Droid strats and comps in the meta

"Durrun;c-1282555" wrote:
The problem is droids have one leader, Hk. And the problem is kenobi exists. One crit and he's taunting with the crit target now crit immune. Damage sink into kenobi and no tm gain for crits aoe. It's not the end of the world at that point, but when yo factor in Luke leader dropping counters, even if you used B2 to nullify the kenobi threat. I can't see him using aoe more than twice before he gets stunned and countered into the ground.

R2 is the answer to counter attackers. B2 is the answer to crit immunity. Droids have enough speed that they'll never be the ones behind when it comes to having an ability up in time.

Droids biggest problem is/was not crit hate in arena. It is/was the inability to bring as robust a toolkit to the field as other factions. Rebels are really big on crit too but do just fine.

I will say that the bb8 unique to start them off is a great benafit... guess he replaces jawa engineer?

"Durrun;c-1282797" wrote:
I will say that the bb8 unique to start them off is a great benafit... guess he replaces jawa engineer?

Yep. Easily replaces JE. He's like 10x better than JE. 40% TM at the start is much better than JE giving droids 45% and pushing them way over 100% TM. With JE you have so much wasted TM

So what level will you guys get BB-8 to, if you can even unlock him? With luck I should be able to barely unlock him before it ends. I still need about 35 shards for FOTP and FO Stormtrooper. It sucks that I won't get him to 7* and as a result he'll have lower health, but just unlocking him is good enough for me since he easily replaces JE.

"STRIKEBOMB;c-1285406" wrote:
So what level will you guys get BB-8 to, if you can even unlock him? With luck I should be able to barely unlock him before it ends. I still need about 35 shards for FOTP and FO Stormtrooper. It sucks that I won't get him to 7* and as a result he'll have lower health, but just unlocking him is good enough for me since he easily replaces JE.

7*. Going to grind him to g12 as fast as I can.

5* if anything, I'm 30 shards left to get fost but then I would only have them all g8 and not even 85 so hoping battles don't be difficult.

Just got my final shards for 7* FOST today (last one). Should have them leveled and abilitied enough by the end of the event I am thinking. All level 5 abilities g8-g9, level 63-75.

Going to be cutting it close though. He will be first on my list to gear up at that point without a doubt. Zetas may take a minute as my guild is getting close to HAAT ready and I will need a couple of toons for that.

I currently aim for 5* since i lack Trooper Shards and only have Pilot+Phasma geared/leveld enough, but Kylo and Officer progress much faster so if needed i should have them at 7* and i also hold back gear etc to adjust. My Problem is, i will not buy the FO pack if i only need 1 Toon. So unless CG split it up to get a single char, i will not have BB88 at 7* which really hurts because i invested my first year in droids and have all of them at 7* and more or less only use them at HAAT... I tried an Arena comeback with R2, but it doesnt work and i need a top20 team which is able to get 1-3 till payout.

BB8 is no CLS, Thrawn, Nihilus etc. so it is a very specific investment (he is made more for Droids, but even resistance is not a factor for arena etc.) which means only a small amount of players will a) buy and b) have all 5 FO (the only one in the game!) characters ready - because FO is also not "broken" enough, even with a bunch of zetas(!). Its nice that FO players get a gift, but it is a shame that droid lovers maybe dont get this good designed robot for their collection.

I have 1,5 zeta ready for BB8 but i will wait for the first test runs - if he is good enough to bring droids back (at arena) i will invest with gear/abilities etc. - if not i will only unlock him.

As i mentioned above, the team is more or less set in stone, HK, R2, B88 forms a solid support trio for the robots, than you need more damage: IG88/IG86/ (GG/IG100) and support/tanks (B2/K2/Chopper).

All configs need to adress currenty top team problems, which comes down to CLS-Counters (CLS/R2/Han), which are super deadly for the old HP/Prot canons like IG86/88 even more if AI will use AI (also a problem for B2!). Stupid Zarris/GK or even other top speed control characters like R2/Thrawn that interrupt with Steahlt/Fracture and high speed.

Unless someone find a good (AI friendly) combination to fire of BB8 special before the team is dead, i think K2 is needed as a tank to soak up (counter)damage, he spams offense down which is good and offers daze(!) with a solid hard hitting punch too.

R2s AI will use Smokescreen first so the first AOE Move from every droid should be safe, but keep in mind that Raid-Han will more or less Oneshot IG88 at the start of the battle...

I think Grievous (while still without a rework...) can be a solid sleeper IF you have him at G12 too, he gains a huge HP upgrade at G12 AND +50% Max HP for a full droid team, which means over 45k without Mods and Protection. His basic is still a very hard hitting and unavoidable (foresight spam Kenobi) and uncounterable (CLS/Thrawn). His AoE with healing immunity is also important against Zarris. So for a super small amount of droid players a maxed Grievous might be one of the best damage dealers in the current meta that is also able to take some hits - but most will not have him or will not invest THAT gear into him before a rework.

Well, bb8 is garbage.

"Ig88isboss;c-1287423" wrote:
Well, bb8 is garbage.

:open_mouth: how? He easily replaces JE