Grand moff tarkin

"NerdArmy;680415" wrote:
There is one person who uses him in my shard at top 10 but pretty easy to beat so not to sure..

Which shard are u on? What month? May I know the rest of his squad composition pls... Thanks.

I used him for a while (I have him maxed out) as an accelerator for Palpatine... in that regard he is great because you can lob out an AE stun at the start. After that his offense down is good and his AE TM reduction is very poor, even if you potency him up that thing just doesn't do anything useful.

Tarkin is a guy with a lot of cool tools that is on the verge of being usefull. If his AOE did Wedge, Lando, or Anakin level damage (~7-8k crits), he would be very good and usable. If he also had more base speed and potency, he would be very very good and desired.

Time for a rework.... Hehe...

He works pretty well under Palpatine lead. I use him a bunch in GW. His Offense Down debuff sticks well, which makes Rey a non-issue and is great at cooling off that enemy DPS. Since his TMR on AOE has a 45% proc rate, it usually only hits 1 or 2 enemies and doesn't do much damage, so it seems better to just focus his basic on the key threat.

I don't use him in Arena, he's a little too soft for what you get out of him. If his TMR had a higher proc rate, I might put him in.

I like Tarkin in my Empire build. He is probably weak on defense, but gives +28 speed to Palatine and company:

https://youtu.be/oD6s2VOahbM

I often replace him with someone else to do more damage depending on the other team.

The biggest problem with Tarkin is that the AI uses his AOE first instead of his offense down.

That being said, his potency is easily cured with Palp lead and a potency cross.

This leaves the problem of speed. He can get some decent speed from mods but with the current insanity of the speed meta, you may be lucky to get a turn in with Tarkin before 2 of your toons are dead.

(I have a max Tarkin and used him in arena for a long time, but simply put: he has too many flaws for arena. You can't fix them well enough with mods.)

"Thor_Odinson1;680808" wrote:
The biggest problem with Tarkin is that the AI uses his AOE first instead of his offense down.

That being said, his potency is easily cured with Palp lead and a potency cross.

This leaves the problem of speed. He can get some decent speed from mods but with the current insanity of the speed meta, you may be lucky to get a turn in with Tarkin before 2 of your toons are dead.

(I have a max Tarkin and used him in arena for a long time, but simply put: he has too many flaws for arena. You can't fix them well enough with mods.)

Sigh.... Guess the verdict is unanimous

Grand muffin is fun in GW plus you gotta think there will be an empire event to unlock Luke. Arena is a stretch, but stacking defuffs for culling blade is a recent obsession of mine. Plus he's got a sweet "mop" on top of his head. #allthewaytoupee

I have him at two gear pieces away from gear X. Looking forward to trying him out in arena with my EP, RG and soon to be 6* Vader.
I heard his AI uses his AoE before intimidating tactics, which isn't that great.