Advice for a returning player

Savage isn't used for anything anymore is he?

Meh. I use him with Traya as a Geo counter because against high-gear GeoSpy you need toons with high-defense & high-health.

You can store your low-speed, high-def/health mods on him and still get some use out of him. I'm not saying he's important, but I do use him pretty much every TW & and on most GACs as well.

So...

Galactic War Store Plan, Part 1:

1. ON HOLD: Zeb => 7*
2. Geo Ships (Geo Spy Starfighter, Geo Soldier Starfighter, and Sun Fac Geonosian Starfighter) ==>do all 3 at the same time, whatever is available, until they're all 7* or until your Phoenix squad is ready for you to bounce back up to #1 and finish Zeb.
3. Clone Sergeant ARC-170, Imperial TIE Fighter, Resistance X-Wing ==> do all 3 at the same time, whichever pops up
4. Save up about 3k GW Tokens (just 2.5 days worth). This should be pretty easy since the 3 ships above are rare, meaning some days you won't be able to buy any of those ships at all.

GW Store Plan, Part 2:

• Do not buy any of the following unless either
  
• a) You have all the ships from #3 done OR
  
• b) Your current stash of GW tokens is enough that you won't drop below 2k because of this purchase:
  

5. Zeb
6. Cad Bane
7. K2-SO (assuming you're still doing LS Hoth TB)
8. Ahsoka Tano's Starfighter
9. Plo Koon's Starfighter
10. Biggs's X-Wing
11. Umbaran Starfighter
12. FO TIE Fighter
13. Magmatrooper
14. NS Initiate (But do not gear past g7 => a low-gear NSI is very useful in the Sith Raid)
15. Phasma
16. K2-SO (If you didn't get him earlier)
17. Resistance Pilot => 5*
18. Tusken Raider => 5*
19. Bodhi Rook => 5*

The strategy with Zeb is to wait until you have at least 2 other Phoenix toons to 7* --AND-- you have Hera unlocked and at 5*, at least. Once you meet those requirements (even if Hera is one of your 2 phoenix toons at 7*, though I don't think she will be because of the Geos monopolizing your Cantina energy right now), then Zeb comes off hold and is your highest priority GW purchase. Otherwise, you'll finish Zeb on schedule at the 4th priority slot.

Now the rationale for the strategy with Zeb is that he's very, very quick to get to 7* compared to other Phoenix toons. On top of that, there are other sources for Zeb shards, so a few will trickle in and this will save you GW purchases if you get those before you start working on Zeb in earnest. If you still have someone at 5* when you start Zeb, Zeb is going to finish first. One full GW per day means 3x purchases in the GW store. 3x purchases means 30 shards. Your Zeb is already unlocked, so you've got a minimum of 50 shards already. 330-50 = 280 shards max to go = 9 days or so to completion. You're not going to spend any time waiting for Zeb, so the question is what can you do with those purchases while your Phoenix squad is still so early in acquisition and gearing that would be better for you than stocking up on web early? And that is your Geo Ships.

The last 3 toons? You can leave them entirely off this list if you like. They're there because I have a bias towards getting toons starred up & leaving them at g1/level 1 just in case there's a rework or a new faction toon that makes a difference, something like that. But honestly GW farming is so quick that even if you left them at 0 shards, the 11 days required to farm a GW toon from scratch is less than what it will take to get the gear for the toon, so while my preferred approach might be better justified for long farms, like Hard Node farms, it really doesn't matter so much for these toons.

The ships are different, of course. They give you 4 blueprints instead of 10 shards, so it takes 2.5 times as long (almost a month) to get the ship EVEN IF the ship shows up every time you want it to. But since the ships, unlike the toons, pop up randomly and aren't always there when you need them, I still strongly recommend farming all the ships early. Especially the three rare ones, which can take 4-5 months to complete if you have bad luck.

Once you get done with all the farms you're intending to do, then Part 3 is easy:

GW Store Plan, Part 3:

Buy all ship blueprints of ships you've already completed ... forever

Those ship blueprints earn you very slightly more shard shop currency than if you bought character shards (456/day rather than 450/day), but the point is the same either way: to trade them for Shard Shop gear. If you mess up and buy a toon, it's not that big a deal, but do try to keep with the ship blueprints. Over long periods of time it does add up.

"Zumwan;c-2222657" wrote:


Guild store, what should I go for after Geos? I'm guessing geo ships, phoenix ships

Guild events, should I get character shards (imperial probe, hermit yoda)?

Championship store, I guess the only thing to buy here is gear for my current favorite team

Shard store, is it worth getting grievous to 7* or should I just get gear?

If you do end up preparing the full tiering list, I'll definitely look into it very closely too.

