Advice for a returning player

For Padme/GR Squad you need the following...... Padme, Gen.Kenobi, JK.Anakin, Ahsoka all for sure,
+ 5th variable GR

Barris is probably one of the best GR/Jedi to add to the team as she isn't needed elsewhere
Yoda works but is better eventually on the Revan Team.
C3PO also works but eventually gets used more often with.
Shaak Ti can fill in there once you get GAS.
Some like CW-Chewie even for the extra Taunt
I've seen people dump a clone in there when they didn't have the full clones team.
Even Mace could work as a filler till you get one of the better ones at the top of the list.

Myself I'm temporarily using QuiGon there since he was G11 & I didn't even have Barris open when I got
Padme. Eventually I'll replace him with her.

Also, since you have Yoda and some other Jedi, start farming Bastila Shan from her nodes w/ Gold & Blue energy.

At even 2* her leadership & buffs combined w/ yoda make a Jedi team quite nasty.
With double shards now you could have her to 7* in 3-4 months

You should do 5x attempts per day at Bastila Shan and Bastila Shan Fallen starting right now.

The Geos have sources other than regular energy, but also it's not very crystal-efficient to farm only one or two things and pay for crystal refreshes so you can spend all your daily energy.

What you need to do is come up with a plan for which toons you're getting from which places. 1 plan for regular energy, 1 plan for fleet energy, etc. Knowing you want Geos first is great, but you'll have to create 2nd & 3rd priorities because sometimes a particular source of shards doesn't grant your first-priority toons. In fact, there's literally ZERO geonosians in regular energy battles or fleet battles.

So you set up something like this:
Cantina Energy:
1. Brood Alpha => 6*
2. Geo Spy => 6*
3. Brood Alpha => 7*
4. Geo Spy => 7*
5. Geo Soldier => 7* (we're hoping the events will finish this toon for you before you need to spend Cantina Energy on it)
6. Kylo Ren Unmasked + TIE Silencer (Same node, 3-F)

Since there is no node refresh cost, you just put all of your energy into one thing until it's done, then move on to the next one.



Regular Energy Priority List:

1. Bastila Shan (5x day = 80 energy / day)
2. Bastila Shan - Fallen (5/day = 100 energy)
3. Vulture droid (5/day = 60 energy)
4. Hyena Bomber (5/day = 100 energy)
5. Jango Fett + Hound's Tooth (5/day = 100 energy)
6. Bossk (5/day = 100 energy)
7. Sabine Wren (5/day = 60 energy)
8. Jolee (5/day = 100 energy)
9. General Veers (5/day = 60 energy)

You get 375 free energy per day, so just work down the list as far as you can each day. It's good to spend crystals on regular energy (in fact, that's the single most resource-efficient way to spend your crystals, just getting extra regular energy).

If you spend 50 crystals/day (you'll have this easily) you get 495 energy/day.
If you spend 100 crystals/day (you might very well have this, even without doing well in Arena) you'll get 615 energy/day.

So ... just go down the list. Bastila + Bastila + Vulture + Hyena = 340 energy per day. You'll be doing those nodes even on days where you don't buy energy.

After that, Jango x2 takes you to 380 for the day (if you don't buy energy.

Jango x5 + Bossk x 3 takes you to 500.

Jango x5 + Bossk x 5 + Sabine x 5 = 600. 1x Jolee will get you to 620.

So just go down the list and do as much each day as you have energy, based on whether you picked up all your free energy and how many crystals you spent. As you complete one item on the list, just add the next item down.

NOTE: I'm recommending the first 8 on this list pretty strongly, but Veers is a toon you could swap out for a different priority.


Fleet Energy Priority List:
2. Anakin's ETA Fighter (5/day = 80 energy)
3. Jolee Bindo (5/day = 100 energy)
4. The Mandalorian (5/day = 100 energy)
5. Shaak Ti (5/day = 100 energy)
6. Greef Karga + Rebel Y-Wing (5/day = 100 energy)
7. Zaalbar (5/day = 100 energy)
8. Darth Onasi (5/day = 100 energy)
9. Sun Fac's Starfighter (5/day = 100 energy)
10. Young Lando + Lando's Falcon (5/day = 80 energy)
11. Slave 1 (5/day = 100 energy)
12. Bastila Shan (5/day = 100 energy)

Now, you'll note that this list is very long. The problem you're going to face is that you can't beat most of the Fleet Battle missions. So you'll want to beat the early missions (Anakin's ETA, Sun Fac, Young Lando, Slave 1) as quickly as possible. It should be doable even with pretty bad ships. Those Tier 1 & Tier 2 missions aren't very hard. Once you get enough nodes open, you just spend until you're out of energy each day using the nodes you have at 3*. You get 285 free fleet energy every day, so Anakin (80) + Sun Fac (100) + Slave 1 (100) would be great.

