Themistocles wrote:Questions, and please correct me if I'm wrong. Im fully 6 dotting Dash as I think he's worth it. Unless that's not necessary?
Dash is a really good character. He works with pretty much any scoundrel team, his ship is solid even without the Profundity. The omicron is only useful if you gear up the solo characters. The gist is the omicron lets allies get prepared if they lose prepared (and they’re all given prepared at the beginning with the basic leadership). Only Solo characters can lose prepared because it’s part of their kits. Everyone else permanently get prepared. Now, the omicron is a level 8 ability, so Dash’s ship would get a boost from it, but given how rare omicrons are and since you don’t have the Solo characters geared, it’s not a great value. It’s also not really necessary. You’ll have no issue winning with Dash at the Profundity requirement. The Mk 6 mods aren’t necessary, but it certainly doesn’t hurt. It’s a relatively cheap upgrade all things considered.
As far as having a slow Falcon, it’s not really an issue when using the Profundity on offense. When it’s Profundity vs Executor, you use the Rebel Fleet Has Arrived to mark XB. Take out XB, then RC. HT might taunt before RC is gone, but it’s almost an auto battle at that point. If it’s the triple attacker Executor, same opening, but you will likely take out two ships before HT reinforces. Having the Falcon a little faster won’t matter. Having it hit harder is nice, I guess.
For Profundity mirrors, you’re going to use Outrider’s heal move first. It gives your team speed up, so your Falcon is going to be faster anyway. In mirrors, it’s a race to who gets to finish Download first and more attacks means more Download.
Starkiller is a really solid character and all the requirements are pretty useful. He can beat Rey and I think SLKR, though I’ve never used him that way. I just put him on defense. Speaking of which, keep in mind the soft requirements for Starkiller’s final team. You need a Sith, Jedi, DS unaligned, and LS unaligned. The more common variant uses Palpatine and Mara as the DS units. Visas is the preferred LS unaligned. For the Jedi, GK or Mace are most common for GAC. For TW, Juhani with her omicron is best (it replicates some of Starkiller’s GAC omicrons).
Mauldalorians is a very solid team. I think Armorer is pretty good on it because it punishes anyone who doesn’t take her out early. The main counters to it are GAS, Troopers, and CLS, all of which are very strong teams so you definitely get value out of it on defense. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone use it on offense.
The GL question is tough. I guess a big deciding factor is how close you are to Ben Solo. Rey is, by far, the easiest to do of the three and Ben’s omicrons look like they are going to make her a nightmare to deal with in GAC. The Raddus event comes back about once a month, so you can pretty easily figure out how long it would take. You have Vet Han from SLKR. Rey would get you Vet Chewie, who both work under Dash. The Raddus fleet is okay. Pretty much the weakest faction fleet, but you could put her on defense with almost anything and it’s at least something.
For LV, I would begin with the massive caveat that the Datacron that’s making him a god right now will be gone long before you could get him. Without the Datacron, he’s not bad, but probably not worth the requirements. Still, it’s all relative. Any Datacron with health steal will work really well with him. He can solo or turn random Empire units into a decent team. If you give him Maul and better Empire units, he can be a little scary.
One of the best parts of doing LV is getting Bad Batch. They’re expensive to gear (you need more kyrotech for the core 4 BB than all of Rey’s requirements combined). But they’re able to counter so many teams. You will get your use out of them. The rest of the requirements are not bad. The only problem is how high the relic levels need to be, not who the characters are.
Then there’s Jabba. CG has made it clear that people who go for Jabba will get rewarded, just like people who did Inquisitors. By the time you could get Jabba, most of those would be gone, but there’s something to be said for the future TB. Jabba will be needed for some mission. Inquisitors will probably be needed for the Reva mission.
As far as Jabba as a GL, he seems pretty good. He works against pretty much everyone except LV and SEE. SEE can time out a lot. LV is a hard counter to Jabba. There aren’t that many Jabbas in the game, so there is a lack of testing generally, but I think he’s probably the one that would benefit the guild more than you.
One other thing of note. Jabba’s requirements need his weight in carbantis. For you, that would be 2,350 carbantis, 1,800 stun cuffs, 1,350 stun guns, 1,300 kyrotech shock prods, and 900 kyrotech battle computers.
LV needs 1,700 carbantis, 1,050 stun cuffs, 1,000 stun guns, 1,100 kyrotech shock prods, and 900 kyrotech battle computers.
Rey needs 2,100 carbantis, 1,450 stun cuffs, 1,300 stun guns, 1,050 kyrotech shock prods, and 550 kyrotech battle computers.
Rey needed more carbantis than I expected. Gear-wise, LV is closest, but the relic levels are going to be the big hurdle for him. I would say do Maul and Starkiller first. The investment isn’t that great and it will give more time to see how Jabba does over time. If you’re close to Ben Solo, then that’s also time for people to test him out. Who knows, that could skyrocket Rey up the GL ladder. It seems like Rey’Ben will beat JMK on paper. It might make trouble for JML with Ben’s omicron that lets him attack under protection. That could even be an issue for Jabba. No idea and we won’t get any omicron testing until the GAC after he can be unlocked.
If Ben isn’t close for you, then it’s harder to say. If they’re really good, you might try to get him with the next GAC. Doing Rey for that could be worth considering. Otherwise, it’s Jabba or LV. If I had to pick now, I’d say LV just because Jabba’s value won’t be known until the new TB comes out. Maybe Jabba will be required for the Reva node, though that would only matter if you and your guild has the rest of the Inquisitors. If not, then Jabba isn’t as valuable. For the longest while KAM was considered a bad character because there weren’t any good teams for him. Now, he’s useful a lot of places, but Reva could be the same.
Another thing to consider is Aphra. Hondo is the first of four characters leading to Aphra, in what seems like a Starkiller-like event. Hondo would work pretty well on a Dash team. Maybe the other three and Aphra will be as good as Starkiller and his four units.
Biggs was very helpful with the event. You don’t get to use the Falcon, so you are not using the ideal team. I had Biggs at R5, so I can’t say what the minimum would be. For Phoenix, I had most of them at G11. Ezra was G12. I since took them all to G12 just because I could. If I ever decided to cheap out and try to use Falcon with Home One or something like that.
AP Gains did the event with pretty weak pilots and his ships weren’t maxed out on abilities:
I think his Biggs was G13, though. I guess I would say do the requirements and maybe try to have the gear for Biggs if you need it? I’m not sure how much that will matter. The event will come back in a month or so. Worst case scenario, they unlock the ship, but can’t beat the bonus tier until they gear up Biggs. Profundity should be viable at 4-stars.
