All the suggestions I read are Sid first from arena. I have only been playing 3 days (I know, seasoned veteran) but I invested in the droid pack because I wanted more dark side for campaign and it seemed like a good deal. I am loving droids!!! I use the 3 droids with Poe and an AOE attacker like jawa and have been killing it in arena so far. Farming gear for all of them. Can't wait to get Poggle. Here is my question. Do I have to unlock Sidious because he seems so unanimously strong? Or could I switch to leveling IG88 or HK47? I know I can do whatever I want but is that just dumb for efficiency? If droid leveling is a viable strategy should I start with HK (4star) or IG88 (3star)?Also since I am heavily using Poe can I star him instead of getting daka? Or once again will that hurt my progression?So many questions after 3 days.... Thanks for any advice

Darth Sidious features heavily in arena, i've unlocked and levelled him but i'm actually levelling a Droid team myself instead.I have HK-47, next IG 88 and 86 then Poggle the lesser.If you want better tank/ability block, go for HK first, IG 88 is squishy but has some powerful attacks, especially with other debuffs.Daka is great for PvE levels, rarely seem him/her in Arena though so up to you.Sidous' main benefit is his natural dodge against Jedi and heal blocking regular attack, his leader ability to up crits is great as well.

Yes. Sid has high natural dodge against Jedi. Combine him with Luminara and he's a dodge machine. On top of that he has a hard hitting AoE(I've gotten crits near 3k before the DoT), his leader ability is fantastic, his basic attack hits hard, healing immunity debuff, good speed, and when any character dies he gets a heal. On top of that, he's easy to farm to 7*.

I've been playing since November and I have yet to unlock sid, I've been placing top 5 and most occasions top 3 in arena, and my server has lots of maxed out compition. I always finish gw.If a droid team is working well with you I would say keep going with it. I 7 stared savage with my arena tokens and just unlocked ig88 and planning on 7 staring him before moving on. Probably going for hk 47 and ventress after that. I think I'm the only one that has no desire for sid, I'll never use him in arena and for darkside battles there's several to borrow at level 60 and 7 Stars since its what mostly everyone else shoots for. Though I don't have her, Daka is very useful for darkside battles, I would love to have her right now for level 6 hard in darkside, I almost never see her in arena but when I do she is never a problem dealing with so I would say unless you want her for darkside battles I'd leave her go but like me you will eventually need her to progress in darkside battles.

That actually leads to another question with your Daka comment. I finished the first 3 rounds of dark and light side but have been spending energy farming gear. Should I focus a certain amount of energy on progressing further?Thanks for the response. Curious what others think.

Thanks Nick. I love that seemingly many strategies can work in this game. I'm sure more strategies will continue to evolve too. Hope the game is successful and continues to add content.

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fantazhi
10 years ago
Sid is a solid unit until you get to diversify your roster. He's easy to get through arena, and will help you tons in pve and GW as well because he's a fast unit. There's not only "arena" in this game, if you want overall value, he's a huge return on your investment (instead of scenario-specific units like Han or HK-47), that's why so many got him.
cosmicturtle333
10 years ago
You can tell that there's something wrong with this game when I would rather lose to a pay to win Jedi team than win against the cookie cutter team in Arena.

(As I did a few minutes ago)
fantazhi
10 years ago

"cosmicturtle333;25961" wrote:
You can tell that there's something wrong with this game when I would rather lose to a pay to win Jedi team than win against the cookie cutter team in Arena.

(As I did a few minutes ago)

The passive-aggressive is strong in this one.

There's nothing "wrong" with the majority of people having the same units a month after the release, because it's factually the best choice to begin with. It'll get better in time once everyone gets to start working on their "favourite character" or what's not and more units are introduced in the shipments.

Just like there's nothing "wrong" with the cookie-cutter taste of the masses enjoying the new SW movie.
PilotRice
10 years ago
Well, anyone who has been following the meta knows that jedi teams are out and healers are on their way out. You're new, so I'll give you a quick on the meta shifts.

Healers were it. Every team had a minimum of 3. The healers synergised well with jedi, and then the meta started shifting towards jedi. After the anti jedi patch, the meta shifted away from jedi.

With that said, sid is a counter to healer heavy and jedi heavy metas. He wont do porely as he is a strong hero with a nice kit, but with the meta shifts, sid is fast becoming obsolete.

I would strongly suggest that you stay with what you are doing, and don't follow the FotM. Your path to droids will put you ahead of the meta by the time you level up.
laserfj
10 years ago
"Pamed_Uleiros;3363" wrote:
All the suggestions I read are Sid first from arena. I have only been playing 3 days (I know, seasoned veteran) but I invested in the droid pack because I wanted more dark side for campaign and it seemed like a good deal.

I am loving droids!!! I use the 3 droids with Poe and an AOE attacker like jawa and have been killing it in arena so far. Farming gear for all of them. Can't wait to get Poggle.

Here is my question. Do I have to unlock Sidious because he seems so unanimously strong? Or could I switch to leveling IG88 or HK47? I know I can do whatever I want but is that just dumb for efficiency? If droid leveling is a viable strategy should I start with HK (4star) or IG88 (3star)?

Also since I am heavily using Poe can I star him instead of getting daka? Or once again will that hurt my progression?

So many questions after 3 days.... Thanks for any advice

The two things he brings is healing immunity and lasers hip skill. He's not the be-all end-all.

If you like droids better feel free to go for them instead.
tysonhoward123
10 years ago
His self heal is his best attribute

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