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MistPassiert
9 years ago

Emperor Palpatine strategy and unlocking! (F2P)

Last week, the Emperor's Demise event came to us. With it, the Emperor of the Galactic Empire: Emperor Palpatine, the Supreme Leader of the Sith. His event required Rebel class characters of each progressive tier to complete the same tier battle to unlock the shards for Emperor Palpatine. Exactly the same way Grand Master Yoda was unlocked.

Being Free to Play, this event was almost assuredly closed out to many of us. I simply happened to be lucky enough to have been working on my Rebels in anticipation of the "Might of the Empire" event that might return. Thankfully I never deviated from that goal, and it paid out HUGE.

Emperor Palpatine's event was moderately difficult, but having four of the five characters I used at level 80, and three of them at gear 9 or above helped considerably.

I am very excited to bring you this video of me unlocking and gearing my Emperor Palpatine. My Roster Review of Emperor Palpatine will be coming soon!

What characters did you use to unlock Emperor Palpatine?

https://youtu.be/fYz0UiKtCxo
  • C_Sandurz's avatar
    C_Sandurz
    9 years ago
    I am ftp and used ackbar(l), lando, leia, st han, and Biggs. Ackbar and lando at gear 9 and leia/han at gear 10. Biggs was only lvl70 and gear7. Biggs was dead after Vaders first culling blade. The rest of them made short work of the emperor and his cronies.
  • MistPassiert's avatar
    MistPassiert
    9 years ago
    "C_Sandurz;632163" wrote:
    I am ftp and used ackbar(l), lando, leia, st han, and Biggs. Ackbar and lando at gear 9 and leia/han at gear 10. Biggs was only lvl70 and gear7. Biggs was dead after Vaders first culling blade. The rest of them made short work of the emperor and his cronies.


    Nice! Biggs is probably a lot more common than the Hoth Rebel Scout! Good to hear you had good success! I've seen many paying players unable to get the Emperor, so it's nice to see other f2p unlocking him as well!
  • Revenans's avatar
    Revenans
    9 years ago
    Ackbar lead (gear 6, lvl50), leia (gear 10, omega, level 80), STH (gear 10, omega, level 80), HRS (gear 9, omega, level 80), Biggs (gear 5, level 52)

    I loaded HRS up with crit and potency mods, used his stun on the Emperor (if I'm remembering correctly) it crit, gave him a second turn, then I proced the auto 25% turn meter to team, proceeded to wipe out RGs, then Vader, then Emperor. Not a single character died nor came close to dying surprisingly. Leia crushed it with 13k autos. Han had 33k protection and 21k hp.

    Took me about two minutes and completed my first attempt. I probably got lucky but honestly I think it was gong to be easy for me no matter what.
  • ndsnyder's avatar
    ndsnyder
    9 years ago
    I am an ex dolphin. In the beginning I spent some money, but I use only now f2p toons and do not spend a dime now.

    I worked on my Rebels Team due to expecting them get into focus in December latest. Was also farming shards for an empire team in GW and Arena. Before metashift I was in arena top10 on my shard.

    I used Ackbar 80 (L) G8, STH completely maxed, Leia 80 G9, Lando 76 G8 and Biggs 53 G5. All 5* modded, except Biggs (he was there to die basically).

    Until T7 it was a walk in the park. I had to retry T7 twice, due to bad strategy and bad RNG respectively. I found that to focus down the two guards, then the Emperor and finally Vader is a working strategy.
  • Waquira's avatar
    Waquira
    9 years ago
    After getting Lando to 7* yesterday and Biggs today I completed the final tier of the event in my first attempt with little trouble, though only 2 toons were left standing in the end. My squad was as follows:

    ST Han, gear 10, lvl 80
    Leia, gear 7, lvl 70
    AA (L), gear 7, lvl 70
    Lando, gear 8, lvl 72
    Biggs, gear 6, lvl 61

    So no, you don't need to max out everything.
    Take out the guards first, then the emperor and finally Darth Vader. Save Ackbar's debuffing ability for when Vader does his aoe attack. All those DoTs will boost the healing.

    (Edit: Only ST Han was fully modded, while the other 4 toons only had whatever left over 1*/2* mods)
  • MistPassiert's avatar
    MistPassiert
    9 years ago
    @Revenant That gear 10 Leia made the difference! She's a beast!

    @NDSnyder my first attempt was terrible strategy. I attacked Vader first, and then I let curiosity get the best of me as I tried other leaders. On my second attempt with Ackbar in lead I smoked it leaving Palpatine for last.

    @Waqui good to hear that you don't need to max everything! One common theme I've seen is a strong Stormtrooper Han on the victorious team!

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