How the Heck Do I Beat Galactic War

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Thats my squad

"John1818;36629" wrote:
I've never come close to finishing. I'm level 69 and have a really solid squad with an ok back up. I thought it might be because I was finishing in the top 20 in the arena so I put out the worst squad I had and dropped into the 1000's. Still can't get past the sixth battle. Help.

Unfortunately, your GW is based off of the highest arena power you've ever won an arena match on, so throwing your arena rank won't change anything. At least thats the last "official" word we've been given.

With that being said, as others have stated, you need healers. And you need to take advantage of the "retreat" feature. To do this, click the round settings looking button. Now when after you retreat, if you try the exact same attack, you will get the exact same result. There is only 1 thing that will change things up, thats if you change a toon in your squad. Meaning, say you open your GW match, and right off the bat, you get zapped by a Dooku stun. If you immediately retreat and don't change your lineup, when you start your GW again, Dooku will zap the same toon, with the same result. OK, now say that happened (start GW match, get stunned by Dooku,) but this time, after you retreat, you make a change to your lineup, Dooku will attack a different toon, with a different result. If you then retreat again, unless you change your lineup again, it will be the same. I use multiple retreats per node sometimes.

There is also suicide squads. Since retreating will net the same results unless you change your lineup, sometimes, if you know you could beat it if they didn't have their special moves, you can send in a suicide squad, and any damage they do will stick, as well as any cooldowns they are on. So I'll send in my common fodder, it will draw special moves, die and they will be on cooldown, then send in your main team, and wipe the floor with the toons on cooldown. Also, keep in mind, if that team is strong enough to take the specials and do damage, the damage sticks. Be warned, don't ever try to take out Sid this way. You can beat him to the edge of his life, but when your suicide squad gets taken out, Sids health will replenish.

Finally, I've found since reaching higher levels, its extremely beneficial to no only have and A and B team, but to also have a C team to use.

Just to let you know, at higher levels you will have an arena lineup and a GW lineup. Healers aren't really a necessity in arena if your damage output s high enough. For GW, you want at least 2 healers if not 3.

I'm on a day 1 hard release server. I finish in the top 50 with my team of

7*Poggle lead
7*GS
7*IG86 (omega)
7*Poe
7*Phasma

And i waltz through GW daily with a lineup of

7*Barris lead
7*Lumi
7*JC
7*QGJ
7*Yoda

2 entirely different lineups for the 2 separate game modes.

I just gave you the wealth of my knowledge. Hope it helps. If you take my advice you will have no problems beating GW. But my main asset to GW is without a doubt Barris. She is my rockstar in GW and the Yoda event. I certainly couldn't walk through GW daily, nor could I have gotten my 6* or 7* Yoda without that trader....grr.... I mean Barris.

"John1818;36629" wrote:
I've never come close to finishing. I'm level 69 ...

You lost me at 69.. that's your problem, get higher level. You do realize max level is 80 right? Most teams you face are probably mid 70s in later nodes.. I don't understand why you can't see you have a very daunting task.. you can't be helped, level that's your only option.

You've made some unfortunate decisions on which characters to invest in, and it will take a while to recover. Chewie, FInn, Boba Fett and Talia are not very good. Personally I would drop all of them as soon as you can farm replacements, both in arena and your GW primary squad. The only long term viable charactes you have are Lumi and Fives.

Start investing in Old Daka, she's strong. I see you have some progress on Phasma, I'd work on her, and QGJ is great. You need a taunt dispel and QGJ is the best for that. Now that you are 69 you can start working on Barriss from cantina, shes no good in arena but she's amazing for GW.

Barriss (L), Luminara, Daka, Fives, QGJ should carry you through most GW sets once you have them leveled out.

I was this guy when i was 50-60 then i got to 70, i'm 76 now. I hesitated at Barriss at first because i have the all mighty Luminara then i unlocked her then i realize she's amazing then comes Daka, Daka is just GOD LIKE specially if her basic is at 8! I swear GW will be so easy with Barriss and Daka unless you face 3 Dooku leads in a row with Rey, it's a freaking nightmare!

Ditch Boba for now and focus on RG and GS, stat!

Hello !
If I may add to all the previous comments,

You need to get stun/heal toons ! Here is my team and I get past all GW everyday without losing any toons ! (except the last one but no one cares if your toons die)

Here is what I have: (All 75, but I can clear the GW everyday since 70)
Phasma (L) 7*
Sid 7*
Rey 6* (Soon 7)
Daka 6* (Soon 7)
Lumi 7*

You may want to follow @Speaker4thedead's advices ! Here are my "rules" for doing GW :

-First : Kill Sidious first. (Except if there are bigger treat (Tie Pilote / Rey, huge hitter) because his anti-heal won't help you)
-Always use Lumi's heal first (In case someone dies, you get Daka's heal to revive)
-If a toon dies because you failed, surrend and retry with adjustments (You either change the first attack you do, or change your toons's positions Like Rey from 2nd place to the 3rd, that will change the script)
-Always Keep the big fat tanky guys for the last (Barris/Fives/ etc.) So you can get your cooldown on them and they don't do much dmg
-Try to heal even if there are only 2 toons hurt ! So you don't get too much behind in term of Global Health.
-Don't use your stun on the one you're going to kill ! Most of the time, i'm trying to stun Lumi because her special move does tons of damage !
-Don't forget Suicide Squads !

If you apply those rules, you should do fine ! heal / Stun are the keys for GW !
Here is my experience, feel free to follow those rules or not if that doesn't work for you !

Good luck !

JC, Lumi and Daka should be enough healing power. However, as others stated before, you could use a hardhitter or two. I myslev use GS from the very first battle coupled with some secondary toons. Then as I progress, I switch in some of the main toons one at a time.
I see that Chewie is your only tank. If you take RG to...only 3* or maybe 4* he's usable in GW as well.
Remember to retreat, if things go wrong. Also make sure to save your special abilities and heal up by in the last few turns of the battle to enter the next battle with full health and force.

As the guide in the guides section states: GW is about sustainability rather than firepower. Burst — stabilize and heal — burst again etc.

Oh! And heal early, rather than at low health.
And when using JC, after a heal use his basic only until his heal gas only 1 or less turns on CD left, to make use of the CD reducing ability.

Lumi is a GW warrior. I just raised my jc and anikin to g9 with omega. Add barris as lead. QGJ for damage.
That's a Jedi team that can run you through GW everyday.