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Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes (iOS & Android)

Old 02-09-16, 03:50 PM
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Re: Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes (iOS & Android)

Android users: reboot your phone and find the update.
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Re: Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes (iOS & Android)

Luminara's new stance is bad ass.

Some new graphical changes to battle flow. Kind of distracting so far, haven't seen enough to know if it feels right or if there are bugs. I'm pretty sure my JC disappeared and "popped" back into view when coming out of stun.
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Poe has been nerfed. Speed boosts now apply in the first round of Arena, meaning that you are a Jedi team vs. Sith/Poe or Poe/Droid you will probably beat the crap out of them. Makes me want to stop getting Poe to 5* and go back to QGJ instead with Catina. I may just alternate them.
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Originally Posted by pinata242
Mace changes do not appear to be part of this update...
A bunch of the changes don't get switched on until the forced update on Thursday so that everyone is on the same page.
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No surprise but the speed boost is apparently broken. If you have a high level QGJ, run him as leader with two other Jedi and watch your team destroy everyone else.
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Thank the Maker challenges now remember your previous lineup (or at least leader)!
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Re: Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes (iOS & Android)

Got to 40 and did my First Galactic War this morning
Old 02-10-16, 12:07 PM
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Got to 40 and did my First Galactic War this morning
How far did you make it?
Old 02-10-16, 01:18 PM
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So I decided that I'm just going to keep building out my team the way I want to and not get caught up in Yoda nonsense. I will get him eventually but not the expense of continue to progress in the game. Where Yoda interests and mine converge I will do it. For example, I really want Barriss for GW so I am farming her from hard nodes (and eventually Catina when I open up her node). I need a Jedi tank so I will continue to farm Mace from Catina and his hard nodes. Catina shipments will go to QGJ.

But unless I draw someone from Bronze those will be my five jedi. Pinata makes a great point that investment into Koth is really just investment into Yoda but honestly, I have HK-47, Greedo, and Han and I would rather use rewards on those once Sid is at 7*. I am holding for now to see if Ackbar is a must have. So Koth is a very low priority, if ever.

I think this is exactly what EA wants - people to lose their minds over Yoda. I'll be able to get to the second Yoda node this go around, and with some luck I might even be able to progress a little further if someone else gets unlocked before them. I would be interested in a Jedi pack, but I have a feeling it will consist of JG, AK and maybe even Koth - lesser Jedis -and probably some JC shards. Otherwise, it will be another EA cash grab for Yoda insanity.

The event will return and by then my entire team will be better. Pinata/Roy will have Yoda though and I will borrow him from them for battles
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I fully intend to give updates how my 5* Yoda does with a full 5-7* Jedi team (Lumi, JC, QGJ, Mace) to let you know if he's worth pursuing. If I like him, I will continue to get Mace and QGJ and, by necessity, EK to 7*.

If nothing else, I expect them to cut through Light Side 8 levels like a hot knife through butter.
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Re: Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes (iOS & Android)

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How far did you make it?
All the way I guess. Ran it primarily with CW Chewie, JC, Jawa, Talia and rotated in a Royal Guard/Clone Sargeant/Geonosian Soldier. Never lost a character and none of the matches were even close. Rewards were good I guess. Lots of stuff to redeem - 1200 war tokens which are going straight to unlocking Luminara.

I unlocked a Geonosian Soldier @ level 39 to fill out my Dark Side roster (since
I only had 3 dark side characters unlocked @ that point).

Working on Primarily:
Darth Sidious - 35/80
Darth Vader - 32/80
Luminara Unduli 19/50

and Just to try to get some more Jedi (not gonna happen before the Jedi event though at least I'll be ready if it ever comes around again):
Ahsoka Tano - 11/25
Count Dooku - 8/50
Qui-Gon Jinn - 5/25
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The Yoda event will come around once a month. Already confirmed by devs. My understanding is that there will be weekly events of different themes (although as Pinata noted the themes after Jedi become a little tough as there just aren't that many other types of groupings). I think a droid/genosans is possible and maybe some Resistance teams. Keep in mind that R2D2 and C3PO are not in the game and I think people would want them.
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Cruz.... Dooku is not a Jedi.

Need some advice on where to focus my efforts. I have:
7* Sid/Lumi in gear7 purple
4* Fett, Chewie, JC in gear5-6 blue
3* IG-86, Talia, Poe, Phasma, Luke, GS in gear5-6 blue
2* QGJ in gear6 blue
1* FOTP in gear6 blue
And a bunch of expendable squadies

Cantina:
Poe or he's not that good now? Daka to help with Campaign? Beef up QGJ or Fett?

Arena:
Sid to 7*? Work on new hero for Vader shards? Han, Asajj?

GW:
Lumi to 7*? Beef up Phasma? Work on new hero? Poggle?

Thanks
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Poe is still good. The QGJ Jedi speed-bump-doubling is a bug that will be fixed. Poe is still fast and he still reduces enemy turn meters to give your team the chance to make it 5v4 before it begins. That was the point of Poe the whole time.
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Gooter, my take:

You need to make a decision on Fett. If you are going to go for a crit based team (which you could, if you ran Fett(L) with Poe, Sid, IG-86, GS and Luke) then invest the resources. If you want to run balance, say Phasma(L) with Sid, Lumi, GS, and IG-86, then I wouldn't. Fett is super cool but not all that powerful, although his revive is nice.

I found immediately eliminate anyone that is primarily built through Chromium. Which at your level is probably FOTP. He's also a hard farm, with only two nodes, no shipments, and high energy for sims.

I would continue to build up GS and JC b/c GS is a massive damage dealer and JC is just so useful in anything, arena, GW, cantina, etc.

I would bring up these to 5* - GS, JC, IG-86, Poe, Phasma.

I would really suggest getting QGJ up there. He has low cooldowns, assist call, special debuffs, and high dmg. Plus his leader ability for jedis is massive, bug or not.

Most of all though, you REALLY need to get Daka or you will not be able to progress on DS battles. Talia is nice but her heal comes at her own expense. Daka will help with both stuns and heals. So I would prioritize getting her.

Chewie is very useful even at 4* and so is Luke (he's an easy farm).

Those are my thoughts anyway.
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Ran into super team in GW on node 8. Pretty much done for. Oh well. You can't win them all. But when I hit L60, my GW has become much, much tougher.
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Thanks for the tips.

I ran into a GW team that I should beat but they are kicking my butt. I'm level 56 using level 55 heroes mentioned above; actually beefed up GS a bit too since my last post. The team I'm facing is level 55 (5* Phasma, 4* Sid, Savage, Chewie, Fives), in blue gear (well blue circles around their portraits). They get off 2 or 3 shots to my one and just destroy whatever combo of guys I throw at them. Any suggestions?
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I noticed today that my final node was level 63 opponents. I run a full level 69 team and will be 70 tomorrow. Bizarre how different it is.
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Nodes 11/12 are typically easier than 9/10. 6/7 tend to be pretty hard too. I think the design is to give you an opportunity to heal going into the major battles.
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Did they bump down the number of sim tickets you get when buying energy? I swear it used to be 25 and it's 10 now.
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Cantina is 10. Regular Energy is 20. Daily Activity reward is 25.
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I think they are forcing the update through now...just got kicked off.
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As did I.
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New character is Rex....lol.

He actually sounds pretty great though. Clone leader who deals more damage the higher the HP of the opponent is. Could be interesting with 5s.

But Chromium only, so F2P are screwed.
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No Jedi pack. Not surprised. EA has no real history of re-making initial packs available, or even offering new ones. This probably won't go over too well.

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