Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes - new F2P turn-based squad battle game

I didn't notice until a few minutes ago but apparently you can buy characters from PvP. I guess I'll just buy 5 shares of ventress a day until I unlock her?

oilypenguin wrote:

I didn't notice until a few minutes ago but apparently you can buy characters from PvP. I guess I'll just buy 5 shares of ventress a day until I unlock her?

That's what I'm doing with HK-47.

Edit: Also, you can do the same with Challenge points - there's just a different mix of purchaseable shards.

Welp, I've been looking for another game to try out on my phone. Between this and Marvel Puzzle Quest I think I'll be set

I'll post my ally code whenever I get the opportunity to.

Tanglebones wrote:
oilypenguin wrote:

I didn't notice until a few minutes ago but apparently you can buy characters from PvP. I guess I'll just buy 5 shares of ventress a day until I unlock her?

That's what I'm doing with HK-47.

Edit: Also, you can do the same with Challenge points - there's just a different mix of purchaseable shards.

That one I knew about. PvP points apparently come a lot faster, though. I was sitting on over 2k of those.

And man, I want HK-47 really badly (playing kotor2 again right now for some reason) but he's 80 tokens, so over 2 weeks before I'd be able to get him. I just really need a 5th DS character.

CptDomano wrote:

Welp, I've been looking for another game to try out on my phone. Between this and Marvel Puzzle Quest I think I'll be set

I'll post my ally code whenever I get the opportunity to.

Hahahaha, I'm ruining you. Join the MPQ alliance when you get a chance.

Fair enough - I've got 7 or 8 DS characters. I'm getting to the point where I can be picky, and leave a few of the crappy ones to languish. Talia is pretty awesome, and I'm about 1/4 of the way to Dooku from Hard battle shards.

I got Dooku from the Dark Side starter pack. For $5 it seemed good, since the game seemed like something I would have spent $5 to buy.

... Dooku is insane. He is insane. I cannot stress it enough. Bonus attacks, extra energy when he counterattacks and bonus attacks, and 100% counterattack eventually, plus his attacks just super-screw Jedi. He's insane.

Insane.

Bloo Driver wrote:

I got Dooku from the Dark Side starter pack. For $5 it seemed good, since the game seemed like something I would have spent $5 to buy.

... Dooku is insane. He is insane. I cannot stress it enough. Bonus attacks, extra energy when he counterattacks and bonus attacks, and 100% counterattack eventually, plus his attacks just super-screw Jedi. He's insane.

Insane.

Yeah. I kinda regret not springing for that.

Tanglebones wrote:
Bloo Driver wrote:

I got Dooku from the Dark Side starter pack. For $5 it seemed good, since the game seemed like something I would have spent $5 to buy.

... Dooku is insane. He is insane. I cannot stress it enough. Bonus attacks, extra energy when he counterattacks and bonus attacks, and 100% counterattack eventually, plus his attacks just super-screw Jedi. He's insane.

Insane.

Yeah. I kinda regret not springing for that.

I just hit equipment 4 on him.

He's a GD monster. He double attacks (sometimes) off of his counter and his counter is at %100.

oilypenguin wrote:
Tanglebones wrote:
Bloo Driver wrote:

I got Dooku from the Dark Side starter pack. For $5 it seemed good, since the game seemed like something I would have spent $5 to buy.

... Dooku is insane. He is insane. I cannot stress it enough. Bonus attacks, extra energy when he counterattacks and bonus attacks, and 100% counterattack eventually, plus his attacks just super-screw Jedi. He's insane.

Insane.

Yeah. I kinda regret not springing for that.

I just hit equipment 4 on him.

He's a GD monster. He double attacks (sometimes) off of his counter and his counter is at %100.

I'm really curious to see how ridiculous Vader's going to be. Also, it looks like there's a lot of deckbuilding-esque opportunity to make specialty squads down the line, with Lando/Nute Gunray buffing scoundrel groups, and similar play models.

I am findable under ally code 124 453 741

FWIW, if you stumble across my code, add me. Don't ask for permission. I sure as hell ain't.

Tanglebones wrote:

I'm really curious to see how ridiculous Vader's going to be. A

Fought him in challenge mission yesterday and he was a punk. Won, but damn.

I've seen Vader a few times in PVE events and don't remember him being too bad. Had him as a team-up once or twice, too. Guessing by the way his abilities looked, i think he'll get really nasty once his AoE gets a few upgrades, those debuffs will start to pile up.

My current sh*t list for PVP is Dooku, that healer jedi lady (Barriss?), and Lando. Lando i wasn't expecting anything out of, but then there's that little text that makes his AoE a one turn ability if it hits with more than one crit. That just burned through my team like nothing else. I think i need better stuns for pvp, is the takeaway. Or ability locks. Does ability lock kill Dooku's counterattack?

My sh*t list for PVE is pretty much any team of all droids/tusken raiders/geonoshans or what have you where they call for an assist and get bonuses. I've had a few too many fights where i lost somebody before i could even take an action because they use that skill to fire 8 or 10 times in a row.

838-791-364 if anybody wants another Chewbacca to add to their team

I really regret not picking up the $5 Dooku pack as well, but I did luck out once in the free cards by getting a 4* Jedi with "Bad Motherf**ker" written on his purple lightsaber. He sucks as a leader though, unless you have all jedi.

