Returning player - plz halp
TLDR version at bottom. I just recently redownloaded the game after a LONG break - I stopped right around the time mods and the Rancor raid were released, I think. Obviously there is now a massive ...
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"Waqui;c-1537098" wrote:
@Jarvind, what's your fleet arena shard like? If it's a young shard and you were lucky to join early, you could always go all in on pilots and ships to earn some crystals this way. That's what I did on an alt (actually my very first account which I had abandoned for 14 months at level 30ish). The climb in squad arena will be slow. I climbed very slowly to the 300s, where I stalled. I could probably reach top—200, but currently my focus is fleet arena and FO for BB8. I rank top—20 consistently — some days top—10. Maybe you could do the same.
Another milestone is to collect 5 non—capital dark side skips at 4* and 8 non—capital ships of any alignment at 5* to get access to zeta materials.
Regarding legendary/hero toons:
I would focus on CLS first (5 empire toons at 7* for R2D2 — EP can be one of them (requires 5 rebels at 7*) — ST Han, Leia, Old Ben and farmboy all at 7*). Phoenix for Thrawn /Chimaera could be next. Focusing on Phoenix first will delay getting your first legendary and hero character(s). You're already well on the path for CLS whereas you will start from scratch with Phoenix. Furthermore, with CLS you will be able to solo Rancor raids.
Also make sure to have a team of scoundrels to do the highest tier of credit heist ASAP. That should be a priority. You will need those extra millions of credits to develop your roster.
Guild:
You should definately be in a guild that raids Rancor and AAT on heroic tier. If there's fair activity in the guild you will benefit much more from ranking low in those raids than raiding lower tiers.
Mods:
For now just do the mod challenges, you can, once and work with what you get from this (save cantina energy for characters). However, aim to do both health and defense mod challenges at tier 3 once. This will result in better quality mods appearing more frequently in mod shipments. If you see mods with speed primary/secondary stats in shipments, buy them, if you have the spare credits. Speed is important in many game modes (squad arena, raids etc.).
Good luck! :—)
Hey, sorry, I just saw your reply. I'm not sure how I would tell how old my fleet shard is, but I'm at 700-something with mostly newb ships, so I'm guessing not that old. I'm more focused on characters so I can finish events at the moment, but I am grabbing the occasional shipment of ship shards, and farming unmasked Kylo is also getting me his ship, so yay.
I also managed to unlock R2 at 5* today, though getting him to 7 will take a bit longer - the 5th tier was pretty much Darth Vader carrying the team while everyone else absorbed hits and died.
