Noob (4 months) diary of sorts! Now updated!

I found the diary very helpful. And I answered one of my own questions about what to spend energy on. Even though I can't farm points with the energy, I can use that energy to find gear either by using sim tickets or doing the actual mission real quick albeit a little boring.

If you start 4mth ago, your server must be really strong. Hence, my advise is make new account.

Unless you willing to spend for 400 crystal daily, you may continue this account. However, before you decide to spend, can you complete daily task or not this time around? Judging from lvl49 in 4mth means you not complete your dailies.

If you just casual, just play and have fun. No need to buy anything. Just plan a farmable team and get them slowly.

"Nemesis;129484" wrote:
I found the diary very helpful. And I answered one of my own questions about what to spend energy on. Even though I can't farm points with the energy, I can use that energy to find gear either by using sim tickets or doing the actual mission real quick albeit a little boring.

Glad that it was helpful to you. Energy is best spent on farming gear, while the shipments are used to obtain and star up heroes. Buying refreshes gives u sim tickets. Over time you will have more sim tickets than u can ever use.

"Rolotomasi859;129974" wrote:
If you start 4mth ago, your server must be really strong. Hence, my advise is make new account.

Unless you willing to spend for 400 crystal daily, you may continue this account. However, before you decide to spend, can you complete daily task or not this time around? Judging from lvl49 in 4mth means you not complete your dailies.

If you just casual, just play and have fun. No need to buy anything. Just plan a farmable team and get them slowly.

True that. If u started so long ago the server must be full of 70s and there is no way u can compete with those so u will miss out on the arena rewards. Even spending 400 crystals daily won't be enough to catch up. You'll be looking at a few thousand dollars at the very least to catch up to level 70 with 7* squads. I would suggest to just start a new account. This time around u will have learnt from your mistakes and it wouldn't cost much to be on the top. And complete dailies every day, they are very valuable for xp and rewards and will increase your level quickly.

"Ivan_Drago;129421" wrote:
In case you have a small amount of $ to spend, buy crystal subscription and maybe one pack of crystals. Then use crystals to refresh cantina twice a day every day and regular energy also at least twice a day (or three times a day if enough crystals).

Then it is all about team composition - no single recipe available. Definitely focus on one char in each of GW,arena,cantina battles and shipments, till respective char is at 7*. Only level up five chars (your main arena team), don't spend money on substitutes yet, till these are finished.

I would suggest the following:
Cantina battles: GS till 7*, then Dooku till 7* (you should level enough to open last cantina part by the time GS is finished)
Hard nodes: Dooku, all nodes
Arena: Sid or IG 88 till 7* (if IG, then start HK after IG is done)
GW: Luminara or IG 86 till 7* (if you chose droid for arena, do droid in GW too, otherwise Luminara)
And now cantina shipment - hardest choice. Poe, old Daka, QGJ are all very good, it's not that easy to choose. But if you choose Poe or Daka, also farm their hard nodes (when open them).

Also, farm gear for your top five chars (here you may need even more energy refreshes).dont spend energy for farming gear for other chars

This guy, get GS and Dooku and Qui. Barrise for GW and Lumi and JC. Rey is another one you want and Daka for DS missions and maybe pvp. Can't go wrong with those guys.

"Reyia;131430" wrote:

"Nemesis;129484" wrote:
I found the diary very helpful. And I answered one of my own questions about what to spend energy on. Even though I can't farm points with the energy, I can use that energy to find gear either by using sim tickets or doing the actual mission real quick albeit a little boring.

Glad that it was helpful to you. Energy is best spent on farming gear, while the shipments are used to obtain and star up heroes. Buying refreshes gives u sim tickets. Over time you will have more sim tickets than u can ever use.

"Rolotomasi859;129974" wrote:
If you start 4mth ago, your server must be really strong. Hence, my advise is make new account.

Unless you willing to spend for 400 crystal daily, you may continue this account. However, before you decide to spend, can you complete daily task or not this time around? Judging from lvl49 in 4mth means you not complete your dailies.

If you just casual, just play and have fun. No need to buy anything. Just plan a farmable team and get them slowly.

True that. If u started so long ago the server must be full of 70s and there is no way u can compete with those so u will miss out on the arena rewards. Even spending 400 crystals daily won't be enough to catch up. You'll be looking at a few thousand dollars at the very least to catch up to level 70 with 7* squads. I would suggest to just start a new account. This time around u will have learnt from your mistakes and it wouldn't cost much to be on the top. And complete dailies every day, they are very valuable for xp and rewards and will increase your level quickly.

How depressing. Start over? Wow, I realize I only spent a few hundred dollars but I didn't know how to play the game on a daily basis. The thought of having to start over again.....sigh....ruined my day.

You don't have to start over.In my opinion the ability to get to the top of the arena (at least at the moment) depends more on how many whales there are on your server than anything else - its hard to beat those whales. Your level 70 7* characters are as good as anyone elses and should allow you to climb the ranks when you get them - they don't get better with age.

I understand it must be depressing to have dropped money on this game and not gotten much for it and you may have better luck in the arena if you start again - but you don't have to.

The good news is that there is a lot you can do for free.

Make sure you get all your daily rewards - this is key to leveling up. It takes a couple of days to level up in the 50s/60s, so you should be hitting max level in about a month or so.

