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metschina's avatar
metschina
9 years ago

Cap at 70. Great! Now PVP is truly broken

When the cap was at 60, Dooku and Leia are the only two characters who can go first in a match. With Dooku's stun ability and his first turn, no team is untouchable. You can always find a solution to any tough opponent.
Now, however, it is no longer the case. With the cap at 70, a class of Super heroes have joined Dooku in the first turn lottery. Geo solider, Rey, Sid and
Poe now all have the chance to go first in a match. Well, what's the consequence of this change? Possibilities have been eliminated. Balance is truly broken. This cap change along with the overpowering character design have created an untouchable team formation, which will force all the PVP players to build towards this ultimate combo:
Sid lead
Geo solider
Poe
Rey
Leia or tie pilot or anyone for that matter

Why is this team is untouchable? Helped by Sid 's leadership and AOE, Rey and geo solider can easily one shot any characters with 11k health or less. That's 2 toons killed before anyone can act. 2/5 of your team is gone before you have a chance to consider what to do?

Even if you survive, you are still facing poe's taunt Leia and another wave of geo solider and Rey.

The geniuses at CG, I truly hope I am wrong about this. I hope you have considered this possibility when you decided to design these characters this way and cap it at 70. I hope there is at least one different build that can counter this team. Otherwise you know what's going to happen? we all race to get the same team and see who wins in the lottery of the first turn.

How fun!

  • KamikazeAvalanc's avatar
    KamikazeAvalanc
    9 years ago
    Huh, the game is far too new. Hell, I've been doing great (finish GW every day, been ranking in the top 10 lately, usually 2-4) started the day of the global launch. But guess what. I have one viable team at the moment. I tried a resistance team, but without everyone 6* plus it was like pissing in the wind. Still working on some of that (Poe and Finn will be 6* tomorrow, Resistance trooper lol, never, got a half baked Droid team with 4* Poggle/HK/IGs) but that will take time.

    Meanwhile the level cap got raised and all progress was halted to refocus on my main 7 (because I need two different toons in GW from Arena, even at 3* Dooku rocks in GW paired with Poe and Jedi Consular). It will be like that until my arena team is maxed, level 70, fully geared. Only then can I start to bring something else up to that point.

    Frankly the drops are so poor we cannot compete while working on side projects. THAT IS THE PROBLEM. We don't have variety because there is no time to branch out and be competitive. When you spend 100+ crystals and 240 energy for two purple gear drops, there is no variety. No chance to have variety

    The sad thing is the change to GW makes it so that variety is useless. Take the main team all the way to the end, don't open with a double-stun, reload and pick a different target. Everyone else is useless to build after they are leveled enough to survive an opening Sid salvo. That's all you need for a suicide squad as the opponents seem to self-heal as fast as a B-team can damage them.
  • CaptainTriqui's avatar
    CaptainTriqui
    9 years ago
    "Pindasauskanon;60006" wrote:
    I didnt see a team yet like OP described. Currently at level 62.
    Getting a poe yourself really helps. When your poe goes first he knocks of 25% of the opponents turn meter. Then all your heroes go first and you can maybe take out a squishy or injure their poe.


    "Poe is not OP because everybody can get his own" is like saying "nuclear weapons aren't OP because everybody can have them"
  • rogerfan69's avatar
    rogerfan69
    9 years ago
    Wait for the update, there will be buffs and nerfs(Poe) so it will all change then
  • BigDMufasa's avatar
    BigDMufasa
    9 years ago
    "xJazzx;60080" wrote:
    Many players farm for months to obtain characters such as Sid, Poe and Geo and have a winning team. Some choose to spend thousands of $$$ to obtain FOTP and Rey. What is wrong about them dominating in arena?


    Not a thing wrong at all. Rey is very pesky and hard to kill. The advice of having your own Poe and Rey are the wisest option.
  • JohnnySteelAlph's avatar
    JohnnySteelAlph
    9 years ago
    "Metschina123;61385" wrote:
    "ZoloRunningstrider;61231" wrote:
    If you ignore the fact that almost all the teams at the top of my server have Poe in them, there is actually quite a bit of diversity. We have droid teams, FOO teams and Sid Lumi F2P type of teams. Of course the P2P guys are there too with their 7* Leias and QGJ but there is still lots of diversity there (-Poe being on most teams haha)


    The problem is way beyond Poe now my friend. Believe me Poe I can handle, I have an epic Poe myself. You will know what I am talking about when you run into a few teams that even the best Poe can't give you any chance of winning.


    Dude - we've had Poe for over a month now - you're not giving anyone any ground breaking information that he's strong. The server I'm on is competitive and has been loaded in the top 10 with these Poe speed teams since he hit the game really. The majority of my fights the last month or more really have involved Poe in the enemy setup with glass cannon teams. There were multiple threads about him going to 143 speed before the cap even came up. I've been using Poe since a few days after he was released. Him getting faster and to turn 1 was very easy to see how strong he would be.

    Just seen this movie before. Don't understand why some toon setting meta for some period of time is so shocking and disturbing. Also, if Poe is nerfed, there will be some other setup that will step up as top tier.....will this reaction to just continue over time for as long as the game exists?
  • Andrew_the_Celt's avatar
    Andrew_the_Celt
    9 years ago
    "Velvethunder;60105" wrote:
    Well, considering leader ability (for speed*) doesn't work turn one in arena, fixing akbar isn't the issue.


    No, that's exactly his point. If the speed bump for Akbar, Lobot or Ventress worked in turn 1, like I believe should be the intention, it would be a different ballgame.
  • Andrew_the_Celt's avatar
    Andrew_the_Celt
    9 years ago
    "J7000;63253" wrote:
    Everything is out of balance, change everything so we can have a new imbalance. Here is your participation trophy.


    LMAO, I know right?
    It's like all the crying over Poe being OP. He's beatable if you haven't married yourself to single target attackers and have a balanced roster. I went 3/4 today against Poe teams and finished 4th at payout time.

    For the record, I'm not using him but I am leveling up mine, along with all my toons however I didn't stop my Daka Cantina shipment farming to switch over to Poe.

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