Returning Player - GAC

Well then if I were you I would wait until this week ends and the division is locked before I start increasing GP This way you can both get easy matches and gear up your toons as well. As I said, Division 11 is an exception. There aren't any people who stay there on purpose, as nearly all good players start level 85 GAC at Division 10. Perfect solution.

Yea, that's a good plan. I might do that. I'll see how GAC goes this week.

So I asked this question in general discussion because I figured it was a different topic but I guess it relates here too. My ability MK III materials are low and slow to get, so what's a good minimum ability level a defense squad in GAC should have if the characters are lower geared/lower stars?


For example, my most geared/ability teams are my Jedi and Phoenix. My next squad will be empire, bounty hunters or sith. My main issue is that most of these characters have so many abilities to increase to make them usable, so I know I have to choose a path. Right now I'm farming Jango, Bossk, and the old republic characters for both Revans. I know my next squad should probably be empire but I would rather it be bounty hunters because of the galactic bounties I and II events.


Empire (Palp or Thrawn lead): Emperor Palp *7, Thrawn *7, Vader *7, Tarkin *7, and Tie Fighter Pilot *5 (I could omit TFP or Tarkin for *3 Shoretrooper, but I use both of their ships).

Bounty Hunters (Mandalorian or Bossk lead): The Mandalorian *3, Boba Fett *7, Greef *3, Jango *3, and Bossk *2

Sith (Palp lead): Emperor Palp *7, Vader *7, Sion *3, Nihilus *3, and Fallen Bastila *5 (could use Darth Maul *7 because I have his ship at *5 but his abilities are only level 3).


Note: Some of these characters are not unlocked but I have the shards ready to do so when I decide to increase my GP. Also, Vader and Boba Fett are my most geared/ability characters currently in this list. The rest I could make gear 7 or 8, but their abilities are only level 3.

Can you tell us exactly which light side toons you have?

For the three dark side teams, do it this way:
Empire: EP, Vader, Tarkin, Thrawn, TFP.
BH: Bossk L, Boba, Jango, Greef Mando
Sith: Traya Lead (IMPORTANT, you can't use Palp in two squads, and Traya's 10 times better for Sith. Get into a good guild ASAP), Sion, Nihilus, BSF, Maul.
Also, you'll find your arena rank dropping if you farm so many toons at once. Go for only 1 Revan (Drth Revan recommended for your case, he's the better Revan anyway). It's okay to put down your BH farm as well if you feel like it. Don't farm anybody else.

Now for the ability mats problem, here's the tier list for you, I included omegas as well but not zetas. BH also not included, just keep them at three, it's your weakest team, no sense in wasting resources on them for the time being. For the ones I didn't mention (or the ones I marked Omega but you don't have enough materials), just get them to the next +15% damage upgrade if it's 5 or below. Otherwise don't touch them. Hope this helps.
Must-have:
BSF Fear Omega !!!!!
EP Power of the Dark Side (5) !!!!
BSF Corrupted Battle Meditation (Omega) !!!
High Priority:
Traya Deceptive Strike (Omega)
Traya Compassion is Weakness as high as possible
Thrawn Fracture (Omega)
Thrawn Grand Admiral's Command (Omega)
Thrawn Ebb and Flow as high as possible
Vader Culling Blade (4)
Vader Terrifying Swing (5)
Vader No Escape as high as possible
EP Emperor of the Galactic Empire as high as possible
Tarkin Grand Moff's attack (Omega)
Tarkin Intimidation Tactiics (Omega, 7 if you can't)
Tarkin Ultimate Firepower (Omega, 6 if you can't)
Mid-Priority:
Traya Isolate (Omega, if you can't just as high as possible)
TFP Evasive Maneuvers as high as possible
TFP Targeting Computer (5 or 7)
TFP TIE Strike (5 or 7)
EP Cackling Doom as high as possible
Vader Force Crush (Omega, at least 5 if you can't)
BSF Wild Lightning (6)
Maul Power of Hatred as high as possible
Maul Whirling Blades (6)

Thanks for the reply. My roster is here: https://swgoh.gg/p/757612489/characters/

