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Halbarad101
9 years ago

Debuff-AOE team

Hello everybody!

I am opening this post to ask for advice for the arena team I am currently working on. I am a lvl 61 f2p player with these main chars:

Sid 7* lvl 61 gear 8, Lumi 6* lvl 61 gear 7, JC 6* lvl 59 gear 8, Daka 5* lvl 61 gear 7, poggle 4* lvl 61 gear 7, Poe 3* lvl 61 gear 7, GS 2* lvl 60 gear 6 and Phasma 4* lvl 59 gear 7.

In Arena I'm running: Sid (L), Lumi, JC, Daka and Poggle. Today I could hit top20 for the first time, but I am afraid It will not last if I don't improve my team.

This is the configuration I am working to implement: Sid (L), Poe (farming from cantina shipments, should get it to 4* tomorrow), Poggle (farming from GW shipments), GS (cantina shards) and IG-88 (arena shipments after maxing out Sid). Great synergy and damage, protected with the Poe taunt.

What do you think? Should I keep a healer in the team, like Daka or Lumi? Who should I bench in that case?

Thanks for your advice!
  • Halbarad101's avatar
    Halbarad101
    9 years ago
    Thanks for the response. I started working on Phasma because I wanted to work on Kylo in the cantina shards, but after reading several posts in the forum and seeing how much people love GS I decided to give it a try. Once I finish GS the next one will be Kylo, and then I'll probably move Phasma in the leader spot since they both work well together, but this is even longer term strategy for me.
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    Halbarad101
    9 years ago
    Good point about not thinking too far ahead :)
    For what I've seen, 86 works best in a droid team, whereas 88 works well in other setups, that's why I decided to go for 88 even though its hp makes me a little nervous, it looks it might fit better with my other chars. I'm at 25/50 on 88, so it's not too late to change, and if 86 is going to be February's reward it may be a good idea to change.
    What do you think?
  • Pindasauskanon's avatar
    Pindasauskanon
    9 years ago
    I run a quite similar team: Sid (lead), poe, poggle, ig88, kylo
    Kylo and ig88 will be 7* tomorrow and i'm doing well level 68 and got 1st at reward time the past days.
    You see a lot of poe at the top of the ladder and AOE is an effective way to bypass his taunt.
    Also if the meta shifts you can easily create a droid team out of it.
  • Halbarad101's avatar
    Halbarad101
    9 years ago
    That's exactly why I was thinking about shifting to an AOE team: to avoid Poe's Taunt. The only problem would be if the other team is full of counter attackers like Dooku, Fives or Kylo with retribution. That would probably be the best defensive team and still be good when attacking. Only problem is that Dooku is not very farmable at the moment for f2p...
  • Pindasauskanon's avatar
    Pindasauskanon
    9 years ago
    Yeah counterattack teams can be hard. You don't see a lot of fives in arena. I usually handle dooku with sid aoe (he heals up anyway when you kill someone) and then I hit dooku with outrage from kylo. Usually he's dead after that. .
    I have the most trouble with other poe teams especially when they have a QGJ, he debuffs poe 9/10
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    Halbarad101
    9 years ago
    Soooo, QGJ is the next farm in the Arena shipments after Poe? Should I get Poe to 6 or 7 stars? I currently have him at 4 and I was thinking about getting him to at least 5 (2 weeks of farming though). Is it worth it to go past that?
  • Pindasauskanon's avatar
    Pindasauskanon
    9 years ago
    "HalB;84028" wrote:
    Soooo, QGJ is the next farm in the Arena shipments after Poe? Should I get Poe to 6 or 7 stars? I currently have him at 4 and I was thinking about getting him to at least 5 (2 weeks of farming though). Is it worth it to go past that?


    All his abilities and speed stay the same when you star him up. He gets hp and some damage with the extra stars. I have him at 6* now and I started with QGJ in cantina. But I started farming the poe hard nodes.
  • Halbarad101's avatar
    Halbarad101
    9 years ago
    Thanks for the advice! I'll star him up to 5* and switch to Qui Gon while I keep farming Poe in the hard battles.
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    Halbarad101
    9 years ago
    Just made it to rank #9 with Poe at 4* and gear 7 only, being lvl 61 player against other higher level teams, amazing! In a couple of days should be able to get him to gear 8 and speed him up to turn 7!

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