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Star Wars : Galaxy of Heroes |OT| The best chance to unlock Kylo-Ren
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Promote by getting the shards. Their color around the portrait is based on gear level.
Collecting their shards
Yeah I have experienced the same thing. His drops are crazy slow.
Just got luminara and I almost have enough shards for sidous and luke. It sucks that sidious is almost mandatory to own for arena purposes. It cuts down on the possible team variety. Also, Rey is an absolute beast. I can't believe I got her through the free packs. She just wrecks everything in sight.
That ability alone has saved my ass from losing so many battles.
I believe it. Been on the receiving end before and had my jaw drop.
Darth_Caedus
No longer canonical
Why is HK 47 in this game? Is it hinting at him being canon? Or do they plan on adding other non canon characters?
The events of the game are non-canon so who knows.
malikhaing_bayag
Member
Have a few questions. My team comprises of:
5* Lumi
5* Sidious
3* Geo Soldier
3* Dooku
4* Phasma
Geo is getting harder to farm. Does his shards drop anywhere else beside Cantina 1-1? Also who should I focus on building first? Been trying to go for Fives to have an extra tank for Light Side missions. If I buy Chromium and get shards, how many shards do you get for one pull?
5* Lumi
5* Sidious
3* Geo Soldier
3* Dooku
4* Phasma
Geo is getting harder to farm. Does his shards drop anywhere else beside Cantina 1-1? Also who should I focus on building first? Been trying to go for Fives to have an extra tank for Light Side missions. If I buy Chromium and get shards, how many shards do you get for one pull?
José Mourinho
cocknose
Been playing this for a month or so totally F2P, it's grind central at this point at player level 54.
Usually manage to get to around the 220 mark in PVP.
I don't think my main squad are particularly great outside of Rey but she's a slow grind with only 1 mission to collect shards on.
Keep coming back to this game though.
Usually manage to get to around the 220 mark in PVP.
I don't think my main squad are particularly great outside of Rey but she's a slow grind with only 1 mission to collect shards on.
Keep coming back to this game though.
Moff
Member
do you have a source for that?
I thought everything that will be reeased is canon since the reboot of the EU?
and this games does not really have "events", or has it? storywise it's simply people playing hologames.
Geo only drops from 1-1 and randomly from packs. He shouldn't be that hard a farm (provided you spend 100 crystals a day on the refresh... it's worth it once IMO). I average between 10-15 shards with one refresh + regular energy which puts it on par with Arena/GW characters.
You get 10-12 shards per pull. If you pull a character you already have, you get shards equal to 7 * their level (IIRC). It may diminish some the more stars the hero is, I forget.
Fives is okay. He's very tanky but the AI simply won't attack him other than AoE. He's on the slower side and low damage. The counter is nice but he's just not attacked all that often. 2-turn slow is incredible though... if they ever give the ability to grant a unit taunt, he'd be amazing.
They really need to add something for people with abilities based on taking damage like Mace had that thing where if he dies everyone gets a big boost to their turn meter but he almost always dies last so....
Actually if you get duplicate character you get half the shards required to star them up to the base stars + 1 regardless of what rank you currently have them at.
Darth_Caedus
No longer canonical
I got Luminara but so far she is meh. Not feeling the hype.
Once you get her heal over time you'll feel the hype.
Her damage, ability block and heal+heal over time for 2 turns will make her a staple for a lot of teams. You'll see as you advance her abilities. Also, her leader ability aint bad either.
Darth_Caedus
No longer canonical
I have her at gear level 5 now. Waiting on the challenges to change, hoping for the character ability upgrading one.
Btw is their other ios games like this? In terms of gameplay type (collecting characters is addicting) and fair Free to play system.
Btw is their other ios games like this? In terms of gameplay type (collecting characters is addicting) and fair Free to play system.
My friends tell me this game is based off of Heroes Charge, which is based off Summoners War. Dungeon Boss is another one.
Any advice for getting past Dark Side 5-I?
A bunch of level 53 jawas just destroy my team*.
I guess what I'm asking is, what should I concentrate on? Debuf? High health tanks?
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* (Borrow) (level 50-60) (Luminya if avail.)
