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9 years ago

Best F2P farm route

Hello,

After much research and reading posts, I established some farm routes which enables good combinations squads for GW, arena and events:

1) DARTH_AZRAEL SAFE ROUTE

GW: Luminara (1) > Phasma (1) > Biggs/IG-86 (2) > Cad Bane > Teebo > Dathcha/Poggle (3) > whatever.
Arena: ST Han > Ackbar > IG-88 > HK-47 > Nebit > Tarkin > whatever.
Cantina Shipments: QGJ > Old Daka > Fives > Jawa Scavenger > Poe > whatever.
Cantina Battles: GS > Lando > Wedge > Old Ben/JKA (4) > Barriss/RG (5) > Aayla/B2 (6) > whatever.
Guild: Rey > JE > whatever.

(1) You do not need to maximize Luminara to 7 stars in the beginning. 5 stars is enough for it to help you until you can invest in high-end heroes. Use hard nodes too. After that, maximize Phasma. She will be the leader of your team in arena for a long time (and have other uses in the future).

(2) You must decide whether to build a droid team in the future or not. If not, Biggs is an excellent choice, even for events.

(3) Dathcha gained a higher level of importance due to new raid (droids). Poogle is a great hero, but fell into disuse because of the undeniable superiority of HK-47 leadership and synergy of droids with new Jawas (JE and Nebit). The GW shop has heroes from different factions that can help in specific events, so it would be acceptable to opt for some of them before Poogle.

(4) Here is a personal choice. JKA is excellent for AOE teams, danger zone, GW, Yoda event, everywhere. However, despite the evasion meta not be as popular as before, Old Ben still a very useful hero and able to counter EP teams.

(5) Here you need to decide if you want to maximize Barriss, RG or both. These heroes are already farmed in hard nodes. At this moment you can use cantina energy to speed up the process (which would allow you to work on other heroes in hard nodes) or, if you do not feel it necessary, go to the next farm.

(6) Both are spectacular heroes. Aayla is powerful under JKA lead and can be used in the arena, GW and events (especially in Yoda event). B2 is useful in any composition but is mostly used in droid teams.

Important: Some heroes can be farmed in their hard nodes as they become available. These heroes are useful and have varied uses, then gear and starring them gradually without interfering with the shard farm of the main heroes (Rey, JKA etc). I will mention some of them in order of my preference, but invest a maximum of 2 of them at time, so that the cost of energy does not harm your gear farm:

- RG (1) > Chewie (2) > Barriss (3) > Jawa > EE > ES > FOTP.

(1) RG reach 5 stars at player level 70 and 6 stars at level 80. That's all you need for a long time.

(2) For CH event. If you choose to farm Dengar, Chewie will still be useful in the raid due to its TM removal, but the decision is yours.

(3) You only need unlock her. But if you want Yoda, maximize her.

Objectives: Up to level 85 you will have the most useful factions and heroes available for F2P:

Rebels: Lando, ST Han, Ackbar, Wedge and Biggs.
Scoundrels: Lando, ST Han, IG-88, Cad Bane and Chewie.
Droids: HK-47, IG-88, IG-86, JE and B2/Nebit.
Jedis: JKA, QGJ, Aayla, Barriss and Luminara.
Jawas: Nebit, JE, Jawa Scavenger, Dathcha and Jawa.

2) BALDWOOKIEE DROID PATH

GW: IG-86 > Dathcha > Cad Bane > Poggle > whatever.
Arena: Unlock Nebit > IG-88 5* > HK-47 5* > Nebit 5* > Finish all in order > whatever.
Cantina Shipments: Jawa Scavenger 3* > HRS > Finish Jawa Scavenger > Poe > whatever.
Cantina Battles: Jawa (till level 44) > IG-100 > Jawa 5* > Lando > Finish Jawa > whatever.
Guild: JE > Dengar > whatever.

* Some heroes are useful at this point, especially in arena shop, which has 3 key heroes for droid team.

This route allowed early access to the challenges of CD mods.

Important: The droid path is difficult without droid pack. I know, F2P dont want to spent in game, but consider that: 3 key heroes for droid team are in arena. RG can be used for awhile in Nebit's spot, but you need HK-47 and IG-88 together in your composition. Its a very good investment and your account will evolve more faster.

