For me it's the TBs.
I simply don't find them fun. Even where I'm able to win, the vast health pools and high defense mean that you can reach the point where you know you're going to win long before you actually strike the final blow. If you can blow through tenacity enough (or use enough guaranteed debuffs) to control the defenders, you're left hacking at trees. It's not a fight, it's work.
But, of course, you have to donate a huge number of BSF, DR, and Malak to the platoons, so most times you can't even use your best toons, the ones you worked your tushy off to get. Why work hard to get a difficult toon if all you get is a punch on your platoon card, with no opportunity to actually play the character?
The rest of the time, I typically get blown away. And don't even try to use Bugs in their own TB outside of their special missions. You end up facing Padme and it is literally impossible for the bugs with their repeated attacks to kill anyone - yes, even with my relic5 GeoSpy. I know because for a while I didn't have the GP on Sun Far to qualify for special missions. I thought might as well use the Bugs on other missions, it's their planet after all. But nope. Infinite loop goes nowhere.
LS Geo is going to be worse. Plus it requires GA$, which no one has and takes ridiculous investment to get. I was prepared and got through the first phase of the Anakin event. I easily qualified for phase 2, but despite being well above the minimums I was easily destroyed every time. You need multiple relic toons to make it past p2.
I wasn't ready to even try p4. There's no way I'll be ready for the 2nd go round of GA$. G12 gear just isn't easy enough to get to take 5 GalReps and 5 SepDroids to relics without neglecting everything I need to do for DS Geo TB.
As I've said, and as we all know, with the difficulty on DS TB is going to crush you when it's not boring you, so it's necessary to take many other toons to Relic level - traya squads, BH squads, etc. And since you might face 5 different missions when you include the special, that's 25 relic toons required, assuming you even get to use them and don't have to donate them to platoons. You need 35 relic toons in order to be able to donate what your guild needs in platoons and still have 5 intact squads left over.
Sure, one of those is going to be the SepDroids you need for Anakin, but now you have to fit in the GalReps too just to acquire GA$ before you can start **qualifying** for missions in LS GeoTB.
The truth is that I'm a 4.8Mgp player. I'm decidedly endgame (even if I'm nowhere near dominant-endgame). And I doubt I'll qualify to attempt all special missions on LS Geo TB for a year.
When you talk about making things impossible, this is the definition: We are not allowed to attempt new content until it is old content.
What's the point of that?
