Been playing for a few months now. I am focusing on Phoenix squad but I think I may be stuck. Here's a link to my roster. https://swgoh.gg/p/511976973/characters/I can't seem to get anyone past gear level 8 and even with Hera, Zeb and Kanan @ 7 stars, Ezra and Chopper are 6 I can't complete the Galactic War anymore. I get to the last battle and get wrecked. I hover around 900 ranking in arena. I thought by switching my priorities to an Empire team I could do better but no dice. Just not sure where to go from here or maybe I don't know exactly how to play with my current roster? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,

Oh, the gear problem. The main problem is that you're stuck at a starter guild. For a lot of Gear lv8 gear, they can only be farmed in raids and TB. And for that you need a good guild. The officers in my guild's talking about recruiting players lately. If you want I can ask them if we can add you.

Joining a good guild makes a huge difference. I was in your shoes when I first started, found a really good guild and that changed the whole landscape for me.

As for galactic war, a very important concept is the pre-loaded TM. After each battle, not only your HP, Protection and cooldowns are saved for the next battle, but also the turn meter. So if you load your Empire team with like 80-90%TM in the early easy nodes (do this by using Phoenix and swapping in 1-2 empire at a time, just make sure the two Imperials end the battle with high TM, swap them out until the last node, then swap in other Imperials and repeat the process). Then all your Imperials would have so much TM that they basically get a bonus turn and you can just start your turn meter train straight away.

For the general direction, you're doing great right now. Continue gearing up the Phoenix until you get Thrawn to seven stars. Then you can either work on CLS (you have the empire toons for R2); or you can start working on Padme, who will be more difficult, but she's one of the top-tier teams even in very old shards. You already have Anakin, Ahsoka, and Yoda. Together with C3 or General Kenobi (you need a good guild for that) they're very, very formidable. You need a G12 Separatist team to get her to 7 stars. And finally, MODS!!! Almost all your mods are terrible. Come on, read some of the online guides, they're amazing. With good mods you can easily double the value of your squad.

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tjdavis1138
5 years ago
Any tips on finding a real guild?

Took Ezra to 7* today, 50 more shards to get chopper there. I've been using Dooku as the 5th empire character. Should I switch him out for someone else?

I can't do anything with my roster of ships. Most of the time I can't even win in fleet arena.

I started farming Old Ben and I'll start on Bastilla asap.

Thanks again guys. I figured there had to be a better way to play. I finally hit the 50 milestone in GW today, so that's one good thing. lol
tjdavis1138
5 years ago
Credits are a huge problem as well. Even if I farmed good mods , I wouldn't have the credits to upgrade them. I've been selling mods to get credits to level up characters. I don't have much left after that
tjdavis1138
5 years ago
Concerning mods. I thought each shape had certain values, but you can have different colors, letters, primary and secondary values. Is it better to get speed on a certain shaped mod or does it matter?

I'm a network engineer by trade and it took me less time to learn how to setup and configure VPN's and firewalls. ugh....
Desertfox137
5 years ago
"Skies439;c-2104562" wrote:
Farm bastilla and max out yoda. Yoda is the main differences in the early game. Empire won't hold for the end game. You already got anakin, ahsoka and yoda. Max out those 3 and also anakin, ahsoka ships.
Use bastilla lead with ezra/yoda/anakin/ahsoka or swap one with kanan. I just started another account and finish galactic war daily. And arena top 500. ships in the top 50.

I use geos to get padme cos i can use their 3 ships as well.
This is my current account
https://swgoh.gg/p/848692196/
And i just started another one still in level 80

Arena top 500, ships 50?! You got to be kidding! This is a shard after the launch of the hyperdrive bundle! to achieve ship top 50 it's impossible because top 70 are all hyperdrives. Proved in three different accounts. It is possible only if you start focusing on ships starting from level 20
Desertfox137
5 years ago
"ThodaJesey;c-2104639" wrote:
Concerning mods. I thought each shape had certain values, but you can have different colors, letters, primary and secondary values. Is it better to get speed on a certain shaped mod or does it matter?

I'm a network engineer by trade and it took me less time to learn how to setup and configure VPN's and firewalls. ugh....

For primary speed mods, the only place you can get them are the arrows. for others aim for speed substats.
Desertfox137
5 years ago
"ThodaJesey;c-2104621" wrote:
Any tips on finding a real guild?

Took Ezra to 7* today, 50 more shards to get chopper there. I've been using Dooku as the 5th empire character. Should I switch him out for someone else?

I can't do anything with my roster of ships. Most of the time I can't even win in fleet arena.

I started farming Old Ben and I'll start on Bastilla asap.

Thanks again guys. I figured there had to be a better way to play. I finally hit the 50 milestone in GW today, so that's one good thing. lol

For guilds, go find one in this forum. Most of them are good.
For 5th empire character, go for TFP if you aim at R2 and CLS. Otherwise Dooku's fine.
For ships Chimera lead; Ghost, Vader, Biggs starting; Phantom, TIE Silencer, Ahsoka reinforce is solid and tested in both 2019 and 2020 accounts. Anakin's great as well.
If you're going for Old Ben and Bastila, try out this arena team: Bastila Lead, Old Ben, Ezra, Thrawn, Palpatine. Yoda's a more than ideal substitute for Palp or Old Ben. It holds the record of defeating zNihilus lead sith that had 63% more power. I had the speed advantage though.
Waquira
5 years ago
Alternatively use the in-game guild search feature. Aim for a 50 million+ GP guild and hope the one you join has a high level of activity. If the first guild doesn't suit you move on to the next (there's a limit for how often you can do this every day).
Some guilds may have a set of rules which often include participating in guild events, and contributing with up to 600 tickets daily - but it varies from guild to guild.

Dooku's not Empire. He's Sith and Separatist. Although he has some synergies with EP and Vader through his Sith tag and shocks he won't be available for unlocking R2D2.
Skies439
5 years ago

@Desertfox1024 arena not in top 500 currently still got 4 hrs to get to top 500. Im start attacking just half an hour b4.
Desertfox137
5 years ago
Arena top 500 is easy if you spend 50 crystals to get 10 attempts like once two weeks. In my two March F2P accounts, one of them is 330 and the first order account often varies from 200-1000 and I have to time the climbs. Ship arena though... @snowbird you're lucky. The worst fleet shard as far as I know is the early March shard, the one that had like more than 80 hypers. Late March shards are better though.
CrownedPrince547
New Novice
5 years ago
It sounds like you're doing better in Galactic War but I wanted to add to DesertFox1024's post. The AI in this game uses special abilities right away 90% of the time and the last 3 nodes in Galactic War are suppose to be the hardest. One thing I use to do was sacrifice my level 1 characters in these nodes on matches I struggled with. I would load a team of five level 1 characters and the AI would use their special abilities on them. This allows you to take out important characters on the enemy squad before their abilities come off cooldown.

I also want to note that Jedi Bastila (not Sith) is amazing in Galactic War because her protection up refreshes between every battle. Once I got her as my leader I never struggled with Galactic War again.