Today I will review the best mods for Baylan Skoll, the newest member of SWGoH and the new Mercenary leader in the game. We have been building up to this day for months as players need Shin Hati, Marrok, Morgan Elsbeth, Great Mothers and Grand Admiral Thrawn all at Relic 7 or higher to unlock Baylan Skoll in Galaxy of Heroes.
During my time at Gaming-fans.com 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 I enjoyed our brief time with a communicative Capital Games consistently working myself and the other SWGoH GameChangers, there was an inability to support that level of community engagement from within CG, so I became just another member of the community, only with a bit more of a public voice. Now that my days with Gaming-fans.com are behind me, I am working to keep the same kind of content going as I resume the “best mods” series today with the Best Mods for Baylan Skoll.
Baylan Skoll in Galaxy of Heroes is described as “A formidable former Jedi whose commitment to ending the cycle of strife between Jedi and Empire pushed him to seek a power greater than them all.” He is a Tank, Leader, Mercenary and Unaligned Force User character who will lead the top Mercenary team in the game. Let’s take a look at how we want to focus the mod stat gains for Baylan Skoll in Galaxy of Heroes.
Note that I have been told that I can get a bit long-winded when writing these mod guides. As a result, if you simply want the TL;DR on how to mod Baylan Skoll, it is below.
Main Mod Stats to focus on…
Baylan Skoll is a tank who will rely on stacks of Soldier of Fortune with his Mercenary team to ramp up his Offense and Defense alike. He is intended to be used with Shin Hati and Marrok, both Fall 2024 releases and requirements to unlock Baylan Skoll, and will be taunting a LOT given how his kit reads. He has the ability, with enough stacks of Soldier of Fortune, to massively ramp up his Defense, to reflect damage back on the attacker, Expose enemies with Purge, and to both Stun enemies and reduce their Speed. In addition, per his leader ability, while Taunting, Baylan has +50% Defense, +30% Tenacity and Retribution until Taunt expires. He all grants Mercenary allies Potency Up and Tenacity Up with his special abilities plus his second special grants 20% Offense (stacking) and adds 5% Tenacity whenever the ability is used.
As a result of all of the above, and given this team will have Marrok and Shin Hati on it, I would load Baylan up with Defense and other survivability stats like Health and Protection, and allow the Offense to take care of itself. He has the 7th highest Armor stat in-game, 14th highest Health and 9th highest Protection base stat, so building on these to make him a Uber-thick tank who always taunting will really annoy the enemy and make Baylan Skoll difficult to defeat.
Which Mod Sets to use & Dev Recommendations
We will not know what the developers recommend for another day or so, but I am expecting survivability stats to be their recommended focus. Even if not, Baylan Skoll feels like the kind of character you could go a few different ways with in terms of modding, I just happen to be focused more of the defensive side so I am suggesting two Defense sets and a Health set blending in speed, potency, tenacity, protection and some offense. Note that much speed may not be needed at all, but given how the game has gone historically I have to include it until we test Baylan Skoll out. Here is what I am recommending (to start) for the best mods for Baylan Skoll:
- Transmitter (Square) – The Transmitter mod always has a primary focus on offense. For Baylan Skoll, I recommend a DEFENSE mod here and be sure to closely look at the secondary stats to ensure that you get a heavy secondary focus on speed, health, protection and potency or tenacity.
- Receiver (Arrow) – The Receiver mod can have a primary focus on several stats including speed, critical avoidance, accuracy, health, protection, defense and offense. For Baylan Skoll, you want to use a HEALTH mod here with a primary focus on speed and a secondary focus on defense, health, protection and offense.
- Processor (Diamond) – The Processor is always going to have a primary focus on defense. For Baylan Skoll, you want to use a DEFENSE mod here with a secondary focus on defense, health, protection and speed or potency.
- 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 Baylan Skoll, you want to use a HEALTH mod here with a primary focus on health, defense or protection or and a secondary focus on defense, health/protection, speed and potency or tenacity.
- Data-Bus (Circle) – The Data-bus mod always has a primary focus on either health or protection, and Baylan Skoll will benefit from a high Health and Protection stats, so go with a DEFENSE mod with a Health or Protection primary. The secondary focus stats should be speed, protection, health and potency or tenacity.
- Multiplexer (Plus) – The Multiplexer (plus or cross) mod can have a primary focus on potency, tenacity, health, protection, defense or offense. For Baylan Skoll, you want to use a DEFENSE mod here with an health, defense or protection focus, making sure to have your mod sets complete. For the secondary stats, look to add defense, health, speed and potency or protection.
Best Mods for Baylan Skoll TL;DR
- Square – Defense mod with speed & health
- Arrow – Health mod, Speed focus with health & defense
- Diamond – Defense mod with health & protection
- Triangle – Health mod, Defense focus with health & protection
- Circle – Defense mod, Protection focus with speed & health
- Plus – Defense mod, Health focus with defense & protection
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