What direction to go next to maximize Arena rank?

Didn't know that. Thanks

Make sure that your arena team is always at max level. If it falls behind your player level it will have a harder time landing/resisting debuffs. Landing debuffs is essential for your empire team.

Speed is essential in arena. You should move your fastest mods to your arena team. In particular Vader and Thrawn need to be fast (be aware of Vader's bonus to speed from his unique).

Yes, soon you could switch to farming old republic characters to unlock JKR but I'd recommend to stay on your current path until your empire (and Phoenix) team(s) are at 7*. You should keep farming Phoenix to 7* in order unlock 7* Thrawn (and Palpatine). In general you shouldn't stop a farm mid way.

Also, in early game it's a race to reach level 85 if you want to be competitive in arena. I assume that those 60k+ teams you see in arena are also higher level (and higher gear level).

"Waqui;c-2257317" wrote:
Also, in early game it's a race to reach level 85 if you want to be competitive in arena. I assume that those 60k+ teams you see in arena are also higher level (and higher gear level).

Yup. Every team is Gear 8+ and level 75+ at the bare minimum. Most of them are 6 and 7 stars too.

My main problem right now is most relatively lower power Jedi or Rebel teams I can find are just Jedi teams. Ideally, Vader gets a full 9-man speed boost from his Unique, outspeeds everyone, and gets to put 3 Damage Over Times on the entire enemy team, and I can follow it up with EP mass stun, Dooku stun, Nihilus mass cooldown drain, etc. Lately though, there's always a Yoda that outspeeds Vader and puts Tenacity Up on his entire team and the chain never happens.

So, why aren't your speed arrows on Vader? Don't underestimate the importance of mods.

"Waqui;c-2257371" wrote:
So, why aren't your speed arrows on Vader? Don't underestimate the importance of mods.

Well, you see, I haven't even unlocked Speed mods yet. Kind of a problem, I know.

"Tyranoraptor98;c-2258286" wrote:

"Waqui;c-2257371" wrote:
So, why aren't your speed arrows on Vader? Don't underestimate the importance of mods.

Well, you see, I haven't even unlocked Speed mods yet. Kind of a problem, I know.

Well, I see that you took my advice and moved your only +30 speed arrow to Vader from some random other character. You're welcome.

Yea um I've got a problem. I got through to unlocking Speed mods, but when I slap then onto Vader, he actually gets slower because my current mods add so much speed and my Speed mods don't have that much base speed.

Take the time to figure out how mods work, and how to farm up better ones (:

When you moved the speed arrow to Vader after my previous comment you saw a huge increase in his speed. I'm not sure what your problem is now.

(speed arrow = arrow mod with speed as primary stat)