Level 56 player here, need some directions

Jolee farm sucks. Jolee is a great character, but he needs a zeta and takes a lot of resources. I would go for the following, Geo spy, Geo soldier, Nute, Count Dooku, and Sun Fac. This will help get you Padme and some good ships. Those characters are Sept, which are needed for the Padme Event. The Geo's will also get you some nice ships. They are easy to farm in the fleet store and galactic war store. I would also farm old ben and Jedi Knight Anikan.

It is your choice to continue with Jedi or move to Sept. I would keep with Jedi until you get Yoda to 7 stars. His event is very easy compared to others.

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Don't start over. I only have a couple of Pheonix characters and I'm doing just fine at level 85. I went for Jedi and Separatists. Now I have an insane Padme team. I would work for Bastilla Shan to make a Jedi team with Ezra, Old Ben Jedi Knight Anikan, and Ashoka Tano. This team will get you far in the arena and it will get you Yoda. Then go for Separatists with Nute, Count Dooku, Asajj, Magma, and B2. Going for Jedi helps you get through the easy Yoda event and Yoda is very good. Farming up Stormtrooper Han, Farmboy Luke, Princess Leia, R2 D2, and Old Ben gets you CLS as well. The best advice I can give you is to go after one team like Jedi, Pheonix, or Sept. Good luck to you.

Here is my roster. You can see the only Pheonix character I have geared up is Ezra

https://swgoh.gg/p/627992252/characters/

On youtube look up videos about Bastilla Shan Jedi (without JNR) teams and Nute teams. I saw you have Jango Fett. He is very good but very hard to farm. So maybe consider not farming him for Padme event.

Thank you for this! Very much appreciated and helpful. I will start farming Bastila and the Jedi team then, focusing on Bastila, Ahsoka, Old Ben and Anakin Jedi Knight. Meanwhile, i'll try to keep the separatist squad at a decent level.

Thanks for the Jango Fett advice. I got lucky and got him in a bronzium pack, never been able to farm him though.

No problem. If you want some practice with Bastilla or Padme as a leader, I can give you my ally code. Also, read into Bastillas kit and Yodas kit. The reason those two are so good early on is that you give the buffs from her Rally ability to Yoda and you use his Battle Meditation to give it to the whole team.

Sounds great. Yeah, if I may ask for you ally code it would be very useful. I would give you a gold if we were on reddit :D

Thanks this also can help others with the same problem, like me!

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exactly what @ir21tiny said. focus on Padme team and separatist team. Ahsoka, Anakin, Yoda can be acquired pretty early. start building team with Bastilla lead, ahsoka, yoda, anakin/ezra/kanan (anakin a bit longer to farm). when you got kenobi later on you can swap kanan/ezra with kenobi.

Also farm geonosians, with 5 geos you can get Padme. And with farming anakin, ahsoka and geos you will get decent fleet team under ackbar.

My current acount https://swgoh.gg/p/848692196/characters/
and I just started another account and try to focus on separatist and getting Padme.

Thank you all for the great tips. Based on what you suggested, my main goals now will be, ordered by priority:

1. Getting a 5* Jedi team in order to get Yoda. Also based on the shards i already have, i'm thinking Bastila (Hard Nodes), Ezra (Cantina), Luminara (Galactic war), Ahsoka (Hard Nodes + Cantina tokens), Jedi Consular - temporarily. Two healers would probably be weird, so I will replace Luminara/Jedi Consular with Anakin as soon as i can.
2. Meanwhile, farm Separatists. I already have a decent Nute, Asajj and Dooku. I will start gearing up Poggle and Geo soldier, currently level 1.
3. Farm Geos in order to get Padme.
4. Repeat step 0 (feel lost and ask for help again here)

You don't need Geos to get Padme.
Your other seps should be able to handle it.
Especially if you have Grievous by then.