Fleet Arena should I start over

"Damodamo;c-2108063" wrote:
You lost me at tarkin is trash.. until thrawn or the falcon hit your fleet arena, tarkin with geos at a comparable gear level and with 5* mods, 7* will compete with anything you can put together under ackbar and mace.

Ht will ad an extra dimension, but you can place high with geos, you can place high with empire ties as well. Until HT becomes a factor and/or the falcon, you have the firepower under tarkin to win on offense. It’s not trash if you just don’t know how to win.

Hence why I said to farm your pilots early if you wish to compete, don’t unlock fleet till your ready and your still only competing with ppl unlocking fleet at the same time as you, hyperdrive gives you an advantage in fleet, but you will be focusing on a wide spread, it does not automatically give you an unassailable lead if you plan well.

The problem with Tarkin is that the only viable F2P fleet has the Geo Trio at its core. Their damage comes from assist attacks and crits, which benefits greatly from Ackbar's lead. For Mace, he's viable if your core is the Anakin-Ahsoka duo. Tarkin back then was the best capital ship, but with Ackbar getting the reworks, he's now lacking behind. He also relies too much on debuffs and Target Lock, which the Geo Trio can't provide. As for the ultimate ability, in normal circumstances it's an I-win button, but what we're facing are hyperdrive fleets, which are much more durable than F2P fleets. Also, when used with the Geo trio, Ackbar's ultimate deals much more damage. Tarkin himself isn't that trash, but compared with the reworked Ackbarhe's lacking.
For farming pilots early, my brother actually did a completely fleet oriented account, farming fleets starting from the very beginning. At level 60 he actually managed to get a Mace/Ackbar lead fleet with Geo trio and Anakin and Ahsoka, with compatible firepower to hyperdrives. But the main problem is that when you're at level 60, you can't upgrade most characters beyond G8 thanks to the level requirement. However, the hyperdrives can spam whatever gear they want on their fleet (not to mention that they already has a lot of extra gear in the bundle). He actually managed to best around 30% of hyperdrives, but as the whales whale more, he can't climb anymore.