Fleet arena rapidly approaching, ship advice requested.

Come join my fleet shard and you'll be very popular. :p

"CoastalJames;c-1542346" wrote:
Unpopular opinion - I value Ahsoka's and Jedi Counselor's ships.

While not the best long term ships they do fall into a gap of being sort of good for a new player as they are two of the more common gw drops and their pilots arent hard to farm.

In order (and from my experience only):

Reaper.

Vader (if the target is target locked).

Fives.

I’m going to be the voice of dissent on refreshing arena matches. I think you should only refresh arena matches if you get at least the same amount of crystals you put into it. So if you start out at rank 1000 in fleet arena (which is likely), it would take 5 refreshes to get into the top 20 if you won every single time (which you probably won’t). That would cost a huge amount of crystals that you’d never get back. Instead, use your 5 daily battles to advance as much as you can, then do the same the next day and the day after that, etc. Keep going like that, and in around a week or so, you’ll be knocking on the top 20 and you won’t have to spend any extra crystals to get there.

Biggs.

Tie and First Order Tie.

Moff's Capital ship.

Silencer, sure!

Got Five's? Boba's?

Boba is achievable, the toon himself is decently geared and powered up. His ship is just fleet store isn't it?

I take it Fives is good, I had no idea he had a ship actually. Easy (ish) farm too.

I'm basically looking for a solid foundation force that can hold on defence reasonably well.

I'm level 57 now but working on Phoenix/any Empire toons I can farm from Hard nodes.

Ghost and phantom arent bad ships if phoenix pilots are developed.

Not meta but in early game your best pilots are your best ships.

I've started work on Sabine but she'll take a while. Can't stand Chopper.

Not too worried about meta as that's beyond my wallet though I do buy a few things, mainly crystals.

To begin with you have two priorities for fleets. 1. Build a viable arena fleet and 2. Unlock zeta challenge. To unlock the zeta challenge you'll need DS ships. I'd go for Vaders TA, ITF,FOTF, Slave 1 and Tie Silencer. These are five of the better DS ships, and all the pilots can be useful in other events (R2, BB8, and heists and new bounty hunter events). Another option is the Scimitar. Two other DS ships are really useful to have, the Tie reaper and Gar saxons Gauntlet, but these both require two crew members and they are on hard to farm nodes. Farm five of these guys. The spanner in the works is you'll need to farm a light side ship to be competative. Biggs X wing. Without a doubt the best tank in the fleets at the moment, so add him to the list. Other ships I would recommend adter farming these are Fives Umbaran , Bistans U wing, and wedges xwing, ghost and phantom (the last 4 along with Biggs will get you Thrawn,the best cap ship). As far as Cap ships go, put your effort into Tarkins Executrix. Its the best of the three cap ships available to you before you unlock thrawns, and having 2 or more good cap ships is really useful when it comes to TW/TB

Seeing as I'm on a good run for GW atm, I'll get going on Biggs. Won't take long......if I can get the creds that is.

Zeb is on 6* so I can leave him for. I'm kind of on a dash to try and catch the tail end of the Palp event. On track for a 5* version at least.

So it's Biggs, Tie Advance, Slave 1 and FOTF and ITF alongside an Moff/Executrix cap ship.

I'm a ways off needing Zetas of course but a head start is always good. I've seen the costs.