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Empiric1
7 years ago

Finished Phoenix - What's next ?

Wondered if anyone has any suggestions, I started playing in December, just finished Phoenix, unfortunately, failed to get Thrawn at 7 stars because my squad wasn't strong enough but not sure where to go from here.

My squad: https://swgoh.gg/u/adapting/

Should I start working on R2D2 or BB8?

What kind of mods do I need to farm ? Health 5 stars with speed secondaries?

Thanks!
  • Waquira's avatar
    Waquira
    7 years ago
    "Empiric1;c-1441649" wrote:

    Thanks, yeah even 6 star Thrawn I failed at. Probably going EP, Tarkin, TFP, Stormtrooper and last slot I'm not sure yet, maybe Vader but doubt I can 7 star him before the event, he's very rare on shipments.

    I was thinking of doing my pilots like Biggs as well. I know I need 5 dark star ships like Vader, Maul, Boba, Biggs, FOTP and TFP. Worth doing Biggs before Phasma or should I make sure she's ready for BB8 ?

    Do you think it's worth to keep gearing up my NS over other toons more needed? They are great in squad arena and autoclearing everything including GW but not needed for any farm. Also, pretty annoyed Phoenix counter them hard and my shard all top 100 is all phoenix.


    G7/8 should do ok at 6* Thrawn. Maybe you just need 10 more levels for the debuffs to land more often etc.

    For R2 Vader, Tarkin, TFP, Thrawn and EP should do well. You will want to farm the first 4 for fleet arena anyway (Tarkin until you get Tarkin's Chimaera).

    I would farm Biggs' hard nodes every day. You will want him at 7* ASAP. It's a quite fast farm when buying his shards in GW shop as well. You don't need to farm Phasma before Biggs. Some of the other FO will probably be slower farms, hence you don't need to rush Phasma. She will catch up quite easily. You will need 5 dark side ships at 4* and any 8 ships at 5* to gain access to zetas. TFP, FOTP, Vader, Maul and Boba's ships are all great. However, maul's ship might be a slow farm, which could be rushed by farming Sun Fac's ship to 4* as well (easier farm). Biggs' and the two phoenix ships are must—haves as well (Biggs for fleet arena and Phoenix for Chimaera). Furthermore Wedge's, Bistan's and Cassian's ships are all quite good too — and rebel ships are needed for Chimaera. I would skip Poe's, Rex' and Clone sergeant's ships for now, until you have excess currency and don't need more zetas. 5's works quite well in fleet arena, however.

    Regarding gear:
    I would always prioritize my arena team, when equipping gear — and also always train them to max level. However, you seem to have less need for the crystal income than us F2P players. :—)

    Nightsisters are great. With zetas they will be awsome. I would keep gearing them — although I'm not sure how they work with this geared and starred zombie of yours. Most players bench their their Phoenix at some point and don't spend zetas on them. There are other counters to NS as well, however.

    Also make sure to do heroic pit raids. Your guildmate with tha g12 CLS will be able to carry you through (he hasn't unlocked raid Han yet, though)

    Mods:
    Move those 2 speed arrows from you Phoenix to your arena team (a fast Acolyte will hide to safety and be un—killable by Phoenix). Move that lovely cross from Ezra to your arena team, and the diamond from Hera as well. Yes, speed is king.


  • Waquira's avatar
    Waquira
    7 years ago
    Oh! And upgrade your mods to level 15. You will fain quite a lot from those top tier set boni instead of low tier.
  • SWGOH_Anakin_S's avatar
    SWGOH_Anakin_S
    7 years ago
    G7/8 for Thrawn? Not impossible for sure. But I wouldn't rely on that. If he fail to get Thrawn with that the whole plan is screwed. I would farm Stormtrooper. QGJ is the one that can wait.

    Edit: Oh I thought you were talking about tier 7 for thrawn. Yeah for Tier 6 G7/8 is definitely ok.

    However. You want 7* Thrawn to use him for 7* R2 and eventually for CLS.