3) ZOOEY CH FOCUS PATH

GW: Luminara (5/6 stars) > Phasma > Biggs > Teebo > whatever.
Arena: ST Han (1) > Leia/88 (2) > Rebels/Droids (3) > whatever.
Cantina Shipments: QGJ > Unlock Boba > whatever.
Cantina Battles: GS (4/5 stars) > Unlock Old Ben > Lando > Wedge > whatever.
Guild: Rey > whatever.
*Hard Nodes: Rey > RG > JKA > whatever.

(1) CH Focus. ST Han have scoundrel and rebel tags. Wonderful for events.

(2) Here is a personal choice. Choose your attacker considering this: Leia is useful for almost everything and she is a rebel (good for events). IG-88 is very strong, indispensable in a droid team and for CH event (he is a scoundrel).

(3) Here is a personal choice too. Investing in other rebels (Leia, Ackbar) or droids (IG-88, HK-47) available according to your choice in step 2.

CREDITS TO:

Baldwookiee for ideas for a droid farm route.
Zooey. We have some discussions about the price of early CH focus, but she have good points and it is important to explain them so players can decide about pros and cons of each route.

THANKS!

Edit (23/08/2016): I made some changes based on current meta.
Edit (25/09/2016): I made some changes based on current meta.
Edit (12/10/2016): I made some changes based on current meta, new events and new level challenges.
Edit (10/11/2016): I made some changes based on current meta, new events and new feature: Ships.

CarlosKiss
9 years ago
"Darth95;631032" wrote:
"Darth_Azrael;630854" wrote:
"Darth95;630832" wrote:
Best F2P line-up is droid/jawa team.

Another droid lover!

Yes man, droids are beautiful too. Thats why I made a exception that you can change this route for droids lovers.

U run droid/jawa team as well?

They will be prioritized soon!
RealBaldwookiee
9 years ago

"Darth_Azrael;623055" wrote:
"Baldwookiee;622458" wrote:

Cantina nodes: Jawa till lvl 44, then IG 100, get Jawa to 5* > Lando > finish Jawa
Cantina tokens: Scavenger to 3* >HRS> get scavenger to 5* roughly around when the rest of Jawa are 5*
Arena: Nebit unlocked > IG88 to 5*> HK47 to 5* > Nebit to 5* > Finish 88, then HK, then Nebit, STH
GW: IG88 > Dathcha > Cad Bane to 5*
Guild: Engineer > Dengar

They are great choices, but I personally prefer to focus on unlocking and promoting these following heroes one at a time in their given token field. So you can extract the best that each hero has to offer.

I disagree on going taking toons up to 7* from the start vs a little bit of bouncing around. Having 2-3* bums flanking your studs won't provide enough damage mitigation to keep the ig boys from their jobs.

For GW, yup, 86 is an easy choice to max early, between nodes, starting toon and GW, he will be the heavy lifter from the start.

stage 1 cantina offers little to droid teams anymore. You could do the typical GS farm, but with Poggle way behind JE now, he offers little to droids anymore. Lando could be a fit, but he takes 80 shards to open, and really just gives you more squishy AoE damage. You can unlock and 3* Jawa just about by the time you reach level 44, and open up tier 2 when you can then take ig100 to 7* with. Any other farm path diverts you away from droids.

As for Cantina tokens, nothing is really going to help your main arena team, POE would be an excellent choice here, but I think getting scavenger for really early access to crit mods is paramount. More than any this is a personal pereference farm for a droid team. QGJ, Daka, 5s are the default META, but that jawa synergy early out..

Arena is a toss up. Conventional wisdom says run up 88 ASAP, but early Nebit at 3* is an MVP for me right now. Unless you use an understarred RG or chewy(who is trash early) droids users will lack a tank early on, allowing easy takedowns. Plus his double assist and cooldown remover is absolutely killer early on for a tank slot. Getting #1 is easy, a nebit allows me to hold defensively

My slightly detoured droid path gets me a solid synergistic light side team along with the typical dark side droid death squad. So sure, the straight to 7* 88 vs a sidebar nebit might delay me 3 days at the beginning to reach a higher star with 88, however I have a more powerful team earlier, which means I can get and hold rank from an early point. The difference between having a 3* nebit vs a 1 or 2* RG or 4* chewy is literally a chasm on a droid team early on.

The key of this farm route is access to crit damage mods super early, which I'm very confident will allow a droid team to outpace anyone else in damage for a really long time on a fresh server. I can't imagine too many people other than droid users having crit mods for awhile. If I can get those first month, everyone has an uphill climb.

