Greetings Heroes,This week we will be discussing starting new up to emerging arena teams.Based on today's availability of characters , what is the best characters should people focus towards.(A) FTP advice desired(B) How to spend on starting rosters(C) Gear priorities Arena, GW, or Event Teams that should be most important and what that looks like.This thread is positive and is going to be about getting the best advice as we form a guide for the best advice. The best advice as deemed by the community will become part of our future guide series which will be locked threads with the best advice posted so its easily accessible and quick to use for future players who come to our academy via our archive!Let the teaching begin!

I recommend starting with farming a scoundrel team. Credit heists are one of the most important events of the game and will guarantee that you always have the credits to level up and promote characters. Characters like Stormtrooper Han and Lando are good toons to start with because they are easily farmable and are both rebels and scoundrels (you'll need rebels to unlock Palpatine).Also, only level/gear up characters you intend on using. I was held back a while because i would invest in every single character i unlocked instead of focusing on particular squads.

"DatBoi;c-1026347" wrote:I recommend starting with farming a scoundrel team. Credit heists are one of the most important events of the game and will guarantee that you always have the credits to level up and promote characters. Characters like Stormtrooper Han and Lando are good toons to start with because they are easily farmable and are both rebels and scoundrels (you'll need rebels to unlock Palpatine).Also, only level/gear up characters you intend on using. I was held back a while because i would invest in every single character i unlocked instead of focusing on particular squads.I would not say Scoundrel especially but I would definitely recommend to farm Boba and Stormtrooper Han. Boba is great chars in almost every part of the game, he can put Damages Over Time (DoT), Ability block with an AoE (on all players) and he can hit very hard as long as enemies have buffs or debuffs. In addition, his one of those chars who can auto-resurrect which is a great asset when you begin. STH (Stormtrooper Han) is a Tank, able to take damage with a Taunt and provide Turn Meter to allies (TM) when he's hit. Both of them are very useful for Credit Heist, an event occurring each 6-12 days and providing playing a lot of credit. Credit are useful for gearing toons, but also to make them progress in levels (you need both credit and training droids that you drop with missions). There's thing that you don't need to do at the beginning : DO NOT gear up, shard up or anything on Chewbacca and Luke. They're useless so do no waste any resources on them. You might want to focus on JC (Jedi Consular) because he's a healer that can be helpful in the beginning and also because at level 60 you'll unlock ships battle and his ship is particularly useful. Do not spare into many chars, start with few of them. You should get a balanced squad so try to have different roles : Attacker, Tank, Support.

For FTP I recommend focusing on your Arena team early. It will be the main source of crystals. You will not be able to finish GW but you will because this game is a grind to get frustrated that you can't finish we have all been there and got over the hump. Once you have a solid arena team, work on your raid team to get your raid gear. Then scoundrels for the credit heist.

Plan things out- use your phone and or a piece of paper. Who are you farming and who you will farm after- GW- Biggs, LumiArena- Ig- 88, st hanCantina battle - lando, dookuCantina shipments- boba , qgjGuild- Jyn, JEShips- ShipsLists vary but you get a general idea.Knowledge and experience from players who started helps a lot too. Also having a clear focus on who to farm and gear and etc.

Love The Who to farm first direction, especially for new players as they have a lot of starter options now. Also, who is available early on considering the story nodes (lightside/darkside) are a factor that higher level players are not locked behind.

Weekly Topic: [Resource] Characters to Develop first

LadyVampire_X
Retired Hero
8 years ago
So remove out Empire as a 2nd focus? (Trooper change obviously dependent) and make it more of a stretch goal seem fair? (As your progressing Vader, Emp as long term viable?)
VeeKnea
8 years ago
"Vampire_X;c-1038639" wrote:
So remove out Empire as a 2nd focus? (Trooper change obviously dependent) and make it more of a stretch goal seem fair? (As your progressing Vader, Emp as long term viable?)

I would say yea remove them. Rebels scoundrels first. And need rebels for palp for empire.
LadyVampire_X
Retired Hero
8 years ago
Updated* Empire Removed
Darth_Spyda
8 years ago
I'd recommend adding Royal Guard to the Utility category and possibly removing Rex.

I don't think any new players should be focusing on Rex. Currently he's only available from Guild and Fleet shipments, and that generally puts him well out of their reach.

As for Royal Guard, It could be argued that he is one of the better/best tanks in the game and new players can start farming his shards as early as 'Light Side Battles: 1-D Hard'. Because of how long it takes to farm a character from Hard nodes, I'd recommend that any new player who wants to capitalize on a solid tank to start as early as they can
LadyVampire_X
Retired Hero
8 years ago
Solid Point, and slight over reach from the current top meta, so will update now.
Acrofales
8 years ago
Unless you recommend exclusively buying gear from guild store (not sure what low level gear is there, but definitely buy mk3 holo projectors when you can), you can farm someone there. Rex is a great option for all-round utility. Maul, Jawa Engineer, Rey and Jyn are great too, but more specialized.
LadyVampire_X
Retired Hero
8 years ago
We will delve into gear next, options what to do etc
VeeKnea
8 years ago
Also I think it should be said guild wise for newer players have two routes.
Join a heroic guild when one toon is 7* - this will speed up the grind. But not really participating in raids.
Join a common level guild. Maybe will not speed up as fast but will be able to do some damage on the rancor.

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