Need help with Fleet Arena please.

As it stands right now, I would suggest changing to Tarkin Capital instead of Mace, and keep in mind that your JKA fighter can inflict Buff Immunity on it’s AOE.
Wait for the opposing Hound’s Tooth to activate the Taunt (since it has increased tenacity while not taunting, and you REALLY want that buff immunity to land), then use that attack.
this will (most often) give you one full round to focus fire down the Hound’s Tooth (since it won’t be getting the purple protection up each time you hit it, and it will self cleanse all of it’s debuffs the next time it uses a basic attack).

"Korban;c-2244020" wrote:
Thank you for the comments guys.

What exactly is that "purple protection" health line? Where does it come from?

"Trandoshan Barricade" - the Hounds tooth gets 25% protection up everytime its hit. JKA's aoe targeted on HT can buff-block HT, preventing that bonus protection.

JKA = Jedi Knight Anakin His ETA-2 Fighter is found in the first row of Fleet Hard Nodes

Also, give this Gaming Fans article a good read (or 3)

It tells you all the ways a Ship is affected by the stats of the Pilot.

Mods, Abilities, Level, Stars, Gear, etc etc.

Sorry guys, guess I didn't hit paste for the link, DOH.

https://gaming-fans.com/2018/05/17/swgoh-understanding-ships-crew-power-in-galaxy-of-heroes/


Korban, as MS said, Home-1 is the "Better" Capital Ship v/s Executrix.

But, to truly make rebels shine you need Han's Falcon.

I would suggest investing heavily in Executrix "UNTIL" you can pass the final Tier of the Executrix Fleet Ability Mats challenge.

The Zetas there are critical to the game so I'd push Darkside Ships & Exec till you get that final tier unlocked & on SIM.


In my opinion, the best Darkside Ships to use are those that serve other purposes later on in the game.....

3x GEO Bug Ships = Needed for DS Geo Battles. (Soldier, Spy, SunFac)
4x Bounty Hunter Ships = Needed for Han's Falcon (3 also needed for Finalizer) (Bossk, Cad, Boba, & IG)
3x First Order Ships = Needed for Finalizer (KRU, FO TIE, K-Shuttle)
1x Empire Ship = Needed for Finalizer (Vader's TAx1)

Outside of the above 11 ships, the only really easy & common ship that many use is IMP TIE.
Its not used for anything else but its a solid easy ship to get for early empire.

Finally, the "Crewless" Ships are all super useful since they don't require gear for a pilot.
3x Crewless = TIE Bomber, Hyena Bomber, Vulture Fighter.

So at the end game level, those 11+1+3 = 15 Ships are to me all just about "Mandatory". (Emp TIE Optional)
Getting them all open is something you should want to do.



Once you pass the Final Tier of the Exec challenge then you can stop investing "Prestige" into it & work on Home-1 w/ Prestige.

For Home-1 / Rebels fleet you'll want to open with Hounds Tooth, Han's Falcon, & then either the Rebel Y-Wing, Bigg's X-Wing, or, Bistan's U-Wing.
FIRST Reinforcement should almost always be Phantom-II (Sometimes Cassian)
There are 8 Rebel ships & between them & Hounds Tooth you should be able to form a solid 7 ship fleet for Home-1.


Finally, as for Endurance, I wouldn't bother investing anything in it for "Prestige" till you are getting ready to farm for GAS and then I'd look at if you have Negotiator. If you have Negotiator by then then you can skip Endurance entirely. If not then you'll need to Max out both GalRep ships in the long run over a couple years.

"Korban;c-2244194" wrote:
Holy ****, this is crazy and gonna take me forever, since I "upped" HomeOne and rebel ships a bit today.

What a great post, though ?

Here is the thing, you don't need ALL 15 of those ships, RIGHT NOW.

For the Fleet Mats (Exec) Mission, the final tier calls for, 5-6? DS Fighters. Not 7, only 5-6, I forget.

You don't need to have the most amazing ships, just 5-6 decent ones to pass that mission.

