Reyia's Droids Helpline

"Eilar;173357" wrote:
Reyia,

I'm on a relatively new shard, i think it started end of Jan, and I started playing several days into feb. I'm able to break into top 30 with

HK 4* G7 (L) (want to replace him with poggle when available)
IG 86 4* G7
IG 88 4* G7 (few more days until 5 star from shipments)
Geo Soldier 6* G7
Poe 4* G7 (about 5 days from 5*)

Poggle is in the works, still a few days out from unlocking him. I'm currently level 58 and many in the top 50 are between 58 and 63. My team power is ~16.6k, most people around me are between 17.5k and 19k.

Now that you know my setup, a few questions.

1) For the next week or so, should I keep trying to sneak into higher scoring positions right before rewards and risk getting unmanageable GWs? or sit comfortably around the 30s and hope my GWs continue to be challenging but doable? up until the last few days I've been clearing all of my GWs no problem, but when I got into the 20s, twice in the last week they have been unbeatable (9+ levels higher).

2) After poggle comes in, do I need to immediately keep starring him? or can I go to other areas like finish my lumi to 7*, or IG shipments to speed up 86's stars?

3) After Geo soldier is 7 stars, probably in a week or so, should I go for IG-86 in cantina nodes? Or look into the Bariss route to help with difficult GW in the future if they come up?

This is a really loaded post with questions, but I love the game and I love droids but I want to make sure I'm going in an alright direction. I'm trying to get my team arena ready but also not gimp the rest of my account for GW runs, etc.

Lastly, I enjoy that you have a droid account because hopefully you can share some of your farming routes and help guide my next choices.

Thanks and I appreciate any advice!!!

@Eilar

Welcome to the forum! I see that this is your first post and I'm honored that you made an account just to ask me some questions.

Good job in breaking the top 30! Don't worry about the team power, a droid team will naturally have less power than a general team and with low power you will get easier GW match ups. At level 58 I was able to easily win versus team of 2k+ more power. Use energy to farm gear and concentrate on starring up your heroes. Do 50, 50, 100, 100 energy refreshes and 100, 200 cantina refreshes. That would advance you further efficiently without a huge cost.

1) I would recommend you stay around 30s as GW rewards are more relevant to you in your current situation as you need credits to level your heroes and ability mats to upgrade your hero abilities. If you can complete GW on most days then you can level and upgrade your squad to the max. You can always get better ranks later on. If you get better rank now your GW will get harder and the loss of credits and ability mats would be a big blow to you.

2) Poggle is viable at 4/5*. I can see that your IGs are very low stars. I suggest getting IG86 to 7* first. Support characters are okay at 4/5* but attackers need to be at maximum stars to do the most damage. Finish Poggle first so you can see how he works in a team then do IG86 asap. After he's done then start working on Lumi.

3) Bariss is at node 6-A and won't open till level 69 is reached. After you finish GS u can do 4E in cantina to help 7* IG86 faster. After that you can farm 3A to star up your JC. He's invaluable in GW.

Use energy to farm gear for your main squad. If the mats locations for the gear aren't open, three star them asap so that you can SIM for those mats. So basically energy is for gearing, shards are to be farmed through cantina, cantina credits, arena tokens, and GW war tokens. Buy all the gear in the shipments every six hours and complete all challenges every day. Don't spend 150 crystals buying 3 shards in shipments. Bring Poe to gear VIII as fast as you can as he reaches max speed of 142 at that gear level.

Good luck!!