This will serve as a general overview of your options in early game somas to maximize your farming and minimize your wasted time/effort. It is not a hard and fast rule that you follow this guide, but it will give you a big lead early on if you are planning to play as F2P as it is geared towards maximizing your arena team.
There are three main synergies availible at the early stage of the game: Rebels, Scoundrels, Jawa. Portions of each of these synergies can be farmed from different locations (i.e. cantina, cantina shipments, GW, regular nodes, etc). Below is a list of the recommended early toons and where you can find them. Your goal will be to try and pick one toon from each area (several that require normal energy) and focus on them exclusively.
Rebels:
Leia, Cassian, or Stormtrooper Han - Arena shipment (Leia is a very offensive toon, Cassian is an excellent utility character STH is a tank toon - this is personal preference)
Biggs - Galatic War/Hard mode 4-A DS/Cantina 3-G
Lando (L) - Cantina battle 1-E (PRIORITY CANTINA CHARCTER)
Luke Skywalker
Admiral Ackbar - will unlock via ship training as you level
Scoundrels:
Lando (L) - Cantina battle 1-E
Boba Fett - Cantina shipment/Hardmode node 2-B, 4-E DS
Cad Bane - GW shipments
Stormtrooper Han - Arena shipments
Jawas:
Jawa Scavanger - Cantina shipments
Jawa - Cantina battle 2-D/Hard mode 4-F LS/Hard mode 6-B DS (PRIORITY CANTINA CHARACTER)
Chief Nebit (L) - Arena shipment
Datacha - GW shipment/Hard mode 3-B, 3-F LS/Cantina 2-G
Jawa Engineer - Guild store (this will be very slow in the beginning until you have a 6* character for tank rewards and eventually a 7* for rancor)
Fifth slot toons that are not a wasted focus:
Jedi consular - Hard node battles 1-B LS, 1-D DS, 3-C DS/Cantina 3-A
IG-86 - Hard node battles 2-F DS, 4-D LS/Cantina 4-E (do not farm from GW shipments)
Early progression will be achieved by borrowing allied toons (ask in main chat for ally codes and ally invite all high level members of your guild), as such DO NOT FOCUS ON TOONS YOU DO NOT NEED LATER!
All early toons will require some minimum gear/leveling/ability upgrading. The suggested stopping points for toons like this are as follows:
- Gear V
- Ability level 3
- Level 40-45
Rebels will provide the easiest starting point and can easily be rounded out by Boba Fett for arena play creating a very strong early team. Luke will likely be replaced by Boba as soon as you can activate him. REBELS ARE THE RECOMMENDED CHOICE FOR NEW PLAYERS!
Jawa are much more specalzied in that they will provide you with an AAT team capable of doing fairly high damage quite quickly, however they are slow to get started and compete for gear quite badly with one another. Recommended for experienced players looking to start an alt.
Scoundrels are acquired mostly as overlap with a rebel synergy and allow you to do credit and training droid heists early on. STH does provide an extra scoundrel, but Chewie will get you into the events as a very weak third. You will eventually need to farm additional scoundrels as you level, but that can be set aside for now until you have gained some experience.
