Fleet arena rapidly approaching, ship advice requested.

Shard store doesn't help unless you're getting shards of toons you already have maxed. And if you're buying shards of toons you have maxed, you're doing it wrong.

That being said - I'm not sure I buy into the silencer hype. Putting off Hera and Ezra to farm KRU not only hurts both ghost and phantom ships, but it hamstrings you for Thrawn and Palpatine.

Don't get me wrong - silencer is a hard hitter, fast, and relatively easily gotten. But you have to be aware what you're sacrificing to farm a ship that isn't strictly necessary. I went after it, and now it doesn't even make reinforcements.

I have Hera and Ezra at 5*. That will do for now. It's enough for entry level Palp, I'm pretty much just waiting on Kadan really. He's Friday or Saturday. Then once he's at 5* it's onto Tarkin for a bit who really needs working on.

I need to expand my roster a bit anyway, Phoenix are pretty much everywhere in arena and I need me a counter that isn't a slightly more powerful Phoenix team and/or faster one.

So I'm leaning towards Empire (as I said a 5* Palp is achievable) and just farming Silencer/Kylo as it's easy and still gets me some tokens for Chopper who will be replaced by Sabine, so I'm not farming him too far. Once I can start doing higher cantina nodes I'll see what's up.

I'll be circling back to Phoenix long before panic farm territory, I just need a solid second team with synergy for GW which is relatively easy now but will change fast.