1. Guild Store? Or G-War store?
Guild Store should be Gear IMO & maybe 1 toon that your working on for an event. Like Dengar for Chewie or Jyn for LS Hoth.
In G-War the only 2 chars I feel are more important for than Ships for early game is Zeb & Cad for the events they qualify for. Then its onto ships & when its time for FO team Phasma, but your not "new".
The only thing I would say is you can ignore some of these chars entirely as they have almost 0 use.
I question why Tusken or Bodhi is listed but I guess it might be to help out w/ TB Platoons? Short of that they have no use in the game that I can think off right now.

Guild Events: SAVE SAVE SAVE.
The ONLY Gear in this store you should EVER buy IMO is Stun Guns.
Othewise just KEEP SAVING. The amount needed for Hoda, Malak, & GAS is BIG, and that is assuming you get Wampa from the Bounty Hunter event each month.
Seriously, there is almost zero reason to spend in this store & MANY reasons to keep saving & build up big amounts of the currency for when its time to open Malak/GAS or Hoda.
The only spending I would suggest is the rare purchase of a stun gun if your finishing one off for a character.
Any of the GET-2 new currency is also SAVE SAVE SAVE, buy nothing with that at all, just save till you can open one of the 2 cap ships at 5*. Don't even start buying it now, save till you have enough for all 5* in case they drop a new ship or nerf something. SAVE SAVE SAVE
Have I mentioned SAVE SAVE SAVE?

Championship store = KRYOs & only KRYOs.
You don't get a ton of gold coins for this store from GAC, so just use them building up Kyros for all the G12 characters & also for the characters from 2019 that require Kyros from L8 to L12.

Shard Store = Do NOT buy GenGriev here.
Buy him from his rare spawn in location in Fleet Store.
He only spawns 12.5% of the time but you'll see him there rarely so pick it up then & by the time he hits 7* then maybe you'll be ready to work on Sep Droids.
He's a bit of a long term investment, don't pay the outrageous price in Shard Shop, just slow farm from Fleet.

So let's talk about the Fleet Arena Store.

Your mission here is to get all of the Fleet Store-exclusive characters & ships & then move on to collecting zetas, nothing but zetas, forever after.

That said, some people prefer to avoid certain characters and others (like me) are willing to use this store for certain things that aren't quite exclusive to the Fleet Store but are hard to get elsewhere. I'll create the list that I think is best, but I'll also put an asterisk next to toons & ships that are technically possible to get elsewhere...except Grievous and things that are available elsewhere only in the Guild Events Store, where the currency is just way too valuable to use for anything that can be purchased in this store. Even sacrificing some zeta mats is worth it to get the exclusive characters & gear from that store.

Fleet Arena Store:

1. General Grievous
2. * TIE Adv x1 (Vader's ship)
3. * Slave 1
4. Rex's ARC-170
5. * Phantom II
6. * Ghost
7. * Bistan's U-Wing
8. Chirrut Imwe
9. * Scimitar
10. * Gauntlet Starfighter
11. Fulcrum

And then, of course,
12. Zeta mats forever.

possible side quest?
13. Take a break from zeta mats for toons you haven't finished that you would otherwise have to buy in the Guild Store
14. Back to zeta mats forever.

The most common place something can be found other than the Fleet Arena Store (And Guild Events Store which you should NEVER use for any of these things) is Fleet Battles. But there are a large number of things you want there, and the hard-node limit of 5 attempts per day makes this a slow source for things as far down the priority list as, say, Bistan's U-Wing.

And yet, BU-W is actually a great ship, it's just that to make full use of it you need a number of other things to come together, and so it's not a huge priority early in the game. Phantom & Ghost are available in Regular Energy nodes, but, again, to get the most out of them, you want the Han's Falcon, which you can't get without all 4 Bounty Hunter ships... which is going to take a while. In the meantime, the Geo ships, which you can get easily in the GW Store, are going to tide you over as your arena squad while Slave 1 helps you get the Falcon and Slave 1 + TIE Adv x1 are both useful for some dark side events like boosting Tarkin's Executrix so you can get the zetas flowing in the Ability Mats fleet challenge.

So I fully recommend using the Fleet Store for everything listed here, but if you have the chance (and the energy) to fit in some farming of some of those other ships or toons that have an asterisk, go ahead and work on them some so you can reduce the amount of precious Fleet Tokens you spend on them.

