As the discussion title says, I'm a new player, I feel like I'm progressing efficently theough the game but want to make sure I continue to do so. Currently I'm level 46. I have 4* Ezra, Chopper, and Hera, 3* Zeb and Kanan(they will both be 4* after store refreshes today). All five are completely maxed on the gear I can equip at my level and pretty much maxed abilities, a few are still level 3/4. I unlocked Sebine but havent farmed her much since, other than 5 attempts daily for daily activities. I've been focusing my energy into gear. Worth the farm? (I do want to focus arena) I have done zero farming for scoundrels, I realize the importance of credits, however I felt starting off strong in Arena as well as GW was well worth it. (I've been landing around rank 50 for the past few days, cant quite get top 50 however with all the pheonix mirror matches and p2p's) Should I start now as I feel like it's getting to be crunch time for scoundrels, or continue to power out pheonix? Maybe just unlock Bobba and ST Han then go back to Chopper and Kanan? Also should I farm Cad Bane from GW or is it unnecessary? Would probably 7* Zeb first as pheonix is my number one priority for legendary characters. Finally, I'm highly confused about early mod farming. I understand that after completing the third level of mod battles, challenges unlock and farming should only be done in the highest tier. But, I have a friend who says that I will not be able to push that far right away. Is it worth farming grey mod's to sit on until I am strong enough for efficent farming? Or are they completely mistaken. (Casual player, fairly new as well, I could see that being the case).My ultimate goal, is EP, Thrawn, R2, CLS then BB8 and JTR. Not sure if that changes anything. Thank you to anyone who takes the time to offer advice. I know these questions have been asked a million times, but it seems like its different for every case, would like an opinion on my own.

So you're starting off really strong. That's great.For guilds, yes move on. Find the highest guild that will take you. Make sure they have 40+ actives. (all 50 is better, but people do have lives). Once you get to a guild doing T5 Rancor, you start getting raid only gear. There's a section on these forums for guild recruitment. You can post where you're at, and then guilds looking for players will recruit you.As to your Phoenix and other characters question, I would suggest balance. You will hit a point around level 50 or 60 where you won't have enough credits to do everything, maybe sooner. Credit heist really helps with this. (this credit deficit will exist until you're at least 1.5m GP)Also, GW is based on your 5 strongest characters. As you level, if Phoenix is your top team, it'll get harder to complete a full GW with just a Phoenix team. So having a second good team can be really good.Don't be afraid of Bounty Hunters. Focus primarily on Phoenix, but getting Fett, Gredo, Cad Bane will be a decent core of BH for credit heists, BH events, and eventually the new Chewie Legendary. Fett and Cad Bane both have ships also. (Bossk is really good, but he's a long way away for you. Dengar is really good from Guild Currency store if you can afford him) IG88 works as a fill in, and he's a bit better now that he has a ship, but he has very low hp.Given that you're unlocking ships soon, do try to also level a few pilots. (dark side ships in particular for a fleet challenge) Biggs is a really good pilot. Vader is excellent. Fett is really good for a while. But I cannot stress enough that you need to be in a good, active guild. The amount of guild currency and gear that are generated by an active guild go a very long way into making this game much more fun.

@Rath_Tarr I do believe you mean speed arrow - there are no speed triangles (primary stat at least).

If you don't have a home yet you can join us for a bit. We're active, you can score your Han solo with us pretty fast. Always have raids going, always help new players. We have a few heavy hitters that just like to chill and help out.SkywalkerOG1

Thought of something else, are starter guilds at all worth staying in until I'm strong enough to be an asset to a better guild? Tier 4 currently. Seems like raids are slow and I move on to the next guild before we even beat a raid. If I should move on, any recommendations on guilds friendly to new players? (I plan on being highly active and progessing as quickly as humanly possibly).

I appreciate the advice greatly, I'll start farming Bobba as I can, as well as Gredo and Cad Bane. Is ST Han not worth farming early anymore? Seems highly efficent seeing as he's needed for cls and also is usable for CH. What's the reasoning for Gredo over him? If you wouldn't mind touching on the mod farming early as well I'd appreciate it. I'd really like to have a game plan for when I hit 50 in a couple days. I don't want to fall behind my shard after working so hard to catch up, (I started a couple days behind). If I'll be strong enough to push into challenges then great, but if not what should my strategy be.

New player looking to stay on the right path.

