Please help my squad development, I went down the random line! Need to salvage my squad advice.

"Gman8675309;c-2240340" wrote:

"MasterSeedy;c-2240284" wrote:


When you are crushing the Fleet Arena you'll have extra crystals to spend and you can improve your characters so much faster.

Best quote ever, it’s making me smile at the moment.

As long as you focus lots of gear and resources into your geos, then get the Hound's Tooth down the road, you will be totally fine getting well into the top 50.

You need both credits and "ship enhancement droids" to level up a ship. The main source of those is in the Fleet Challenges section that opens at level 60.

I don't remember if there are any sources of droids other than that challenge that you can access before level 60, so you might just have to wait, I guess?

Quick update, your help is immeasurable. Since we last spoke yesterday, I now have both Bastilla (2 stars), Ezra (2 stars), and the phantom (2 stars). Your sidekicks are destroying my enemies, and allowing me to focus on the plan instead of trying to level up toons to complete battles.

This is excellent. I also talked to another friend about you & they volunteered to be your ally as well. If another ally request comes in, make sure to accept it!

Is that because the pilot (grand moth tark) is higher level than Mace?

Yep!

Now to get Sun Fac and continue to grow Bastilla.

I know you will.

Using you and your friends’ toons has made this game so much more fun.

You having fun is my best reward.

I literally blew through the fleet battles (I’m going to begin the difficult level 1 battles after rereading your fleet battle page)

I expected nothing less. Great job!

I just lost long post edited it again, ugh.

This forum deletes comments when you try to edit them **way** too often. Just add another comment instead & you'll be happier. you can also send me personal messages if you like. All this public information can be helpful to other new players, so it's not bad to have it here, but you also don't have to have it here if you don't want.

Does Vader’s Advanced Tie appear in store randomly?

Yep. And it's rare. That's why you keep a buffer of credits just waiting for Vader or Vader's ship to come around. otherwise you would spend your credits on the highest thing on your list that's actually in stock, and that would always be something that's common ... and then you wouldn't have any currency available when what you need actually shows up. If you don't keep your buffer and keep to the plan, you never get any of the shards or blueprints you need most.

Is it ok to bring Jedi Consular up to 5 stars, he’s about 5 away, or do I need hyper focus right now?

Hyper focus. You'll get JC shards without even trying from Bronziums and events and things.

Should I actively farm Geo and Sun Fac ships in both GW and Fleet arena stores? I feel like I should be getting them wherever I can, except for sun facs 2000 reserve for his star ship?

You can farm them in the Fleet store only when your bank goes over 2k (that last 2k is reserved for Vader & Vader's ship). Since Vader & his ship are rare, you'll soon build up that amount of reserve. Remember that your initial priority list looks like this:

1. Collect 2k Tokens, and only spend below that for your highest priority
2. TAX-1 & Vader simultaneously, and equal priority. Since you have effectively 2 highest priorities until one of these is done, you might think about keeping 3k in the bank temporarily. For instance, Sun Fac is important, but he does have other sources. If you're on this step and you collect more than 3k because they aren't showing up enough, then you can spend on Sun Fac's Starfighter or other things farther down the list.
3. Sun Fac's Geonosian Starfighter
4. Sun Fac => 6* (if he's at 6*, let him finish using other sources)

So, yeah. You'll be collecting Sun Fac's ship in the fleet store. If the banking gets out of control because Sun Fac's ship isn't rare, but isn't all that common, you can pick up Sun Fac himself with any fleet store currency over 4k or 5k (you pick the threshold).

Trust the plan, though. You don't need to be picking up the other Geos here. Their ships are easy to get in the GW store and Spy & Soldier are easy to get from the Cantina Battles.

Trust the plan.

I’m exactly where you thought I’d be in your writing above, stuck at Fleet Battles 2nd hard battle.

This won't last too long. Right now you're starved for the things you need to upgrade your ships, but even 2 star ships can defeat those battles if they're level 80 with ability upgraded.

Most of where & why you're stuck is about those ships, but even though you **can** sim some nodes to get gear and you **can** sim the Clone Sergeant's ARC-170 to get ship blueprints, I strongly recommend playing the battles out by hand. You're going to have to play the newer, harder battles out by hand, so getting used to your ships and how they work and what abilities work best in what situations is all good learning for you.

Remember not to waste your energy. If you get stuck for the day with energy left, play some Stage1/Normal battles just for the gear and ship credits. it's not as important as ship blueprints, but it's better than just letting the energy go to waste when it maxes out in your bank. (I think your limit is 119 right now.)

Tarkin is 5 stars now.

This will definitely help.

YES!

Try this video for some basics. It does say that you use Cantina energy for mod challenges & battles, but that's because that's how mods started. It took a while before they got their own, separate energy source. I'm starting you 7 minutes in:



Hopefully that will show you some basics about how the interface works.

Then you can read this article, which will also help:

https://gaming-fans.com/star-wars-goh/swgoh-101/swgoh-101-comprehensive-mod-guide/

After that, hopefully you have your current questions answered. If not, at least you'll have a better idea of how to formulate the questions you have left.