While I don't wanna call myself an idiot, I've never fully grasped what my approach to modding in this game should be.For my arena teams, I've always just thrown on whatever had the highest speed secondaries and the right primary (and if a mod with the wrong primary had a significant amount of speed attached, I made exceptions)I'm about to switch my arena team, which means I need to make new mod loadouts. This time, I made loadouts considering sets, and it slows the team down, but gives them better mod set bonus. (like han would have crit damage instead of health as his sets)for example my current arena team loadouts give (and keep in mind I haven't updated these in a while, so i could push them higher)+103, +101, +100, +83while this new set gives+86 ,+90 ,+84 ,+73(this one has a speed set, so theres a 10% bonus attached)should I keep these new mods, making the team slower but better at everything else? Or should I keep my OG train of thought and just go for speeeed?

Speed is still super important. Mod set bonuses used to not be as important but with the changes now they are. It may be worth running a mismatched set on an "engine" character like Vader or Sith Assasin or Nest or FOO to get them as fast as possible, but otherwise set bonuses with even a small speed secondary should be prioritized.On advice of Guildy, I finally went through all my mods. I hit the cap every week. A good game new years resolution.On all mods that didn't show speed, I Levelled purple to 3, blue to 6, green to 9. Locked every one with a speed secondary, large offense, crit or protection/health or some other crazy number. (Like a 9% tenacity or 8% potency, 2000 protection, 1000 health secondary). Saved all gold mods, even bad ones, for an emergency but did not level the bad ones. Sold everything else that wasn't already levelled to 15. It took forever and cost me a few mil but cleared out a few hundred mods.I found probably 30-40 speed secondaries. A couple of +15s and 8-10 +10s and lots of 5-8s. I have most of my top 12 teams at around a +50 average now. Even the g8 ones. Ive beaten people With far better rosters in GA because my trash teams have some speed and they are all sitting at near base speed. It's a chore but worth the time.

But why put in all that work when it's easier to just complain about matchmaking?

"VonZant;c-1735685" wrote:On advice of Guildy, I finally went through all my mods. I hit the cap every week. A good game new years resolution.On all mods that didn't show speed, I Levelled purple to 3, blue to 6, green to 9. Locked every one with a speed secondary, large offense, crit or protection/health or some other crazy number. (Like a 9% tenacity or 8% potency, 2000 protection, 1000 health secondary). Saved all gold mods, even bad ones, for an emergency but did not level the bad ones. Sold everything else that wasn't already levelled to 15. It took forever and cost me a few mil but cleared out a few hundred mods.I did the same recently. I ended up almost a million credits in the black from selling so many gray/unworthy mods, which was a nice unexpected windfall."VonZant;c-1735751" wrote:"TVF;c-1735737" wrote:But why put in all that work when it's easier to just complain about matchmaking? I always suspected but could not be sure that even my trash teams performed better than averge in TW because of mods but its harder to quantify. I've been blown away by the abysmal speed on some of my GA opponents' "good" squads, and conversely how many defensive victories I get with teams I don't consider all that fast. My 70k team of Ackbar, Princess Leia, ST Han, Wedge, and Royal Guard (lol), all around gear 9, took my current opponent three attempts to down. My 65k Phoenix have 2 wins and are still standing.Just goes to show you how few people actually read forums and watch videos to learn how to optimize their stuff, I guess.

Ideally proper sets with speed is best. I've always leaned towards proper sets and just keep farming those until I get decent speeds on those. And by proper sets I mean sets that best suits the toon with ideal primaries and of course as much speed as possible. It takes a lot of farming and I end up selling 10+ mods to every one I keep. In arena I'd much rather face toons with unmatched sets than ones with slightly slower matched sets.

And without knowing the base speed of the toons it's hard to tell the difference those numbers will make. +110 on GMY is different than on kanan for instance

Arena mods- proper sets versus better speed secondaries.

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DVZR
7 years ago
"TVF;c-1735737" wrote:
But why put in all that work when it's easier to just complain about matchmaking?

I know, right?

I always suspected but could not be sure that even my trash teams performed better than averge in TW because of mods but its harder to quantify. But with GA you know exactly what is being thrown at you and exactly what their stats are.

Its modding, plain and simple. Literally the most important part of the game.
Vaderizer
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
"VonZant;c-1735685" wrote:

On advice of Guildy, I finally went through all my mods. I hit the cap every week. A good game new years resolution.

On all mods that didn't show speed, I Levelled purple to 3, blue to 6, green to 9. Locked every one with a speed secondary, large offense, crit or protection/health or some other crazy number. (Like a 9% tenacity or 8% potency, 2000 protection, 1000 health secondary). Saved all gold mods, even bad ones, for an emergency but did not level the bad ones. Sold everything else that wasn't already levelled to 15. It took forever and cost me a few mil but cleared out a few hundred mods.

I did the same recently. I ended up almost a million credits in the black from selling so many gray/unworthy mods, which was a nice unexpected windfall.

"VonZant;c-1735751" wrote:
"TVF;c-1735737" wrote:
But why put in all that work when it's easier to just complain about matchmaking?

I always suspected but could not be sure that even my trash teams performed better than averge in TW because of mods but its harder to quantify.

I've been blown away by the abysmal speed on some of my GA opponents' "good" squads, and conversely how many defensive victories I get with teams I don't consider all that fast. My 70k team of Ackbar, Princess Leia, ST Han, Wedge, and Royal Guard (lol), all around gear 9, took my current opponent three attempts to down. My 65k Phoenix have 2 wins and are still standing.

Just goes to show you how few people actually read forums and watch videos to learn how to optimize their stuff, I guess.
djohns2000
7 years ago
the current team, with higher speeds, is a EP team. I guess speed is more important because they need to get those debuffs out before they get knocked around. The sets are all over the place. Health mostly, but theres tenacity and crit chance and maybe potency in there somewhere. I think some of it actually worked out well, but again it's mostly health

the proposed team is a CLS team. So crit damage and to a lesser extent crit chance sets would make a bigger difference on that team
Da_Bauers
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
Nothing worse than clicking on people in your arena shard and they have a G12 Vader with 6E mods rocking about 140-150 TOTAL speed.

Well, worse for them, good for me. ;)

I'm glad your Vader has 60kn protection but I hit him four times before he took a single turn...
ImTheChampion13
7 years ago
It honestly depends on which toon you're trying to mod. For example, CLS, I mod for speed first, potency second, and then whatever else I can get after that. I'd make sure he has a matching speed set, but his other two mods don't need to match if they can't. Auto taunting tanks, on the other hand, don't need speed as much, so I'd make sure they had the appropriate matching sets/desired primaries.

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