Clone "Cody" very weak

"Exarius;57034" wrote:
Cody needs a boost. Especially being the newest chromium character. At level 80 g9, with full mods, has 50% less total hp/protection than Rey maxed. Cody is an easy 1 hit kill for any decent character. Who else thinks Cody needs a bit more to make him worthwhile?

At max gear he has approximately 19K HP (prot & hp combined), there's no way he's viable for arena. Maybe his whole purpose is the new raid, but I have to imagine even just 1 or 2 good shots on him will kill him quickly as well.

I know there are bigger issues in the game probably being discussed right now, but as a Chromium only character his HP needs to at least be on-par with Rex or Echo.

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Fully modded, mine has 12khp and protection for a total of 24k. He needs at least 30-35k to be viable for pvp.

He has to get placed in the Leader Position to have any survivability, he gets double defense when he is and surrounded by clones. I don't know what the raw stat numbers give him at max level however.

Even with him as leader, he is a easy 1 hit kill.

Just because you spent money on him doesn't mean he needs to be op, the devs still need to keep the game balanced and Cody has strong clone synergies. That's why his health is weak

"Gank_Killer;573682" wrote:
They don't release any characters without extensive testing and feedback from a dedicated community of professionals. He's perfect the way he is.

LOL, don't troll like that. :D

"Tuftedpaper85;573482" wrote:
Just because you spent money on him doesn't mean he needs to be op, the devs still need to keep the game balanced and Cody has strong clone synergies. That's why his health is weak

By no means should he be okay, but he should have enough HP to not get a one-shot kill or 1 triple-tap kill from Leia. If Rey has enough survivability to live, then surely Cody should too. I haven't had him in arena yet but I've used his ability in challenges and it's good but it's not game breaking.

"Darth_Jay77;574151" wrote:

"Gank_Killer;573682" wrote:
They don't release any characters without extensive testing and feedback from a dedicated community of professionals. He's perfect the way he is.

LOL, don't troll like that. :D

ROFLMAO!! True that.

I have tried him in pvp.
Cody (L) Rex, fives, echo, sun fac.

He is way too easily killed. Currently g9 level 80, fully modded. He is a joke. He needs an update bad.

Moving my comments from the squad and character synergy section here:

His hp and protection are absurdly low. He basically needs to modded completely for hp/protection to be remotely viable in arena. It feels like he had been tuned based on flat bonuses via mods initially but seeing that flat bonuses are no longer available on primary, this is looking like a design flaw. I'm assuming the gifs above are from the dev testing done. You can clearly see that this (and presumably most of the testing for cody) is pre-nerfs on mods. The number of health pips on those clones are no longer possible to attain.

He is basically a slow glass cannon without any survival skills. Every other toon that falls into this category has been proven to be useless in arena (think darth maul). Without mods, he easily gets 1 shot by rey. With mods, u get him to turn 2 if you are lucky.

Also, defense on his leader skill seems like an afterthought. This could have been something more useful to increase survivability overall which is a recurring deficiency of most clones. Again, this could have worked with flat defense bonuses (secondary flat defense bonuses are too marginal to have much of an impact). An interesting idea I had was to swap his defense bonus (which is largely ineffective) out for a revive chance based on the number of clone allies alive. Something in the ballpark of ~60% revive would require opponents to choose to focus cody or the other clones first, indirectly making him more survivable. Unlike other self revive toons (HK, Boba), Cody actually can do some damage and poses a real threat if not dealt with.

In raids, he does reasonably well, having almost cleared P1 as leader in a full clone team.

Considering the cost to attain Cody (and full clones), it feels like he is missing a key piece to bring everyone together. He needs something to give them a bit of sustain. Lately it feels like there is no advantage to buying a p2p character. They seem to be held back too much and often featuring unnecessarily complicated mechanics.

I have a maxed clone team which I have been playing for some time now, usually with JKA and I have thoroughly tested many different team combinations. JKA lead is the most arena viable with the correct mods, and Cody lead is the best raid set up.

@CG_Kozispoon, please consider this feedback on this iconic SW character. I sincerely hope that some tweaks will be made here.

I agree with those who feel Cody needs some serious reworking. His stats and speed, even geared and modded, are so abysmally low that he will almost always be killed in an opening salvo. Two relatively common examples include the current Rey 200+ speed 20-30k damage hits and the jawa engineer getting an entire droid team to go first.

For a character that took hundreds to get, let alone a team which took close to a thousand total between the three chromiums this clone release is a real letdown. From now on I will not invest in any chromium characters until they have been vetted by the community since lately most of them have been really under-performers.