Reyia's Droids Helpline

"UnckyBadTouch;167979" wrote:
Droids will always hold a special place in my heart in this game. They got me my first top spot on my shard being quite a few character levels and power levels under my competition. Unfortunately they can't ever seem to hold the spot on defense so I switched my team up.

Few thoughts on them.

If you aren't running Poe and you are running Poggle as a leader you won't hold on defense. Even with Poe you may not hold. The extra offense from Poggle is great, but if your droids aren't fast enough to even get off it doesn't matter if they have an extra 2000% offense. Anymore when I fight droid teams I can usually kill 86/88 before they have a chance to move. If they have a GS I will usually kill GS/86 before they have a turn to go. I will then either stun or ability block 88 and it is over. Auto from there on.

Biggest issue I see with RG is that his taunt kicks in (sometimes) if one of your guys hits >50%. That chance will be about 0% for 86/88 as they are usually 1 shot material. It would work with 47 or 100, but those guys are meant to soak up damage and not deal a lot of themselves anyway so it isn't all that great.

I haven't had the chance to play with GG yet. Does he do enough damage to make it worth having one of your other droids taunt to keep him alive? If by some miracle 86 and 88 are alive after the other teams first salvo, I would have to have one of them taunt themselves dead before getting off a special because of GG. I still don't have any friends with him to test him out sadly, and even as much as I love droids I don't feel he is worth the investment that is needed at the current cost of shards for him. Unless of course you have no issue spending a small fortune on the game.

You get 5 shop shards for each extra character shard if I'm not mistaken? GG shards are 225 shop shards to 1 character shard in any configuration in my shop at present. 330 shards to max him out. 74250 shop shards to have a 7* GG. 14850 extra character shards to max him. Let's say you have everyone maxed you want from arena and GW. That is an extra 25 character shards per daily cycle. 125 shop shards daily. 594 days? I'm hoping my math is off a ridiculous amount, or it would take your average non-spending droid lover close to 2 years to pick themselves up a GG.

They'd be better off investing that time into other characters to make sure they can farm out all of the LS/DS battles to gear up their guys. Again I haven't used GG so I'm not sure if he is worth the long term commitment for the newer F2P type player.

On newer shards though it is hard to beat using droid team to rush to the top. They are easy to star up and gear up, plus the synergy makes them so easy to use.

It all depends on your server. On mine I seem to hold the defense without much trouble. QGJ teams are great against droids with their speed so they can kill the low health IGs. On arena you don't only rely on defenses. To climb to the top one has to fight their way.

GG is a long term commitment. He cost as much as 15 heroes, that is you can choose to 7* 15 other heroes or GG. Without spending it would take a significant amount of time to get him. I have a few friends who have him so I'll try him out. GG is meant to be exclusive, something that gives the whales fast access to acquire- weeks and months in advance from f2p players.