Alternative Ships 2.0 fleet

"NicWester;c-1596099" wrote:

"TVF;c-1596008" wrote:
But...Endurance...

As much as I think Endurance needs a rework on his abilities to compensate for the 3-ship starting lineup, I still think there's a team out there that works for him. It's just that I think that team mainly consists of big, beefy bodies and lots of taunts and you put them out on defense and just hold for 5 minutes. I don't know if Endurance can win reliably, but I feel like with the right team you can hold like crazy.

Fingers crossed they change him up a bit, though.

I'm running Endurance and winning reliably with my current composition. I think it would work with any cap ship, but Endurance is a large part of my strategy.

Taunt turn 1 onto 5s keeps Poe and Silencer protected for a few turns. Being the slowest ship means I get my reinforcement immediately following Chimaera (usually right after the other 2 as well, but sometimes ships take a turn in between) so I get to neutralize Boba and Scimitar's buffs instantly with Ahsoka and Cassian (in that order usually too).

Then I get to get ahead of the other cap ship after I AoE on Mace's 3rd turn. Turn 4 I reinforce again, and then I am taunting turn 5. Turn 6 reinforce Turn 7 AoE. I'll only ever use his basic if the rotation calls for a taunt and I think I can get a killing blow in. I'm pretty happy with him though. I almost never see his ultimate proc off and I'm okay with that. It's rather weaksauce anyway now.

"NicWester;c-1596099" wrote:

"Woodroward;c-1596062" wrote:
i was still in 7th place today an hour before arena time with no matches run since payout yesterday.

I'd say that's pretty decent defense though, like I said, my shard isn't as active as some on here.

My Geonosians are only g10 (Soldier and Sun Fac are each one piece away from 11) but I notice that I hold ground a lot better than I did before making the switch. I'm running Home One, and I know that makes me a target, but I'm still climbing ranks every day and haven't had any trouble on offense.

Not sure how my leaderboard compares to others in terms of activity, but I used to drop 100 spaces and climb 120 or so, hovering around 200. Now I'm waking up still below 100 and the only limitation on how far down I can get is the amount of free time I have for fights.

Fell to 25 when I looked at it 1st thing this morning. Didn't wait to see how much further I'd fall, just got back into the top 10 in 3 fights quick and sat there the rest of the day. So yesterday was a fluke obviously. If I start ending up in the 30s or 40s I'll say something about it, but otherwise I think the defense isn't bad. I could have fallen much farther (picture Jedi in Zader arena days).

A bit late onto this one but great to see this discussion with Endurance. My shard is only 8 months old. I am the only one in the top 50 of my shard running a Mace Capital ship and I think its both an advantage and sometimes a curse. An advantage because it works well against that "I Win!" button and a curse because yeah everyone targets you. My strategy is to get to Mace's ultimate protection buff before the "i win" button goes off. This works 75% of the time but I will lose to a heavy offense line up if Ghost or Vader is taken down in the first wave.

However my line up: Biggs, Vader & Ghost with Phantom 1st to come out (maxed reinforce ability), Bobba & TFP has worked very well and I got to rank 1 and rank 2 in the last few days. I believe this is because I have an alternative to the Tarkin line up which is 80% of the top 50 in my shard. I do fall to 20 most days however, occasionally I sit at 14 or 16, so its not amazing on defense. Again could be I'm just getting targeted.

I've really learned a lot from reading this and think I'll be able to fine tune it some down the track. I was already going after 5's to potentially replace Bobba (his reinforcement ability is so nice) I just can't see myself using it in the starting line up but happy to be persuaded. I've also been looking for a viable starter change up from ghost either benching Ghost or putting her in the reinforcement line up. From this I'm seeing loads of potential tweaks by adding - FOTP, Silencer or Poe in that starting position with Biggs and Vader.

I've invested a lot into my starting team and am now able to start building other ship line ups. Any thoughts or advice on what to tweak first.