I actually decided to go with 5s as my first cantina farm instead of scout. He's been an awsome last man standing and key piece on my main in all modes. I'm really curious and interesting in seeing if I can get a 5s + IG100 team going, I've never seen one, but I can't imagine too many people wanting to see those as the last 2 left alone.

Optimally POE from cantina shop would probably yield the best immediate team as he gives them the thing they need most -> control and meter manipulation. But he is phased out as soon as you have JE or nebit, so putting a focus on him IMO isn't worth it unless you are going to leverage into a dual tank team or want to waste your time on a resistance team.
CarlosKiss
9 years ago
"Baldwookiee;631145" wrote:

"Darth_Azrael;623055" wrote:
"Baldwookiee;622458" wrote:

Cantina nodes: Jawa till lvl 44, then IG 100, get Jawa to 5* > Lando > finish Jawa
Cantina tokens: Scavenger to 3* >HRS> get scavenger to 5* roughly around when the rest of Jawa are 5*
Arena: Nebit unlocked > IG88 to 5*> HK47 to 5* > Nebit to 5* > Finish 88, then HK, then Nebit, STH
GW: IG88 > Dathcha > Cad Bane to 5*
Guild: Engineer > Dengar

They are great choices, but I personally prefer to focus on unlocking and promoting these following heroes one at a time in their given token field. So you can extract the best that each hero has to offer.

I disagree on going taking toons up to 7* from the start vs a little bit of bouncing around. Having 2-3* bums flanking your studs won't provide enough damage mitigation to keep the ig boys from their jobs.

For GW, yup, 86 is an easy choice to max early, between nodes, starting toon and GW, he will be the heavy lifter from the start.

stage 1 cantina offers little to droid teams anymore. You could do the typical GS farm, but with Poggle way behind JE now, he offers little to droids anymore. Lando could be a fit, but he takes 80 shards to open, and really just gives you more squishy AoE damage. You can unlock and 3* Jawa just about by the time you reach level 44, and open up tier 2 when you can then take ig100 to 7* with. Any other farm path diverts you away from droids.

As for Cantina tokens, nothing is really going to help your main arena team, POE would be an excellent choice here, but I think getting scavenger for really early access to crit mods is paramount. More than any this is a personal pereference farm for a droid team. QGJ, Daka, 5s are the default META, but that jawa synergy early out..

Arena is a toss up. Conventional wisdom says run up 88 ASAP, but early Nebit at 3* is an MVP for me right now. Unless you use an understarred RG or chewy(who is trash early) droids users will lack a tank early on, allowing easy takedowns. Plus his double assist and cooldown remover is absolutely killer early on for a tank slot. Getting #1 is easy, a nebit allows me to hold defensively

My slightly detoured droid path gets me a solid synergistic light side team along with the typical dark side droid death squad. So sure, the straight to 7* 88 vs a sidebar nebit might delay me 3 days at the beginning to reach a higher star with 88, however I have a more powerful team earlier, which means I can get and hold rank from an early point. The difference between having a 3* nebit vs a 1 or 2* RG or 4* chewy is literally a chasm on a droid team early on.

The key of this farm route is access to crit damage mods super early, which I'm very confident will allow a droid team to outpace anyone else in damage for a really long time on a fresh server. I can't imagine too many people other than droid users having crit mods for awhile. If I can get those first month, everyone has an uphill climb.

I actually decided to go with 5s as my first cantina farm instead of scout. He's been an awsome last man standing and key piece on my main in all modes. I'm really curious and interesting in seeing if I can get a 5s + IG100 team going, I've never seen one, but I can't imagine too many people wanting to see those as the last 2 left alone.

Optimally POE from cantina shop would probably yield the best immediate team as he gives them the thing they need most -> control and meter manipulation. But he is phased out as soon as you have JE or nebit, so putting a focus on him IMO isn't worth it unless you are going to leverage into a dual tank team or want to waste your time on a resistance team.

Very interesting! Can I add your farm route as an alternative path for players who like droids? I'll give you credit, of course. :)
CCyrilS
9 years ago
I run droid/jawa also. Just wanted to point out that hk is awesome as a lead with 86 and 88...otherwise i wouldnt use him at all.
CarlosKiss
9 years ago
"CCyrilS;631385" wrote:
I run droid/jawa also. Just wanted to point out that hk is awesome as a lead with 86 and 88...otherwise i wouldnt use him at all.