19 Replies

DasRaggler
7 years ago
Thought of something else, are starter guilds at all worth staying in until I'm strong enough to be an asset to a better guild? Tier 4 currently. Seems like raids are slow and I move on to the next guild before we even beat a raid. If I should move on, any recommendations on guilds friendly to new players? (I plan on being highly active and progessing as quickly as humanly possibly).
Yevetha
7 years ago
So you're starting off really strong. That's great.

For guilds, yes move on. Find the highest guild that will take you. Make sure they have 40+ actives. (all 50 is better, but people do have lives). Once you get to a guild doing T5 Rancor, you start getting raid only gear. There's a section on these forums for guild recruitment. You can post where you're at, and then guilds looking for players will recruit you.

As to your Phoenix and other characters question, I would suggest balance. You will hit a point around level 50 or 60 where you won't have enough credits to do everything, maybe sooner. Credit heist really helps with this. (this credit deficit will exist until you're at least 1.5m GP)

Also, GW is based on your 5 strongest characters. As you level, if Phoenix is your top team, it'll get harder to complete a full GW with just a Phoenix team. So having a second good team can be really good.

Don't be afraid of Bounty Hunters. Focus primarily on Phoenix, but getting Fett, Gredo, Cad Bane will be a decent core of BH for credit heists, BH events, and eventually the new Chewie Legendary. Fett and Cad Bane both have ships also. (Bossk is really good, but he's a long way away for you. Dengar is really good from Guild Currency store if you can afford him) IG88 works as a fill in, and he's a bit better now that he has a ship, but he has very low hp.

Given that you're unlocking ships soon, do try to also level a few pilots. (dark side ships in particular for a fleet challenge) Biggs is a really good pilot. Vader is excellent. Fett is really good for a while.

But I cannot stress enough that you need to be in a good, active guild. The amount of guild currency and gear that are generated by an active guild go a very long way into making this game much more fun.
DasRaggler
7 years ago
I appreciate the advice greatly,

I'll start farming Bobba as I can, as well as Gredo and Cad Bane. Is ST Han not worth farming early anymore? Seems highly efficent seeing as he's needed for cls and also is usable for CH. What's the reasoning for Gredo over him?

If you wouldn't mind touching on the mod farming early as well I'd appreciate it. I'd really like to have a game plan for when I hit 50 in a couple days. I don't want to fall behind my shard after working so hard to catch up, (I started a couple days behind). If I'll be strong enough to push into challenges then great, but if not what should my strategy be.
trystanspyder
7 years ago
Mods - don't worry about them. Get what you can (a lot easier now that mods have their own energy)....trying to match sets and rarities and slicing is really more of a 7* level 85 trying to eke out a few more gp kind of thing. For now just fill the slots, and level them as money permits.
Vaderizer
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
Bounty Hunters would be a good team to start investing in, as they're both a strong team for a lot of different areas and will double as scoundrels for heists. As the above comment mentions, you'll hit the credit wall hard sooner or later, so the more you can stash up now the better.

Based on my recent experience trying to get caught up, the legendaries/hero journeys are a good place to focus and will net you a decent core of usable characters:

Rebels ---> Palpatine/Empire ---> R2D2 ---> Commander Luke

Phoenix ---> Thrawn

First Order ---> BB8 ---> Jedi Rey

Bounty Hunters (there they are again!) ---> OT Chewbacca

Empire, First Order and Rebel teams all do well in territory wars/battles, and the legendary/hero characters are all pretty rad. Just getting those done should keep you busy for quite a while. Phoenix doubles as a Rebel team, so you can keep beefing them up for Palp and also use them to get Thrawn.

Personally I wouldn't bother with Sabine just yet, or at least make her a low priority - she's a long farm, generally regarded as an inferior choice to Chopper for getting Thrawn, and by the time you finish her you won't be leaning on Phoenix nearly as much. She mostly becomes useful later on for gimmicky raid teams to exploit Armor Shred, or to replace Ezra if you use him on a Jedi team.

One last note, also from personal experience: while you can get R2 without Palpatine, his Crackling Doom unique makes it exponentially easier, as he will knock off about half the enemy team's health just by standing there. I managed to get 6* R2 without him, but the last tier is actually pretty difficult sans Palp.
Yevetha
7 years ago
STH is absolutely worth it as he's a very strong scoundrel tank and you need him for CLS anyway. The reason I suggested Greedo was if you're pushing for a full BH team. STH isn't a BH. BH can be used for Credit Heist, but also other activities. If you're just concerned for Credit Heist, I would suggest farming the quickest characters from different stores.

RE: Guilds. BuddaFett makes solid points. I'm just coming from a perspective of someone who stayed in a 10 person guild for FAR too long and it really held back my progression.