You're working this list exactly like your Regular Energy list except you have to make allowances for priorities that are stuck behind nodes you can't beat yet. As your fleet gets better, if a new priority node comes available, move to that node right away instead of finishing the lower priority that you had been working on temporarily.

For instance, Zaalbar is a higher priority than Slave 1, so if you do Slave 1 for a while, then finish Slave 1, go to Bastila Shan. But if you're working on Slave 1 or Bastila and you get to the point where you can complete Zaalbar's node at 3*, immediately switch to farming that node. Bastila still has her regular energy node and Slave 1 has other sources, though those sources are mostly Fleet Arena Store, which we don't want to rely on too heavily (since the quicker we get done with toons & ships there, the quicker you can buy zetas there).

Now this is only an energy plan. You'll also need a plan for what you're spending in the stores. That's separate.

A couple small suggestions that are different from what Master Seedy said.

1. In regards to the Geo's before Kylo. Padme Event 7* is quite a bit harder than 5* or 6* and will require more gear. If you find your not at least G10 on all toons w/ G11 on Spy & Brood Alpha at 6*, then maybe move Kylo up while you get more gear on them all before farming to 7*. It will help fleet out & won't really slow down Padme since your going to be paused gearing them at that point.

2. On the Veers node, when you get to it, don't do the 12 Energy one. Go to L6 & do the 16 Energy, you get better gear & a Ship Shard there as well. Worth the 4 energy.

3. I'd move Bastila up in Fleet to the top if you can see her at Fleet-2. Jolee is a lot harder to access & getting Bastila up w/ double farming will just improve that Jedi team sooner.

4. As noted, you should be working Bastila w/ Gold energy while the Bugs use Red Energy or Fleet Coins for Sun Fac, so be doing both at the same time.

Separately, Jedinight1 is correct about the need for Thrawn. That means you'll need your Phoenix squad.

This leads to the need for a plan for all of the stores. We made a plan for spending energy, but spending your other resources has to be considered as well. This plan will cover everything except mods. Mods are a whole thing unto themselves, and people can write books about mod strategy. I'll let someone else talk to you about mods.

Shipments:
Generally you buy all 4 of those pieces of basic, low-level equipment available for cash. You do that every single time the store refreshes (which is 4x per day) for a total of 24 purchases. Purchase them even if you don't think you need them because they can always be scrapped and converted into relic materials in the late stages of the game. Having a large store of otherwise useless gear available to be scrapped is going to be very useful to you later.

There are also useful bits of more important gear (and rare gear) available here for crystals. I recommend that you never buy gear for crystals unless it is:

• Mk3 Holo Projectors (300 crystals per completed piece, which contains 20 salvage)
  
• Mk8 BioTech Impant Prototypes (AKA "gold eyeball thingies"). You can get 50 salvage for 750 crystals, the same price per salvage as Mk3 Holos. Make sure you don't confuse these with Mk8 BioTech Implant Salvage (which you'll get from daily challenges).
  
• Mk5 Stun Gun Salvage (1300 crystals per 50 salvage, so not quite double the price as the others, but so rare compared to how often they are needed that sometimes you'll just get desperate and buy them)
  
• Kyrotech salvage (both the shock prods and the computers, they sell for 1400 crystals for 50 salvage). I wouldn't buy any of these for a long time, but the highest-end characters require so many of them that you'll have trouble keeping up when you unlock Padmé or a Galactica Legend that eventually, maybe a year from now, you might start buying these (sparingly!)
  

Weekly Shipments.
Buy the Characters Shards for 1M credits per 10-shard lot. There are two of them each week.
I wouldn't buy anything else unless it's the same 5 gear types mentioned under regular shipments, and only for the same reasons and under the same conditions.

Cantina Battles:
Buy the following characters in the following order, one at a time until you reach the goal specified, then move to the next one. If there is no goal specified, the goal is to complete the character at 7 stars.