Level 50 Capt Phasma (leader) 4 Star (Gear 5) (Abilities: 3,2,3,4)
Level 54 FOTP 2 Star (Gear 6, almost 7 if I could ever pass this level) (Abilities: 5,5,5)
Level 49 HK-47 4 Star (Gear 5) (Abilities: 2,2,3,4)
Level 52 Sidious 4 Star (Gear 5) (Abilities: 3,3,3,3)
Level 39 FO Stormtrooper 3 Star (Gear 5) (Abilities: 2,2,2)
A bunch of level 53 jawas just destroy my team*.
I guess what I'm asking is, what should I concentrate on? Debuf? High health tanks?
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* (Borrow) (level 50-60) (Luminya if avail.)
Level 50 Capt Phasma (leader) 4 Star (Gear 5) (Abilities: 3,2,3,4)
Level 54 FOTP 2 Star (Gear 6, almost 7 if I could ever pass this level) (Abilities: 5,5,5)
Level 49 HK-47 4 Star (Gear 5) (Abilities: 2,2,3,4)
Level 52 Sidious 4 Star (Gear 5) (Abilities: 3,3,3,3)
Level 39 FO Stormtrooper 3 Star (Gear 5) (Abilities: 2,2,2)
I mentioned in the OP, but Marvel Future Fight is excellent if you have any affinity towards Marvel.
Quick tip about 'Galactic War': If you find that your characters are dying (and don't have any backup characters), selecting retreat will bring them back to life at their pre-battle health. Be sure to change the order your characters are in before starting the battle again otherwise the computer will still attack in the same pattern it did before you initially backed out
Thanks for this.
Level up more. Your 39 FO isn't doing anything this fight. You need to go for stuns/ability blocks IMO. You can't heal through the AoE with darkside so damage/stun/ability block is how I clear. Dooku, Ventress, Vader, Boba Fett, Poggle, etc. are all very helpful. If you can find a high level maul ally, his aoe can practically 1-shot a wave for you. But other than that? Keep leveling up and come back to it when you're 60 or whatever. Any gear you may need can be farmed on the Light Side.
I just got Darth Maul out of a data card! Sweet! Is he any good?
Edit : He seems pretty damn good, actually.
Also I cannot stress again how fucking awesome Stormtrooper Han is after you get him leveled. Dude is a fucking monster, he's my secret weapon. I'm putting all I can into making him stronger.
Edit : He seems pretty damn good, actually.
Also I cannot stress again how fucking awesome Stormtrooper Han is after you get him leveled. Dude is a fucking monster, he's my secret weapon. I'm putting all I can into making him stronger.
Yeah, Han is supposedly pretty awesome. I don't have one leveled up though.
Maul is good but really hard to get shards for. So, he'll be 4* for you for a long, long time unless you do a lot of chromium pulls. There's nowhere else to get his shards.
Seventy_X_Seven
Member
Hardest GW I've ever faced. The last 7 fights all had some crazy burst characters including a bunch of 7* Leia's, FOTP's, Poe's, and QuiGon's. I went through almost all of my lowbie characters burning poe taunt/leia stealths. Ended up losing my entire "A" team in the last fight and my "B"/"C" teams were in tatters.
(EDIT) sniped back 5th place with 1 second remaining on the clock. Feels good, didn't even have to spend crystals. I love when you hit the "dead spot" in arena (rank 9/10, nobody really contests those spots).
(EDIT) sniped back 5th place with 1 second remaining on the clock. Feels good, didn't even have to spend crystals. I love when you hit the "dead spot" in arena (rank 9/10, nobody really contests those spots).
21 day subscription/booster deal coming back permanently this week/next week
Edit: It's back now.
The crystal thing? I don't see it.
I don't get the stats in this game. Darth Sideous is said to have a high natural dodge rating and I see him dodge stuff a lot, but when I check his stats his dodge is 0.
Also I still haven't beaten a single GW, so good on you Blank. Just can't seem to get the right strategy. Tried today to use my weaker characters first and work up as they died, but that actually seemed to get me less far.
I downloaded this about a month ago and I think I've played it every day since then. I just hit level 59. It's one of the more addicting phone games I've played. Thankfully, you get advance pretty far and pretty quickly without investing too much time or even any money into the game. So it's nice to see a game like that. Makes me want to play and support it even more.
Galactic War was a huge pain in the ass until I started getting a deeper roster. I didn't beat it at all until about five days ago. Then I won three times in a row, now I can barely get past the 5th or 6th match because every match at that point is against level 60 purple squads, haha. I guess that's the downside to getting up there in levels yourself. Seems like the best bet to beating GW is getting as many good characters as you can and leveling them up before you creep in on level 60. They really start throwing those crazy teams at you around that point.
