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5 years ago

Sidious at relic levels with zeta

Is he any good?

Modded correctly, he should have ridiculously high health reliced with his zeta.

Is his damage decent? Worth it if you need an extra character for a second Sith team?
  • "mellamoroberto;c-2099901" wrote:
    Thanks for the comments.

    Would love to hear from someone who took him to r4 or so, but perhaps that's like looking for a unicorn. I hoped relics would help make some unconventional characters/teams useful but that doesn't seem to be the case.

    All that health, though...

    Maybe he'd be good to go alongside my r4 Traya in an undersized squad against Geos. Or maybe there might be times when it makes sense to put a reliced Sith Trooper under his lead.


    Well relics really do help quite a bit for some older toons, Maul for example is actually pretty great at r7 all things considered. Not just versus random g12s either mind you, put correctly to use he can do some very good work indeed. Thing with relics is that it some toons gain a lot more(and others a lot less) from relics, it's all about how much those specific big stat increases play into the toon-kit in question. And the same goes for Sidious really, at least from my own theorycrafting, and it's not exactly rocket science. While neither he or Maul will be able to compare with the likes of DR, GAS, and other recent metas, they're far from worthless investments. That is of course assuming you already have a well developed sith roster, and also work on essential meta squads to maintain balance.

    I at least will have my unicorn within a week or two, Sidious is next in line for g13 treatment after I finish GK and Asajj's two gear pieces. Maybe I'll come with an update then. He's one of the very few sith I don't yet have at g13. I expect at least he will go from nearly useless to situationally good.
  • "MightyWizard;c-2101432" wrote:
    "mellamoroberto;c-2099901" wrote:
    Thanks for the comments.

    Would love to hear from someone who took him to r4 or so, but perhaps that's like looking for a unicorn. I hoped relics would help make some unconventional characters/teams useful but that doesn't seem to be the case.

    All that health, though...

    Maybe he'd be good to go alongside my r4 Traya in an undersized squad against Geos. Or maybe there might be times when it makes sense to put a reliced Sith Trooper under his lead.


    Well relics really do help quite a bit for some older toons, Maul for example is actually pretty great at r7 all things considered. Not just versus random g12s either mind you, put correctly to use he can do some very good work indeed. Thing with relics is that it some toons gain a lot more(and others a lot less) from relics, it's all about how much those specific big stat increases play into the toon-kit in question. And the same goes for Sidious really, at least from my own theorycrafting, and it's not exactly rocket science. While neither he or Maul will be able to compare with the likes of DR, GAS, and other recent metas, they're far from worthless investments. That is of course assuming you already have a well developed sith roster, and also work on essential meta squads to maintain balance.

    I at least will have my unicorn within a week or two, Sidious is next in line for g13 treatment after I finish GK and Asajj's two gear pieces. Maybe I'll come with an update then. He's one of the very few sith I don't yet have at g13. I expect at least he will go from nearly useless to situationally good.


    Please do let me know. This is what I'm working with now with Sith. I'm a bit away from DR but working on it. Farming Sith Empire Trooper and improving BastF are two of my big priorities. (Also should mention I have a reliced Thrawn since he can compliment Sith well.)


  • Hello, I wanted to revive this thread to see if anyone else’s opinions might have changed with today’s vader rework. Is a relic Darth sidious now considered more viable if you wanted to use new vader lead in a DoT setup? The stats he gets at relic levels seem good enough with a nice potency/health build. Does the zeta even work properly? Is this character doomed to not be used forever?
  • "Montanz;c-2133169" wrote:
    Hello, I wanted to revive this thread to see if anyone else’s opinions might have changed with today’s vader rework. Is a relic Darth sidious now considered more viable if you wanted to use new vader lead in a DoT setup? The stats he gets at relic levels seem good enough with a nice potency/health build. Does the zeta even work properly? Is this character doomed to not be used forever?


    So far I can see, Vader lead with Wat can do magic.
  • "Montanz;c-2133169" wrote:
    Hello, I wanted to revive this thread to see if anyone else’s opinions might have changed with today’s vader rework. Is a relic Darth sidious now considered more viable if you wanted to use new vader lead in a DoT setup? The stats he gets at relic levels seem good enough with a nice potency/health build. Does the zeta even work properly? Is this character doomed to not be used forever?


    I used to run Vader and Sidious (zeta and g12 so not quite relic’d) under palp lead and the DoTs I got were pretty good, I could get 15 on someone, and now with Vader’s new zeta there would be even more. Unfortunately, I don’t have Vader’s new zeta yet so I can’t test it out
  • "Montanz;c-2133169" wrote:
    Hello, I wanted to revive this thread to see if anyone else’s opinions might have changed with today’s vader rework. Is a relic Darth sidious now considered more viable if you wanted to use new vader lead in a DoT setup? The stats he gets at relic levels seem good enough with a nice potency/health build. Does the zeta even work properly? Is this character doomed to not be used forever?


    That's funny, I made a new post for my review of g13 Sidious a short while ago so I didn't have to necro this very thread . :D

    It's a couple pages back, but here's a link for simplicity's sake. https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/229979/g13-relic-sidious-the-update-that-was-promised#Comment_2114212
  • Thanks will continue thinking about it over the next few weeks ?

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