Early Jedi, Secondary:Barriss Offee level 48, 7 star, gear VII
Obi-Wan (Old Ben) level 36, 5 star(13/85), gear V
- Mace Windu level 53, 5 star(95/85), gear VII
- Jedi Consular level 85, 7 star, gear X
- Luminara Unduli level 22, 5 star(58/85), gear IV
- Jedi Knight Gaurdian level 2, 2 stars(109/25), gear II
We don't need another Jedi team right away, but it's not bad to have one. Grand Arena and Galactic War both benefit from having multiple squads built up. Barriss Offee and Old Ben are the best characters to lead a 2nd Jedi squad, and Old Ben is required for the CLS event, so finishing Old Ben's shard farming & increasing the levels of Barriss & Old Ben are our first priorities here:
Barriss ==> level 80, gear 8, basic attack to ability level 7 (just short of the omega), "Force Healer" to ability level 7, and leadership ability ("No one left Behind") to omega
Old Ben ==> 7 stars, level 80, gear 8, all abilities to ability level 7 (just short of omega/zeta level), basic attack ("Elegant Form") to omega
Luminara ==> level 70, gear 7, all abilities to ability level 7
Mace Windu ==> level 70, gear 7, all abilities to ability level 7
JK Guardian is too poor a toon even to increase by the relatively small amounts we're giving to Luminara. Fortunately we have 6 candidate toons here, so this gives us a complete squad of secondary Jedi.
Early Geonosians (Nute Lead, Dooku supplemental):
Nute Gunray level 72, 7 star, gear VIII
Poggle the Lesser level 72, 7 star, gear VIII
Count Dooku level 14, 5 star(21/85), gear II
- Geo Soldier level 85, 7 star, gear X
- Sun Fac level 85, 7 star, gear VIII
- Geo Spy level 85, 7 star, gear VIII
This squad can't really be helped by improving Dooku, but he doesn't fit anywhere else yet, and you might need him in an emergency, so he still goes here, he just won't be in the improvement plan.
Nute ==> level 80, all abilities to ability level 7, leadership ability ("Backroom Subterfuge") to omega, Motivate to omega
Poggle => level 78, "Warlord's Resolve" to omega
Geo Spy ==> g10
Sun Fac ==> g10
Nute ==> g9
Geo Spy ==> g11
Sun Fac ==> g11
One of the interesting things here is that Padmé is a character available from a Legendary event that you can get with these toons. Without following at least part of the improvement plan, it might only be possible to get her at 5 stars, but the player should try for Padmé right away, and again every time any improvement is made on the early Geonosian squad.
Vader's Imperials:
Darth Vader level 85, 7 star, gear IX
Grand Moth Tarkin level 85, 7 star, gear VIII
TIE Fighter Pilot level 50, 4 star(3/65), gear VII
Royal Guard level 55, 5 star(211/65), gear VII
Stromtrooper level 35, 5 star(36/85), gear V
Now this is an interesting squad because there are two excellent toons available from Legendary events that vastly improve the imperials: Emperor Palpatine and Grand Admiral Thrawn. Unfortunately those characters require you to gear up a different faction (Phoenix Squadron for Thrawn, and Phoenix or any other Rebel for Palp) to get those toons. But fortunately, their Phoenix is (as we shall see) already good enough to get both of these toons. Palp at 7* and Thrawn at 5* or 6*. So literally later today the improvement plan can progress quite a lot:
1) Acquire Emperor Palpatine
- Level up to 82
- Gear up to g7 immediately and to g9 ASAP
- All abilities to ability level 7
- Leadership ability ("Emperor of the Galactic Empire") to zeta
- Power of the Dark Side to omega
- Basic attack ("Lightning Strike") to omega
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2) Acquire Grand Admiral Thrawn
- Level up to 82
- Gear up to g7 immediately and to g9 ASAP, but after Palpatine
- All abilities up to ability level 7
- "Fracture" to omega
- Basic attack ("Manipulate") to omega
- "Ebb and Flow" to zeta
3) Royal Guard: Use credits + the shards you already have to raise to 6 stars
- You probably don't want to actively farm RG since you'll continue to get a lot of shards from Bronziums and GW, but you might want to do a small amount of shard farming if this is the last toon you need to get to 7* in order to complete the R2D2 event. This is just something to keep in mind.