1. Chopper
2. Hoth Rebel Scout
3. Old daka
4. Poe dameron => 6*
5. Cassian's U-Wing
6. Pao => 6*
7. Stormtrooper =>5*
8. Jawa Scavenger => 6*
9. Qui-Gon Jinn => 6*

When you're done with all these, you can go back and buy Cassian's U-Wing blueprints. You can exchange them in the Shard Shop for tokens that can purchase needed gear, and the ships are worth more Shard Shop Currency than character shards.

All the toons that you take to 5* or 6* can sit there. Almost all of them will slowly add shards over time from events and other free sources. This list isn't meant to prohibit you from going back to bring these toons up to 7* later. The idea is that you want to minimize your spending on things that you're going to get for free while still bringing as many toons as possible up high enough that if you someday realize that you really need them (usually because your guild sets a new priority, but it could also be because of a character rework or meta-change) it won't take you forever to get them the rest of the way to 7*. This is about trying to be as prepared as possible without wasting resources. Someday you want all these toons at 7*, but it would be nice if you can get them there with as little effort as possible.

Guild Store:
This store is complicated. It offers incredibly valuable gear, but it also rotates the characters available so even if you have enough currency, you can't always buy what you need. In the early stages of the game it is far better to buy as many shards as possible and get your characters up to 7* now while buying as little gear as possible. If you take my advice, you'd buy no gear here for at least the next 6 months. Some people have a hard time with that though. Gear is so important and it's right there. It's so tempting. So if you're going to buy gear, set only 2 toons (usually ones that need very different gear - like an attacker and a tank or healer) and don't buy any gear for ANY toons other than your two highest-priority toons. And even for those toons, don't buy any gear here unless you've already got 4 pieces of gear towards the next gear tier and those last 1 or 2 pieces are holding you back. All the rest of your Guild Tokens should go to the following characters, in order, just like with Cantina Battles Tokens:

1. Sun Fac
2. Old Ben
3. Logray and Paploo (Just work on both at the same time)
4. Snowtrooper => 5*
5. Dengar
6. Finn => 6*
7. Resistance Trooper => 6*
8. Rex => 6*
9. Echo => 6*
10. Clone Sergeant => 6*
11. Commander Cody => 5*
12. FO Special Forces Pilot => 6*
13. FO Special Forces TIE Fighter
14. Colonel Starck
15. NS Acolyte => 6*
16. Darth Maul => 6*
17. Jyn
18. Sith Assassin = 5*
19. Barriss Offee
20. Aayla Secura => 6*
21. Ima-Gun Di => 6*
22. Kit Fisto => 6*
23. Young Han Solo => 6*
24. Tusken Shaman => 6*

This is a list in the abstract. I'm trying to put them in the order they will be most useful to you, but you can (and should!) adjust this list as you need. For instance, Jyn's most important use is early in the game when still playing Hoth Territory Battles and there are required Rogue 1 missions. She's low in priority because she doesn't have many uses, but if your guild is trying to get better at Hoth TB, one of the first things you should do is use Guild Tokens to finish Jyn. She's not a lot of help to you at the end game, but she can help early, so if you want to complete her at all, completing her early might make sense. In that case, you might want to jump her ahead of Dengar, at least, and maybe even higher on the list.

As for balancing gear and characters, once you have finished Colonel Starck, you can begin to buy more gear here, although you should continue to buy character shards until you've finished all the toons on the list.

Also, remember that a lot of toons that you take to 5* or 6* you'll want to finish at some point, just not right away. If you're working on a character lower on the list when you realize that it's time for your strategy to finish your clones, stop and finish your clones before continuing down the list. And, as always, don't for get that if there's not a goal like 5* or 6* listed, the goal is to complete the toon or ship with 7 stars.

Squad Arena Store:

Same rules as above. Let's do this:

1. Kanan Jarrus
2. Assaj Ventress
3. Greedo
4. Cassian
5. Savage Opress

How well you've done collecting Squad Arena store toons shows me how little you've prioritized toons in the Guild Store. You've been buying way to much gear there for this early in the game. That makes me think you're going to have a hard time staying disciplined until after you have Colonel Starck, but I promise it will help.

Next up, Galactic War Store - but that's for another comment.

Completely seconding Intimmydation's advice.

