Newbie, where to focus

"IceMerlin;919542" wrote:
Hey fellow newbie here. I'm only a level 45, so probably not the best person to give you advice but I'll just input whatever I've learnt from the guides and help out as best as I can.

I think the issue you are facing right now would be that your resources are spread thin because you are focusing on too many things at the same time. As what JKToole mentioned above, focusing on collecting many characters' shards isn't advisable, especially if you are F2P. What you need to do right now is to focus on your best Arena team (best 5 characters), and stick to it. By that I mean just keep farming the shards and gears for those characters until you get 7 stars and max gear at your level.

I have to admit that even though I'm way more focused than in the beginning, there's indeed still too many characters I'm focusing on. Partially also to make sure I have enough characters to play all the challenges/events. But right now I have quite a bunch so you're right that I should focus on my best 5-6 characters.

"IceMerlin;919542" wrote:

Now the main question that I think you want answered is what is the best possible combination that you can get with your current pool of characters. So this is where my limited knowledge might not be very helpful, but what I know is that the Rebels are pretty good right now. So a team of Wedge (L) - Biggs - STHan - Boba Fett - JC would be your best bet. Once you get Lando, you can drop JC (but only when your Lando is sufficiently leveled and geared). At least that's what I'm aiming to do right now. Another way to know roughly what's a competitive team out there is to take a look at the top 50 players in your shard. So if you find a certain lineup in your shard that's doing well in the top 50, then by all means you can follow what they are doing as they are a pretty good gauge.

Cheers, basically that was already the team I'm aiming for so I can just keep going for that. Although I'm still doubtful about STH being the tank, he dies quite fast.

"IceMerlin;919542" wrote:
So overall, my advice would be
1) Focus all your resources on farming and gearing your best Arena team of 5, which is Wedge (L) - Biggs - STHan - Boba Fett - JC
2) Once you've gotten Lando, leveled and geared it sufficiently well, replace JC with it.
3) Seeing that you are level 55 and about to reach 60 soon, you could read up on ships. There will be an arena for ships as well and you can at least get a "fresh" start with respect to ships.

This is my profile if you are interested: https://swgoh.gg/u/icemerlin/collection/

I hope what I've said is useful!

1) I am doing that now but I will do this exclusively from now on.
2) This is ofcourse the exception on 1), I have to get Lando, and materials for him :)
3) Thanks for the advice, I have a bunch of ships already and I will make sure I focus on the good ones only so I don't waste anything. :)

Cheers for the advice!