Best ship fleet

After reading all of the posts after my last 1 in this thread, my advice of not farming Falcon at this point because it would be dumb seems to be upheld. Even though 1 person stated it would not be dumb to invest in it, but then supported my point completely.

Falcon was a huge boost to fleets, and Negotiator and Male are huge jumps from Falcon. Chasing the meta is always far better than chasing old meta.

If you want to be competitive focus on GR and Seps

"Legend91;c-2038302" wrote:

"CEG9876;c-2038288" wrote:

"Legend91;c-2038181" wrote:
Both Nego and Male are the current best fleets and can reliably beat each other while Nego holds better on defense. If you care about TW / GAC your best bet would be to get both unlocked at 5* (set Nego on defense and use Male for offense) and while gearing up your GR pilots you can use the crewless sep ships and the Malo for your fleet arena climbs.
So personally (others might have a different opinion) I'd go:
1) 5 star Malevolence unlock
1.1) farm HT, Hyena (should become farmable soon), Vulture, Sun Fac and Geo Spy
2) use it as your temporary arena fleet for climbing
3) 5 star Negotiator unlock
3.1) farm and gear up Ani, Ahsoka, etc.
3.2) use Nego as your new TW / GAC defense fleet and use your last fleet arena battle with Nego to set it on defense
4) go for the 7 star promotion on either Nego or Male (debatable which one to go first)
On a note: You should also get the Falcon so you can use the Ackbar rebels as a secondary offense team.

That makes sense. I need to get my Seps ready for 7* padme anyway so a sep fleet makes total sense

Yeah, both fleets have that nice addition of providing good teams.
GR (Padme + friends) is needed for LS Geo TB (irrelevant for now I guess but gonna be needed in the future), GAS and is simply one of the best teams in the game currently.
Geos are needed in DS Geo TB and they're also a really strong team for pvp.
The rebel fleet pilots are mostly dead weight in most other modes (looking at you Bistan and SRP) so it doesn't make sense to heavily invest in them.

someone should make a thread pointing this out and praising CG for having these ships and events dovetail so nicely together

Just looking at his fleet, I'd say Malevolence is what he needs to invest in.

G12 Bugs team & a 5* Droid & IG88 means he's already go the fleet & is just in need of a command ship.

"Mephisto_style;c-2067492" wrote:
After reading all of the posts after my last 1 in this thread, my advice of not farming Falcon at this point because it would be dumb seems to be upheld. Even though 1 person stated it would not be dumb to invest in it, but then supported my point completely.

Falcon was a huge boost to fleets, and Negotiator and Male are huge jumps from Falcon. Chasing the meta is always far better than chasing old meta.

If you want to be competitive focus on GR and Seps

If you have access to GET2 seems to be the real issue.

For someone in a guild w/o large amounts of GET2, then working on BH & BH ships is still a solid option.

But if you have GET2 income then I agree completely, push for one of the new Cap ships.

Of course, by the time someone gets Neg/Mal up & running, we'll probably have Finalizer as the new meta.

"Schwartzring;c-2067520" wrote:
Just looking at his fleet, I'd say Malevolence is what he needs to invest in.

G12 Bugs team & a 5* Droid & IG88 means he's already go the fleet & is just in need of a command ship.

I agree and that's the plan. Get Hyena bomber and Vulture to 7* and try for the Mal capital ship. I'm a long way from that though. Guild isn't high enough GP to get any decent amount of stars for the Geo territory battle so we mostly do Hoth to gear up the lower GP members.

But for someone starting out that wants to get a decent fleet team together, geo's are a great choice. I initially started farming geo's to get their ships high enough level to get to the Shak Ti node open in fleet battles. So I was a bit surprised how strong they are in fleet battles.
That lead to getting Padme 7* and executrix 6 star (easily farm 7* executrix shards when the even shows up)

Geo's are pretty easy to farm, especially Soldier and Spy early on.

I might use Home One for Geo's here and there once it's stronger.

Oh, and I started out with Hounds Tooth, Geo Spy and Soldier as my starting line and would bring in Sun Fac as my first reinforcement. This was because Sun Fac is not a good tank until you gear the crap out of him and once he was better geared he's better in the starting line up with the other geos because of their great synergy.

Also, falcon is great. He's in all the top 10 teams I face. Faclon is a HUGE investment though and takes a long time to farm. Have to be able to do well in the Pit raid to get Han shards, and then invest heavily in BH and BH ships.

Falcon is a bit squishy though unless the crew is geared up well. And his avoidance move is easy to work around.

"Schwartzring;c-2067525" wrote:

"Mephisto_style;c-2067492" wrote:
After reading all of the posts after my last 1 in this thread, my advice of not farming Falcon at this point because it would be dumb seems to be upheld. Even though 1 person stated it would not be dumb to invest in it, but then supported my point completely.

Falcon was a huge boost to fleets, and Negotiator and Male are huge jumps from Falcon. Chasing the meta is always far better than chasing old meta.

If you want to be competitive focus on GR and Seps

If you have access to GET2 seems to be the real issue.

For someone in a guild w/o large amounts of GET2, then working on BH & BH ships is still a solid option.

But if you have GET2 income then I agree completely, push for one of the new Cap ships.

Of course, by the time someone gets Neg/Mal up & running, we'll probably have Finalizer as the new meta.

If your guild isn't doing DSTB then you need a new guild.

"Mephisto_style;c-2067557" wrote:

If your guild isn't doing DSTB then you need a new guild.

At 11 months of playing & 2.3 Mil in GP, I'm not sure I'm going to be contributing a lot to a guild doing DSTB.

Not everyone has been playing since launch & has 4.5 million, lol.

"Schwartzring;c-2070769" wrote:

"Mephisto_style;c-2067557" wrote:

If your guild isn't doing DSTB then you need a new guild.

At 11 months of playing & 2.3 Mil in GP, I'm not sure I'm going to be contributing a lot to a guild doing DSTB.

Not everyone has been playing since launch & has 4.5 million, lol.

You don't need 4.5 million to contribute to DS Geo. Not even close.