You answered a lot of questions I had. I don't feel like I'm doing that well in GAC so I decided to increase my GP today. Hopefully division 10 will be better, we'll see. I'm in an amazing guild already. They've helped me a lot. My arena team is Bastila *6 (close to *7) gear X (close to XI), GMY *7 gear XI, Jolee *4 (close to *5) gear X (close to XI), Ezra *7 gear 8, and Old Ben *7 gear 9. I'm close to Hermit Yoda *5 and General Kenobi *5. I'll swap these two for Old Ben and Ezra eventually (unless I get JKR first - then I'll use him instead of Ezra and Hermit Yoda). My arena shard is one of the originals so I'm fighting a lot of gear 12-13 and relic players around rank 500. I know I won't be able to push this rating much until I get more gear on my Jedi. I'm even further behind on fleets but it's a work in progress. The top of my arena bracket is full of GL and the top of my fleet arena is nego/mal *7 ships.


How I increased my GP: I geared Jolee to X and GMY to XI. My ability material MK III and other gear went to my bounty hunter squad. I unlocked HT *3 and Bossk *2. I promoted characters (Jango *3, Consular *5, Ahsoka Tano *5, Resistance Pilot *5, Ezra *7, Kanan *7, Chopper *7, will promote Hera to *7 soon). I leveled up Vader and my phoenix squad to 85. I leveled up my bounters to 75 (Boba was already 85). I ended up making Mando lead to potentially use my BH on offense in GAC and use phoenix on defense instead (we'll see how matchups work). I used omega abilities on vader and on every phoenix's unique ability. I worked on the pilots Bossk, Vader, Ahsoka, Resistance Pilot and Consular (I only promoted Ahsoka, RP, and Consular to *5) to help me in fleet battles/defense in GAC.


Why I didn't use certain teams: I don't have Traya yet. I'm 90/145 shards on her. It'll be around 2 months before I get her I think. Sion and DN are level 1 and gear 1.

I didn't want to use cantina energy on TFP. He's *5 and I felt like I would need to get him to *7. I'm going to use my cantina energy on Mission Vao and T3-M4 for JKR. Once I have him then I can make a subpar Jedi team on defense with Zeta Bastila (I need 8 more zetas or so). Rest of my future zeta will go toward JKR to increase my arena rating. Also, people say empire teams are not very good.

Your break down of the abilities showed me squads can still be decent with low ability levels. I dropped like 120 ability MK III on my BH team (Mando *3 Lead, Bossk *2, Boba *7, Jango *3 and Greef *3). I'm going to keep working on Bossk and Jango each day. I think in a month Mando and Greef will be farmable so I will farm them eventually too.

Overall I'm trying to be selective on my GP now. Only increasing it on things I think will matter long term.

Full Squad Recommendation:
Bastila Jedi: Bastila (L), zJolee, GMY, Old Ben, Ezra
Phoenix: Hera (L), Biggs, Kanan, Zeb, Chopper
BH: Mando (L), Greef, Jango, Boba, Bossk
Empire: EP (L), Vader, Thrawn, Tarkin, TFP
GR Jedi: QGJ (L), Lumi, Barris, Mace, Clone Wars Chewie
Sith: Maul (L), BSF, Sidious, Jawa, Daka
Mix 1: Phasma (L), Dengar, Cad, Ackbar, Consular

The main problem with your roster, as it is with most people, is that it's all over the place. Too many unnecessary toons. If you want to climb (I'm talking about in the next few years), focus. . Only gear and farm these toons from now on:
Bastila, Jolee, GMY. (for certain)
Mando, Greef, Boba, Jango, Bossk.
BSF, HK, Canderous, Carth, Juhani.
Mission, Zaalbar, T3-M4.
Among sets 2,3, and 4; choose two out of the three.

Yea I know I made a lot of bad choices. That's why I mentioned in the first post that it's probably smarter for me to start over but I want to own my mistakes and move forward. I don't plan on touching most of my roster again. My main focus is Jedi. I want to have JKR, General Kenobi, GMY, Bastila and Jolee all *7 gear 12 minimum. I only geared phoenix because I felt that I had to for Thrawn. I would like to eventually get GAS too because clone troopers are awesome. The rest I don't know. GLs are way too far away to even think about.

I've only been back in the game for about 3 months now and I feel that I've made a lot of progress in the right direction. Most of my roster/characters that I developed were around the time the game started. I haven't touched them since.