Secondly - use crystals on refreshes. One cantina + two normal energy at a minimum. My personal preferrence is not to farm anyone on hard nodes that is available anywhere else (I'm looking at you dooku) as it seems really inefficient, but to have a couple of long term projects like Rey that you can't get anywhere else.

You didn't say where you were in arena, but if you can break the top 200 you can get 10 shards a day towards a character, if you complete GW every day that gives 15 shards a day to a character. Thats 2.5 seven* characters every month (ish).

Getting sid and lumi up in stars will help your arena no end. Focus on either poe or QGJ in cantina rewards - poe isn't as good as he was, but is still a strong character against slightly slower teams.

Farm GS from cantina nodes. With one refresh a day, you should be able to get about 8ish shards a day, meaning you can have him 6 star in about a month, less if you do more refreshes or are lucky with the RNG.

With that you should have a 7 star sid, lumi, 6 star GS, 5 or 6 star poe/qgj + 1 other in about a month (ig86 might be a good quick option as he has multiple farming options - I worked out that if I focused all attention on him (GW+cantina+nodes) he would take 12 days to go from 0 to 7 stars.

Focus on gear for your main guys, just get GS, Daka, Dooku, Rey,Qui. Phasma is still good too, Lumi. Honestly there are a lot of choices. I can be 1 today and 18 tomorrow. A lot of randomness in the top arena, don't worry about it.

Well, it's been about 5 weeks since I last wrote and I wanted to update where I'm at. Mostly because I need help again. So let me start with the roster:

L64 DS. 7 star. GearL8. Max
L64 Lumi 7 star. GearL7. Max
L64 GS. 7 star. GearL8. Max
L64 QGJ. 5 star. GearL7. 20/85
L64 Poe. 5 star. GearL6. 15/85
L64 Dooku. 4 star. GearL7. 10/65
L64 Barriss. 4 star. GearL6. 3/65
L64 Talia. 4 star. GearL6. 4/65
L64 Anakin 4 star. GearL5. 8/65
L64 J.Cons. 4 star. GearL5. 51/65
L61 Finn. 4 star. GearL5. 1/65
L56 IG-88. 4 star. GearL4. 28/65
L58 Chewy. 4 star. GearL4 26/65
L54 Asajj. 4 star. GearL4. 10/65
L56 F.O. Tie P. 2 star. GearL6. 5/25
L51 Royal G. 3 star. GearL5. 2/30
L52 NightS Init. 3 star. GearL4. 0/30
L55 A. Tano. 3 star. GearL4. 27/30
L53 FO StormT. 3 star. GearL4. 0/25
L42 Plo Koon. 3 star. GearL3. 6/30
L40 Jawa. 3 star. GearL3. 6/30
L40 Res Trooper. 2 star. GearL4. 3/25
L37 Ewok Scout. 2 star. GearL4. 11/25
L37 Clone Serg. 2 star. GearL4. 4/25
L34 SnowTroop. 2 star. GearL2. 14/25
L20 Darth Vader. 4 star. GearL1. 2/65
L8 IG-86. 2 star. 2 star. GearL1. 23/25
L7 NightSis Aco. 2 star. GearL1. 0/25
L1 Dathcha. 4 star. GearL2. 4/65
L1 Poggle. 4 star. GearL1. 31/65
L1 MagmaT. 1 star. GearL1. 5/15
L1 IG-100. 1 star. GearL1. 2/25

Now of the list above, here are the troops I am primarily focusing on:

DS
Lumi
GS
QGJ
Poe
Dooku
Barriss
Anakin
J Cons
IG-88
IG-86
Poggle

With the exception of the last 3, most are already L64. I do already see how frigging expensive it is just to try and keep that short list at max. Where I need help is deciding which to focus on right now. I just finished GS so I was trying to decide between Jedi Consular or Anakin. Yes, I did pick Anakin up recently but he sucks bad at low level. But I have seen him at 70 with gear and I think he's lethal.

The others on the list are some of the names That were suggested in this thread. IG-88, IG-86, Poggle, Poe. I don't know if I need or should try and level them all but could really use some suggestions. Based on the primary and secondary lists, what should I be focusing on. What am I still doing wrong? I know there was a lot of talk about whether I can compete any longer since I got such a late start. Right now I am at a pitiful 870 in arena and struggling there. I am completing the GW on most days although sometimes I,have to spent a lot of time retreating and trying something else.

I've been doing as suggested by refreshing Cantina energy once and general energy twice, sometimes more. I'm having to waste a lot more crystals on credits now. It's soooo frigging expensive. With 6 more levels to go, that may be a challenge. Anyway, thanks for any help and if there are any questions, I'll be sure to respond and answer.

4 months and no 7*s?
I started January 1st (almost 3 months) and I have
3: 7*s
1: 6*
And a bunch of 5....:that are close to 6*s

I only do my dailys, farm with my energy and that's it, i really don't invest a lot of time playing
My main goal is to focus on my top players.. Try to max them.. And work on the next
And occasionally work a few other s in

I'm f2p, bought a few 8 packs, crystals,and single chromiums

Edit
I didn't see your updated post

JC has helped me a lot, no leader skill
But his heal, and health steal come in handy