So I have Palpatine now, yay. And just in time b/c my Phoenix squad has been turning into crap again in the arena. I can still win many battles with it and climb up every day, but I get knocked back more and more every day, just like the last time this happened. I'm a little annoyed that they had to put Palpatine AFTER R2D2 when they just had R2D2 like 1 month ago or something and no Palpatine for about 3 months. I'm also really surprised at how easy the Palpatine fight is compared to Thrawn's. Ironically, I just finished farming KRU shards just as I got Palpatine and never got to use him in the arena lol.
"Imperial_CdrShepard7;c-1532598" wrote:
Letareus, what is you current crystal influx now? I really think that developing Empire is a must, and it doesn't have to interfere with keeping Px strong. The good thing is that both PX and the dark side characters you mentioned work in many areas of the game (galactic war, squad arena, fleet arena, some of the good events, raids,etc). It's impossible to go wrong with Darth Vader and Thrawn, they are amazing.
I have my Tie Fighter Pilot fully omega'd and his ability and buff blocks and incredibly useful. Also, I have his ship at 95% of its max galactic power. Tarkin is one of my MVP's in both fleet arena and galactic war. All these Imperials plus a 7star Palpatine (using Px) witll help you to get R2D2.
The reason I asked you about crystal influx is because it can help you to develop Empire while not disregarding the rest of your needs (Boba Fett, Biggs, First Order Tie pilot, toons required for CLS, etc). I do 5-6 refills a day between cantina and normal energy. I mostly spend guild currency to buy gear, it will accelerate the gearing of those Imperial toons you want to use in many areas of the game. Before the end of May, you could have a very strong Empire team, in addition to your Px.
I did the opposite, I developed Empire + pilots (First order tie pilot, Boba Fett, Biggs, Wedge, Ahsoka Tano) first, then switched to Px. KRU is a great option too, but I wanted to 7star the Imperial pilot via cantina first. Most of my crystals come from fleet arena, and he was essential in my strategy.
My crystal influx is what I get from level 1-50 or 51-100 rank in squad arena and rank 1-2 in fleet arena every day. Yep, I've been locking down rank 1-2 pretty reliably in my shard. I'm basically competing with 2 other people who last minute snipe. A few others would have a chance but I don't think they have time to last minute snipe.
I've been prioritizing my fleet as well as my squad arena squad. I farmed both FO TFP HM shards every day and just 7 starred it a few days ago. I have 7 star Tarkin with 6 star Executrix, 7 star Vader with 6 star Tie Advanced, 7 star Boba Fett with 5 star Slave I, all Phoenix at 7 stars basically with both Phoenix ships 7 star, both Tie Fighters at 7 stars with 7 star pilots, and Biggs and his X-Wing at 7 stars. You can see all the details on my swgoh profile in my OP. I had been using Ahsoka's ship but have been relying on it less and less lately, and have been leveling up Tie Silencer and KRU (just 7 starred KRU). I started farming Shore Trooper and Tie Reaper as soon as that opened up for me, obviously haven't unlocked either one or DT yet.
I'm a bit pissed that I wasn't able to get Executrix last time around. The 5 star battle was really hard and I only had 3 rebel ships with enough stars at the time. Next time around I should have 5 rebel ships (Phoenix x2, Biggs, Wedge, and Bistan's U-Wing) but I'm afraid that won't be enough to 7 star it (I hope I won't need Cassian's U-Wing b/c Jyn Erso is so hard to get).
So basically since getting Palpatine I slacked off for a bit and kept trying to go with Phoenix, but today I got knocked above 150 in squad arena which is more than I've ever been. So I just transferred all my best mods over to my Empire Squad from Phoenix. I hope this doesn't cripple my Phoenix team too badly since they're still useful for Galactic War and a few other things. An assault battle that uses Phoenix is coming in a few days and I really hope I won't have to move mods back to Phoenix for that.
Now that I have my full Palpatine squad and have gotten pretty much everything that I need out of Phoenix (Thrawn, Palpatine) and am almost 85 (just hit 84 yesterday), I'm wondering where I should go next. Obviously there are a ton of things I can do. I'm definitely going to work on gearing up my Palpatine team for a bit and maybe farm some more mods. It's probably set as an R2D2 team (btw I managed to get 5 star R2D2 before that event ended) But beyond that, I wonder what I should focus on long term. Here are the options as I see them:
-Build some real raid teams. I've been using Phoenix and my Empire squads (and all the other miscellaneous toons I have from fleet and other stuff including a partial Wiggs team) as sort of non-ideal raid teams, though I've learned that for certain phases they do OK. My guild has Heroic Rancor and HAAT on farm and is doing tier 4 Sith Triumvirate regularly. I'm now concerned (and have been for a while) about ranking in participation and not just getting the base line rewards from 0 damage. I could use some advice on the easiest way to do this for as little investment as possible, preferably by farming a few characters that can turn my existing toons into more viable teams.
-Build a real bounty hunter team. I have my bounty hunters/scoundrels, or rather Boba Fett at the level where I can do the maximum tier heists. But Boba is the only real high level geared character that carries the entire fight and survives till the end. The others are trash that mostly die in 1-2 hits. Obviously, this team was totally inadequate for the recent Bounty Hunter events. Since I can do the heists with what I have, I'm not sure how important this is. I have been leveling up my ST Han (though he's not a BH) and after that I'll be leveling up IG88.
-Build my CLS team. I have no idea how far off CLS is and am afraid that R2D2 will come AFTER CLS next time around, since they just had him a couple days ago. Also, CLS wasn't that long ago either.
-Build mod teams. Specialist teams for certain mod teams might be something I want to do, but I'd only get them if I know that I need them. I will build the team only after I've established a need for a certain type of mod, and as far as I can tell, there's a lot of debate over what the best mod types are. Maybe I should just stick with Health.
-Executrix fleet - I'll be gradually farming what I need for Executrix no matter what - basically Bistan's U-wing, Wedge, Ackbar/Home One.
-Shore Trooper/Death Trooper - I'm going to be farming these anyway for Tie Reaper, but I'm wondering how these fit in for endgame squad arena since I heard that these are part of the meta for a Palpatine team. I assume Shore Trooper could replace TFP? No idea how DT fits in.
