Current "Ships Meta"? - Strongest fleet combination and admiral

"danrussoa;949363" wrote:
It's been said a hundred times but the actual toon and his/her gear play a huge role in a ships overall effectiveness.

Yes, most top teams still just have maxed pilots which in turn makes their ships stronger, and people can't beat them because of the sheer power difference.

However, if you were to take 2 totally maxed teams, one with AA Biggs scimitar wedge Ahsoka JC and fought a team of Mace Biggs FOTP TFP Vader Bistan, AA would get 1 turn, maybe 2.

My ship arena I am normally 10th with occasional bumps to 5. My power is 143k. I use AA because I had him geared and maxed. He is a middle of the road commander, ok but not the top. Mace is a joke on my shard. Never seen one used well. Tarkin can be a beast, if you have both tie fighters, vader and slave one with biggs.
I use JC, Biggs, Wedge, Asoka ( she is a must), and tfp. My backups are sunfac, GS, and 555s. It is not a great team but it is okay. I get knocked around alot. Work up Tarkin and darkside best bet for end game crush. AA is fine if he is all you have, but I think mace takes real work to be good.

"Seltgar;949512" wrote:
My ship arena I am normally 10th with occasional bumps to 5. My power is 143k. I use AA because I had him geared and maxed. He is a middle of the road commander, ok but not the top. Mace is a joke on my shard. Never seen one used well. Tarkin can be a beast, if you have both tie fighters, vader and slave one with biggs.
I use JC, Biggs, Wedge, Asoka ( she is a must), and tfp. My backups are sunfac, GS, and 555s. It is not a great team but it is okay. I get knocked around alot. Work up Tarkin and darkside best bet for end game crush. AA is fine if he is all you have, but I think mace takes real work to be good.

Imo Mace is only good with TL synergy. I run 3 Ties Biggs 5s and the only time I lose is to max gear pilots of the exact same team (+1 instead of 5s). I currently have 155k power, so there is still room for improvement, but when I had 143k power I beat an AA team with 174k power (obviously max everything). And it wasn't even close. Pretty sure I called maybe 1 reinforcement that match.

Top of my shard for the past month. Been running:

Tarkin + Tie Advanced + TFP + Scimitar + Boba + FOTP + Kylo + GSoldier

I also have GSpy, Clone Sergeant, Ashoka, Resistance Pilot just hanging out

I always rank 1. I use the following:

Mace.

Biggs, fives, FOTP, vader, clone sarge.

Mail, ashoka, rex.

target lock for biggs, when he eventually dies reinforce maul for retribution on clone sergeant. at that point it's pretty much over.

Fives basic nueters the Ackbar/biggs/maul combo.

"SunFacYou;949353" wrote:

"Woodroward;949265" wrote:
IMO the best all around team is a Mace lead with Biggs, Geonosian Soldier, Boba, FOTP, and Vader (if you have him, otherwise Tie Pilot) Backups would be Fives, Clone Sergeant, Ahsoka, and Scimitar.

So much target lock to aoe spam with mace, give boba many turns, make his special hit everyone, Make Biggs taunt and regenerate **** amounts of protection (they buffed how much he gets recently and boy is it noticeable), etc. etc. All the aoe spam lowers the cooldown on Mace's ultimate and has him go more often. All the tm gain makes boba able to use his ultimate more often. So much utility and offense. With all the target lock Mace should really only ever be casting his aoe or his ultimate. FOTP can spam his special on target locked targets. Scimitar giving Biggs counter attack has him target locking people and regenerating protection as they hit him. Biggs and GeoSol are assisting like mad too... It's a **** fleet.


Best defensive team by far is the full republic fleet starting out, possibly with Biggs in the starting 5, but he's less necessary in rotating tauntville.

Best offensive team? Tarkin with all sith and empire ships, resistance pilot, fives, Geonosian spy's ship for scimitar to target (calls all stealthed allies to assist), and Slave 1.

Tarkin gets massive bonuses for debuffs, This team has a lot of them and as much synergy as you can get with Tarkin. He is nothing but offense.

