Droid team advice?

With that lineup I'd go for poggle, but I also run droids but I dropped GS and moved HK to lead once I got Jawa engineer who's great with droids

"Zombie961;453838" wrote:
With that lineup I'd go for poggle, but I also run droids but I dropped GS and moved HK to lead once I got Jawa engineer who's great with droids

This ...... Started with Pog lead GS, 88, 86 and RG

Now run HK, 88, 86, JE and RG

Future will be - HK lead with JE and some combination of B2, 88, 86, 100 and/or RG

Should Sun Fac go with droids?

"Tromedlov13;453886" wrote:

Started with Pog lead GS, 88, 86 and RG

Now run HK, 88, 86, JE and RG

Future will be - HK lead with JE and some combination of B2, 88, 86, 100 and/or RG

+1
Also Grievous could be an option (if you can afford him). You start with Poggle, 86, 88, GS + taunter. Once you have JE (4* is fine) you replace poggle and GS with HK and JE. HK's lead ability gives 50% turnmeter on level 8 which is pretty crazy when combined with JE's crit up.

@SnokeTrooper: Sun Fac sure is nice if you can get him. On offence he might even be better than RG for the Poggle lead team (Han can be better, too). He is very slow however. On defence at least, RG's auto taunt is best.

So many replies and not even one mention of IG-100 (there's a great thread singing his praises from a few days ago). I've run droids for the last 6 months and IG-100 has become indispensable. With HK lead, he ends up being one of the fastest on the team owing to the TM gains he gets from his AoE and counters. He may not be the best at anything he does but he's -good- at -everything- he does. I've been sat in the top 50 for months and if I want to splash out on a refresh, I can usually get into the top 20. Recently I've had dramas with Dooku/Lumi leads and the beast that is Rey though. B2 should see to that (55 shards and counting).

But back to your lineup... I've got Poggle and JE quite closely levelled up so I can split my maxed out droids between two teams for Raids. In my experience, HK's lead is too good to pass up. The glass cannons 86 and 88 only get a couple of shots, if you're lucky, before they drop. You have to maximise those shots or you won't get your money's worth out of them. IG86 in particular is a delete button for enemy toons and is a great way to avoid triggering RG's taunt. Poggle's lead, although strong, doesn't give you enough bang for your buck before the IGs fall. I've consistently had better results with HK over Poggle. JE guarantees a revive but only as long as a droid dies before him and even then, they're so fragile they get put back down again.

IMHO, if you're using droids then you really have to go all in and use 4-5 of them to really see the benefit. I used to run the main 4 + Lumi as a combat healer. I swapped her out for JE but he was too squishy. Then GG came along and I've had a constant smile kn my face ever since.

... but seriously, look up that thread on IG100. He could be the droid you're looking for. ;-)

Thanks SifuSteve, I never heard any praise for Magnaguard before but I'll make sure to check it out.

"MalEliza;453968" wrote:

"Tromedlov13;453886" wrote:

Started with Pog lead GS, 88, 86 and RG

Now run HK, 88, 86, JE and RG

Future will be - HK lead with JE and some combination of B2, 88, 86, 100 and/or RG

+1
Also Grievous could be an option (if you can afford him). You start with Poggle, 86, 88, GS + taunter. Once you have JE (4* is fine) you replace poggle and GS with HK and JE. HK's lead ability gives 50% turnmeter on level 8 which is pretty crazy when combined with JE's crit up.

@SnokeTrooper: Sun Fac sure is nice if you can get him. On offence he might even be better than RG for the Poggle lead team (Han can be better, too). He is very slow however. On defence at least, RG's auto taunt is best.

Excellent point on grievous .. I'm working on him and should have him some time in 2017. Seeing the current gear currency crunch I've stopped spending currency in GW and arena shops for new toons (mostly) and just getting shards for trading in for GG.

Just easily took #1 for first time
Hk(L), 88, 86, JE, b2

How do you like your B2?

I did the same for GG: As soon as I had Lumi and IG86 maxed out I spent 800 GW currency to get 10 shards. Then I'd have my 3 shots on every hard mode with the same two characters. Then once he was maxed, spent arena currency on 88... and even now EVERY cantina battle is spent getting either surplus 86 or 100 shards. It took me about 6 weeks. I've got a few other 7* toons now so I'm getting 5 GG shards every two days. I'm 15/65 for his 5th star. It's a slog but he's worth it. Just be sure to have 3M creds, several thousand training droids and at least 50 purple ability mats (and about 15 Omega) once you've unlocked him... ("_)