Today I will review the best mods for the B2 Super Battle Droid, a long-time member of SWGoH and a key component of the General Grievous Separatist Droid teams. 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 the B2 Super Battle Droid.
The B2 Super Battle Droid is described in Galaxy of Heroes as a “Droid Tank that relentlessly punishes enemies that evade attacks or damage allies.” While this is an accurate description in terms of his “relentless” attacks, he doesn’t hit particularly hard, so the punishment comes in the form of key debuffs. Let’s take a look at how we want to focus the mod stat gains for B2 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 B2 Super Battle Droid, it is below.
Main Mod Stats to focus on…
The B2 Super Battle Droid may not hit very hard, but the debuffs it can apply can help control a battle, especially when used with General Grievous. Potency is obvious given the B2 applies a lot of debuffs, but keeping him tanky is quite helpful, so add health, protection and defense. B2 and MagnaGuard are in the lineup to annoy enemies and protect Grievous and STAP from getting hit, so bulk your B2 up. B2 has a high base armor stat, so I like a set or two of Defense mods to build on this, but I recommend a lot of Protection to help with the interaction with the B1 Battle Droid, who replenishes Protection regularly. Adding significant Tenacity is also a very good move to help ward off detrimental effects like Ability Block. Speed is not a highly necessary stat for the B2, but a little added will certainly not hurt. Just be sure to save those 15+ speed secondaries for other characters unless you are swimming in high speed mods.
The B2 Super Battle Droid is also quite valuable, as a leader believe it or not, on one of the best teams for the Naboo Raid. Originally using Darth Maul, Darth Sidious & Nute Gunray and STAP, the team evolved to have a B2 lead with Darth Maul, Darth Sidious, STAP and IG-100 MagnaGuard. This team has the potential to reach max scores when well-modded, and the B2 Super Battle Droid seems to work best with an Offense set to provide added damage.
Which Mod Sets to use & Dev Recommendations
The developer recommendation for the B2 Super Battle Droid is simply Potency. While yes, Potency is very important to his kit, for a character who is a tank and on a team where characters are forced to be hit under the General Grievous lead, keeping him alive is quite critical in my opinion. I have been modding my B2 Super Battle Droid with a Potency set and two Defense sets for years and have not been disappointed. Thus, here is what I am recommending for the best mods for the B2 Super Battle Droid:
- Transmitter (Square) – The Transmitter mod always has a primary focus on offense. For B2 Super Battle Droid, you want to use a POTENCY or DEFENSE mod here and be sure to closely look at the secondary stats to ensure that you get a heavy secondary focus on defense, potency, protection and speed 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 B2 Super Battle Droid, you want to use a POTENCY or DEFENSE mod here with a primary focus on protection or defense and a secondary focus on potency, defense, protection and tenacity or speed.
- Processor (Diamond) – The Processor is always going to have a primary focus on defense. For B2 Super Battle Droid, you want to use a DEFENCE mod here with a secondary focus on defense, protection, tenacity and 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 B2 Super Battle Droid, you want to use a DEFENCE or POTENCY mod here with a primary focus on protection or defense and a secondary focus on potency, defense, protection and speed or tenacity.
- Data-Bus (Circle) – The Data-bus mod always has a primary focus on either health or protection, and the B2 Super Battle Droid benefits greatly from a high protection stat, so this is pretty straightforward – DEFENCE or POTENCY mod with a protection primary. The secondary focus stats should be defense, potency, tenacity and health or speed.
- Multiplexer (Plus) – The Multiplexer (plus or cross) mod can have a primary focus on potency, tenacity, health, protection, defense offense. For B2 Super Battle Droid, you want to use a DEFENCE mod here with a protection or potency focus, making sure to have your mod sets complete. For the secondary stats, look to add defense, tenacity, potency and health or protection.
Best Mods for B2 Super Battle Droid TL;DR
- Square – Potency mod with potency & protection
- Arrow – Potency mod, Defense focus with protection & potency
- Diamond – Defense mod with tenacity & protection
- Triangle – Defense mod, Protection focus with defense & potency
- Circle – Defense mod, Protection focus with defense & tenacity
- Plus – Defense mod, Protection focus with defense & potency