Next Several Zetas Priority Discussion

"Chicagotarsier;c-1639115" wrote:
My 2 cents.
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I make 3 zetas a month. You might make 1.5 maybe. In 2 months thatis 3 extra zetas. What could you do wirh 3 zetaa....hmmm.

Raid rewards are not very different top to bottom. Not very smart putting focus where ypu get minimal returns. Also you had palp and vader zetas...tarkin made much more sense

Yeah, I don't think you know what you're talking about, at least when it comes to me. You make it sound like I'm not doing very well in fleet arena and most of our your advice seems geared towards fleet. Let me repeat what I've already said multiple times in this thread: I GET #1 in FLEET EVERY SINGLE DAY. Hope that's clear enough, if a bit oversimplified. To be more precise, I'm unable to play during payout maybe 1-2 days every 2 months. So I get #1 approximately 97-99% of the time.

Let's check your flawed math. You say I might get 1.5 zetas a month. I get 1,800 fleet currency a day. 1,800x30=54,000 a month. 54,000/2,000=27 zeta materials a month from fleet currency alone. Add the Zeta mats from events, TW, challenges, etc and I think I've got about the same zeta production as you. I was farming Rex and Chirrut shards (which I regret doing), but they're both at 7 stars now so I won't be spending fleet currency on anything but Zetas for the foreseeable future.

Regarding raid rewards - having a whole extra box of gear, a red box with better drops isn't very different from the bottom? Not to mention the extra shards, which are doubled at first rank compared with everyone else. And the extra currency. Ok.
:rolls eyes:

I crush my fleet arena shard right now. Battles are easy. I usually win in less than 2 minutes. I usually only need to do one fight a day because I rarely get bumped out of the top 5. I literally can't do any better in fleet at the moment. So prioritizing fleet upgrades is a good idea? It sounds like fleet is where I get minimal returns. I have no doubt that I'll eventually need to invest more into my fleet. But as VIR2L_One wisely pointed out, that won't be for some time.

"CoastalJames;c-1639146" wrote:

"Letareus;c-1638933" wrote:
JTR teams are garbage in arena too.

Ah now I got you...you're trolling...

Not at all. Let's see here:

https://imgur.com/F6JwvDk

Wow, look at all those JTR's (not)! As you can see, there's a complete lack of JTR's at the top of my shard. That's not because they don't exist. My shard used to have a lot of JTR teams at the top. But the EP nightmare meta edged them out. There are still a few of them lurking at the lower ranks in the top 50, but in general they simply can't survive long at high ranks.

Occasionally, one of them makes it into the top 20 so I get a chance to fight one in my daily climb. They are always incredibly easy to kill with my EP nightmare team. That's not an accident, they are apparently easy to kill for all the other EP nightmares and Bastilas, as you can see in the screenshot compilation above, which is why you don't see any.

"VIR2L_One;c-1639175" wrote:
Well, he only got the (somewhat narrow) perspective from his own shard which is relatively young and obviously not populated with a lot of whales, or at least not on the same payout hour....

You're right, I'm writing from the perspective of my shard. And I guess my shard is somewhat young (9 months): it's a January 2018 shard. So I guess it's possible the JTR's on my shard are just weak or bad at it. But I'm not so sure. Many of the people I share top ranks with could move their mods over to a JTR team if they wanted and invest in gear for a JTR team if they wanted, so they could have gear and mods equivalent to their Bastila/EP nightmare teams. But they don't. Logically, it must because JTR teams are just inferior, because if they could do better with a JTR team why wouldn't they have done so? However, I've never seen a JTR team with Holdo, so maybe that's what it takes to make JTR work well.

And yeah, there don't seem to be many whales in my shard. Maybe I'm lucky.

"VIR2L_One;c-1639175" wrote:
A good JTR team will win against Nightmare on offense, in fact, some of them are so strong that I sometimes lose against them with my Nightmare squad (1yo shard, +105 average speed bonus on my arena squad).
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Which Zetas next: EP unique is definitely worth it if you plan to use him as a leader for several months to come. Survivability on EP helps in several arena matches e.g. against Bastila (it's not smart to use EP against her but it can work) or strong/fast JTR teams with Holdo.
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That is a **** advice to someone at his stage.

Well, the name of the game nowadays is that pretty much anyone (with a meta team) can win against anyone on offense. But for some reason, JTR teams just could not survive the Darwinian gauntlet. Remember, they used to be plentiful in the top 10 on my shard.

Thanks for the tip on EP's unique though, I think I've settled on that for my next Zeta. I still need to figure out the next few after that though.

And yeah, if you saw my response earlier in this post, Chicagotarsier didn't seem to know what he was talking about, thanks for seeing it too.

"Kai_Mulai;c-1639317" wrote:
CLS is leader of the Chex Mix team for phase 3 of heroic sith raid.

OK, but that team requires me to farm 2 characters almost from scratch, to gear 4 characters from scratch or almost from scratch, and DT requires cantina energy, which I won't have available for 2+ months (JTR vet farm).

Also, it seems to be less useful generally than a nightsister team, which also requires me to farm and gear 4 characters but is useful in many phases of STR (not just one) and probably does much better damage.

"BrtStlnd;c-1639352" wrote:
One thought after reading through... don’t skip Raid Han. He’s great for many game modes and his zeta is still one of the best bangs for your buck.

What's he used for besides Chex Mix? I know he can be used in place of Ventress in Ackbar's HAAT team, but Ventress is much better in that role and I already have Ventress geared and Zeta'd.