Star Wars, Galaxy of Heroes

[Merusk]

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.

Dailies are time consuming, yeah, but once you've got any sort of decent PVP rank you can get them all done in a few minutes. If you're above rank 1000 in PVP you'll earn 50 crystals or more daily. One PVE energy refresh is 50 crystals and comes with 20 sim tickets. You can then sim your daily battles rather than actually fight them at any 3* node.

The longest part of the dailies are the PVP battles due to the forced cooldown and the Galaxy War since you have to actually fight it.  I get all of them done in 15-30 minutes spread across the day.

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.

Yeah the Fleet Challenges give lots and lots of shards too, it seems. I unlocked Wedge, 6* Akbar and 5* Tarkin and got Ashoka's fighter up to 2* yesterday because of them. I think it's going to wind-up nerfed.

[Sky]

From the anniversary things, bunch of crystals. So I buy the 2500 crystal ship pack. Lots of cool ships and several pilots I'm already leveling for stuff (my work on a rebel team is coming in handy right now).

I get geonosians (soldier, spy, sun fac) and goddamned Bistan. Early on I had bought a couple packs and got the ewok scout over and over. I have been 100% disappointed in any crystals pack.

[Cyrrex]

Yeah, I know the dailies can be done relatively quick, but if you combine that with a bit of grinding and some raids, I can easily spend an hour a day at this point.  I feel myself pulling back from the raid stuff, the rewards don't improve much at higher ranks.

[Merusk]

Yeah, raids suck. I'll auto-fight one round a day, setting the phone/ ipad down until the team is wiped. Tryharding on raids isn't worth it. My cock blocks on gear are the purple "get 50 of these x3" and it seems I'm always rewarded the one I have 100+ of already because no character needs it. The swapping is 5/ day so that's worthless and I'm over raids entirely.

From the anniversary things, bunch of crystals. So I buy the 2500 crystal ship pack. Lots of cool ships and several pilots I'm already leveling for stuff (my work on a rebel team is coming in handy right now).

I get geonosians (soldier, spy, sun fac) and goddamned Bistan. Early on I had bought a couple packs and got the ewok scout over and over. I have been 100% disappointed in any crystals pack.

Yeah, I bought a few when I first started and they were worth it. I look at them now and think, "There's no way I'd ever get what I need (Maul/ Clones) I have a 1/50 chance. Fuck that." Even if I did get what I needed, the variance of "7-20 shards!" means to 6-7* any pack-only character you're buying hundreds of packs IF you get lucky.  It's clever the way they're split-up to prey on the weaknesses of people and stats but they are never, ever, ever worth it.

[Sky]

We were talking before about how they make sense early on, when you don't have a lot of unlocks. So when I was thinking about unlocking ships, I was of a similar mind. I don't have many unlocked, so I should get at least one I like. Nooope. Either time.

And 100% agree with the time sink creep and the gear blocks. Not to dead beat the horse's drum, but the Marvel game handled progression so much better (it was more an achievement based thing, fight enemy x with ability y).

[TheWalrus]

Christ. A restart on that shitty tank battle. Fuckity boo.

[Cyrrex]

I finally 7 starred Darth Maul (now that they have opened up his shards in a couple places) and about 7800 power.  That is some fun shit.  I now have him on my PvP squad as a fixture, and it looks like nobody wants a part of him...my ranking hovers around 200 and I can easily get it below.  Got Phasma lead, Qui Gon (always, always Qui Gon) and Anakin setting things up, and then Rey and Maul just wrecking shit. 

[Sky]

One day I got tired of the maintenance stuff and never logged in again.

[Cyrrex]

Yeah, I'm getting there.  Not really sure why I still play.

[Merusk]

Ships are pretty fun. I'm still enjoying my time but Star Wars.  

Still grinding Maul up. Only 5 stars since he doesn't appear often for me but he still wrecks.  Haven't got enough training bots and gear to replace him in my PVP lineup yet.   Leia Rey 5s Lumi and Asaj hold strong with Phasma and Teebo swapping.

Unlocked the Emperor this event so I may do a Sith team now.  They're strong even though they're all 5*.  

[TheWalrus]

What mods are you after Cyrrex?

[Cyrrex]

What mods are you after Cyrrex?

Que?

[TheWalrus]

What character mods do you use?

[TheWalrus]

Slave 1 is a friggin beast. That is all.

[kaid]

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.

Dailies are time consuming, yeah, but once you've got any sort of decent PVP rank you can get them all done in a few minutes. If you're above rank 1000 in PVP you'll earn 50 crystals or more daily. One PVE energy refresh is 50 crystals and comes with 20 sim tickets. You can then sim your daily battles rather than actually fight them at any 3* node.

The longest part of the dailies are the PVP battles due to the forced cooldown and the Galaxy War since you have to actually fight it.  I get all of them done in 15-30 minutes spread across the day.

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.

Yeah the Fleet Challenges give lots and lots of shards too, it seems. I unlocked Wedge, 6* Akbar and 5* Tarkin and got Ashoka's fighter up to 2* yesterday because of them. I think it's going to wind-up nerfed.

For new players do just enough fleet stuff to get your daily allotment of token things from it and use them on character shards and not ships. It is a great way to build up some strong characters like wedge/ackbar fast and pretty easily.

The ship stuff is neat but currently for new characters its a bit of a trap and better to just focus on getting a few core solid groups setup first.

[TheWalrus]

Oh god yes. Ships are worthless with incompetent pilots.

[TheWalrus]

Maul does silly damage. Holy shit.

[Merusk]

Yep and it only gets better as he kills.  He's as fucking fragile as Rey though. Always first to die.

