic this weekend, but I'll be trying it next time. Even at g9, though, he makes the ITs thrashin'.

@Vendi1983

I'm guessing you have the Veers zeta, but most folks I know with Zeers already have 7* Starck so I didn't want to assume. Also I can't see your 5th IT up top - who was it? My squad was Zeers, Starck, DT, Snow, Range. I thought about leaving Starck out and going for more offense, but Starck is the quickest IT and if you use Starck's buff it gives everyone else TM and you don't need to have speed on everyone for your whole squad to go first. That ended up being a good decision. I couldn't quite finish my first enemy before the other squad went, but when they started firing the counter-attacks killed them and gave me TM before they could burn through the +30% bonus protection.