Rogue One sans Baze

Yeah... getting a tank would be good here. Bistan and Scarif have a great ship, too.

Can you have a decent Rogue 1 team without Baze? Yes.

Can you beat that specific node without Baze? Not easily.

Especially since most of the other R1 options are just not good. Like, at all.

Bodhi in particular is one of the worst units in the game. Pathfinder is just kinda gimmicky. Your best bet is probably Bistan. Prepping Pao gets you progress toward Chex Mix, though.

SRP can actually be pretty good, but you need to make him fast as he doesn't auto-taunt in the same way Baze and K2 do.

Yeah SRP gives TM, offense down, and self revives. He is a good character, just needs to be fast. I dont have it yet but with Jyns zeta it would probably make that node pretty easily doable. I think you can probably do it with SRP though.

For kicks might try him at gear 6 or 7. He will die a lot and grant speed up and Jyn can rez him if he doesnt self rez. I used to use him with Nightsisters before my zombie was ready and it works ok.

Bodhi and Pao are designed to work all together. Pao gives offense up and Bodhi gives +50% defense to allies with offense up. For TB, Bodhi is not as bad since he can reduce empire TM while giving rebels TM.
So either go for Jyn, K2, Cassian, Pao, Bodhi or Scarif which gives TM on his basic.
In fact, Pao, Bodhi and SRP are designed to better work with CLS than Jyn.

Well, I finally unlocked Baze after an eternity of hitting his single hard node, and now it's on to getting him to 7*. Since that'll likely take the better part of a decade, and I've just finished farming the last of the obvious choices from the Cantina Store, anyone have a suggestion as to which is the better toon to farm first between Pao and Bistan?

I'm leaning towards Pao for basically no reason other than he looks cool and I've had him on another account. Bistan is probably the smart pick just because he also has the ship, but I don't see myself farming SRP any time soon.

I started this thread a while ago with the intention of farming someone for the TB special mission, but other farms took priority. Now that I'm out of other options in the Cantina Store, I've decided to focus on my R1 squad again.

Bistan has his ship. You only really need to unlock him for that.

Pao is useful in Chex Mix for P3 heroic Sith. That requires seven stars.

Thanks for the reply. I'll be taking whichever one I decide to farm first to 7* so that's not a problem (though my guild isn't doing Heroic Sith anyway). And neither will be more than a place holder in their TB mission until I get Baze to a usable level, but I suppose that thanks to TWs, anyone 6,000+ power is a usable toon.

Really, it's a pretty low-stakes choice to make. Neither toon will be used for much, I just figured rather than flip a coin, I'd see if anyone had any opinions on the characters or could see a reason why one might actually be useful for something. And since I already had a thread started to discuss it...

For that team, for that battle, I think SRP is the best option. RO doesn't need to hit hard. They just need to survive long enough to chip away with exposes. K2 and another tank (Baze or SRP) have great survivability thanks to HOTs from Chirrut.

Plus even once you get Baze, you always need more tanks for TW. SRP is pretty decent with some rebel scraps.