On the right track? Phoenix Squad

"DadKev;c-1708864" wrote:
My phoenix team has been great! I would keep focus on Phoenix but not Sabine. Chopper works much better. I stopped at about g8 and no zetas. Able to clear palp and thrawn then moved on to empire team.

I would recommend G9 as Thrawn's event is incredibly difficult and massively RNG dependent at G8, plus the Ghost and Phantom are nice ships, so it wouldn't hurt to put any gear on the Phoenix faction. I would recommend Chopper over Sabine for Thrawn and EP, but Sabine is very useful (much) later in the game, so it does not hurt to start working on her now. If you think that your Phoenix faction is strong enough to beat both EP and Thrawn's hardest levels, then I recommend starting to work on Vader and 2 other Empire characters (I recommend Tie Pilot and Tarkin for their ships) to fill out the rest of your base Empire squad.

Please remember, there is no set path that you MUST take in order to succeed (based on what you want) in the game. This is all up to you and what you would like to do in order to enjoy the game. Do not just chase the meta each time it shifts, otherwise you will always feel like you are trying to catch up and it will only continue to shift whenever you finally get those final pieces in place. I personally worked on getting every faction to a level where they could compete in a legendary event should one get released for them (exceptions are Clones and Ewoks), and I worked to get characters that I wanted to have, like Boba Fett and HK-47. At the time that I got them, they may not have had really any use (aside from the Credit Heist and Training Droid event), but I wanted to get them as they were some of my favorite characters in Star Wars, so I got them. I have not regretted playing by that idea, and if you want to enjoy the game, I recommend that you (and everyone else reading this) does the same. The game will become much more enjoyable, and you do not have to stress about what rank in arena or place in a raid or whatever, and you are more likely to continue playing for as long as the game is supported. Have fun, and play the way you want, not the way others do!