Been playing since a couple weeks before Christmas. Had no idea about the forums or strategy, I was playing for fun and getting characters we liked from the franchise. Well now I am way in the hole and getting waaaay behind the curve in Arena and GW is a crap shoot.I have 32 toons and it is a mixup of characters. Most are ones me and my kids liked so I got them. I didnt start going after gear and stars until a short while ago and I am getting killed in Arena and elsewhere. My Arena rank used to be as high as the low 300's but now I keep getting knocked into the 600's or even 700's very quickly. What makes me think I should give up is that there are now a lot of teams of 7*, gear 7 or 8, level 70 toons that are still in the 500's! They may not be a full 7* but they have up to 25,000 power and are still in the 400-600 range.My top squad has 21,000 in power... see where I am getting? All my fault, 100% just dont know if I can ever compete even grinding it out.Current "good" toons - all level 62-64 now. (I am level 70 in game)Sid - 6*, gear 8Lumi - 6*, gear 7Opress - 6*, gr7Poggle - 5*, gr8GS - 5*, gr8JC - 5*, gr7RP - 5*, gr7Phasma, 5*, gr7 (most of the way to 6* but having GW finish issues)QGJ, almost 5*, gr7 Dooku - 4*, gr8Kylo 4*, gr7DV - 4*, gr788 - 4*, gr786 - 4*, gr6Han - 4*, gr7Poe - 4* gr7I do have 10M in credits and 2500-ish droids to bring a few up to 70, but what few and if I do will that really help at all? Almost all of those top 10-12 toons have level 6 abilities as well.I am F2P obviously. So keep grinding or let my kids take over this iPad and start up a new game on my Android with a new perspective of how this game works?

If being competitive in arena is your aim, then starting over might be better. It's where you earn the most crystals, allowing you more refreshes to farm deadlier toons. Do you have a team in mind when you restart?

Don't start over, your roster is decent, you just need to focus on a core of characters instead of spreading the wealth.SidLumiGSRPPoggleThat would make a decent arena team, and you are already fairly far along in their progress. Get those to 7*Optionally, work on QGJIG-86PoeDookuAs F2P, all the toons listed are fairly easy to level and star up. Poggle doesn't necessarily need to be 7*, so if you want keep him at 5*, or go 6*, then switch to IG-86 for your GW tokens for an easy DPS toon to get to cap.More specifically:Use GW tokens on Lumi until 7*, then choose IG-86, RP or PoggleUse arena tokens on Sid until 7*Use Cantina tokens on QGJ or PoeFarm GS in Cantina until 7*, then DookuOh and I just noticed your toons are only level 62-64 even though you are level 70. That's probably the single biggest source of your problems. Get your top 5-8 toons to level 70 ASAP, don't bother levelling other toons until you have done that.

If you haven't spent anything on the game yet I would ask yourself one questionAre you having fun knowing that you could be doing 'better'?The point of the game should be to have fun, if you are having fun playing with the family team keep going. If you want to have a side project where you can 'do it the right way' and fight for #1 then go for it. I dropped everything to get Yoda because my nephew wanted to play with him when I came to visit. It slowed my arena goals, but I don't regret a second of it.I really like this game and we should all play it the way we want and enjoy it. We all get hung up occasionally with this toon is too good, or this table is too hard, but that's not what matters.To quote Gladiator - 'Are you not entertained!?!'If you are keep going with whatever decision YOU want to make

Maybe I'm missing something, but what does starting inner buy you? Start over and work on the team you want. Or keep the squad you have now and work on the team you want.Unless there's something I'm missing...

You should definitely reroll. Right now you are krill. Actually you are lower than krill because the people that pay for the game wont even bother you. You can easily get many more free crystals per day by starting again. Then you will at least be krill.

Messed up at the beginning, should I start over?

13 Replies

RoidRageJe3u3
10 years ago
If being competitive in arena is your aim, then starting over might be better. It's where you earn the most crystals, allowing you more refreshes to farm deadlier toons. Do you have a team in mind when you restart?
Caduceus888
10 years ago
Don't start over, your roster is decent, you just need to focus on a core of characters instead of spreading the wealth.

Sid
Lumi
GS
RP
Poggle

That would make a decent arena team, and you are already fairly far along in their progress. Get those to 7*

Optionally, work on

QGJ
IG-86
Poe
Dooku

As F2P, all the toons listed are fairly easy to level and star up. Poggle doesn't necessarily need to be 7*, so if you want keep him at 5*, or go 6*, then switch to IG-86 for your GW tokens for an easy DPS toon to get to cap.

