Adaptive F2P Guide

"Koresh;942353" wrote:
The Sith event has hurt people following this guide for a number of reasons, first of all - Nihilus is free. Secondly, all sith are easy to get to gear and are usually one gear level above agility based attackers. Third, under nihilus sith are extremely tanky with all that extra health from protection. Once people who are following this guide get wedge, it gets easier to burst them down, but until then it becomes a real block for people who started around late january or so.

That being said, sith are extremely vulnerable to heal block. I had lots of sucess using IG-88 against them at first, but then people figured that out and now all sith I face are using tenacity cross mods (probably because of Sid heal block on basic). Another thing I tried before was using maul to daze dooku and burst him at first, but this had too much RNG involved and a 50/50 success rate or so.

On my shard, avoiding them is not an option since everyone at ranks 1 through 10 is using a sith group with nihilus, vader and dooku.

So what I'm doing is, if you can't beat them, join them. I just leveled and threw gear into my vader, dooku, maul and nihilus and using bobba with them (though you could use assassin or trooper) - in the meantime I keep working on my rebels. I got dooku from starter pack way back (the only purchase I believe is worthwhile) and maul from fleet and guild for his ship, so they are still at their starting star values. This has allowed me to climb back to top 5 consistently. Without this I was struggling to keep top 10, after being number 1 or 2 for the entire month. Battles are terribly boring and long, but the attacker usually wins since the AI makes bad strategic choices on who to execute with Nihilus.

Remember you are at this for the long run. I will have an emperor palpatine in 10 days while looking at the rosters of other sith users in the top 20 in my shard I don't see any with 5 rebels at 5*s (so they can at least unlock palpatine).

And besides vader and maul, siths don't fly ships...

I'm running into the same challenge atm. I'm lvl 61 and have Nihilus and Dooku at lvl1. I'm afraid it wil take too long to catch up with the whales to be competative with a dark team. I only play F2P, so my resource management is limited. My focus is on Wedge, but his shards don't show that often in the shpiments.

My luck is that I have Rex from day one, so his Tenacity Up abbility helps a lot against the debuffs, although Nihilus removes buffs with his basic.

And I was thinking about boosting RG, so I can use his 'stun' on Dooku/Nihilus... but it's kind of a detour from my schedule... and his shards take long to farm.

Any other Ideas?