No doubt HK-47 is by far the most effective leader for a droid squad. I will edit the post with an alternative farm route for players who like droids, with the help of Baldwookiee ideas.
CarlosKiss
9 years ago
Hello everyone! I made some changes based on current meta and include a droid alternative route. Share your ideas!
Davevaded
9 years ago
"Roc_Laivindur;678026" wrote:
I've thought about shifting to a droid team, but I joined in April and so I'm in a relatively mature arena shard, where 3* Nebit and 5* HK just wouldn't cut it. Been running a team of STH(L), Rey, QGJ, RG, Daka, and it's keeping me top-30 (briefly hit #10 yesterday!), but all the droid/jawa teams just destroy me and I'm sure I'm not taking full advantage of possible synergies.

Currently prioritizing Lando as a cantina farm for his double rebel/scoundrel tag, and trying to build Jawas in case the new raid drops soon-ish, but 5s is always tempting instead of the scavenger, and droids keep calling......At this point, am I far enough behind on droids (no HK shards, IG-100 at 3*) to keep staying the course, or could it still be worthwhile to switch to HK in arena shipments and IG-100 in cantina, despite knowing they could both take me over a month to complete? Already have maxed 88, 86, Poggle, with JE at 4* and climbing.

If you don't have 5's by now, I wouldn't worry about him. If you get a clone team or are shooting for 3+ million raid phases, come back to him.
Scavenger is great, I'm still at g7 with him, but Nebit(l), 88, 86, JE, JS is easily the most enjoyable comp I've played(most synergistic too)...tho subing in Jawa over JS, frequently does more damage(if his shots are not evaded). I float between 100-200 on a day 1 server (I missed out on 7* EP and am strictly F2P...i.e. "no clone team").

HK simply is the best droid leader by a pretty fair margin(hate to say, Nebit is more fun), he's still worthwhile to prioritize right now...but IG-100 is not. When...if there is some separatist challenge in the future, a Poggle(l)/GS/B2/IG-100/? will probably be a great F2P setup, but I'd hold off until then.
RyanRenRockstar
9 years ago
Don't undersell 100 if you don't have him at G10 with an omega on his AoE. He is a beast - especially when there are other characters on the team that seem like higher priority targets.
RealBaldwookiee
9 years ago
Still maintaining top 5, and often #1 with my droid setup. Shard is filled with super whales also(6 out of the top 10 is whales), I can beat teams 7-9 levels and up to 11k power more than me using the droid/Jawa farming order I posted previously. I could not, and would not be able to beat them without using nebit in my team. The taunt he offers versus higher powered whale teams is unmeasureable, swapping in 5s, 100, rg, other jawas, would not produce any reliable results vs teams with significantly higher power than mine.

Flat out, if you run droids, you need JE and Nebit asap on a new shard. Droids alone and early, without jawa support will not let you run with the big dogs.

I also always complete GW, and very rarely even need to put a sub in on any nodes, just straight smashes through, just make sure you have cooldowns ready on 6/9/11.
CarlosKiss
9 years ago
"Roc_Laivindur;678026" wrote:
I've thought about shifting to a droid team, but I joined in April and so I'm in a relatively mature arena shard, where 3* Nebit and 5* HK just wouldn't cut it. Been running a team of STH(L), Rey, QGJ, RG, Daka, and it's keeping me top-30 (briefly hit #10 yesterday!), but all the droid/jawa teams just destroy me and I'm sure I'm not taking full advantage of possible synergies.

Currently prioritizing Lando as a cantina farm for his double rebel/scoundrel tag, and trying to build Jawas in case the new raid drops soon-ish, but 5s is always tempting instead of the scavenger, and droids keep calling......At this point, am I far enough behind on droids (no HK shards, IG-100 at 3*) to keep staying the course, or could it still be worthwhile to switch to HK in arena shipments and IG-100 in cantina, despite knowing they could both take me over a month to complete? Already have maxed 88, 86, Poggle, with JE at 4* and climbing.

5s is a very good hero, but IMO you can live without it. I have a specific farm route and do not change. I think every player must draw your goals to enjoy the game as well as possible and not get stuck to meta all the time. The idea of this route is that the player, especially F2P, do not spend your time and resources with less functional heroes. But eventually when your collection of heroes is good enough, you usually develop heroes as your personal preference.