Got an extra * on the jedi healer (consular?), and working towards Dooku by farming the early hard missions. I haven't decided who I want to get through the Cantina credits, but I am putting all Squad credits toward Darth Sidious shards as I hear he is a monster like Dooku

My PVE problem has been the damn sandtroopers with grenades. AOE, AOE, AOE, over and over. It's like it's not even a special move but their regular damn attack

Senkrad wrote:

I am putting all Squad credits toward Darth Sidious shards as I hear he is a monster like Dooku

Is he? I used him as a loaner a few times and didn't really click.

Stele wrote:

My PVE problem has been the damn sandtroopers with grenades. AOE, AOE, AOE, over and over. It's like it's not even a special move but their regular damn attack

yeeeeeep. Why don't I 3* stages 5 levels below me? Constant AoE and my only heal on my crap jedi (he actually tries really hard and does ok).

I am currently pretty close to getting admiral ackbar. I hear he is really strong.

PVP I can get under 500 but in the morning I'm usually back up to around 1k. I leave chewie as my leader because the defense bonus seems much more practical than dookus evasion. I am grinding cantina to get chewie to 5 star as well. I think it's the third fight in.

Cobble wrote:

I am currently pretty close to getting admiral ackbar. I hear he is really strong.

PVP I can get under 500 but in the morning I'm usually back up to around 1k. I leave chewie as my leader because the defense bonus seems much more practical than dookus evasion. I am grinding cantina to get chewie to 5 star as well. I think it's the third fight in.

Yeah, that's the loop I'm in right now. Reading on EA's forums, it looks like people who are really pushing for those extra ranks are just waiting until ten or so minutes before payout time and blowing their crystals to do several fights in a row and cram themselves into the 100s bracket. From what I've seen, unless you wanna do something like that, you (the general "you", here) won't really push past the 400-500 range.

Not really sure what I think about the PvP in this game, though. The game's not super deep to begin with (not yet, anyway, since gearing is pretty straightforward and party comps are a limited resource for damn near everyone), but the AI that governs battles is really easy to fool. Hell, Talia will bring herself to 1 hp healing "the group" even if she's the only one hurt. Right now it seems the upper tiers of player comps are just tons of Counterattack and Bonus Attack procs and praying to rngesus when someone comes at you. There's also an all-healer squad I've seen repeatedly, but that's 3 or 4 paid characters (or extreme luck).

I got the Galactic War table opened yesterday and that's been kinda cool. Actually rewards you for having a deep, useful bench rather than just your 5-7 all-stars.

I have installed this on my phone! I am on my way!

I guess put me in the "should have bought Dooku" camp. Expired last night and I still only have 4 dark side characters, despite being level 28 or so in the game already. Would have at least completed my DS team and it sounds like he's pretty good.

The grind for heroes seems pretty rough in this one, much worse than a couple of similar games I have seen. Seems like every hero requires 50-80 tokens just to unlock, never mind increase the stars. And other games might go to 5 stars, but this one goes to 10(?).

On one hand I guess that means you'll always have something to do. But it also feels like a really long grind, and EA hopes you'll cave and spend some cash.

I fought my first whale in PvP today! Entire squad was named Jedi. That was a LOT of heals. Everyone either had a heal or an AoE. But they were pretty low level so when they AoEd, Dooku just smoked them.

HOLY sh*t

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So this just happened from a Chromium drop.

Niiiice. Best I've gotten from Chromium are Greedo and Luminara.

Full characters? I've only ever gotten shards for people. I thought that was all it gave out. The bronzium is especially frustrating.

"Oh a single shard for an 80 shard character? How... helpful."

oilypenguin wrote:

Full characters? I've only ever gotten shards for people. I thought that was all it gave out. The bronzium is especially frustrating.

"Oh a single shard for an 80 shard character? How... helpful."

From Chromium? Yeah, sometimes it'll drop full characters; sometimes it'll drop a batch of shards - I got 12 for Teebo, I think. Bronzium will rarely drop a terrible 1* character.

oilypenguin wrote:

Full characters? I've only ever gotten shards for people. I thought that was all it gave out. The bronzium is especially frustrating.

"Oh a single shard for an 80 shard character? How... helpful."

Rough numbers I've seen claim 3% chance for a full character from bronze and 25%from chrome. If you have the character already, you get half the shards needed to get to the next rank.

I've gotten Jedi counsoler 3 times, which is why mine is bumped up a bit.

Tarkin is pretty good so far. I think I'll be spending all of my resources equipping him for a few days.

Fear will keep them in line.

393-354-168
Slowly working on a decent char

I was incredibly surprised when I got my Mace Windu from a ChromiumBronzium. I actually thought that it must have been a lucky bug, as the description of the card was telling me that you could only get 1 or 2 star characters.

Of course since then I have only received things like 1 tier 1 equipment or 300 credits

I've been playing as well. With all the regrets about Dooku, I went ahead and bought him. He is a beast. Unfortunately, the game now seems to think I'm a whale, as it is offering a Jedi "starter pack" with Mace Windu for only $40.

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Nah it does that for everyone. $5 Dooku, then $25 droids, then $40 Windu, then $50 female Jedi bundle. I got one of the Nightsister Initiate and Aayla Secura (light Jedi) last night when I finally hit 1330 crystals to buy a 4-pack of chromium cards. I figured the 5% discount was worth it and the chance I would get at least one character. But it's going to take a while to save up again. Maybe the $5 crystals-every-day-for-a-month pack would be worth it in the long run to get a lot more heroes.