Balancing Phoenix and Fleet

Soldier and spy should be transferred to in cantina nodes. at lvl 45/50 till lvl 60. Then, they appear in fleet store. Same with Sun Fac in guild store.

You should be able to do both at once. Buy Geo Ship blueprints from GW store, as well as geo blueprints and shards from fleet store

Thank you for the recommendations, will do!

First 3 Cantina Farms IMO are Ezra, Hera, Kylo-Unmasked+Silencer.

2nd 3 Cantina Farms are Soldier, Spy, & Old Ben

Use the G-War Store for Ships after you've 7* Zeb & have Cad at least Open for Credit Heists.

Use Fleet Store for Sun Fac & his Ship. (As well as Slave-1/TIE-Adv-X1 on their rare spawn)

This leaves you 1 other DS ship needed for Executrix & Zeta Challenge.
(Tie Bomber, Tie Fighter, FO Tie Fighter, Vulture, Hyena, Slave-1, or TAX1 are all valid options)

Don't mess with LS ships till after you have that Zeta challenge open.

Schwartzring — this is basically the path I’m on. Lvl 69, 7* Phoenix, strengthening Geo fleet. I’m hovering around 500 in Squad and 40 in Fleet. Do you say 7* all Cantina farms before moving to the next? Or more balanced for fleet?

@Amiga

Post a link to your SWGOH.gg account & we can help you more, but generally it's better to go Geo first, then Phoenix.

As for whether you go 7*, well, you want everything unlocked first. Spreading 4*s around to get going is a decent strategy, but then you want to start 7*ing the most valuable toons first.

First let me say that Schwartzring's opinion about going for Phoenix first is a valid opinion. It's not how I would do it, but it's fine advice. You should pick whether you want to get Fleet in shape first or GW. If you're all about GW, then you want Phoenix first. If you're about Fleet Arena, go Geos first. (Meanwhile keep farming Sabine steadily).

Whether you go Gets or Phoenix, you should be farming the Vulture droid & Sabine both with regular energy right now, and Hyena bomber & Jango Fett/hound's Tooth as soon as you unlock their nodes (that's level 74 for Hound's Tooth & level 76 for Hyena Bomber).

You should NOT use node refreshes. Just 5x per day. There are lots of things you need right now & so you can farm them all at once and spend no crystals instead of farming them 1-3 at a time but spending a bunch of crystals on node refreshes every day. It takes the same amount of time to finish your to-do list either way, so might as well work steady and save those crystals (or spend them on energy to farm even more things at once & get done much quicker than you would if you were spending on node refreshes instead of energy).

If you're someone who spends money on the game (I am not, and I'm not saying you should, just saying IF you do) the best value in the game is the Hyperdrive bundle and it's a better value the earlier you buy it, so if you're going to spend $100 on the game, you might as well do it right now.

That's all for now. Post your profile & tell us what characters you love/hate to get more specific advice.

And don't forget WORK ON VULTURE & SABINE!

https://swgoh.gg/p/478521623/
Phoenix wins GW 4-5x / wk and thus far staying under 50 in fleet
Definitely F2P
I haven’t been using node refreshes, but I have been refreshing cantina first to get Phoenix 7* and now geo spy & soldier
What’s your thought on farming gear vs shards?
Welcome all advice!

What’s your thought on farming gear vs shards?

My opinion on that is basically this: it takes longer to get a character to 7* than to gear them to a useful level for whatever your GP is. That's fact. Given that fact, I take shards over gear every single time for player accounts below about 3M gp. There are simply too many toons you need at that level, so there's always something you can productively farm (not talking CUP and Eeth Koth & whatever, actual good toons) at your GP.

There is a time when the priority is gear (like at my stage of the game*), but that probably doesn't hit until about 5M to 5.5M, hard to say, exactly. 3M to 5M can be tricky strategy wise, and you have to develop a more nuanced approach to flipping back and forth between priorities, or even balancing them on the same day. But you're at a stage where you still need EVERYTHING, and so the most efficient use of your resources is to get 330 shards of everything, but remember that you don't have to level up and gear (or even unlock) everything right away.

Go for shards. If you have the characters, you can always switch gear priorities and in a week or two get a neglected toon ready to fight. If you don't have the characters, then when you find out you need one you'll be waiting a couple months, maybe more, instead of a couple weeks.

Also? Gearing anyone up to g6 and leveling anyone up to 45 or so is probably not recommended for every toon right now when basic resources are such a struggle, but that's never a waste when you hit level 85. It's just so cheap to level toons up to 45 and the gear is so available, you might as well do that to get better scores in Territory Battles.

