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Shadowscream77
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7 years ago

Have the 4 Pillars shifted?

Do you think the farming recommendations for new players has “evolved”?
Obviously the core elements like Phoenix, Empire, Characters For Legendary unlocks remains critical and essentially the same

But....
1) Credit Heists - Why Farm Lando (pillar 1) anymore - surely it’s better to focus on BHs (and STH!) including Zam and/or Dengar from the Guild Events Store.
2) Jedi - Bastila should be farmed early as even at 3/4* she makes a bad faction good. Arguable Aayla should be considered a new sideproject. Old Ben is now even more useful than in the past.
3) Rogue One - whilst I get Chaze being part of the 4 pillars, they are a hard farm & I don’t think that critical. I went with Bistan and SRP - it gives me another solid Rebel ship with Target Lock and has helped keep me near the top of my Fleet Arena. PLUS, you still have 5 Rogue One characters with these substitutes.
4) Tarkin before AA....Unlocking the zeta mat challenge as early as possible gives a big headstart in my opinion. I have both characters and use AA for my fleet but lost a lot of potential zeta mats by delaying on getting Tarkin leveled up.
5) Darkside ships - should the Geos (even though only useful in Fleet) be prioritised earlier now they are so solid? Plus they are one of the easiest Farms (Sun Fac himself excluded).

What do you all think?
  • "Trystan_Spyder;c-1649528" wrote:
    I wouldn't prioritise Geos, since they're not THAT much better and they're useless outside of fleet unlike Biggs/Vader/TFP/KRU/Boba/etc.


    Yes Geno's got to be meta for 2 weeks before they released HT and the new Only the whales can win ships
  • "Dk_rek;c-1675146" wrote:
    "Trystan_Spyder;c-1649528" wrote:
    I wouldn't prioritise Geos, since they're not THAT much better and they're useless outside of fleet unlike Biggs/Vader/TFP/KRU/Boba/etc.


    Yes Geno's got to be meta for 2 weeks before they released HT and the new Only the whales can win ships

    You should watch Warriors Videos recommending Geos....7* Geos with Uniques maxed can still shred HTooth unless it’s maxed. I am pretty sure he will add them to his Pillars when he updates them. If a beginner/FTP player got those 3 maxed out early they would Top their Fleet Arena.
  • "Shadowscream;c-1675248" wrote:

    You should watch Warriors Videos recommending Geos....7* Geos with Uniques maxed can still shred HTooth unless it’s maxed. I am pretty sure he will add them to his Pillars when he updates them. If a beginner/FTP player got those 3 maxed out early they would Top their Fleet Arena.


    HT is kinda like Nest - scary until you know how to counter. Though I still have a hard time recommending Geos to beginners/FTP simply because they are only useful in Fleet - and they're far from invincible there too. That's a lot of precious resources better spent elsewhere. Geos aren't going to get you Thrawn, or EP, or Chewie, or R2, or CLS, or Chimera, or BB8, or JTR, or Revan, or......
  • Vaderizer's avatar
    Vaderizer
    Seasoned Newcomer
    "Trystan_Spyder;c-1675270" wrote:
    Though I still have a hard time recommending Geos to beginners/FTP simply because they are only useful in Fleet - and they're far from invincible there too.


    Can confirm, my Hound's Tooth feasts on Geo teams with zero fear of losing.
  • "Shadowscream;c-1675248" wrote:
    "Dk_rek;c-1675146" wrote:
    "Trystan_Spyder;c-1649528" wrote:
    I wouldn't prioritise Geos, since they're not THAT much better and they're useless outside of fleet unlike Biggs/Vader/TFP/KRU/Boba/etc.


    Yes Geno's got to be meta for 2 weeks before they released HT and the new Only the whales can win ships

    You should watch Warriors Videos recommending Geos....7* Geos with Uniques maxed can still shred HTooth unless it’s maxed. I am pretty sure he will add them to his Pillars when he updates them. If a beginner/FTP player got those 3 maxed out early they would Top their Fleet Arena.


    But see....it's maxxed with another maxxed bounty hunter ship... there is no Geno's shredding it...there is only you die the end.... at least in arena you can find a way to win against whales....NOT ships...and considering ships is where F2P were most likely to hang out.....yeah it sucks I never ever considered quitting this game before HT it's a horrible experience to be honest. But luckily I said I would max my own and see what they bring down the road in ships to make it less sucky so I figure they bought another 6 months from me of farming HT to decide. I loved ships...it's all I put my time and effort into since the release... and one stupid STUPID marquee for the whales ruined everything

    My .GG is there I have tried every combo with what I have and I die before I can even do anything...dead...so yeah trying to compete now is pointless....game mode ruined...I have been theory crafting on my own... all I can do now is max gauntlet see if that can do something
  • Wedge from reinforcements is the only way I can kill Hounds Tooth. 3 turns of unresistable healing immunity
  • Vaderizer's avatar
    Vaderizer
    Seasoned Newcomer
    "Shadowscream;c-1675305" wrote:
    Wedge from reinforcements is the only way I can kill Hounds Tooth. 3 turns of unresistable healing immunity


    TIE Silencer and Poe can both deliver massive enough hits to hit through his protection. Vader's "I Have You Now" is nice for wiping out his protection-up buffs before delivering a big hit as well.
  • Need to add the Old Republic toons to the pillars now that the Revan Journey is out. So, they and Bounty Hunters added to the original ones makes 6 total pillars that folks need to farm. Newer players might want to change the order of their farms, too, to accommodate getting certain Legendary/Heroic characters earlier than others.