Returning Player - GAC

Hey all, I have a question about what I should about GAC. I'm in Division 11 with a GP of 598k, which means if I increase my GP then I'll be put in division 10 and potentially fight people with 800k GP (not entirely sure how the matchmaking works, just that you fight people in your division). I've looked at the leaderboards and I don't think I can compete against these teams yet (there also seems to be a lot of people who purchased the hyperdrive bundle in this division as well based off their roster). I stopped increasing my GP 2 weeks ago (I'm still farming characters, gear, etc) to increase my chances to get #1 in GAC. I did this because I want to get the zeta materials. I should have won my first GAC but I made several misplays in my first match and lost. I came in #4 in the 2nd GAC. This means I've gotten at least 2 zeta materials so far from GAC. My question is this: should I continue doing this?

Background on me: I'm not able to complete the zeta material fleet challenge because I don't have enough ships at 5 stars. This is my primary focus. I am a returning player that invested in a lot of bad characters and didn't use my resources wisely. I know starting over is smarter but I've been trying to fix my mistakes instead. My goal was to stop increasing my GP until I unlock Jedi Knight Revan or have enough ships to do the zeta material fleet challenge. I use 150 crystals a day in regular energy refreshes for hard mode characters. I use my GW and fleet arena currency on ships.

My roster is here: https://swgoh.gg/p/757612489/characters/

Side note: I can make ezra, kanaan, chopper, and dengar *7, I have hera 50/100 shards until *7, I can make jango *3, I can unlock bossk at *2 and HT at *3, I can make the ghost ship *3, I can unlock phantom II at *2 once I have sabine (work in progress), I'm 56/65 on ITF ship to make it *5, and lastly I can make the scimitar *5.

I have 5 million ship building materials and 25 million credits. I can make yoda gear 11, jolee gear 10 and can almost make bastila gear 11 (missing 10 mk 5 stun guns). I know I need to save gear for revan too but I haven't looked into it yet.

Desertfox137
5 years ago
When in doubt, go offense.
AntarioXP
5 years ago
I won't be worried too much about GAC matching. As long as you don't deliberately inflate your roster, you will do fine. Actually there is no point controlling your GP to stay in a lower division. Because you are likely to be matched with top end players in your division, while going into a new division you will be matched with people on the lower end, who potentially have similar shortcomings like you.

Your roster is not that utterly bad. Just try to focus on toons with synergies (same faction). As far as I can see, your Jedis are most far developed. I would start farming JKA and in parallel build up a separatist team to get Padme. Focus on building up a JKR team and Padme team. They will help you in GAC big time.
CrownedPrince547
New Novice
5 years ago
Thanks for the reply. Is there a way to search for players based off GP alone? I was using the GAC leaderboard to do it but it doesn't do it very well.
AntarioXP
5 years ago
"CrownedPrince;c-2115950" wrote:
Thanks for the reply. Is there a way to search for players based off GP alone? I was using the GAC leaderboard to do it but it doesn't do it very well.

Do you mean that https://swgoh.gg/stats/players/ ?

The GAC leaderboard does not offer GP based search.
Desertfox137
5 years ago
In one of my accounts I was division 11 as well, and I think you should treat division 11 separately. It's a paradise. There's almost no contest there as not a lot of good players who reach level 85 with less than 600k GP. Back then I deliberately stayed there for a month. There were so many easy wins. So my suggestion is to stay there until you get your toons at least a bit stronger and have 1 good fleet and 3 good teams
CrownedPrince547
New Novice
5 years ago
Yea that's kind of what I'm looking for except I can't seem to filter the GP range or select what page to go to. I wanted to look at players around 600k GP but I guess I have to settle for the GAC leaderboard.

That's part of the reason I want to stay in it. Easier match ups.
Rath_Tarr0
5 years ago
Matchmaking is by top {x} character GP where {x} is number of defense squads x characters per squad x 2. And when fleets are included it probably includes ship GP in a similar manner. It is never by total roster GP so looking at that will not help you.

Typically you will get easier.matches at the bottom end of a division's GP range so moving up a division would be a good idea, assuming those are upgrades you would nake anyway.
Rebmes
5 years ago
At the top of a division, you'll find other players who are staying there on purpose anyway.
CrownedPrince547
New Novice
5 years ago
I don't feel like I have enough squads. On defense I usually do: plasma, vader, sidious + clone wars chewbacca, jawa, mace windu + barris, zeb, and chopper.

On offense I usually do: bastila, yoda, jolee (I omit jolee if I can) + boba, old ben kenobi, biggs/luminara (I omit biggs/luminara if I can) + hera, ezra and kanan (omit hera if I can).

My worry is when I have to do 5v5 GAC because I'm not sure how the rotations work. 3v3 doesn't seem common according to the forums.
CrownedPrince547
New Novice
5 years ago
You are right about the divisions. I didn't realize the division is locked for the full 5 week championship. I just found that out today (this is my 3rd week of GAC). This means you can fight people with 650k - 700k GP by the end of the championship (what I'm currently experiencing). This means I would need to decide if I'm going to increase my GP or not this week.