We are well into 2024 and if there is one thing I know about having written literally hundreds of mod guides over the years, it is that they need to stay up-to-date to remain relevant. Many in the Galaxy of Heroes community know me from my time at Gaming-fans.com where I started the “best mods” series of articles which turned out to be what put the site on the radar of the community and with EA Capital Games. While my days with GF are behind me, I am working to keep the same kind of content going as I resume with the best SWGoH mods series today with a much more recent version of the Best Mods for Leia Organa.
It was not my intent to review the mods for a Galactic Legend so soon after the transition over from Gaming-fans.com to the new StarWars-fans.com site, but I selected Leia Organa after thinking more about how important mods are for Leia in both “normal” gameplay and the Speeder Bike Pursuit Raid. One thing I am trying to focus more on is how you can mod characters differently in different game modes within SWGoH, or at least cover more specific stats in your mods, and Leia Organa, Admiral Piett, Hana Solo and a few others stand out as great opportunities to highlight these different modding strategies.
Like all Galactic Legends in the game, Leia Organa has a ton of use in SWGoH and therefore should command the top tier of modding priority on any player’s roster. I use Leia Organa extensively in the Grand Arena Championships, Territory Wars, Territory Battles, Conquest and in the Galactic Challenges as well, and she is the #1 most important character in the Speeder Bike Pursuit Raid. So let’s take a look at the stats we want to enhance as we review the best ways to mod Leia Organa in SWGoH in 2024.
Main Mod Stats to focus on…
Speed. The most common word used in this section of these articles, as I have said before, Speed if a necessarily evil in Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes. The addition of mods and the ability to change a character’s Speed, and thus their Turn Order, completely changed the way kits are built and how all areas of the game are played, and everything now is built around the ability to manipulate Speed via mods. For Leia Organa, she starts with a base Speed of 372, so speeding her up is the logical choice. As I said last Fall in my original article for Gaming Fans, “All Galactic Legend characters in SWGoH have base Speeds ranging from 365-398, while the fastest non-GL character in the game is at 198, so the 10% boost from a set of four Speed mods is far greater for these elite characters. Leia may be one of the slower Galactic Legends at 372 Speed, but a +37 Speed boost from a set of four Speed mods is hard to pass up.”
There really is no reason to ignore what I wrote last September when I first reviewed the best mods for Leia Organa for Gaming Fans, as I also said that other main ares to focus on are Offense, Potency, Tenacity and survivability in the forms of both Health and Protection. These words are still true: “Leia has the 7th highest base Health stat in the game and does damage in her Rebel Ambush special that is based on her Max Health stat, a stat that is enhanced throughout her kit. If there is ever a stat that is as important as, or more important than Speed, it is Health, so be sure to mod her accordingly. Offensively, Leia Organa does a lot of True Damage which is compounded with her rather average Physical Damage stats. Her crit stats are unimpressive, so sticking with straight Offense gains is your best bet and using her Health stat to boost that will help a a lot. Potency will help the debuffs stick and she has an above-average base Potency already, and adding more Tenacity will help ensure she can use this fantastic kit of abilities. Adding Protection will also be quite helpful if you have the right mods, but I would not sacrifice Health for Protection with the circle, triangle or plus mods.”
Speeder Bike Pursuit Raid Mods
Since the early days of SWGoH with the Rancor Raid and Heroic AAT Raid, changing mods to maximize character stats has been the norm for the top players in Galaxy of Heroes. Having the right character or team has always been the key to a player’s success and I remember the friendly rivalry myself and my guildmate Adelka used to have in the HAAT, with his Clones in Phase 4 against my more well-rounded strategy. In the Speeder Bike Pursuit Raid, the Endor Raid, the Return of the Jedi Raid our however you want to refer to it, modding is key to maximizing scores. For Leia Organa, there are some key stats goals you want to hit to help you get closer to that 2.7 million point goal. What I have found to work is hitting 540+ Speed, a Critical Avoidance Arrow and very high Max Health and Max Protection stat, shooting for 110k or higher for both stats (I have my Relic 9 Leia at about 130k for both). Finally, you want to have at least 80% Potency and 6k Physical Offense, both tricky stat goals to attain, so this is where higher Relic levels help with the Offense and survivability stats.
This video from Scribe Gaming details the work of Ecliptic Ender and has proven to be a fantastic resource and helped me take my score from over 2 million to the max 2.7 million just by paying close attention to detail at the end of the battle.
TL;DR – Watch the video linked above and use mods to hit these stat goals for Leia Organa:
- 540+ Speed
- Critical Avoidance Arrow mod
- Max Health at 110k+
- Max Protection at 110k+
- Potency at 80%+
- Physical Offense at 6k+
Which Mod Sets to use & Dev Recommendations
The developers did not give mod recommendations until the game was several years old, then they went through their entire lineup of 150+ characters and made mod recommendations. When that happened, due to the mass number of characters they had to review, they got sloppy (in my opinion). I will follow that by saying I think almost every new character added in SWGoH since that time has been much, much better and I rarely disagree with the mod recommendations now, due in large part to the fact that they can give these new characters individualized attention.
For Leia Organa, the dev recommendations are Speed and Health, as they should be. Enhancing Leia Organa’s Speed with a set of four Speed mods and her Health with a set of two Health mods while looking to enhance other key stats from the secondary stat gains will make your Leia Organa a great piece of your SWGoH collection and viable against most anyone. Note that the placement of the Speed or Health mod is not a big deal, just ensure you complete your mod sets. With all of this in mind, here is what I am recommending for the best mods for Leia Organa:
- Transmitter (Square) – The Transmitter mod always has a primary focus on offense. For Leia Organa you want to normally use a SPEED mod here and be sure to closely look at the secondary stats to ensure that you get a heavy secondary focus on speed, health, offense and potency, tenacity or protection.
- Receiver (Arrow) – The Receiver mod can have a primary focus on several stats including speed, critical avoidance, accuracy, health, protection, defense and offense. For Leia Organa, you want to use a SPEED mod here with a primary focus on speed and a secondary focus on health, potency, tenacity and offense or protection.
- Processor (Diamond) – The Processor is always going to have a primary focus on defense. For Leia Organa, you want to use a SPEED mod here with a secondary focus on speed, potency, offense and protection or tenacity.
- Holo-Array (Triangle) – The Holo-Array is a very specialized mod that can have a primary focus on critical chance, critical damage, health, protection, offense and defense. For Leia Organa, you want to use a HEALTH mod here with a primary focus on health and a secondary focus on speed, health offense and tenacity or protection.
- Data-Bus (Circle) – The Data-bus mod always has a primary focus on either health or protection, and Leia Organa benefits more from a high Health stat, so use a SPEED mod with a health primary. The secondary focus stats should be speed, offense, potency and protection or tenacity.
- Multiplexer (Plus) – The Multiplexer (plus or cross) mod can have a primary focus on potency, tenacity, health, protection, defense offense. For Leia Organa, you want to use a HEALTH mod here with a health focus, making sure to have your mod sets complete. For the secondary stats, look to add speed, offense, health and protection or tenacity.