For now, though, stick with narrow gear priorities, narrow credit & training droid priorities for leveling, but very broad shard priorities.


*For an idea of my stage of the game, you can visit my profile here: https://swgoh.gg/p/452376595/

"Amiga;c-2226742" wrote:
Lvl 69, 7* Phoenix, strengthening Geo fleet.
Do you say 7* all Cantina farms before moving to the next? Or more balanced for fleet?

This really depends on the farms.

At Level 8, when Cantina Opens, you want to rotate Ezra & Hera from Open/2*, then 5*, then 7* or even each single star, but, at the least 2-5-7 for Open, Legend Open, Legend Max
Kylo isn't needed till 40+ when your approaching fleet.
But I'd say minimum 4* the Ship & Character both before 60.

Now that your 69 the 2 Geo Characters come into play & Old Ben (Or another Jedi for Yoda+CLS)

In these cases you'll want to get 4* fast since its a quick 80 shards.
Then each added Star opens up a Legendary Try at +1 Star.

So, I guess I'd rotate v/s 7* for these first 6 characters as they need to come on line.

Once these 6 are done, I'd just to 7* Max for any future farms, I don't recall any other areas where I needed to be doing 2 at the same time at 5* like Ezra/Hera were.

"MasterSeedy;c-2227184" wrote:
@Amiga
Post a link to your SWGOH.gg account & we can help you more, but generally it's better to go Geo first, then Phoenix.

As usual I agree with most everything MS says, just 1 question.
The sentence above, do you mean Fleet Ships or Characters or Both?

My thoughts are Phoenix Characters first
BUT, Geo SHIPS first.

My thoughts on the Geo Characters is since the ships start at 1*/0* at L60, you probably don't need the characters super far along at that point.

Pre-L55 the Cantina Energy should be Ezra/Hera/KylU

Then just as fleet comes online you hit the Solder/Spy Nodes.

"Amiga;c-2227738" wrote:
I haven’t been using node refreshes, but I have been refreshing cantina first to get Phoenix 7* and now geo spy & soldier
What’s your thought on farming gear vs shards?
Welcome all advice!

So here is the thing w/ Cantina refreshes.

Early on, they help you get those first couple teams going.
Eventually, they seem less & less useful.

I've been playing 22.5 months now.
I had every legendary event that was around when I started by my 1 year anniversary. (~D.Revan)
And in the last 10.5 months I've added only 1 more. (Malak)
Instead of farming more teams to 7* and then lacking gear to take them past 8, I've focused on Gear, and Gear, and Gear, and MORE GEAR.
Its a never ending slog.

So, I differ from M.Seedy in this area a bit since I think farming GEAR is almost always better than shards.
Especially when Shards are now Doubled.

I have only done a few "Node or Event" refreshes in all that time.
I've purchased a bit of gear but not a huge amount.
When it comes to spending crystals its almost all about refreshes of energy for the 1st 3 each day.

#1. 3 Gold EVERY day of the week. If you have to skip a day make it Sunday. Every other day of the week the Gold energy counts towards Guild Tokens either Before or After the reset so do those 3 refreshes 6x a week minimum to support the guild tokens, farm 5x nodes, and farm gear.
Gold Nodes almost always reward better than purchasing gear from shipments.

#2. 3 Green/Mod energy EVERY Tuesday Night & Wednesday Morning on "All Energy" day for Guild Tokens.
These 6 refreshes are probably MORE important than the Gold on those 2 days IMHO if you are really broke.
Farming Mods & Slicing Mats is the single way in this game to truly make your team better than the competition.

#3. Cantina early on is not a bad option, aim for the All Energy & Cantina Energy days which covers 4 of the 7 days of the week & do at least 1 refresh if not all 3. But once Ship Nodes open up & G12 Farms start, then the Blue/Fleet energy is more important IMHO.

#4. Fleet Energy is ON for Guild Tokens on Tues/Wed for ALL Energy but also Thursday AM for "Hard Nodes"
If you can afford it hitting 1-3x Refreshes on those 3 days will help the guild & help you.


At a certain point #3 & #4 will flip order when G12 is more important, and then perhaps back again when you have multiple Relic Characters to farm for.
Personally I only Relic 1 Char at a time so I farm up mats for that 1 & then go back to whatever other character I'm farming for to help Guild Platoons since I'm basically done in Cantina for now.
Or I farm KRU node some for the double chance at shards for Shard Shop exchange.