Hi there folks! F2P here, I just proudly accomplished my first goal of my SWGOH career... I unlocked Padme at 7*, and got her both zetas!Now i'm running a GR team as my main team in Arena. I have a 7* geo squad, with zBroodAlpha, which I built in order to get Padmé.My next step is getting GK for sure, but now that i've finished my septs and geos grind i don't know what to farm next with all my energy! I was thinking to start farming ewoks to get C3PO but i'm not sure it's worth the grind right now.Which direction do you think I should take? Who should I farm next? Here's my profile https://swgoh.gg/p/118919173/characters/Every advice is well appreciated!Thanks :)

You need a bit of a bounty hunter squad for the Credit Heist - you can really use the cash. It doesn't have to be a high-gear squad right now, but you need something & you've currently got only 4 bounty hunters unlocked. BH also gets you Chewbacca, another indispensable part of the OT Big 6, which requires Dengar at g9 & 4 other BH at g11. Further, the BH needed for Chewie can be the same ones needed for acquiring the Millennium Falcon, which is an absolutely necessary ship. Since you're stronger in LS than dark, and since you have to have a bounty hunter squad anyway, I would farm easy BH toons and get to work on a couple of filler toons for Empire and Rebels so you can finish the Palpatine & R2 events. One of those rebels should be Raid Han. Why don't I see him in your unlocked toons? As I was saying to someone else just yesterday, it only takes 3 weeks of Rancor sims to unlock Raid Han. That makes me suspicious that your guild isn't helping you as much as it could. Think seriously about moving to a guild that sims Rancor, if you want to improve your roster. Your fleet is doing well, but there's no reason it can't be better. Although you didn't ask about gear, only shard farms, I would push Tarkin to g11, and then Vader there next while you're acquiring the shards for those bounty hunters. So throw it all together & you get: Galactic War Store: 1. Cad Bane2. Magma TrooperGuild Store: 1. DengarArena Store: 1. Ackbar2. Greedo3. IG-88Cantina Store: 1. Boba Fett2. ChopperFleet Store: Because of scarce appearance, you'll be working on these simultaneously 1. Grievous (Whenever available - keep some Fleet Tokens on hand for when he shows up because he's rare)2. TIE Advanced (Same as Grievous)Regular Energy: 1. Bossk (9B-dark)2. Jango + Hound's Tooth Ship (8D-light)3. Royal Guard (node 1D-light)Others you will want to farm with regular energy, order recommended but not as important: Xanadu's BloodIG-2000TIE BomberPiettMon MothmaRange TrooperSabine WrenCantina Energy: 1. Ezra2. Hera3. Kylo Ren UnmaskedFleet Energy: 1. Slave 1 (node 2B)2. Rebel Y-Wing (+ Greef Karga, node 4C)This is an integrated plan that will allow you to get Chewbacca and Thrawn, while finishing up Palpatine & R2 as quickly as possible. It prioritizes Bounty Hunters to increase that needed cash. You're doing well in Fleet Arena & pushing Tarkin & Vader up in gear will make sure you do even better. Padmé can handle your squad arena needs for a while, while the Geos will do well for you in the Hoth territory battles, Galactic War, and a few other niches. These aren't sexy gets, but they are necessary foundations. When you have the numbered priorities, you can continue on with some things I've listed in regular energy or you can set a new Big Goal and stretch to reach it. Revan would be one obvious choice. After you choose that next goal, you might scrap all the unnumbered toons or you might want to bring a couple up even faster - if you aren't getting good mentorship inside your guild, coming back here to ask again is definitely appropriate after you have 5 x 7* BH, 5 x 7* Empire, and 5 x 7* Phoenix (who will then help you get your 6th & 7th 7* empire toons - Thrawn & Palp).

you can also replace tie pilot with piett because he is farmable now.

C-3PO IS great on padme teams. I would suggest going for Ewoks and especially logray. Logray makes the event much easier. If you decide not to go for 3PO now I would still farm Logray passively now because he’s an annoying farm.