    So If you can't get 7* Thrawn in time, you need to find other one to fill the 5th. Vader/RG didn't take too long for me, but that could be because I focused on them. I remember even using crystal for fleet shipment refresh. Which was a waste in hindsight.
    You eventually need Vader for his ship anyways.
    So start prioritizing his shards in fleet and farming RG from hard node until you unlock his cantina node

    The team I personally used was Tarkin lead tfp vader rg stormtrooper. RG is more tanky than storm at G8 I needed both , because I do not have palp & I need 2 tanks to take enough hits

    For question regarding Biggs/Phasma:
    Biggs first definitely. BB8 will most likely come twice before next jjedi rey arrives. you can get phasma in time.

    For question about NS.
    Worth it. Gear them as high as you can. They are endgame meta right now.
  • Empiric1's avatar
    Empiric1
    7 years ago
    Thanks everyone for the suggestions.

    Like you guys said ,will skip FO for now, not a fan of JTR and from reading these forums seems like First Order is one of the worst factions end-game any way. I'm also not a big fan of Edward Snowden in the latest movies.

    So to summarise...

    Cantina store: Stormtrooper
    GW: Biggs + Biggs ship
    Hard Nodes: Ive been doing FOTP but might switch to RG to make sure I get R2D2, I missed out on Thrawn and was pretty pissed now have to wait again.
    Cantina Battles: TFP
    Arena: Tarkin
    Fleet Store: Vader, Maul ship, FOTP, Boba Fett ship (finish 5 stars)
    Nightsisters: keep gearing up and zeta’d, if bitcoin stops tanking I might be able to get Talzin to 7 stars.
    MODS: Upgrade and switch some of the phoenix ones to my NS, maybe farm them a bit more once I finish TFP
    Scoundrels: I’ve just tried to do lvl 70 credit heist and got wiped immediately on the 1/3 stage lol, probably need to side focus a lot on Lando, Bobba and STH as getting rekt, maybe finish Chewie to 5 stars and get him to g6 as well.

    Am I missing anything ?
  • SWGOH_Anakin_S's avatar
    SWGOH_Anakin_S
    7 years ago
    no missing, but fyi
    credit heist can be done with g9 boba, all by himself
    gear up phoenix to g9, one or two to g10 if you don't want to wrap your head around the event for hours and days and finally throw your phone, for thrawn 7*. I did it at g8 but nearly threw it!

    also r2 is not too easy, so gear up empire pilots to g9.
  • Empiric1's avatar
    Empiric1
    7 years ago
    "Waqui;c-1441920" wrote:
    "Empiric1;c-1441649" wrote:


    Mods:
    Move those 2 speed arrows from you Phoenix to your arena team (a fast Acolyte will hide to safety and be un—killable by Phoenix). Move that lovely cross from Ezra to your arena team, and the diamond from Hera as well. Yes, speed is king.




    Hey,

    Sorry I wanted to respond to this one separately.

    The issue I’m having is not Phoenix killing me, it’s that I can’t kill them in 5 minutes. I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong or I need better gear or maybe better mods or both but found the team is virtually indestructible, it’s just a 5 minute stalemate then a draw, my acolyte doesn’t do enough dmg (I think because she’s low lvl and doesn’t have the double attack yet), Talzin is useless because I can’t plague them, Daka is not really a damage dealer, and the zombie also doesn’t do much dmg. The only time I win is once they’ve killed my zombie so much after 4 minutes Ventress starts literally one shotting them one by one, but because I was dumb and took my zombie to g8 and 6 stars, it can take a while to do that, if they even manage to kill him enough at all.

    Do you have any advice as I could be doing something wrong from a strategic perspective ? What I usually do is I try and get rid of Chopper first ( I used to do Hera and Ezra but they just keep healing and resisting too much and chopper taunting and dispelling every turn was annoying, then once Chopper is out it gets a lot easier, I pretty much just ignore Kanan but sometimes I’ll kill him too if he gets low enough that I can use Talzin’s special, otherwise I go for Hera so she stops reviving and then Ezra dies really fast if Hera and Chopper aren’t around, Zeb is usually last because he seems to be just as tanky as the chopper and kanan but doesn’t do as much. Failing all of that, once zombies died 10 times Ventress starts taking out 50% of Kanans HP with one hit and her special nearly one shots all of them so that’s good
  • Empiric1's avatar
    Empiric1
    7 years ago
    The issue I’m having is not Phoenix killing me, it’s that I can’t kill them in 5 minutes. I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong or I need better gear or maybe better mods or both but found the team is virtually indestructible, it’s just a 5 minute stalemate then a draw, my acolyte doesn’t do enough dmg (I think because she’s low lvl and doesn’t have the double attack yet), Talzin is useless because I can’t plague them, Daka is not really a damage dealer, and the zombie also doesn’t do much dmg. The only time I win is once they’ve killed my zombie so much after 4 minutes Ventress starts literally one shotting them one by one, but because I was dumb and took my zombie to g8 and 6 stars, it can take a while to do that, if they even manage to kill him enough at all.

