Star Wars, Galaxy of Heroes

[Sky]

1.336M damage against tier 5 gammos with one team.  Not even optimal. If I swapped out Leia for someone with a low cooldown assist, made mods more raid friendly (less health perhaps, more speed/crit damage), or put in yet another turn meter reduction: it could go higher. However, I got nearly perfect RNG with Teebo's main attack.  Stealth was a bit touch and go, but a fully upgraded "Stealth Takedown" is ridiculous.

I didn't crack 2M this time because I forgot to game the door controls once and put in my slowing character on the alt team after Phasma went down.

I should probably work on Tim (Teebo) some more.

Fucked up and mis-calculated my Jedi for this round of Yoda, no battles will be fought there (I'm on t3, I think, he unlocks when I can fight him next). Working Anakin for the final 5* slot, but he's slower than most of my recent unlocks (via the uncapped cantina, so I can run 11 a day for Barriss vs the 6 of Anakin).

[Cyrrex]

I have managed 2.3 million on the Gammos in T6 with one team.  That is with Teebo lead (duh).  Fives for the perpetual speed down.  Rey because of all the sweet, sweet damage.  Qui Gon for the Turn Meter down on his basic attack, his tank breaking and his Harmonious Assualt.  And then Phasma for a backup speed down, and an odd Turn Meter buff whenever Teebo falls behind.  There is a guy in my guild that does over three million easy, not quite sure how he does it.  I would like to take out Fives or Phasma and replace with more damage dealing, but I find I fall behind in the TM battle if I do that.  This same team works pretty well on the Rancor as well.

[Rasix]

It'll be a bit before I can pull that off. Fives is a good idea, but I don't even have him unlocked yet. My gear and mods are mostly still really crappy. I found some really bad ones on QGJ. Only 3 in tier IX gear. The raid gear grind is pretty bad.

[Sky]

Good call on the speed down, I use Phasma but my only other is RG and his is way too unpredictable and his damage sucks. I still have Phasma as lead for my main team, but now it's mostly her leader ability and advantage. With QGJ it's still pretty rare for triple attacks. Grooming the 1st Order Pilot, he is simple with a chance for double attack and a decent nuke. Also Biggs, another assist guy...he's a monster with Wedge, auto triple attack. Been thinking of a Phasma, QGJ, 1OP, Biggs, Wedge team just to see how much the multi-attack synergy can be milked. With an assist skill (QGJ/Biggs), a chance for a triple assist (if Phasma's leader ability fires) or quadruple assist (if 1OP's double attack fires) or even a quintuple (Biggs/Wedge/1OP double + Phasma leader assist)...

And yes, the gear grind is terrible. I see they've added another layer of components to the store. The whales get whalier. I wonder if they're plotting an exit strategy (milk the whales hard, then release a new game).

[Merusk]

I wonder if taking a debuff stripper like Ackbar or Lobot is worth it.  The maxdamage debuff the gammo lead puts on always one shots m team. I could mod all for health but then you lose so much else and still get shot before healing the HP back.

[Cyrrex]

I doubt it.  It seems the best way to avoid those debuffs is to not let them have turns to exploit them.  They may get one on you, but it should wear off or they are dead before they ever get a chance to attack again.

[Rasix]

Akbar's good for a second team, provided Teebo doesn't pass his extraction roll. The squid's overkill on a first.  He's also good for tier 3 Rancor, but the bastard ate him first this time.

Teebo's invis clears the deathmark.  The gammo's hardly resist his turn meter debuff (unlike the Rancor), so you can keep him almost perfectly locked as long as your RNG holds up. With a decent Teebo led team, you'll just die when the gammos enrage, and you fail all of your extractions.  Teebo + 3 DPS (pref Rey, QGJ, whatever) + Phasma take out the guards before they can even get buffed (well, at least one in tier 6).

Even if one deathmark gets past, you should be able to eat one. Provided it isn't the character that's been taking the occasional gammo axe.

[Sky]

He's also good for tier 3 Rancor, but the bastard ate him first this time.

Dat time when tier 1 Rancor eats Rey

[Merusk]

Dat time? Try "Every goddamn time." It's that or she fails to escape. I don't count on her surviving past round one anymore.

[Rasix]

Managed around 600k with a Ackbar/Rebels/Rey team on tier 6. Only did a bit less than my Teebo team due to RNGesus forsaking me.  So, that's not horrible despite Ackbar/Wedge/Biggs having subpar gear.

Does potency affect the turn meter reduction success rate?
 

[Merusk]

It's supposed to, yes.  And tenacity to resist stuns and debutfs.

[Sky]

So, that's not horrible despite Ackbar/Wedge/Biggs having subpar gear.
 

I've really been enjoying my Ackbar/Stormtrooper Han/Leia/Biggs/Wedge team in the arena. I've been holding them around level 60 until I polish off my A and B teams a bit, but I'll probably start working on bringing them up to snuff soon because they're just fun and work thematically, too.

[Soln]

What's the point of these raids?  There's gear as rewards?   

Also, when should I bother -- 6 or 7 star at 75+?   Asking because every time I try the rancor I don't either past the guards or survive a turn with the beast.

