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harvestmouse1 is wise, you should listen to him or her.  There is a learning curve with Padmé's Journey Quest.  You tell me, if it were an easy quest to complete... would you become a better player?  By completing the event, you will have proven you can work on something difficult, try it from multiple angles, and overcome it in the end.  That shows both patience and persistence.  Patience is a virtue, so is persistence.  It is a good practice to push yourself.  Let's look forward a bit.  If you are in the Grand Arena, I can tell you that getting out of Carbonite is... difficult to say the least.  Some people you face will have vastly more GPU.  Some will have more Relic-ed units or higher Relic-ed units... probably both.  Some will have Galactic Legends.  Is your present fight not a good proving ground for later fights?  If you learn different strategies for overcoming hard things, then you will defeat much harder things later.  And, at that point?  You will look back and remember all the wonderful people who gave you advice.  Just kidding... 😁.  You will look back and be glad that you did the hard thing rather than avoided it.  That is about all I have.  I speak to much... harvestmouse1 is way more encouraging than I will ever be... 🤣.  I still have much to learn.  Good luck in your fight!  I wish you well in it!

P.S.  Go for the Geonosian team... it will be easier to complete Padmé's Quest.  I wish I had done that my first time through.  They are, as you stated, somewhat hard to get, but they are very good at fighting together... making them useful later in the game.  

- GodIsOnTheMove 

JLBTheAmazing wrote:

I’m too deep into this team to scrap it.

You're talking in absolutes....you know about that right? It's very Darth Darthy.  You  need to be a bit more "Let go JLBTheAmazing, use the force-ish".  Padme is a stepping stone on your journey.  Look around!!!  Look at the other stepping stones, the near ones!!!  You will need droids for GAS.  You will need Geos for Wat!  You need Wat for JMK, you need GAS for LV....stepping stones (breath in deeply and exhale....'pphhhhwooooohhhh'.

Think about the bigger picture and modal verbs like 'could', 'might', 'would' and 'should' and you'll reach jedi-hood in a much better state.

She is about as hard as BB-8

Hi!  I have two main things I am going to say... one being background information and one being strategy information.  First of all, Padmé did not used to be in the first Tier of Journey Quests... she used to be in the second Tier.  I assume that EA changed the Tiers to make space for more characters/ declutter the Journey Quests.  So, yes, she is going to be the hardest in Tier 1.  Secondly, it took my having Jango Fett and General Grievous on Relic 2 to best it.  However, that was before I learned what Mods are.  prettyfly4quiguy spoke accurately, you need to Mod your characters better... if you are new to modding, you can change it off of Advanced settings to Beginner settings.  That will help you since it will give recommendations tailored to each character.  (You can turn it back to Advanced after putting on Beginner.)  Also, having gotten about half of the Journey Quests... you will begin to realize that the recommended power is almost always wrong.  Sometimes, you can easily win while being well under the recommend power... other times you are way over the recommend power and still lose.  Badly.  That's about all I have... so, really, just listen to the other players who gave recommendations and, Lord willing, you will do well.  Good luck with the Quest!

- GodIsOnTheMove 

My original plan was to get a geo team, but getting shards for them is what’s difficult.  I checked and it would take too much time to commit, I couldn’t even get shards for one of them. I’m too deep into this team to scrap it.

harvestmouse1 wrote:

As Flyaprettyquiguy already said

Who? lol

JLBTheAmazing wrote:

Why is Padme the hardest character of all time to get.

As Flyaprettyquiguy already said you're in for a rude awakening.  Some of these journeys are absolutely horrid.  You'll be learning coping strategies now (e.g. re-modding, better modding, youtubing) that'll help you in future events.

JLBTheAmazing wrote:

the recommended power is 13,200.

Recommended power is about as useful as shoe size at an arm wrestling convention.  Padme needs separatists and separatists are all about synergy.  Geos and Droids do not synergise well, on the whole.  The non-geos and droids aren't very useful in PvE teams.

JLBTheAmazing wrote:

I’ve gotten commander Luke

One of the easiest journeys, this one is very very old.  We've moved on a lot since then.

JLBTheAmazing wrote:

and Chewie

Chewie is very comparable to Padme.  In fact back in the day it was probably harder.  BH have moved on a lot since then though, and there are much better choices than we had at the time.

JLBTheAmazing wrote:

All my Seperatists are Gear XII, Lvl 85, 6 stars, abilities are lvl 6 or higher.

Well, unless it's a Geo team, I wouldn't expect you to be able to do it with this.  However, I'm not an expert on what would do it.

prettyfly4quiguy wrote:

look up some guides on YouTube, you'll get through it.

JLBTheAmazing wrote:

Just tried that. Absolutely no help. 

So, in 1 hour you decided YouTube was no help?  You need a little more patience.  And your team really isn't up to the task.  You'll need a Geo or/and a droid team anyway.  Work on getting one of them to 7 star/Gear 13 and it'll be a cake-walk.  You can do it, you just need to invest a little more in the right things.  Also, the Geo and Droid teams probably add as much to your roster as Padme.  She's good, but not fantastic.

You really need to work on your mods
https://swgoh.gg/p/299447463/characters/?cat=affiliation_separatist

I suggest reading one of Master Seedy's well written posts: to learn more about modding. 
Modding: Quality, Farming Efficiency & the Cull | EA Forums - 13162736

Also look for The Playbook on YouTube

EDIT: You can also look on SWGOH.gg for modding suggestions for each toon
https://swgoh.gg/units/asajj-ventress/best-mods/

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