That is, in part, what I was trying to help with above. Have a plan far enough out into the future so it's useful, but not so far out and so rigid that you can't adapt to new toon releases or new game modes or your guild's priorities & such. It's a fine line between being organized enough to get what you need efficiently and being so rigid you can't recognize a new opportunity. So listen to Intimmydation!

"MasterSeedy;c-2222108" wrote:
Completely seconding Intimmydation's advice.

That is, in part, what I was trying to help with above. Have a plan far enough out into the future so it's useful, but not so far out and so rigid that you can't adapt to new toon releases or new game modes or your guild's priorities & such. It's a fine line between being organized enough to get what you need efficiently and being so rigid you can't recognize a new opportunity. So listen to Intimmydation!

And therefore listen to Master Seedy. Honestly, if I give someone advice, this is my inspiration.

"Zumwan;c-2222192" wrote:
Thank you so much for such a thorough plan, I can see you put a lot of time into providing the best recommendations possible. I am a little bit curious about what the plan would look like for the remaining stores (galactic war, fleet, championship) but I can definitely work with everything you've suggested so far.
I'll keep this lists close at hand so I can keep referring to them in the coming months / years / lifetimes ?
Also I understand that the purpose of the game is just having fun and getting fun characters, so I'll definitely be flexible with my plans.

I'd say GW Store will start will Zeb to last you ~10 days. So, bye then, Master Seedy will have enough time to make a store guide for those you asked. Trust me, it takes time. Currently, as I have only just seen your .gg, I will need A LOT of time for fleet store guide, as fleet store is very vast and complicated. So, that's the info I can give for now.

"MasterSeedy;c-2221805" wrote:
Separately, Jedinight1 is correct about the need for Thrawn. That means you'll need your Phoenix squad.

Shipments:
Generally you buy all 4 of those pieces of basic, low-level equipment available for cash. You do that every single time the store refreshes (which is 4x per day) for a total of 24 16 purchases. Purchase them even if you don't think you need them because they can always be scrapped and converted into relic materials in the late stages of the game. Having a large store of otherwise useless gear available to be scrapped is going to be very useful to you later.

Fixed your math & I 2nd this, just before relics came out I had stopped purchasing half of these since they seemed useless, then they announced the scavenger & I was like, DOH.

There are also useful bits of more important gear (and rare gear) available here for crystals. I recommend that you never buy gear for crystals unless it is:

• Mk3 Holo Projectors (300 crystals per completed piece, which contains 20 salvage)
  
• Mk8 BioTech Impant Prototypes (AKA "gold eyeball thingies"). You can get 50 salvage for 750 crystals, the same price per salvage as Mk3 Holos. Make sure you don't confuse these with Mk8 BioTech Implant Salvage (which you'll get from daily challenges).
  
• Mk5 Stun Gun Salvage (1300 crystals per 50 salvage, so not quite double the price as the others, but so rare compared to how often they are needed that sometimes you'll just get desperate and buy them)
  
• Kyrotech salvage (both the shock prods and the computers, they sell for 1400 crystals for 50 salvage). I wouldn't buy any of these for a long time, but the highest-end characters require so many of them that you'll have trouble keeping up when you unlock Padmé or a Galactica Legend that eventually, maybe a year from now, you might start buying these (sparingly!)
  

1. I'm not a fan of buying gear w/ crystals, but this is a solid list for the few times you do.
2. MIND BLOWN, 22 months in the game & I had never caught onto the gold/black eyeballs being that cheep Great option here for when you have lots of Gold/White parts but out of Gold/Black parts. Especially when your doing G12's that only require the Gold/Black half. AND, unlike the other 3 listed or any other item in there, this is actually about the same price/return that you'd get from the first 3 Gold Energy refreshes at 50 crystals a piece each day. THANKS!! I can't believe I missed this all this time...DOH
3. Which leads to not paying for gear if your not doing all 3 Gold Refreshes every day of the week. And Stun Guns should be a priority with that gold energy as well as Kyros since their crystal price is pretty bad.
4. The other piece I'd add to this list is the Mk5 Fully Crafted Droid Callers. I found those to be a solid buy for the price of 1400 & the rarity of them dropping in PIT raids.

Weekly Shipments.
Buy the Characters Shards for 1M credits per 10-shard lot. There are two of them each week.
I wouldn't buy anything else unless it's the same 5 gear types mentioned under regular shipments, and only for the same reasons and under the same conditions.