    Do you have any advice as I could be doing something wrong from a strategic perspective ? What I usually do is I try and get rid of Chopper first ( I used to do Hera and Ezra but they just keep healing and resisting too much and chopper taunting and dispelling every turn was annoying, then once Chopper is out it gets a lot easier, I pretty much just ignore Kanan but sometimes I’ll kill him too if he gets low enough that I can use Talzin’s special, otherwise I go for Hera so she stops reviving and then Ezra dies really fast if Hera and Chopper aren’t around, Zeb is usually last because he seems to be just as tanky as the chopper and kanan but doesn’t do as much. Failing all of that, once zombies died 10 times Ventress starts taking out 50% of Kanans HP with one hit and her special nearly one shots all of them so that’s good
  • Empiric1's avatar
    Empiric1
    7 years ago
    "Anakin_Skywalker;c-1442246" wrote:
    no missing, but fyi
    credit heist can be done with g9 boba, all by himself
    gear up phoenix to g9, one or two to g10 if you don't want to wrap your head around the event for hours and days and finally throw your phone, for thrawn 7*. I did it at g8 but nearly threw it!

    also r2 is not too easy, so gear up empire pilots to g9.


    Thanks! very helpful, I wanted to avoid gearing Lando, will focus just on Boba and STH then.

    Might get Ezra to g10 as well as sure Jedi will have a use in the future, even if just for Yoda. I can see myself throwing my phone at the wall as well if I don’t get Thrawn next time he’s available lol

    Thx for the tip on R2D2, dont mind gearing empire, its my favourite faction, I just don't like the phoenix team lol
  • Empiric1's avatar
    Empiric1
    7 years ago
    "Waqui;c-1441920" wrote:
    "Empiric1;c-1441649" wrote:


    Mods:
    Move those 2 speed arrows from you Phoenix to your arena team (a fast Acolyte will hide to safety and be un—killable by Phoenix). Move that lovely cross from Ezra to your arena team, and the diamond from Hera as well. Yes, speed is king.




    Hey,

    Sorry I wanted to respond to this one separately.

    The issue I’m having is not Phoenix killing me, it’s that I can’t kill them in 5 minutes. I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong or I need better gear or maybe better mods or both but found the team is virtually indestructible, it’s just a 5 minute stalemate then a draw, my acolyte doesn’t do enough dmg (I think because she’s low lvl and doesn’t have the double attack yet), Talzin is useless because I can’t plague them, Daka is not really a damage dealer, and the zombie also doesn’t do much dmg. The only time I win is once they’ve killed my zombie so much after 4 minutes Ventress starts literally one shotting them one by one, but because I was dumb and took my zombie to g8 and 6 stars, it can take a while to do that, if they even manage to kill him enough at all.

    Do you have any advice as I could be doing something wrong from a strategic perspective ? What I usually do is I try and get rid of Chopper first ( I used to do Hera and Ezra but they just keep healing and resisting too much and chopper taunting and dispelling every turn was annoying, then once Chopper is out it gets a lot easier, I pretty much just ignore Kanan but sometimes I’ll kill him too if he gets low enough that I can use Talzin’s special, otherwise I go for Hera so she stops reviving and then Ezra dies really fast if Hera and Chopper aren’t around, Zeb is usually last because he seems to be just as tanky as the chopper and kanan but doesn’t do as much. Failing all of that, once zombies died 10 times Ventress starts taking out 50% of Kanans HP with one hit and her special nearly one shots all of them so that’s good
  • Bludmetal's avatar
    Bludmetal
    7 years ago
    I would recommend farming Empire over First Order as you need a very strong team just to unlock the Vets to get Rey. You will need a strong Empire team to get 7* R2d2, but Palatine makes it easier. Also work on Leia, Old Ben, Stormtrooper Han and Farmboy Luke. Get them as strong as you can before the next CLS event.

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