Are galactic legends being power crept on purpose?

Galactic Legends are an essential part of competing in PvP and PvE game modes. 

You only have 2 of them, and you unlocked Jabba 2 years ago. You'd have a very different opinion of them if you had more than 2 GLs. 

There's one pack that simply blows away many Legends. Great Mothers is a team with Peridia Patrol that every beginner player should level up. They're all free farmed. And they'll help you complete events like Conquest or Proving Ground just as well as Legends. Their usefulness in the GAC is enormous.

It just feels like a waste at times considering how the second a galactic legend becomes less relevant they have to go the extra mile to release new support toons just to make the squad usable again. Not to mention so many players end up just throwing some gls on defense in grand arena (in my rank anyway) making them feel like a waste of time considering how much time and resources were consumed just to unlock them in the first place. 

coolnessda wrote:

Galactic legends used to be all the rage.

I get the concept.  Now, a GL on defence is generally much more straight-forward than the new shiny toon with ominomidatipotato-icrons coming out of its eyeball.

coolnessda wrote:

They were the god tier toons everyone wanted and only paying players could get access to early.

Well....that's still the case, isn't it?  I guess they're not as god tier as they used to be.  However, one of the worst decisions (if we erase the last 4 months) CG has ever made (in my opinion) was to nerf the characters a few years ago that could counter GLs.  This made the divide between non-GLs and GLs too large.

There's no GL that isn't a worthy edition to your roster.  Every GL is going to add to your game.

coolnessda wrote:

Nowadays they feel like relics of the past being easily out performed by new conquest toons or new toons in general.

The new toon is the hip-toon.  It happened with GL Hondo when he was released.  Now, he's been replaced by the new hip-toons  Stranger and Spider-pig.  Andor's already warming up his send off speech for Spider-pig.  After him, will come another.  Once the counters become common and the datacrons go away, they find their rightful place in the heirachy.  GLs are always top of the rightful place mountain.

coolnessda wrote:

It makes these characters almost not worth the trouble to unlock anymore

There is absolutely no GL that is 'not worth the trouble'.  In fact, the original 2 have aged incredibly well....yes with a lifter.  However, even without their lifters, they'd be right up there.

TLDR:  GLs are top of the pile, once the new characters shiny datacron wears off.