5 years ago

F2P player needing in-depth early game advice on roster development

I've been playing SWGoH for about slightly over a month and I'm currently level 56. Apart from buying the dark side starter bundle I intend to stay f2p for the foreseeable future.

My roster currently looks like this:

As can be seen above my main teams currently consist of Phoenix Squad minus Sabine and a partial Empire group with Count Dooku thrown into the mix. With the above teams I'm able to place around #2000 in Squad Arena and also complete Galactic Wars a few times.

So moving forward, what should my priorities be?

Roughly speaking, I know I should keep developing the Phoenix team to eventually tackle the Emperor Palpatine and Thrawn events.

While I don't really care about arena rankings that much, I do want to be able to finish Galactic Wars consistently every day, principally for the credits gain. Certain strategy guides written in 2017 state that the overall difficulty of GW is based on the combined GP of the top 5 characters in one's roster. Consequently it's advisable to not overcommit to one's main team and diversify into multiple teams in order to beat GW handily. Is it still true? Based on my experience so far, using my backup Empire team to soften up the starting nodes of GW before committing my main Phoenix team has certainly helped me finish GW a bit more easily.

Pertaining to the same issue of making credits, certain guides also recommend one to assemble a viable Scoundrel team to tackle the credit heist event, starting with the acquisition of Lando and Stormtrooper Han. I don't have either of those two characters, is it still worthwhile to get them now?

On another note, I've also unlocked Mace Windu recently. Seeing that I already have two competitive Jedi characters from Phoenix Squad, should I also start working on a Jedi team on the side? I understand they are needed for the GMY event. If so, which Jedi should I acquire next?

Lastly, I'm aware that I'll unlock fleet battle soon. At the moment, I've zero clue as to how to succeed in that area. What could I do to prepare for that? Some suggestions on beginner fleet composition would be nice.

Sanderzas
5 years ago
Phoenix are quite good to tackle the GW, because they regenerate a lot of health and protection.
You could go for a jedi team. If you do, try to farm bastilla as soon as possible (she is available in hard ship battles and hard battles), she is the best jedi leader except for jedi knight revan
JacenRoe
5 years ago
I used to be a huge proponent of Phoenix being the go to team when you start. I would skip them now. I would go for a full Geo team day one, and a Jedi team next using Ahsoka and Anakin. Probably Bastila lead, with Old Ben and another rando/filler for 5th.

Then I’d build towards a Padmé team and a General Grievous team followed by G$/clones. Then I’d go after the two Revans, and Malak. So many of the early legendaries are not a priority right now. Much of what used to be essential early on can just be skipped.

Also not to argue terminology, but you are easily a year from mid game player status. I wouldn’t call anyone “mid game” until they have a near max arena team, several 7* purple gear characters. Also doing heroic pit and tank raids at least.
Sanderzas
5 years ago
"bastille77;c-2073264" wrote:

I assume by Geo team you mean those Separatists right? As a matter of fact not long after I committed to getting the full Phoenix team I had second thoughts about doing so because I watched someone's video enthusiastically recommending a Separatist team for beginners on Youtube. Since I actually bought the dark side starter pack I already have Count Dooku in the roster. Based on what I've gathered so far, Separatists appear to be more viable near the end game than Phoenix squad. Is it too late to switch over now?

The geo team is brood alpha, geo soldier, geo spy, sun fac and poggle.
Geo soldier, geo spy and sun fac also have good ships
Bastille77
5 years ago
"thomssi;c-2073837" wrote:
Play another game. If you want a long term FTP game then to choose swgoh you would have to be severely challenged, especially when 4 years behind. Play something else.

4 years behind sure, but I don't mean to play this game competitively anyway so I don't exactly feel the urge to be ahead all the time. I actually first started on this game in 2016, but quickly got distracted by other obligations after playing for only a few days. Now I've decided to return primarily due to my enduring fondness for the Star Wars universe.

So this is just going to be one of those games that I'll play casually every day, at my own pace. I've plenty of other games which compete for my attention, some of which I do play at a more competitive level.
SupressedNinja6
5 years ago
Are you currently in a guild?
Bastille77
5 years ago
"NinjaRaven32;c-2072907" wrote:
Are you currently in a guild?

Yeah, it's just one of those starter guilds that you automatically join though. Completed the Pit raid a couple times and the Sith Triumvirate raid once.
Sanderzas
5 years ago
Phoenix are quite good to tackle the GW, because they regenerate a lot of health and protection.
You could go for a jedi team. If you do, try to farm bastilla as soon as possible (she is available in hard ship battles and hard battles), she is the best jedi leader except for jedi knight revan
Bastille77
5 years ago
"Sanderzas;c-2073156" wrote:
You could go for a jedi team. If you do, try to farm bastilla as soon as possible (she is available in hard ship battles and hard battles), she is the best jedi leader except for jedi knight revan

Thanks for the suggestion. In fact I was browsing through the Jedi roster today and kind of decided that I want to get Bastila next. Seeing that I only have 5-B dark side as an available farming node, it's going to be a long process though.
Bastille77
5 years ago
"JacenRoe;c-2073212" wrote:
I used to be a huge proponent of Phoenix being the go to team when you start. I would skip them now. I would go for a full Geo team day one, and a Jedi team next using Ahsoka and Anakin. Probably Bastila lead, with Old Ben and another rando/filler for 5th.

Then I’d build towards a Padmé team and a General Grievous team followed by G$/clones. Then I’d go after the two Revans, and Malak. So many of the early legendaries are not a priority right now. Much of what used to be essential early on can just be skipped.

Also not to argue terminology, but you are easily a year from mid game player status. I wouldn’t call anyone “mid game” until they have a near max arena team, several 7* purple gear characters. Also doing heroic pit and tank raids at least.

I assume by Geo team you mean those Separatists right? As a matter of fact not long after I committed to getting the full Phoenix team I had second thoughts about doing so because I watched someone's video enthusiastically recommending a Separatist team for beginners on Youtube. Since I actually bought the dark side starter pack I already have Count Dooku in the roster. Based on what I've gathered so far, Separatists appear to be more viable near the end game than Phoenix squad. Is it too late to switch over now?
Sanderzas
5 years ago
"bastille77;c-2073260" wrote:
"Sanderzas;c-2073156" wrote:
You could go for a jedi team. If you do, try to farm bastilla as soon as possible (she is available in hard ship battles and hard battles), she is the best jedi leader except for jedi knight revan

Thanks for the suggestion. In fact I was browsing through the Jedi roster today and kind of decided that I want to get Bastila next. Seeing that I only have 5-B dark side as an available farming node, it's going to be a long process though.

Try to unlock the fleet battle were she's farmable, it's not that hard, but you'll need to invest a little bit in fleets (I suggest to invest in dark side ships like the geo's as they unlock the zeta challenge)