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5 years ago

Farming Zetas

I'm level 75 right now, and at 78 I can start farming zetas from the fleet challenge. I just learned that to do that, you need a 5 star Tarkin ship, which means a bunch of 5 star dark side ships to get Tarkin's up. I don't have any dark side ships farmed at all, I do have Ahsoka, Anakin, Fives starred to 3 or 4. I think I need to farm some dark side ships, but which ones? Geonosians? I have geo soldier decently geared. Which other ships?
Here's my account if it changes anything.
https://swgoh.gg/p/252191742/
  • @Snowbird13 @Skies439 I think I should do the quick route, not the most powerful one. I will pause the farms that get in the way of the ships. I have been saving/using my guild money for Logray and any hard to get gear I need.
    Getting Padme 5-6 stars with zetas, then getting her to 7 a week or two later is better thang getting her 7 starts but waiting a while to get the zetas.
    One thing I'm a little worried about is getting the geos. I don't have enough ship currency to get all of them and their ships up. Should I throw spy into my cantina farms along with KRU?
  • @Old_Ben12345 focusing on ship and pause on everything probs good idea. It's way easier to get top 20 in ships than squad arena. Once you get your ships right, everything will follow.

    My 2nd account. For ships i use anakin, ahsoka and 3 geos with 4* ackbar, so far i can still stay in top 20. Im level 84 on that one. When your arena ships pretty high you can easily farm geos and then clones and GG too.
  • "Skies439;c-2117997" wrote:
    @Old_Ben12345 focusing on ship and pause on everything probs good idea. It's way easier to get top 20 in ships than squad arena. Once you get your ships right, everything will follow.

    My 2nd account. For ships i use anakin, ahsoka and 3 geos with 4* ackbar, so far i can still stay in top 20. Im level 84 on that one. When your arena ships pretty high you can easily farm geos and then clones and GG too.


    This sounds perfect! That is likely the fleet I will use when I get my geonosians. Being high in fleet arena will get me crystals which I can 'ride on' to help speed my progress on other things, whether I'm buying gear or energy refreshes. I should unlock all the ships within a week, then continue building them for a few more, and at that point, I will have unlocked the zeta challenge and have the means to complete it! Thanks for your help, good luck on your second account! Do you have a swgoh.gg account for it that I could see, I'm just curious.
  • @Old_Ben12345
    https://swgoh.gg/p/848692196/
    Thats for my first account tho

    Ally code for 2nd account 339-246-954
  • Yes Anakin Ahsoka Geos should be way faster, considering only two Geos are on the same node (Cantina). It should be a even faster farm. Just put all your resources on ships for like a month and you should do fine. Actually I started a seppie account with this lineup March this year (Plo Koon instead of Anakin though, and Mace lead) and it's currently 1st of all non-hyperdrives in my shard and 30th in flet arena rank. Though if you still want to climb higher in fleet you might want to transition to a full GR fleet, but that's going to happen a lot later.
  • "Snowbird13;c-2117660" wrote:

    Agreed with your post except this. I don't think the tie bomber will work well with those. You lose all the extra protection and taunts since none of those ships are empire(extra protection) and it won't taunt as much with no one else applying target lock.


    You are absolutely right on the effectiveness.
    I didn't take into account how faction specific Bomber will be.
    I was just thinking of ease of access since he's playing catchup.
    Sun Fac should still give him some Taunt though so its still an AEing ship.
  • "Old_Ben12345;c-2117839" wrote:
    @Snowbird13 @Desertfox1024 @Schwartzring Thanks for the help. I think ill go with geos, kylo unmasked, and regular TIE fighter. I think Vader and Boba's ships and characters will take too long, especially since I'm a little late to the ship party. Good idea?


    One thing to remember about Vader/Boba ships, and about General Grievous as well, is that they are all very low % spawn rate in the store and eventually you'll want all 3.

    My suggestion is to save up a couple days currency for fleet. Get 2K+ built up.
    Then treat 1K as your "Zero".
    Buy the Sun Fac w/ Fleet Currency #1. He spawns in 2 locations in the store & it refreshes 3x a day.

    Then #2 pick up all 3 Geo Ships both with Fleet Currency & with G-War Currency.

    Never drop below 1000 though. Because that last 2 purchases is for when any of the Vader/Boba ship or Grievous himself spawn. Nab them.
    They are so rare that it won't slow you down TOO much. And you will be glad to have them partially farmed later when you actually want those 2 ships & that character since farming them FAST isn't something that is feasible at all.


    "Old_Ben12345;c-2117844" wrote:
    Also, should I pause my other Cantina battle for Kylo Unmasked and his ship? I'm currently working on the B2 Super Battle Droid. And, should I do cantina battles for the geos? or just buy them from fleet shipments.
    So many questions sorry but thanks for helping


    For now get Kylo & His Ship up, FAST.
    Like stop whatever you are doing & take Kylo & Silencer to 5-7*.
    That is your sole farm with Cantina for the next 5 weeks or so.

    After at least 5* on both when the final 2* are longer farms, if you want to snatch up some quick stars on Geo Soldier & Geo Spy to get the characters up to at least 4* each then that is an option.
    The 100 Shards to go from 6* to 7* could also get you a couple stars on each of the Geos.
    But then back on Kylo as his Node really is the best since you get the Pilot & Ship in the same location.


    So basically all your Red Energy & G-War Currency & Fleet Currency for the next 2 months is going to be going into DS Ships & DS Pilots.

    But it will be worth it once those Zetas are on a regular farm schedule.

    And when your all done, that DS fleet will do fine in arena too compared to the GR ships you have at 2-3* now & buy you the time you need to then get the GR ships up.