4) Darth Vader to g10
5) TIE Fighter Pilot
- Begin working on shards (this is ongoing) and take toon all the way to 7*.
- Level up to 70
- All abilities to ability level 7
- Any time after hitting 6 stars, raise character level to 80
- TIE Strike to Omega
- Basic attack ("Targeting Computer") to Omega
Now something else to note is that as soon as you have Palpatine (and possibly even before) you have enough Imperials to unlock R2D2 in its legendary event. You need 5x 7* characters to get R2D2 at 7*, but just unlocking the droid should be enough for now.
Currently there are only 2 seven star toons in the Vader's Imperials squad, but this can go up to 4 quite rapidly if the player completes the Palpatine & Thrawn events soon. Even if Thrawn is not completed as soon (it is the more difficult event), with Snow Trooper (from the Imperial Troopers faction) and with increasing the star count of Royal Guard, getting a 6 star R2D2 should be possible in a week or less.
Phoenix:
Hera level 72, 7 star, gear IX
- Kannan level 72, 7 star, gear VIII
- Sbine Wren level 71, 7 star, gear VIII
- Ezra Bridger level 71, 7 star, gear VIII
- Zeb level 71, 7 star, gear VIII
- Chopper level 52, 6 star(40/100), gear VII
We're doing Phoenix & Rebels next, even though they weren't next originally, because they're so strongly tied in with Imperials through the need for Phoenix for Thrawn, Rebels (including Phoenix) for Palp, and then Palp & Thrawn for R2D2.
Now, not only is R2D2 a rebel, but it's also the last toon needed to get CLS who is the premier Rebel leader. That ties Empire & all rebels (including Phoenix) together with a great big bow.
So let's do this. We need a plan to make Phoenix good enough to gain a 7* Thrawn so that rebels can gain a 7* R2D2.
Now, unfortunately we have to note that gear levels have been listed incorrectly again. The actual squad is this:
Phoenix:
Hera level 72, 7 star, gear VIII
- Kannan level 72, 7 star, gear VIII
- Sbine Wren level 71, 7 star, gear VII
- Ezra Bridger level 71, 7 star, gear VII
- Zeb level 71, 7 star, gear VII
- Chopper level 52, 6 star(40/100), gear VII
So... that took a gear tier off of 4 toons. Yikes! Still, we're in good shape to get Palp & Thrawn unlocked & not that far away from getting both to 7*. So here we go:
1) Chopper
- Take to 7* (Purchase from Cantina Battles store, 6 purchases required)
- Raise level to 82
- All abilities to level 7
- Maintenance Protocol to Omega
- Basic Attack ("Reckless Fling") to Omega
- Gear to g8+4
2) Hera
- Raise level to 82
- All abilities to ability level 7
- Leadership ability ("Rise Together") to Omega
- Backup Plan to Omega
- Gear to g9 (I would recommend g8+5, but Hear already has her g8 Stun Gun and everything left is relatively easy)
3) Ezra
- Raise Level to 82
- All abilities to ability level 7
- Push Through to Omega
- Basic Attack ("Rushing Strike") to Omega
- Watch and Learn to Omega
- Gear to g9+5 (it's reasonable to skip the g9 Mk5 Fusion Furnace for now, but if you have an extra Mk5 FF, well, everything else at g9 is relatively easy, and finishing the Mk5 FF allows taking Ezra to g10+2 or +3 pretty easily, and it's probably worth it)
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4) Kanan
- Raise level to 82
- All abilities to ability level 7
5) Zeb
- Raise level to 82
- All abilities to ability level 7
- Gear to g8+3
Early Rebels (Incl. CLS requirements):
Admiral Ackbar level 50, 7 star, gear VII
Princess Leia level 66, 7 star, gear IX
Stormtrooper Han level 22, 5 star(24/85), gear III
- Hoth Rebel Scout level 35, 7 star, gear IV
- Luke Skywalker level 62, 4 star(4/65), gear VII
- Biggs Darklighter level 2, 5 star(81/85), gear II
- Scarif Rebel Pathfinder level 2, 2 stars(3/25), gear II
NOTE: Old Ben listed with secondary Jedi above, but is also an alternate here
The most important improvements we can make here are about adding characters: R2D2, Commander Luke Skywalker ("CLS"), Han Solo (from the Rancor Raid), Chewbacca (this is different from "Clone Wars Chewbacca"), C3PO, and "Threepio and Chewie" which, despite the two names, is a single character. I'm listing them in this order since this is the order you're most likely to get them. Wedge is also a character you will need to add, but he doesn't improve the squad nearly as quickly as the other characters.