This is great stuff! I don't know if you heard, but they're doubling drop rates on older toons, which includes nearly everything you're farming. They're also doubling the number of shards you get when purchasing those same toons in the various stores. As a result, for the next 2 weeks before the doubling goes into effect, you should enter a special, temporary strategy designed to maximize your boost from this doubling. First, you have to spend energy every day or you just stop accruing it - so keep farming with regular & cantina energy, but keep your refreshes to a minimum (still spend enough to get 600 raid tickets/day, but don't over spend). What refreshes you should do should be kept to the cheaper regular energy refreshes. This will allow you to build up a few extra crystals. Second: stop buying shards in any of the stores. This is just for 12 days, probably 11 by the time you read this, so it's not going to be too bad. For stores that sell both gear & shards, you can still buy gear if you want, just not shards. I would try to keep the gear buying to a minimum as well, however. You want to build that currency up by a lot. Third: when the 24th arrives make sure you don't spend your energy refreshes early in the day, & try to update your client as soon as possible. Fourth: Now, with all the rates doubled, you can spend plenty of crystals on energy refreshes (but not node refreshes), and you can spend down those store tokens you just saved up. If you do it right, then 5-6 days after Nov 24th, you'll have caught up to or passed where you would have been if you'd been spending your currency before the doubling. I'll post more in another comment about what, exactly, you should be spending on.

Regular energy (none or 1 refresh max/day)Farmboy Luke 20*5Jango Fett + Hound’s Tooth 20*5Bossk 20*5Jolee 16*5Zaalbar 20*5===> This looks good. No changes. Cantina Energy (2 or 3 refreshes/day)Mission VaoT3-M4===> This is fine for your character priorities, but...===> you're cancelling the refreshes & saving the crystals until Nov. 24th. Fleet energyTie AdvancedAnakin’s FighterZaalbar===> This is fine. You'll get 285 per day & you're spending ===> 100 on Zaalbar, 100 on TIE Adv., & 80 on Anakin = 280/day. ===> However, you're about done on TIE Adv, so you need to pick a new farming target. ===> If you can beat Fleet 4C-Hard, that should immediately replace the TIE Adv. ===> (you'll Greef Karga & Rebel Y-Wing - the ship is the more important one)===> If you can't beat 4C, use 3A to get Poe's X-Wing. Cantina storeChopper===> No Chopper shards until Nov 24th, when they double. ===> Until then, either save all currency or spend on Cassian's U-Wing (ship shards won't double)Since you're not long from done here, you're going to have to think about what's next. Things will go very quickly after shard purchases double on the 24th. My current recommendation for your situation is to get these toons in the following order: 1. First Order Officer2. Hoth Rebel Scout3. Pao4. Poe Fleet Arena StoreGG (only 10 shards needed)Tie Advanced (only 10 shards needed)AckbarClonesZetas (exceeding coins)===> I cancelled Ackbar. He's also available in the Squad Arena Store. I'd rather had you focus on other things here.===> I cancelled the TIE Adv. You can get your last 10 shards from Fleet Battles. ===> NO characters until November 24th ===> (except Grievous, I guess. I know he's so close to done it's hard to say no to finishing him off) ===> Rex's ARC-170 is the ship to buy here during the next 2 weeks. ===> Otherwise, save currency until Nov 24th. I also canceled the clones, because Cody & Echo are available using a less exclusive currency elsewhere But you will need to buy Rex here and there are a couple toons exclusive to Fleet Arena Store. So your non-ship priorities are these: ChirrutFulcrumRexYour Ship Priorities are Rex's ARC-170Poe's X-WingGhostPhantom IIAlways buy ships before toons in this store. When you're done with these 7 items, you'll be getting Zeta mats here for the rest of your playing career. Guild StoreB2 (just 30 shards to get him to 7*)Logray (as @TrooperFives suggested, thanks!)Clones (exceeding coins)===> NO CHARACTER PURCHASES UNTIL NOV 24th===> Spending on gear is okay, but it's best just to save, since you're in the character acquisition phase of the game. I would rewrite your priorities, however, to this (but NO PURCHASES until Nov 24th): B2LograyPaplooEchoJawa EngineerRexCodyJynDengarColonel StarckYoung HanZamTusken Shaman===> Working on no more than 3 at a time is good, otherwise you'll finish some common ones low in priority before you finish the needed ones that are high in priority, but only working on one at a time builds up too many tokens that could be more efficiently spent earlier. There will likely be an awkward period when you're farming both Jawa Engineer & Cody at the same time, and both are rare. Can't be helped, sorry, but if you find yourself building up too many tokens, you could always take on a 4th farming toon temporarily during that hard stretch. There are reasons I'm suggesting this order, but I won't go into all of them now. Suffice it to say I'm looking at long-term priorities & which toons to get first so that when you're ready for your next quest, you've got the toons done or nearly done & only need the gear. Some of these are much more rare than others - like Logray. It's good to keep a minimum so that you always have token in case Logray (or whoever is your current rare toon) shows up more than once in the same day. GW storeFives’ shipCad Baneaaaand I don’t know who else to farm here... Well, that's easy. First, skip Cad Bane until Nov 24th. In the meantime, buy EVERY SINGLE SHIP. Some of these are rare, so save a minimum about of currency (about 2 days worth, or 2000-3000 tokens) that you never dip below except for the following 3 ships: Clone Sergeant's ARC-170Imperial TIE FighterResistance X-WingAfter Nov. 24th, you can finish Cad Bane, but keep farming all the ships you can. Really. You need all of them and this is the place to get them. After Cad is done, you can skip characters for a while until you start to build up GW tokens past about 5k because the ships you have left are rare enough or few enough that you can't spend all 1200 tokens every day. At that point, set a good minimum for the few ships you have left, about 3k is fine, and spend anything over that on useful toons in this store. Suggested order would be something like: TeeboPhasmaK2SOResistance PilotNightSister InitiateDathchaTusken RaiderArena storeSTHanLeia===> SPEND NOTHING until Nov 24th. ===> Everything you want here is characters, so it's best to save your currency until the shard drops double. After STHan & Leia? Likely something like this: GreedoCassianIG-88HK -47Sidius Chief NebitSavage Opress...and that should keep you going for a while!