More specifically:

Use GW tokens on Lumi until 7*, then choose IG-86, RP or Poggle
Use arena tokens on Sid until 7*
Use Cantina tokens on QGJ or Poe
Farm GS in Cantina until 7*, then Dooku

Oh and I just noticed your toons are only level 62-64 even though you are level 70. That's probably the single biggest source of your problems. Get your top 5-8 toons to level 70 ASAP, don't bother levelling other toons until you have done that.
tromedlov13
10 years ago
If you haven't spent anything on the game yet I would ask yourself one question

Are you having fun knowing that you could be doing 'better'?

The point of the game should be to have fun, if you are having fun playing with the family team keep going. If you want to have a side project where you can 'do it the right way' and fight for #1 then go for it. I dropped everything to get Yoda because my nephew wanted to play with him when I came to visit. It slowed my arena goals, but I don't regret a second of it.

I really like this game and we should all play it the way we want and enjoy it. We all get hung up occasionally with this toon is too good, or this table is too hard, but that's not what matters.

To quote Gladiator - 'Are you not entertained!?!'

If you are keep going with whatever decision YOU want to make
CTifer
10 years ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but what does starting inner buy you?

Start over and work on the team you want. Or keep the squad you have now and work on the team you want.

Unless there's something I'm missing...
jsantaularia79
10 years ago
You should definitely reroll. Right now you are krill. Actually you are lower than krill because the people that pay for the game wont even bother you. You can easily get many more free crystals per day by starting again. Then you will at least be krill.
mattomabs
10 years ago
10M credits is a lot to walk away from. Why not just create an alt account and after a short amount of time decide which one you like more?
frvrngn
10 years ago
I am having fun but was having more fun playing GW. I enjoyed that more than Arena since in the beginning I could swap squads around to see what happened. Now it is walls of death squads and I finish 50% of the time or less. That was why I was hoarding credits.

I went ahead last night and spent 5M credits and most of my training droids to level up. My top 6 toons are now level 69, my next 4 or so are 68. I didnt want to have a huge gap in case I needed backup for GW. I am leaving them all at 68 and will level up the others to 70 as I get droids. I kept the 5M in credits in case I can actually star up my top 5 to 7*.

My main squad was stated above. 6* Sid (L), 6* Lumi, 5* GS, RP, Poggle

My overall squad power is still only around 22K so we'll see what happens. I am grinding shards for GS daily with one refresh and spending Cantina rewards on QGJ right now. He is almost 5* and I am thinking of replacing Poggle with him. He still gets the offense buff and high speed but he actually does some damage. He just has much less health.
tuftedpaper85
10 years ago
"Inggold;178028" wrote:
With that setup I would replace Sid in Arena with QGJ before Poggle.

Sid feels great. Sid makes lots of red thingies go off and ooooh, aaaah.

But Sid hits at best mediocre, and once QG and GS are teamed with a couple of heavier hitters, the team is stronger for Arena.

QGJ lead.
GS
Lumi
RP
Poggle

Would not be a fun group to face in Arena.

QGJ goes first (unless enemy has Duuku maybe) Even if he calls Poggle or Lumi, target dead or almost dead, and maybe ability blocked if not dead.

Poggle/GS up. Offense up, BLAM. Assist call from GS... Ow!

Opponent goes in there somewhere - who do you target???? QGJ is a typical first target but his damage already done.

If they ignored RP, he now shoots with offense up (or maybe is already gone if called and critted someone) and Lumi is now sitting there ready to either blast a hard hitting ability block or heal if the opponent didn't make a kill...

Speed and hard hitting means more than speed and a heal immune. Sid is the weaker link, not Poggle.

+1
frvrngn
10 years ago
I'll try it, thanks! I'm guessing since Sid is 6* gear 8 and QGJ is still 4* gear 7 I should hold off on swapping them until QGJ is at least 5*, right?

Even with my new team being leveled up I still failed GW. Made it 10 nodes today. Had squad after squad of level 70, 7* Arena teams.
frvrngn
10 years ago
Don't have Barriss. Would love her just for GW. My main GW squad is Lumi lead, JC, Sid, GS and then add a player. If facing Jedi I add Dooku. If facing Dooku add Poggle so I can one shot him with his buff. Etc... Before the patch I could finish GW with my deep roster. Not so much anymore.

Backup is Phasma, Kylo, Daka and add two. Usually a tank like Han or even Poe.,

I'll work on QGJ and see what I can do. Arena is definitely easier today after leveling and I'm holding rank better. Went from 630 to 360 and I have 1 more turn.