Darth Traya is for Whale Guilds only

I am thinking, yes

The realized cost of this character is orders of magnitude greater than the cost of normal new characters, at the moment. In 18-36 months, the relative cost should much closer to free.

There’s always a thread like this when a new raid is released. Just like GK, everyone will have her at 7* in 8-9 months. Top guilds will have her in 3-4 maybe.

"Atlas1;c-1488538" wrote:
There’s always a thread like this when a new raid is released. Just like GK, everyone will have her at 7* in 8-9 months. Top guilds will have her in 3-4 maybe.

I think we're looking at much longer than 8-9 months before she starts to appear in the rosters of "average" guilds, which I would associate with "everyone".

They will provide means and options to improve your damage in the raid you can purchase for real money soon.

"Nurgle;c-1488546" wrote:
They will provide means and options to improve your damage in the raid you can purchase for real money soon.

still cheaper than being a whale.

Not exactly. Right now it looks like you need Vader, Palpatine, Thrawn, CLS, R2, BB8, JTR, Hermie, DeathT, Veers, Shore, UKR, FOST, and all their supporting cast at g12 and +110 or more speed in order to get through the heroic raid to earn Traya shards. That does not mean whales only, but it is going to take low spenders and f2p a long time to get there.

That is by design. All the legendaries and hard node heroes at max stats to complete end-game raid. Equates to a mostly complete 7* roster to get there. Talzin helps too and that is definitely a P2P hero right now. I am surprised GMYoda does not have a niche yet to require jedi investment. Would not be surprised if Rose and Holdo end up in the raid meta. Sion and Maurauder are also somewhat effective P2P.

For end-game content, sounds about right, doesn't it? But the raid is still playable at lower tiers if you want. You don't have to be a whale, but you will sure get there faster if you are.

Sure wish I did not miss JTR the first time around. Can't do squat in Heroic P1 without her.

The raid just was released. Of course she is for whale guilds only right now. Same thing happened with Kenobi.

My problem with the raid is pretty much completely covered by MCmole's video. Jedi Training Rey is one of the only viable options currently cause the bosses are so overtuned. The game is all about relying on buffs and debuffs. If debuffs don't stick (which they will not do in this raid) then there really isn't much left. All we can rely on to do decent damage in this raid is essentially expose, and since Rey's mind tricks are unresistable that is like the only debuff that works.

Don’t forget deathmark. But that’ll be nerfed soon, so...

My guild doesn't even want to play this raid. We're 88M+ GP. Tier 5 took us 6 days. The lower tiers aren't worth running as the rewards aren't worth the effort. And apparently neither is tier 5. So we're going to sit this one out until it's retooled.
This raid at any tier is not fun