Back when I had a credits crunch I never purchased the characters, now I wish I had, free shards for gear is worth it once you realize how big the gear crunch is.

Cantina Battles:
Buy the following characters in the following order, one at a time until you reach the goal specified, then move to the next one. If there is no goal specified, the goal is to complete the character at 7 stars.

1. Chopper
3. Old daka
2. Hoth Rebel Scout (5* should be enough to get Rolo Shards, let the rest come via Bronziums)
7. Stormtrooper =>5*
5. Cassian's U-Wing

I tweaked the order a bit myself & honestly, the other characters are purely optional IMO & your better off switching to gear conversion at an earlier rate & going back for them as you finally get to them.

Guild Store:
If you take my advice, you'd buy no gear here for at least the next 6 months. Some people have a hard time with that though. Gear is so important and it's right there. It's so tempting. So if you're going to buy gear, set only 2 toons (usually ones that need very different gear - like an attacker and a tank or healer) ........

17. Jyn
14. Colonel Starck (5* minimum early)
5. Dengar
3. Logray
23. Young Han Solo => 6*
12. FO Special Forces Pilot => 6*
13. FO Special Forces TIE Fighter

Also, remember that a lot of toons that you take to 5* or 6* you'll want to finish at some point, just not right away. If you're working on a character lower on the list when you realize that it's time for your strategy to finish your clones, stop and finish your clones before continuing down the list. And, as always, don't for get that if there's not a goal like 5* or 6* listed, the goal is to complete the toon or ship with 7 stars.

Okay, here I differ a bit.
1. I would say to ALWAYS buy gear over Toons on the list. The few I've left are the only ones you should buy here as they are the only ones that DON'T have any other source of shards. So never buy the rest of the list here, you can get it elsewhere.
2. That said, I FULLY agree with the statement about prioritize who your gearing & ONLY be gearing a couple people at once. Personally I think focusing on 1 team at a time for Shards & a max of 3 characters at a time for gear. Why 3? Because I need at least 1 source of my LS, DS, & Fleet energy based on what is going towards guild tokens for the daily guild events bonuses. If I can farm all 3 pieces on a single person...... say M3 Carbanti (Light), M5 Stungun (Dark), M4 Bacta Gel (Fleet) for 1 toon then 1 toon is all I'm farming for. But often its more like a G12 Piece for Fleet, a Kryo for Light, a Stungun for Dark for 3 different toons on the same team.
3. I also agree that you want to focus your purchases on "Finishing" a piece. For instance I won't bother starting a Droid Caller or Security Scanner till the PIT raid drops a stack of 25 in my lap, then I'll start buying the 2nd batch of 25. That way I'm not randomly buying a Furnace, Caller, & Scanner all at the same time & taking forever to complete any single 1 of them.
4. I tweaked the list order based on the ease of the event I guess in

Squad Arena Store:

Same rules as above. Let's do this:

1. Kanan Jarrus
4. Cassian
2. Assaj Ventress

Savage isn't used for anything anymore is he?
And Greedo can't be used for Falcon so I would suggest IG-88 for BH team for double use.
If your doing LS Hoth you might do Cassian before Asajj, otherwise if you are able to farm NS then keep Assaj ahead.


As usual I agree with most of what Master Seedy is suggesting, always good advice, just tossed in a few tweaks that I'd make based on my own experiences over the last 22 months & stuff I learned.

And Greedo can't be used for Falcon so I would suggest IG-88 for BH team for double use.

I had checked their roster already: they've got a 7* IG-88. You could conceivably skip Greedo entirely, but Greedo is easy to get & IG-88 is too squishy for the Chewbacca event, so that's why I suggested him where I did. (I mean, Greedo is squishy too, but not as bad as IG-88 who just disintegrates in that event.)

If your doing LS Hoth you might do Cassian before Asajj, otherwise if you are able to farm NS then keep Assaj ahead.

Yeah, without more details, I'm making some assumptions, one of which was exactly that one: that they're in a guild doing LS Hoth TB for at least another few months.

If I'm wrong, though, Zumwan? Schwartzring is correct. Cassian is only a higher priority if you're currently working LS Hoth TB.

Either way, though, Assaj should be taken to 7* soon.

Fixed your math

Oh, d'oh!

Thanks, Schwartzring.