Mods: Do the best you can with what you can push through. Ideally, you'll get through all the T1 challenges fairly quickly on unlock, but T3 will take longer. If you can T3 one of the challenges, farm that type of mod. IE if you can 3 star HP mods but only 2 star CD/CC battles, farm the HP mods.
I think it is worth it to make mod sets, and probably to level to 9 or 10, but I'm unsure if I would advise you to level the mods to 15 until you're dealing with 5 dot mods. I don't know if the value is there in the resources spent vs benefit analysis.
Until you're level 70 or so, I would be surprised if you can get passed T2, but I may be misremembering how difficult mod battles were. (I think I was 68 or 70 when I got 3 stars on HP mods, HP mod set is good for Phoenix until max level)
Very early, just get something on and complete set bonuses. If you can get speed secondaries, GREAT! But if you cannot, get set bonuses and as much stats as you can. 1 dot HP mod sets still give +5% hp at level 1.
Scruminator
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
For someone level 46, you’re doing great! I would try to get bounty hunters next, since they are multi use (assault battle, credit and training droid heists, TB mission, Chewbacca req, fantastic ships, etc.).

I would wait until 65 to leave your starter guild, since you wouldn’t be able to participate and get rewards from raids anyways.
Yevetha
7 years ago
Just some general legendary info:

Phoenix team can unlock Palp 7star as early as 75. and also unlocks Thrawn. That gives you 2 pillars of an Empire team (3rd being Vader, who you get from achievements, and Fleet currency store)

Palp, Thrawn and Vader really help unlocking R2, who is required for CLS. CLS makes it easy to solo the Rancor, which gets you gear.

The next goal most people set, is JTR. A First Order team is needed for BB8 and KRU (Kylo Ren Unmasked) is the best leader for FO teams. He and his ship are on the same cantina node, which makes it an EXCELLENT place to farm.

GMY unlocks from 5 jedi and is usually just kind of picked up along the way. He's really good now, and Phoenix team provides you with 2 jedi.

Throughout this process. BH/Scoundrels help with other events. Credit heists, some gear/mod salvege events, Rebel Round up, BH events.

So at current, there are 3 major paths to follow that end in legendaries. Phoenix->Empire->CLS, FO->Resistance->JTR, and BH->Chewie. We're expecting a 4th to be added soon with Revan, but that is all speculation.
Rath_Tarr0
7 years ago
"TaviRus;c-1664364" wrote:
Mods: Do the best you can with what you can push through. Ideally, you'll get through all the T1 challenges fairly quickly on unlock, but T3 will take longer. If you can T3 one of the challenges, farm that type of mod. IE if you can 3 star HP mods but only 2 star CD/CC battles, farm the HP mods.

Health mods are thr first to unlock, should be among the easiest challenges and are always useful. I would focus there.

"TaviRus;c-1664364" wrote:
I think it is worth it to make mod sets, and probably to level to 9 or 10, but I'm unsure if I would advise you to level the mods to 15 until you're dealing with 5 dot mods. I don't know if the value is there in the resources spent vs benefit analysis.

Speed arrows are well worth maxing, even at 1* - they will get passed to second line toons later.

4- and 5-dot mods with speed secondaries are worth taking to lvl 12.

Other 3-dot or higher mods are worth at least unlocking all four secondaries if in use. 3-dots can be used on second line toons later.

I would sell 1- and 2-* mods (with the exception of speed arrows), it's a waste of credits to power them up.

"TaviRus;c-1664364" wrote:
Until you're level 70 or so, I would be surprised if you can get passed T2, but I may be misremembering how difficult mod battles were. (I think I was 68 or 70 when I got 3 stars on HP mods, HP mod set is good for Phoenix until max level)

A higher level ally can help lower the threshold by acting as a "hero" toon who may even be able to solo part / all of the mission. In general though, those 8-stage mod challenge battles are a pretty brutal grind.
Waquira
7 years ago
Farming Boba Fett's hard nodes will not interfere with farming Phoenix shards. If you decide to buy Boba shards instead of Chopper shards, then only do so until Boba is 4*, then complete Chopper. Alternatively finish Chopper first while only farming Boba from his hard nodes.

Furthermore, since you will hit level 60 soon and unlock ships you may start planning a bit ahead by farming pilots where it doesn't interfere with your farming of Phoenix. Biggs' ship is still a great ship. FOTP and JC ships are good mid game as well. If you're lucky to join a young fleet shard, you could have an easy entry to top ranks and further crystal income.

I wouldn't focus on bountyhunters like someone suggested just yet. You will need to at some point, but not yet. You will get there soon enough.