I've just been spending my time trying to acquire all of the good characters and then go from there, trying to decide what team I want and who to focus on promoting. Nobody is above level 5 but they're all either level 4 or 5. I've unlocked people like Sidious, Phasma, HK-47, IG-88, Old Daka, Luminara just from farming the shards every day, focusing on one at a time. I just got Kylo Ren today as well thanks to his cantina battle. So I'm leaning towards either a droid team or a first order team... probably the former. Even with the random squad members, I can get up to about rank 70 overall in the arena on my server before being knocked back down over time so it's not too bad. I hover around 90-120 usually. I'd recommend just getting the most useful characters out there like that if you're new to the game.
Also, if you're fairly new to the game, don't save your crystals for the chromium packs. Use them to refresh your cantina energy once a day and to refresh the regular energy twice a day. That might have been posted already but yeah, just wanted to throw that idea out there again. It really helps a lot in the cantina battles when you're trying to purchase shards from shipments there since those cantina points are harder to come by. I wish I listened to this tip earlier on when I started playing but I only started doing it a week or two ago. I was being stubborn and decided to save up for a 4x chromium pack and then a 8x chromium pack. Each time I was convinced I would get something good, only to get mostly shards and a couple of crap characters. Maybe you'll get some nice unlocks from it but you're still probably better off dumping the crystals into refreshes. Helps you to level a little faster too since you'll get a little XP and usually a few training droids.
I'm also kind of hoping they add some new characters to the game soon like Yoda, Grievous and whoever else. It's a little old going against Dooku, Sidious, Phasma, Poe, etc all the time in every battle. Also, the game is way too anti-jedi right now. They really need some abilities to counter that.
Galactic War was a huge pain in the ass until I started getting a deeper roster. I didn't beat it at all until about five days ago. Then I won three times in a row, now I can barely get past the 5th or 6th match because every match at that point is against level 60 purple squads, haha. I guess that's the downside to getting up there in levels yourself. Seems like the best bet to beating GW is getting as many good characters as you can and leveling them up before you creep in on level 60. They really start throwing those crazy teams at you around that point.
I've just been spending my time trying to acquire all of the good characters and then go from there, trying to decide what team I want and who to focus on promoting. Nobody is above level 5 but they're all either level 4 or 5. I've unlocked people like Sidious, Phasma, HK-47, IG-88, Old Daka, Luminara just from farming the shards every day, focusing on one at a time. I just got Kylo Ren today as well thanks to his cantina battle. So I'm leaning towards either a droid team or a first order team... probably the former. Even with the random squad members, I can get up to about rank 70 overall in the arena on my server before being knocked back down over time so it's not too bad. I hover around 90-120 usually. I'd recommend just getting the most useful characters out there like that if you're new to the game.
Also, if you're fairly new to the game, don't save your crystals for the chromium packs. Use them to refresh your cantina energy once a day and to refresh the regular energy twice a day. That might have been posted already but yeah, just wanted to throw that idea out there again. It really helps a lot in the cantina battles when you're trying to purchase shards from shipments there since those cantina points are harder to come by. I wish I listened to this tip earlier on when I started playing but I only started doing it a week or two ago. I was being stubborn and decided to save up for a 4x chromium pack and then a 8x chromium pack. Each time I was convinced I would get something good, only to get mostly shards and a couple of crap characters. Maybe you'll get some nice unlocks from it but you're still probably better off dumping the crystals into refreshes. Helps you to level a little faster too since you'll get a little XP and usually a few training droids.
I'm also kind of hoping they add some new characters to the game soon like Yoda, Grievous and whoever else. It's a little old going against Dooku, Sidious, Phasma, Poe, etc all the time in every battle. Also, the game is way too anti-jedi right now. They really need some abilities to counter that.
You need to have spent at least $5.00 on the game to see the crystal sub, it should be there though.
Honestly, I think the Dodge/Deflection stat is bugged (visually) because it shows 0 for everyone. I thought I read that the system was "rounding down" to 0 because it was a low % number or something because obviously characters dodge shit all the time. That said, if you look at Sidious's passive (I think?) it says he's got 35% evasion against jedi attacks.
