Drevan squads

Agreed w/ all the above. Save your Relic Mats

The only characters I would push above R5 ever are those needed for a GL at some point that require R6+, & then maybe a couple others for particularly hard missions or because of the way the character works.

For example..... I have the following.
R6 on 5's for KAM mission. R6 on Malak for shear toughness.

The remaining 3 main characters for my Drevan team are all R5 & my SET is only G12 to this day.

Its all about Mods w/ that team.

Hmm... I may pull Malak to r7 then... and maybe r3 the others... if for no other reason than the first 3 or 4 relics r very easy to get... obviously badstilla is a bit late as she's already r6... what is the best team individually gonna be to have a shot at beating gc... my cls is already g12 and I'd like to go for slkr but all I have at g12 is kru.... from there it's a bunch of g11 and some lower than that

Depends what you mean by "beat gc". Beat any individual battle? Get you red crate? What level?

On hard no single team can possibly get you red crate. You need the feats which require all sorts of comps, mostly scoundrels this time.

Some GL teams can't beat every team they find in gc. Especially with stamina drain.

Loads of feats in the last 5 conquests have been easily completed by a CLS team. The higher relic you have the lower stamina they can work at. Han shooting first is handy all over the place.

I don't have a useful sith empire team for conquest, so can't really advise on this. Except for my r5 Malak that sees quite a bit of use. He is a useful tank all over the game. As the team inflicts a lot of debuffs I imagine they do quite well with a lot of the data disks that interact with numbers of debuffs or do bonus damage along with debuffs. But they rely on drevan outspeeding opponents so they will get blown away after sector 3, if not before.

Also, I'll say again, the first levels of relics are not free. They seem easy at first, but those materials will run short after 2 GL requirements are filled.

Ya I no u can't just run the 1 but I really need 1 that can really carry me through and I was hoping the sith empire team could do that... after that I'll go slkr so that will put together essentially another 2 and with slkr 3 good good teams for it... obviously with that team I'll pull them up only as high as I need them.