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Grogu_4470
New Rookie
4 years ago
"Old_Ben12345;c-2210959" wrote:
"TheChild_eats_eggs1;c-2210815" wrote:
One thing @MasterSeedy. Usually I agree with you, but raid currency comes often and ewoks in guild store is rare so I would use for gear but always keep 2k for ewoks. Currently I have 10k and farming Dengar, Logray and gear for arena team, geos, empire.

Maybe OP doesn't get too much guild currency in the first place. In this case, farming Dengar, Logray, and also Paploo and Ewok Elder could be too much at once to also purchase gear.

I see.
Grogu_4470
New Rookie
4 years ago
"PaalAboy;c-2211033" wrote:
"TheChild_eats_eggs1;c-2210786" wrote:
Ok. Sun fac basic dispels anyway so ... but thank you. I will take on advice.

It does, and it helps with GK taunt and the protection up you can dispel, but in tier 7 Padmé will spread Protection Up that can't be dispelled. So you will need that extra attack power to deal some damage through it. Go for the second zeta and you will have your best defensive team for a while!

"MasterSeedy;c-2210800" wrote:
The important thing to remember is that you will ALWAYS need gear, so if you treat this store as a source for gear, there will never be a time when you are free to buy the characters you have to have to develop your roster.

Someday this store will be a source of gear, but that can't be any time soon.

Beautiful. Makes perfect sense. Will follow. And yes, @Old_Ben12345 this is exactly the case, I don't get that much guild currency. I will stick to the plan and buy gear for my Arena team and that's it. If I will have some extra currency I will find a way to spend it.

"MasterSeedy;c-2210802" wrote:

If you want help, I can help you find a guild by either recommending one or by helping you write an ad to put on the forums to let the right guild find you.

Maybe this could be a good thing. I'm really proud of my guild, I watched it grow in the last 6 months, but now I think I may need to get a better one and do the LeBron. Move to Miami, win the title, and eventually get back to Cleveland and share the knowledge.

So yes, i would love if you could recommend an active guild for me.

Thank you all again!

