StormTrooper under a Director Krennic zeta lead

wait what ?
swap Veers with DT, and stormtrooper should have in the triangle with HP/Protection/Defense. he wont regen his protection, its not his thing. he should take the debuffs, and take the damage. more protection/defense is better for it. dont count on him healing much or doing crazy damage. leave that for DT and DK.

I said i can't use DT

Honestly, you're better off with a Thrawn lead (assuming you have that leader ability zeta). The extra protection from Thrawn more than makes up for Krennic's zeta (not to mention the new ability and TM boosts, etc.). Also, without DT, your Krennic is not going to last long.

When I run an empire arena squad, my setup is usually Thrawn (L), DT, Krennic, Shoretrooper, and then a random 5th. If I need another tank, I bring in Stormtrooper. If I'm facing Zarriss, I bring along Nihilus. I also randomly use Tarkin (if I want to de-power CLS and Han, and I'm facing a lot of rebels).
I know you don't have DT yet, but if you're looking at a solid empire team, he's a very high priority.
So, without knowing what you have, you could go Thrawn (L), Shore and Storm troopers, Veers, and Krennic and do ok, I'd think, until you get DT up there.

Mod wise, Protection on triangle.

I have my Stormtrooper under thrawn lead having a protection circle, cross and triangle with speed arrow. I don't run him with CC mods bc I like the expose also as much speed as possible so he taunts a lot and removes TM as much as possible. There's not much benefit to using krennic lead with Stormtrooper I would switch to Thrawn lead. Just my opinion hope it helps

I zeta'd krennics lead, and Thrawn's seems underwhelming
I just want mod advice ;-;
Krennic seems a lot more fun than Thrawn lead, and while I have DT at star, he's level 67, g. 7 with no mods

I do appreciate the advice.
But keep in mind I'm trying to have more fun while still being minorally competitive.
And I find this team to be a lot of fun

Running DK w/out DT is a bad idea. Expose does more for Storm. Health, prot and speed.

Don't feel bad, many of us have wasted zetas. I have 1 on 5's and 1 on Grandmaster Yoda. It happens. Don't go further down the rabbit hole. If u r stuck on DK lead, then u not only need DT, but u need a zeta on him as well.

Veers is good, w/ a zeta...but u need Troopers that r hitters for him to b worth anything. As of now, when u get a kill, he's just feeding your tanks tm so their taunt drops off faster.

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In the situation you described, I would go with more defense for him. He has low crit chance anyway, and the less he crit the more he exposes, and that is better: more debuffs means more ability block landing as well. Plus the expose will make up for his low damage.

That said, you will have A LOT OF FUN with Thrawn lead. I was suspicious of his zeta but once I used him in the lead, specially against debuff heavy rebels, you will see your team fly, clean, heal like never before. It is such a small thing but between all debuffs you get + the buffs your team do + that 2% is for each time you get/lose the effect (both positive and negative) you will regen a lot of protection. And your team will get extra protection from thrawn lead so it is the most effective Empire leadership for competitive arena.

For the empire!

PS: You can see some combos in action in my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnvO5eJ9bXMo017gNnUuGBg - lots of Empire combos and arena trials :smile:

"IzzytheMelody;c-1427001" wrote:
I do appreciate the advice.
But keep in mind I'm trying to have more fun while still being minorally competitive.
And I find this team to be a lot of fun

I get what you're saying. That's why I threw in use Prot Triangle at the end. It's important to come up with what you enjoy using, which is probably why I switch my arena team 5 times a day. I'm always trying new combos that are different than everyone else. I hate playing the Meta team (read CLS and RJT right now).
All that being said, the rest of us are just trying to help you shine as well. Krennic lead is 100% less powerful than Thrawn, period. Thrawn's regen may not be as visibly sexy as Krennic's, but you have to survive long enough to enjoy it. Thrawn's extra ability for Empire is worth the leadership alone. When my shoretrooper loses his taunt and has buff immunity on him, as soon as it's his turn I hit that Thrawn ability and it removes it and gives him almost a full turn meter so I can put it right back on.
Finally, if you're insistent on Krennic, then I really recommend you put everything you can into getting DT starred, geared, and zeta'ed.