[Ginaz]

I've been playing this a surprising amount of time since just before Christmas.  Holy shit is it ever fun and addictive!  It's the first mobile game I've ever spent money on, only about $10...so far.  I've think I've completed every daily quest for the past few weeks and I've gotten up to level 49 with a solid roster.  My standard squad includes Chewbacca, Luke with a rifle, Talia, Jedi Counselor, and Tarkin.  I'll switch out Talia for Lobot if I see the other team has characters that can do debuffs so he can cleanse them and heal my team.  I didn't think I'd ever have this much fun with a mobile game. 

[Cyrrex]

I have Maul up to gear level 11 now, and 8540 power.  I would no longer call him "fragile", loading up on Health mods helps matters.  Got his speed up to 131 as well.  The problem in the past was that it was a question if he would survive until his first turn because he was slow and squishy.  Now he does basically every time, and he just destroys shit.  Especially Jedi, holy fuck.  I also have put a six star Emperor in the lead slot for PvP, and he is also pretty OP even at this level...though the AI seems to target and stun him quite often.  Doesn't really matter though, he wrecks shit anyway.  Filling out the team with Rey, Qui Gon and Phasma, and Bob's your uncle.

[Merusk]

Yeah I've got a full Sith team I'm working on for galactic war clearing. They wreck shit utterly and none But Sidious are 7 star or above level 72.  I'll have to work on Mauls itemization thanks for the info on a higher version. Mines at 5stars and level 8.

[Ginaz]

It looks like my account got reset back to level 1 when I tried playing on a new iPad.  We'll see how helpful EA's customer service is when (if) they respond to my support ticket.

[TheWalrus]

Just a warning I wish someone had given me, if you get your account back, level up a scoundrel team first. It'll work ok in squad arena, but you need em to be tops to get good cash for leveling up your toons. Much faster that way.

[Cyrrex]

True enough.  Lately I find I always have at least 10 million in cash, thanks to having a scoundrel team that can do the max Credit Heist event.  Now I just lack training droids all the time.

[Merusk]

Huh.. looks like I focus on leveling up my scoundrels then. I'm always lacking for cash but have a ton of training droids. I really want to max my Sith team now that they've been tweaked and I can nab Nihilus in a few weeks.

I've got 8 85's and 17 7* characters but no solid theme-teams yet. I've got character ADD it seems.

[TheWalrus]

Hard not to. Awesome collecting.

[Merusk]

I know, right!? I've found over time I skipped characters that would make me more effective in favor of the shiny favorites of mine.  Teebo, ST Han, Luminara, Dooku? NO no no.. I need to get Rey, Ben, and Leia! Jawas? Fuck those things, I've got Jedi to collect.

Whoops! 

[Cyrrex]

I tend to also focus on things I find "fun" rather than things that would be most effective.  I have got a pretty fun combination of Sith and Empire characters now, but to be honest, the FOTM rebel teams seem way stronger (to be fair, my Palpatine and Vader are stuck at 6 stars).  I just can't bring myself to level a rebel team like that, because yawn.  Also, I tend to make sure there is always a spot for Darth Maul.  He has even pushed Rey aside as my go-to damage dealer.  My current PvP squad is lead by Ima-Gun Di, and then Ashoka, Qui Gon, Anakin and Darth fucking Maul.  Great counters, great damage, and ridiculous Jedi killing ability.  I change this up all the time though, can never stick to one set team.

[Merusk]

FOTM Rebel teams ARE way, way stronger. To the point I expect they'll be nerfing Biggs/ Wedge combo sometime soon. I've had my team of 7* 85s in Gear 9/10  (Teebo, Leia, Rey, Rex, Obi/Phasma/Asajj) wiped by a team of 6-7 star Rebels lead by Ackbar who were level 80-83 in PVP. It's asinine.

My Maul is only at 6* and level 82 and is slow as shit for some reason. He's a core of my Sith team (Palp, Vader, Maul, Dooku, Sidious) but the other guys will get 2-3 turns before he takes his first, and only Vader is level 85. I tried speed mods but then he got squished in PvP and GW. BLeh.

[Cyrrex]

My Maul has 131 speed, and I load him up with health mods.  That makes him fast enough, and far less squishy.  He has a pretty sweet health steal to get him out of sticky situations sometimes.  And it goes without saying that you have to max all his skills out.

[Merusk]

Yeah the skill maxing is close. Everything is at 6 but I'm out of widgets right now for multiple characters.

Min'es only 95 on speed, you must have lucked-out on +speed on your mods. I just checked all mine and I only have on mod with a measely +1 speed on him. That'll have to fix.

[TheWalrus]

Yup. My Maul has maxed skills, 134 speed, level 12 health mods. He's pretty fucking dangerous if he doesn't get whacked first round.

[Sky]

I backed into the FotM reb team at the end of my playing kinda by mistake because I used them as lowbies for some challenge and they were a lot of fun together.

Mine was Ackbar lead, Biggs, Wedge, Stormtrooper Han and Leia. They were stomping teams they had no right to stomp.

[Rasix]

Worst teams I ran up against had Biggs, Wedge, Lando + any two rebels or just Rey/QGJ. With those 3, you can end up near dead before you get a chance to even attack. The Biggs/Wedge alpha strike capability is just nutty and will delete anyone outside of some of the most tankiest heroes.

I burned out hard on this, but it was fun while it lasted.

[Cheddar]

Worst teams I ran up against had Biggs, Wedge, Lando + any two rebels or just Rey/QGJ. With those 3, you can end up near dead before you get a chance to even attack. The Biggs/Wedge alpha strike capability is just nutty and will delete anyone outside of some of the most tankiest heroes.

I burned out hard on this, but it was fun while it lasted.

I just started!