Best GW strategy for me is run 2-3 healers. Lum/Jedi Counselor at the highest gear/level you can and max their heal abilities ASAP. Lum's heal is your emergency heal, JC is your spam heal (it ends up having a low cooldown and his saber strike can lower it further). Chewie can work as a pseudo-healer saving his taunt for when things are looking bad. Then toss in two damage dealers (Sidious/Geno Soldier) and off you go. Focus fire their damage dealers, Sidious keeps them from getting topped off by heals. Leave any Barriss/Chewie/Obi-wan for last.
I think having a solid core 5 is more important than a deep roster. Your solid 5 should coast you through the first 6 battles without blinking, be able to RNG their way through 7-9 without a loss (reset if they do until you do have that stable of heroes to choose from), and 10-12 use low-level teams to eat cooldowns and clean up with the A team. Obviously, this is way harder when you don't even have 2-3 teams to field but meh
Woo hoo! Just picked up Maul in a Data Card pull.
I also picked up IG-88 from Arena Shipments.. working on Poe (25/50), Luminara (38/50)
Not sure who to work on next.. Boba Fett or someone else.
Also, when it comes to levelling characters, do you work on getting their equipment upgraded for the level requirements or just level up and then do the equipment? Does it matter even? Maybe I'm imagining things, but I think they get more health if you level them with equipment.
I also picked up IG-88 from Arena Shipments.. working on Poe (25/50), Luminara (38/50)
Not sure who to work on next.. Boba Fett or someone else.
Also, when it comes to levelling characters, do you work on getting their equipment upgraded for the level requirements or just level up and then do the equipment? Does it matter even? Maybe I'm imagining things, but I think they get more health if you level them with equipment.
Doesn't matter if you gear, level, or star them first. They all end up the same power-level regardless. Level/Stars are just multipliers for your Strength/Agility/Intelligence values. In fact, it has no impact on a lot of important stats (speed being probably the most notable but also tenacity/potency).
Gear ends up being ultimately way more important than level/stars.
Glass Shark
Banned
I am hopelessly addicted to this game and have spent more money on it than I care to admit...
I always try to gear them up ASAP. Especially the slots that provide health and speed bonuses. Even if I don't have the other mats, I try to at least do those immediately.
I've hit a wall ever right before or right after getting to purple gear though. So many characters need 20 or 40 pieces of purple gear for one piece and it's becoming really hard to farm those in a timely manner. Feels like the drop rate on those pieces is lower than character shards half the time.
I just started playing this 5 days ago. I like how it apparently put me in a new server. I started out at arena rank 4000-something, so I probably missed a day, but I managed to make my way all the way up to 3rd/4th place finishes now. I think there are only two teams that I can't really beat.
And I've only spent the $5 to pick up Dooku at the start, so my team is pretty shaky as Geonosian Soldier, Jedi Consular, Chewie and Talia. Think I'm on the right track with my farming priorities though:
Cantina Battles: Geonosian Soldier
Cantina Shipments: Old Daka, then Poe
Arena Shipments: Sidious, then the Droids
Galactic War I should be unlocking tonight and will go for Luminara first.
The only one I haven't really decided on is my hard battle farm target. I should probably go for Luminara there as well until I get her, and then maybe Poggle.
And I've only spent the $5 to pick up Dooku at the start, so my team is pretty shaky as Geonosian Soldier, Jedi Consular, Chewie and Talia. Think I'm on the right track with my farming priorities though:
Cantina Battles: Geonosian Soldier
Cantina Shipments: Old Daka, then Poe
Arena Shipments: Sidious, then the Droids
Galactic War I should be unlocking tonight and will go for Luminara first.
The only one I haven't really decided on is my hard battle farm target. I should probably go for Luminara there as well until I get her, and then maybe Poggle.
There is something severely fucked up going on with Galactic War, man. I keep getting these nearly impossible to beat teams at my level like I got a team that was doing like 2700 on regular attacks and I was doing 800 per attack every turn despite usually doing 1800ish. Then I got these other motherfuckers that were like level 57 and it had a level 47 Old Daka and they kept crushing the shit out of me I couldn't even attack because they were attacking multiple times before I could attack again. I dunno if they fucked with it to make the CPU harder and went way overboard or what but this is fucking bullshit. I eventally lost my whole team without being able to retreat because it killed three characters by attacking them so many times that they all died before you could even go into settings. Also the Old Daka stunned 100% of the time.
These aren't even characters at a higher star level these are characters with the same or below me and mine are in purple gear.