For me, it was KRU-Silencer, Vader-TAx1, Boba-Slave1, Imp TIE, FO TIE, I think. So maybe its only 5.

These days w/ GEO Alpha making all Geos useful the GEO Ships are an even BETTER way to go.

KRU-Silencer is super easy to get so he's a solid 4th.

In the end you'll want them all on the list above (Maybe not IMP TIE, but is still super easy to get)

For now just look at your 5 best DS ships off that list above & keep pushing them.

Get the Zeta Mats challenge maxed & then focus on which of the DS ships help you the most in your continued advancement.

One thing MS mentioned is WHERE to get certain ships.

That is a critical thing to know, as this game is all about "Efficiency" and you want to not waste your time.

For example:
Poggle can be found in several places......

Bronziums at 2 or 80 shards for free.
G-War Event at 2 shards a pop for free.

The G-War Store at 10 shards a pop.
Gold Energy Level 4 for 12 Energy

Gold Energy Level 6 for 16 Energy (This node also has IG-2000)

You really NEVER want to get him from the middle 2 and you should only actively farm him from the 1 at the bottom w/ the ship you also NEED. The first 2 are Free & are a great supplement but it will likely take forever & you still need IG-2000 so you'll be on that node for a good 6 months or more to max that ship.


I use this example but you can also look at it in terms of some ships.

Use that same "Save 2000" method over in the Fleet Store as well as the G-War that MS Mentioned.

You want to always have some currency for when RARE spawns happen (Slave-1, TIE Adv-x1, & Sun's Ship)

So focus on buying those 3 ships only unless you have a LOT of the coins saved up.

If you get 5K or so then buy the other 2 GEO ships to speed along those farms, but always keep 2K so you can grab several of the RARE spawns if they happen at the same time or back to back.

Biggs without Hound's Tooth is only viable with Vader + Anakin, since he absolutely requires repeated infliction of target lock, and Vader + Anakin are the only ones who inflict Target Lock on every basic, no evasion, no resistance. Even then he's not that great, but he works. The problem there is that you have to give up all the Home 1 synergy of putting together a Rebel fleet under Ackbar, Either you're running non-rebels under Ackbar, or you're not running Ackbar at all. When Biggs works, it's not because he has a super-high defense and resists damage, like TIE Bomber or Hyena. It's because he takes damage but he's constantly healing it. Running Biggs under another Fleet Commander reduces that healing and makes him easy prey.

Now, Biggs + Han's Falcon is viable, and is ultimately much better than Biggs+Anakin+Vader.

HOWEVER, you can't get the Falcon without the Hound's Tooth,. Nor can you get the Finalizer or Raddus without the Hound's Tooth. Which means you can't get JML, SLKR, or Rey without the Hound's Tooth.

Since you have to have 7* HT for those events & characters, getting him up to stars to qualify but leaving Bossk ungeared is a waste of quite a lot of effort, and only requires gearing up other pilots even more. HT is the best tank in the game, after all, and to complete those events without HT means completing them without a good tank.

You don't want to gear Bossk, I get it, but if you don't gear Bossk you end up spending a lot more gear on other characters, and you still have to get all the same shards for the best tank in the game.

No one is going to force you to gear Bossk, and if gearing BOssk makes the game less fun for you, then forget Bossk. This is a game, after all, and one with infinite things to do - or at least years worth of things.

The purpose of this game is fun, not winning. So if anyone, including me, gives you advice that makes the game less fun, just ignore it.

But winning is fun too, for most people, and getting those characters can be fun. Soloing the HSTR is fun. You will be giving things up if you don't collect Bossk & HT, and you will be giving things up -- or at least making things much harder -- if you don't gear Bossk.

All we can do is tell you what kinds of things work in the game, but you have to decide what makes the game fun, and choose that.

Houndstooth is unfortunately critical.

Wedge's reinforcement ability inflicts healing immunity and buff immunity on the target which is great against HT.

And yes, crew power affects ship power. Upgrading your crew members is essential.

The actual stats of their mods have no effect on shop power but mod level/tier has an effect.