Much more arguable is Plo Koon. I used fleet tokens for PK and I don't regret it at all - his ship is absolutely fantastic for starting players and Plo himself is super-easy to gear compared to other toons (in early game everyone seems hard, but trust me: the gear you need for Plo isn't stuff you'll regret spending on him). That said, he is available elsewhere fairly easily. It's just that when I needed him I was really busy with what were time-crunched farms for an event (I don't even remember which event). Could you spend Fleet Tokens on toons like PK or a couple others? Sure, maybe. There's even an argument to be made that the gear you get with Guild Tokens is more valuable than the zeta mats you get with Fleet Tokens, so buying your Clones here is better than buying them in the guild store.

I get that. And truthfully in the long run you'll catch up on zeta mats & begin to have a bunch of mats stored up in advance of when they're needed. When I unlocked SLKR he required 6 zetas, which is 120 zeta mats. I spent them all and had 250 left in the bank.

However, where you are in the game, you need all the zeta mats you can get. So I would recommend just doing what we've outlined above, and then if you catch up to your zeta needs and still haven't finished some farms from the Guild Store that are available here (like Clones, but not only Clones), then take a break from zeta mats for a little while to get specific characters, then back to zeta mats.

FINAL NOTE: Some of those things are rare. Grievous, the TIE Adv, Bistan's U-Wing, and Rex's ARC-170 all show up randomly and not that often. If you're farming one of these and you have Fleet Tokens start to pile up, keep 2,000 to 3,000 in the bank to make sure you have plenty in case you go on a lucky streak with appearances of your top priority and then spend anything more than that on the next item down your list. There's no sense saving up 15k tokens while you're working on Grievous when you could have used it to finish the TIE Adv already.

Actually, I'm thinking that I want to take your other suggestion first, while I'm done with my Phoenix shards. I'll put my next to zetas on Padme and gear her up a bit as well as JKA to have this decent Light-side squad. Once I have enough Sabine Shards for 7* Tarkin I should quickly 7* him, Magmatrooper, R2, and CLS.

Should I put my energy into Bastilla Shan after I upgrade my Genosians enough to unlock Padme?

Thank you very much for such a thorough plan! I'll definitely give it a go.
What I've been using my regular energy so far is for getting gear for my genosians. Is it better to spend it on shards for more characters following this plan? This way, none of my characters will be really strong.

Schwartzring is d definitely correct with point #2: I messed that one up. You should do the 16 energy node only.

Thanks, Schwartzring! I hate to steer someone wrong.

As for Bastila/fleet, well, I actually expect that with the OP's fleet that they're going to be farming Basti for at least a little while, but thinking of her as a higher priority is totally fair.

As for the OP's question:

I've been using my regular energy so far is for getting gear for my genosians. Is it better to spend it on shards for more characters following this plan?

Yes. Regular energy for shards, not gear. There will come a time when that priority switches, but it's a long time in the future.

Your most important source of gear is not regular energy, but Raids.

That leads me to another tip: You have to get yourself in a good guild. A good guild is 50% of your success in the game. There's a lot you can do on your own, but without a guild you'll never get the progress you should.

You need a guild that's playing and beating Heroic STR, not tier 6, Heroic.
You need a guild that is simming both HAAT and Heroic Rancor (do not worry about Rancor Challenge Tier right now).
You need a guild where the officers have a good ability to plan strategies and encourage players to get the most out of Territory Battles.
You need a guild that either wins 55%+ of it's Territory Wars **or** that makes it explicit that they're going for specific teams and goals in Territory Battles (it's hard to be good at both at the same time, so if you have a guild that picks one and works on it, it's fine if the other isn't quite as good).

And, finally, you need a guild that gets more than 25,000 raid tickets per day.

In exchange, you'll have to offer something, but there are a lot of guilds that will take a player who is motivated to get better and gets their 600 tickets/day. My guild is 290Mgp and we still have a couple players in the 3M gp range. Obviously 3M times 50 guild members means if they were average for their guild, they'd be in a guild with 150M to 175M gp - more than 100M gp less. But these are good, friendly folks who care about getting better and will work on the guild priority teams when the officers set certain goals as important. We love 'em and you can't make us get rid of 'em even if you're offering to take their spot with an 8M gp roster.

If you want advice on how to find a new guild, LMK & I'll try to help. I've written before about how to do that.

Thank you again, understood!
I think I have a pretty decent guild, with average GP a bit more than 2x my own (you can see it in my profile). There are a couple of inactive members but the guild does the raids at the levels you mention, maybe not as frequently as other guilds but not too bad, I think. What do you think, am I ok in this one or should I search for another one?

Finally, another question.
I'm pretty close to unlocking R2 and even CLS after him. Should I put some effort into my final 2 imperial characters (I already have the emperor, vader, and tarkin), maybe move them a little bit up in my priority list? Which should those 2 characters be? The only imperial on the tier list you propose is Veers, and he seems to have better synergies with troopers rather than my current imperial chars.