These aren't even characters at a higher star level these are characters with the same or below me and mine are in purple gear.
If you are unable to retreat you can always force quit the app. It resets the progress of the battle, but you can do it at anytime. The hardest galaxy war battle for me always seems to be either the 3rd or 4th to last battles. I usually end up switching my leader or if the battle is impossible I have an ungeared, but mostly leveled team that can always seem to kill or weaken 1/2 key people for my other squad to run through.
Right now I've been trying to decide who to unlock and level up next.
Sidious will be 7* in 4 days. I'll move on to HK-47
Lumi will be 6* once I cash in my GW rewards that have piled up. Will probably 7* and move onto finishing Phasma and then Biggs.
Cantina battles I've been working on Kylo Ren. About 60% to unlocking him
Cantina shipments I've confused on. I have a 4* Bobba Fett halfway to 5* mostly due to shards pulls from packs. I just unlocked Fives, but I feel like Poe or Daka would be useful.
Grinding for gear is such a hassle now though. Everyone needs multiple pieces of 20 purple mats that take forever to farm with a ludicrous drop rate of 1-2 per day. I've been "trying" to farm Dooku shards for several weeks and only have him at 3* and 22/30 for the next upgrade. Somehow my team is right around the 100 mark in arena, but all the teams around me are growing in level and my team levels up at a snails pace now. I guess I'm hitting that spot where f2p isn't exactly fun 2 play anymore. I wouldn't mind spending $5 on the game here or there with my free google credit I earn, but there isn't anything good to buy. I was offered a $5 stormtrooper pack once. Data packs are an RNG nightmare. I have 7mil in credits I can't use and buying shards to just replay the same missions hoping for another purple item is insane to spend on.
Are you using the purple drank to refill your energy? That's the only thing really worth spending money on imo
Moff
Member
after 1 or 2 upgrades to that skill, dooku has a 100% counter chance, so every time you hit him directly or with an AOE attack he will counter
And he also gets turn meter from any counters so it can also trigger his normal attack
7* Sid (L)
7* Kylo
7* Lumi
6* Poe
5* IG-88
Been easy to hit rank 1 on my server with this setup. All Epic Geared etc.
SA points to get IG-88 to 7* cuz wow he rapes.
GW points towards Poggle and IG-86. Both almost epic geared out. Both currently at 5*.
After that, HK-47 for full on droid team I guess.
Game is so crack.
7* Kylo
7* Lumi
6* Poe
5* IG-88
Been easy to hit rank 1 on my server with this setup. All Epic Geared etc.
SA points to get IG-88 to 7* cuz wow he rapes.
GW points towards Poggle and IG-86. Both almost epic geared out. Both currently at 5*.
After that, HK-47 for full on droid team I guess.
Game is so crack.
Seventy_X_Seven
Member
I'm hating the discrepancy with servers. I'm heading guys with low level teams in the top 100 easily while I'm up there at level 64 just trying to keep up in the top 1000. Only a pain because the rewards.
Yeah, I got pretty lucky with my server as well. I just made #6 without even spending on a refresh and attacking about 15 minutes before payout. Maybe I was attacked and my defense team just won? Didn't check but yeah, I can pretty much coast into top 20 without issue.
Also, I've joined the masses using Poe. Currently 4* only but it still works. Debating dropping 6* Dooku for a (close to) 7* IG-86. The lack of CC worries me if I lose the "poe fight" and the nearly guaranteed jedi stun/potential double stun is still incredibly useful. I'd like to lose Lum too but I find she can be clutch heal as well if I lose the Poe war too.
Right now:
Sidious (L)
Lum
Geno soldier
Poe
Dooku
This may seem obvious, but it really pays off to spend some gems to climb the brackets. I had MANY more defenses when I was between 50 and 100 and higher than I do in the top 10. There are teams with 25k attack power sitting at rank 150 on my server, which puts them near the top in total power. They just haven't bothered to climb, so teams with 21k are sitting in the top 10.
Managed to sneak into 2nd place three days in a row, surprisingly, despite there being about 5 teams that I can't beat now. Luckily a droid team guy around my power beat the tougher opponent, and then I beat him. 
Should be picking up both Luminara and Sidious today, so I'm hoping to compete better now that I'll have some 4*s.
Should be picking up both Luminara and Sidious today, so I'm hoping to compete better now that I'll have some 4*s.