Can Someone Explain This "Sandbox" Mode You Seem To Want So Much?

"JacenRoe;c-2097236" wrote:
The most important part of this game for rewards is arena. The most engaging content in this game for individuals is GAC, and for guilds is TW.

A mode that is identical to the arena that already exists in game that allows you to set a team to attack or to attack teams set by your allies/guild mates with no timers or cooldowns or costs would be the most important tool to test teams for arena/GAC/TW that I could possibly imagine. It’s an extension all of the biggest/best/most engaging content we have.

The simplest most stripped down version of that they could come up with would be immensely appreciated. I don’t need access to every character. I don’t need sliders for all stats. I don’t need to be able to fight against every monster or NPC that exists in game. I don’t need to be able to fabricate every possible permutation of mod sets that exists. If I could just ask a guild mate or ally to set a team from their roster that I could attack that would be perfect. We could play around with setting teams/mods on our own. That would be epic.

But CG clearly knows better than me what I want or need.

This sums up what I’d like to see perfectly.
To put it another way:
An opportunity to test my teams against the meta/typical TW or GAC teams I encounter in a consequence free environment.

Whether that’s through having guild mates set a team (or multiple teams) each that the guild can practice against, or having allies do it, using your own roster, whatever.
Sure, being able to dial each stat up or down would be an amazing feature, but not necessary.
Although I’d also love to see it include some TB content (like Reek and Acklay battles), that’s also just a bonus.

Consequence and cost free playing/testing.

To answer the other question: “Would you rather see this than new content that includes rewards?” I’d say “yes, I think I would”.
I’d prefer this mode to LSTB, for example. The majority of my 300M guild strongly dislikes LSTB, and I know we aren’t alone from talking to other guilds at our level.
I definitely would have rather seen effort for into this over these GLs. And since a new raid, live PVP or any of the other things we have asked for aren’t coming anyway...this please.