[TheWalrus]

No, keep throwing shit at him. You get gear, guild coin, and some cash for hitting him. Until you gear up a bit, it's gonna feel like you're hittin a wall, but don't stop.

[Sky]

Yeah, even with 0 points you get rewards. The nicest thing (other than lewtz) is that you get a dps report, which can be nice for tracking effectiveness of your dps units (assuming Rey isn't eaten immediately  )

[Rasix]

Pretty sure I can 100-0 Gammos now before anyone gets an attempt.   Teebo kind of needs to get nerfed.

Teebo: 250k
QGJ: 264k
Rey: 752k
Leia: 625k
Phasma: 105k

Might be funny to put Biggs and Wedge into that grinder, but a lot of Leia and Rey's damage and the overall flow of the battle depend on QGJ and Phasma.

[TheWalrus]

I'm still amazed at either how badly tuned the other raid is, or how much we suck.

[Sky]

Confession: I only tried the other one once. Not even fun in what passes for fun in that grindfest of a game.

[ezrast]

My decision to go all-in on jawas has taken a fortuitous turn. My guild isn't going to clear the new raid for... weeks? Months? But when we do, I'm a shoo-in for the #1 rewards. Free assists every turn for the win.

[March]

Ally code 329-266-274

Can I grab a guild invite?  My random newbie guild has peaked at tier 4.

What's the guild name I should be looking for?

[Sky]

New Order of Balance

I blame Rasix for not starting Bot Country

[eldaec]

New tournament I'm enjoying wheras the last one was awful.

Prizes for people who are not both catassess and whales are tiny, but I like the prematch cost minimisation minigame of 'what is my shittiest squad that will win this' and I like being able to do back to back arena battles with characters other than my top team.

[Sky]

I use my 3rd string team for arena :)

[Soln]

I still don't get raids.  You line up your dark/light stringers to (not) make progress?  So there's points assigned by the amount of damage you do, but better rewards if you actually complete a stage?

Are people able to complete the guards and rancor on their own, or are raids an incremental, pinata-like thing where everyone gets points for trying?

[Rasix]

Everyone gets candy. You get better candy based on how much damage you did.

[ezrast]

You're not expected to complete a stage on your own. The game just sums up everybody's damage and moves on once the boss hits zero. If two players go into the raid at the same time, they won't see each other's damage reflected on the boss' HP bar in real time, but it will all still count once they both finish their fights.

This leads to some weirdness where player A finishes stage 1 but player B (who entered the raid while that was happening) doesn't see it right away, and is still damaging stage 1 while the rest of the guild has moved on to stage 2. In this case player B's damage won't count against the boss' HP but they will still get full credit for it when it comes time to dole out loot.

[eldaec]

Ships is live.

There is a lot of it.

My initial reaction is "oh my god those animations are too slow"

Second reaction "having to find room in my head for the meta of this, alongside xwing the miniatures game is going to do my head in".

Third "wtf ig88 is not a pilot fuck you EA".

[Merusk]

Shit, still don't have a 7* admiral.

[TheWalrus]

I lucked out and focused on Mace for Yoda.

Seems to be really shitty for getting ship shards beyond spending crystals. Is there another way I'm not seeing?

[Sky]

So yeah. I agree. Slow animations, slow shard gain.

Kinda bummed so many are unlocking 1st Order Tie Pilot, he's awesome and rarely used :) And his ship is locked for me, he's my best pilot. Going with Akbar because I had him geared already. Seems like for non-whales it's an interesting diversion but won't become a serious thing.

Whole game seems headed in the direction of keeping the whales happy, which makes sense but kinda dooms things.

[Merusk]

I lucked out and focused on Mace for Yoda.

Seems to be really shitty for getting ship shards beyond spending crystals. Is there another way I'm not seeing?

Not that I've found. It doesn't have the leveled pathways like the character side had so you get shards for doing events or spending crystals on the cards, nothing else.

The First Order pilot unlock is from the unlock journey in October. You don't get enough shards to unlock him but if you missed a day or two in October you didn't unlock him anyway so the few shards you get doing the training missions let you have him. At least that's how I got him.

Turns out Tarkin at 5 stars and Ackbar at 6 stars are about equal in power. So despite what they say about pilot skills mattering it doesn't seem to be the case until your ship has more stars.

[ezrast]

My initial reaction is "oh my god those animations are too slow"

Thisssssssss

Aside from the Resistance heroes, whom I'm only powering up for speed mods, I have zero interest in any of the available pilots. My Jawa team isn't real likely to be getting their own rides any time soon either. I'll hit up the arena anyway to try to get some easy shards but it's all so goddamn ponderous, it will probably just end up killing my will to play game.

[TheWalrus]

Got it. Play the fleet battles to get shards faster. The rewards are currently silly high for low effort. Just find a team of level 1 ships, wreck it, and collect your fleet cash later. All kinds of ships n pilots in fleet shop, and ditto now in GW.

[Cyrrex]

I think it all looks fine and kinda fun, but it just seems now that it is all getting pretty overwhelming.  Too much stuff to do to keep on top of it, especially if you want to finish the dailies.

[eldaec]

In other news; Boba Fett is good now.