The most important characters above are the ones that are the prerequisites for CLS, so
Princess Leia
Stormtrooper Han
Luke Skywalker
Old Ben
The last requirement for CLS is R2D2. You will have to have all of these at 7* to get CLS. You literally can't even unlock him until you finish the entire event and receive the character already at 7*. This is how things are done with "Hero's Journey" events, and it's different from the "Legendary Events" that you will be more used to.
SO the three characters for which you will need more shards are:
Old Ben
StormTrooper Han
Luke Skywalker
Then for R2D2 you need shards, but from the event, not from farming. To get those you need to complete the Palpatine Event & Thrawn event mentioned above, which means that your first priority would be to get your Phoenix squad improved so that you can complete the imperial events. Then complete those events & improve Palp and Thrawn. Then get one more imperial to 7* (SnowTrooper is close, but Magmatrooper is in the GW store, where farming is cheap & easy: I would go SnowTrooper, though, as 85/100 is just too close and it's a much better toon). Since Snow is only 15 shards away, I would wait until both Palp and Thrawn are 7* before even considering farming Snow. It is most likely that this player will get the last 15 shards needed for Snow before we can even finish the Thrawn event.
So improvement here looks like this:
1) Princess Leia
- Increase level to 82
- Increase all abilities to ability level 7
- Gear to g9 (the player had incorrectly labeled this, she's currently actually g8)
- Rebel Tactics to Omega
- Basic attack ("Hair Trigger") to Omega
We don't want to give her a zeta, but that is one way that people get through the CLS event without spending as much on gear, if the player has more zetas to spare than gear to spare.
2) Acquire R2D2
- Increase Level to 80
- Increase all abilities to level 7
- "Smoke Screen" to Omega
- "Improvise" to Omega
- Basic attack ("Electroshock Prod") to Omega
- Gear to g8+3
3) Old Ben
- Shards to 7*
- Level to 76
- All abilities to level 7
- Gear to g7
Seven stars on Old Ben is required, but this is more than enough gear & ability increases for him to fulfill his role in the event: he doesn't need to be high powered as long as he gets good health and defense mods.
4) StormTrooper Han
- Shards to 7*
- Level to 80
- All abilities to level 7
- "Draw Fire" to Omega
- Gear to g9+4
5) Luke Skywalker (Farmboy)
- Shards to 7*
- Level to 78
- All abilities to level 7
- "Bullseye" to Omega
- Gear to g8
- If you need it, but try to avoid it: Basic attack ("Frontier Marksmanship") to Omega
Once you have this, you can get CLS
6) Commander Luke Skywalker
- Level to 80
- All abilities to level 7
- "Call to Action" to Omega
- "Use the Force" to Omega
- Basic attack ("Destined Strike") to Omega
- Gear to g10
There are 3 more factions, IIRC, that I want to analyze, but they're going to have little in the way of improvement plans for now. The above are the main factions we're going to worry about.