I see. So maybe moving guild is a good idea. Are you participating in every TW, TB and what raids are you doing?
Can I refer you to my guild leader? Or do you want to go for Geo TB now?
Grogu_4470
New Rookie
4 years ago
"PaalAboy;c-2211040" wrote:
I am partecipating in every single event. I'm actually the one who asks everyone through the chat to join events! We are at 49 million GP, we alternate low level raids (4*) for our padawans with Heroic AAT and Heroic Rancor. We can't beat Heroic Sith, so we do 6* - and it takes way too long to finish it, usually 5 to 7 days.

So yes, i should move to another guild, maybe I should find one in my time zone (Italy) so that i won't see raids get completed while I sleep.

We're multinational, get in a merc for heroic sith, and do hPit and hAAT. We have 24hr signup for pit and aat, and for sith ~ 15hrs. I'm UK time zone and make all raids, so you probs could too. 9pm raid starts, and sith depends.
Grogu_4470
New Rookie
4 years ago
"TheChild_eats_eggs1;c-2211046" wrote:
"PaalAboy;c-2211040" wrote:
I am partecipating in every single event. I'm actually the one who asks everyone through the chat to join events! We are at 49 million GP, we alternate low level raids (4*) for our padawans with Heroic AAT and Heroic Rancor. We can't beat Heroic Sith, so we do 6* - and it takes way too long to finish it, usually 5 to 7 days.

So yes, i should move to another guild, maybe I should find one in my time zone (Italy) so that i won't see raids get completed while I sleep.

We're multinational, get in a merc for heroic sith, and do hPit and hAAT. We have 24hr signup for pit and aat, and for sith ~ 15hrs. I'm UK time zone and make all raids, so you probs could too. 9pm raid starts, and sith depends.

Btw @PaalAboy 9pm Italian time
OldBen12345
4 years ago
@PaalAboy Sounds like you definitely need a new guild. You can easily find one running Heroic Sith, which is super important. You probably can get in a guild that does DS Geo TB, maybe even light side too.
Grogu_4470
New Rookie
4 years ago
"Old_Ben12345;c-2211090" wrote:
@PaalAboy Sounds like you definitely need a new guild. You can easily find one running Heroic Sith, which is super important. You probably can get in a guild that does DS Geo TB, maybe even light side too.

He doesn’t have a relic. Not LS geo yet
OldBen12345
4 years ago
"TheChild_eats_eggs1;c-2211164" wrote:
He doesn’t have a relic. Not LS geo yet

You might be surprised at the high level guilds he could get into.
portalurim
4 years ago
I think I might go for a free roam around open guilds in this period, trying to find 150-200mil GP ones, while I wait for the right one.

I texted my guildmates and told them i’m leaving, it’s pretty sad but it needs to be done, I guess. If you guys have any recommendations for a guild, or if you can put in a good word for me in one, that would be a blast.

Again, thank you for all you support. Very appreciated.
MasterSeedy
New Ace
4 years ago
@PaalAboy

Give me about a day, but I can help you find one. To be perfectly honest, it's harder for you to find a good guild than it is for a good guild to find you.

The best thing you can do is to craft an advertisement telling guilds about yourself. The guilds that read those are generally active guilds who care about having a full roster & getting better over time. The guilds that don't bother to read the ads either don't need you or run the risk of not being organized enough to be the good guild you need.

But I can also put in a direct word with some guilds. The only downside would be that while I have good contacts with some European guilds, they're all a bit too high in GP for you. The lower-GP guilds where I have good relationships are all in North America.

So give me a day to contact a couple people & then come back here to help you write an ad if I don't have a guild for you to join directly, without advertising first.

In the meantime, I wrote up some good advice on how to hunt for guilds before. I'm going to find that advice & copy or link it here so that you can read that without me having to recreate it.

Back soon.
MasterSeedy
New Ace
4 years ago
This is the discussion I was thinking about:

https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/comment/2183371/#Comment_2183371

Now, I suggested asking a single, specific question in their ad, and your question would be different, but you need to ask a question in your ad & then reject the guilds who send you a message without answering that question. (Even bad answers are better than ignoring your question altogether.)

Other than a difference in your specific situation (and thus what question might be good for you to ask) all the general guild advice applies for you as well, so it wouldn't hurt to read it.