@Woodroward Geonosian soldier? Why though he brings essentially nothing to that team.. tie fighter in place of him would be much better cuz you would add another target locking ship which is the whole point of this fleet to spam AOEs and its the fastest ship so it will go first most of the time starting out with a target lock. The rest of the team though I completely agree with. I actually run this exact team and its unreal. It wouldnt be anywhere near as effective however if I used genosian soldier instead of my tie fighter. Idk if thats your actual team or not but if it is I'd highly suggest you to switch to tie fighter.. you'd see what I mean.

Well geonosian soldier's ship has an assist, and also assists himself randomly. He's like a relentless weak aoe just being in the group. His basic takes turn meter, so he is randomly taking turn meter from their whole team as well. He ups the damage ante. Tie Fighter Pilot would be good too I suppose, but having that assist handy could mean the difference between killing their ship or not especially since it's pretty much guaranteed to be the bonus damage version for target lock.

Not too long ago having geonosian soldier on your squad would lose you ranks on defense because his ai prioritized his basic attack over his assist... He never used his assist under ai control until a patch in the last week or two. It has been fixed, he is effective now.

"ZephimyrAC;949471" wrote:
I'm at 130k and rank between 200-300... I just use ships that I've obtained for my more powerful toons... I don't think I have any synergy.. lol

Poor guy. I'm at 86k power and stay in the top 100 lol. Some shards are tough.

With 130k power, I'm in 500s, can't get below 500th rank.

I use tarkin, geo soldier, tfp, fives, ahsoka, slave, wedge, sunfac, geo spy.

"Ig88isboss;949555" wrote:

"ZephimyrAC;949471" wrote:
I'm at 130k and rank between 200-300... I just use ships that I've obtained for my more powerful toons... I don't think I have any synergy.. lol

Poor guy. I'm at 86k power and stay in the top 100 lol. Some shards are tough.

This right here. Makes me feel guilty for my shard

Lots of good input in this thread, so just to add my 2c. As background I am always no1 at my payout (if have time to play) but can fall to 18th overnight. My fleet is 175K power all ships and pilots are completely maxed out except JC who lacks 3 g11 slots and has no omegas. AA lead poe itp fotp 5s biggs replacements maul JC vader. Have also 8 other 7* ships some of them fully maxed like tie reaper, wedge or boba, some of them still needing some work on g11/omegas like rex sun fac sarge's ship or gs ship.

Needless to say that my shard is quite hellish and from what I hear from my guildmates probably one of toughest. Top 20 players are all from top 20 guilds. We are not whales yet but quite large sharks.

1. Ships are in many ways different than regular toons. Most notable difference is that ship speed is limited so that evens out the play significantly. Second obviously just three leads and not that many ships as regular toons. All this points out to more balanced game than for regular toons.

2. Meta just tells u which ships and leads are most common but the interesting point in ships is that within like 20K power band of maxed or nearly maxed ships u can defeat all enemies and they can defeat u as well.

3. Most common strategies in ships are fully defensive, balanced and offensive. All three work equally well in my experience and in my shard none of strategies will keep you from falling overnight. So my advice is that u choose strategy u like and enjoy your play. My fleet is an example of very offensive and fast squad. I like grinding through enemies quickly, especially with 4x auto. With 4x speed the defensive timeout teams lost what I think was the only appeal they had. But that's just my opinion, lol.

4. All three leads have their own pluses and minuses as well as synergies with specific teams. So u need to try to match the team to the lead ship and ur gameplay style. As I said ships are pretty balanced and for now are the home ships as well.

5. My advice is don't invest in more than one capital ship. Save resources for second round of home ships. I only have Ackbar and sit on mountain of cash maths and droids. A guy in my guild has all 3 near maxed so there are different approaches. He uses Mace and balanced team and is No 1 needles to say. I would also limit the investment in large fleet of ships as new better ones will come so no need to go crazy with breath of ur fleet, better to max out best ships u have.