Light Side 1 Hard Node characters

Ahsoka Tano
Aka Ahsoka, Ashoka, Snips

Overall rating: 4/4 (Highly recommended)
New player summary: build

Why build: Great character with a great ship, required for General Skywalker.
Where acquired: LS1B, Cantina Store, Fleet Store (avg)
The good: Removes buffs on basic attack, has a heal. Her ship is great for removing buffs and is easily obtained. Both she and her ship are useful from the early game to the endgame.
The bad: Leadership is basically useless, doesn’t do much damage with her basic attacks.

Dark Trooper
Aka DT, Dark

Overall rating: 3/4 (solid character)
New player summary: skip unless you know what you’re doing

Why build: Hard hitting attacker that synergizes well with General Veers trooper team.
Where acquired: LS1C
The good: High damage output. Hands out buffs and turn meter which helps keep turn meter train going under Veers.
The bad: Glass cannon that loses effectiveness when damaged. Not a prerequisite for anything and really only useful in very specific teams.

"flux_rono;c-2388327" wrote:

"InquisitorFang;d-259587" wrote:

Rey (Scavenger)
aka SRey, ScavRey, Stick Rey

Why build: requirement character for Raddus, JTR, Rey, and JML, crew member

wouldn't classify her as a JML requirement, that's covered under JTR who is directly needed. you only build her up enough for unlocking JTR,

She is still required, just indirectly. I’ll update the notation.

"InquisitorFang;d-259587" wrote:

Rey (Scavenger)
aka SRey, ScavRey, Stick Rey

Why build: requirement character for Raddus, JTR, Rey, and JML, crew member

wouldn't classify her as a JML requirement, that's covered under JTR who is directly needed. you only build her up enough for unlocking JTR,

Kylo Ren (Unmasked)
Aka KRU

Overall rating: 3/4 (Solid character)
New player summary: build, but from his cantina node only

Why build: Great character with a great ship, required for Supreme Leader Kylo Ren. Great option for unlocking BB-8 who requires five First Order and is required for JTR, who is in turn required for JML and Rey.
Where acquired: Cantina 3F (technically also LS1D but the Cantina node also has his ship and it’d be a waste to farm him without it since he’ll be done long before his ship and you’ll still be farming that node.)
The good: Great tank - heals when damaged, making him immortal against weak attacks, can taunt immediately at start of fight with a zeta. Has an excellent ship and a great leadership ability for First Order.
The bad: Doesn’t do much damage.

With kylo ten unmasked I would highly suggest building him through the cantina only. His ship is very good and later in the game it will be one of the most useful cantina battles for loading up with shard shop currency. You will finish the character far before the ship but will be accumulating materials for gear 12 over time. The payout via cantina is just too good to justify spending any regular energy on.

Put an accidental not in there. Yes, definitely do LS1D exactly once for the achievement and never again.