DN Annihilate in GW

"3Cheers4Tyranny;928138" wrote:

"DarthPyro13;928118" wrote:
LS/DS, cantina and the Jedi event are all one encounter with many stages in it. GW is 12 encounters with one stage each. His annihilate ability starts on cooldown for every encounter. It's working as intended.

Then explain how shore taunts all stages ;)

Shore taunts at the start of each encounter. Like Boba who gets BHR at the start of each encounter.

"DarthApocalypse;928216" wrote:
I think those people who are not supporting the gw bug is doing so because they are jealous about either not having nihilus or not having resources to upgrade him.... He is the biggest major character from. Old Republic.... He is meant to be strong an make things easier.... He must have some power over gw!

I have him at g8 3* and I think he is ok as he is now.

So obviously this is WAI, but I did think of a way that might make Nihilus fun in GW, but A) haven't tried it yet since I'm saving GW for tomorrow, and B.) it's probably less efficient than normal GW strategies.

But my idea was to pair him on easy nodes with characters who us non-attack abilities (defense up, heal, etc.) so he can get annihilate off. Annihilate several tanky characters along the way. By 12, he would have a sith lord of health. He would still need good supports since he's so slow, or else it will just be five toons wailing on him forever. Again, probably not worth the effort vs. normal GW strategy, but could be fun.

P.S. "Bee" colon is not supposed to be a sunglasses face.

"Acrofales;928280" wrote:

"DarthPyro13;928118" wrote:
LS/DS, cantina and the Jedi event are all one encounter with many stages in it. GW is 12 encounters with one stage each. His annihilate ability starts on cooldown for every encounter. It's working as intended.

Then why don't all other toons start with their cooldowns at 0. It can't be WAI for other cooldowns to carry over, but Nihilus gets reset...

It's not a matter of consistency. The Devs did not want you to be able to bank annihilate and nuke the keystone of a late node team with Nihilus. They don't want you to be able to do this, so it is in fact working as intended.

That's fine I suppose, it's just frustrating because it makes using Drain Force in earlier nodes the "wrong move". I wish they would correspondingly reset Drain Force's cooldown on each node, as it would make Nihilus less frustrating in GW

"Viserys;928827" wrote:

"Acrofales;928280" wrote:

"DarthPyro13;928118" wrote:
LS/DS, cantina and the Jedi event are all one encounter with many stages in it. GW is 12 encounters with one stage each. His annihilate ability starts on cooldown for every encounter. It's working as intended.

Then why don't all other toons start with their cooldowns at 0. It can't be WAI for other cooldowns to carry over, but Nihilus gets reset...

It's not a matter of consistency. The Devs did not want you to be able to bank annihilate and nuke the keystone of a late node team with Nihilus. They don't want you to be able to do this, so it is in fact working as intended.

That's fine I suppose, it's just frustrating because it makes using Drain Force in earlier nodes the "wrong move". I wish they would correspondingly reset Drain Force's cooldown on each node, as it would make Nihilus less frustrating in GW

So what? GW is a breeze anyways, this one ability would barely change it IMO.

It's not a breeze for everyone. If I run into a maxed Kenobi team I can still get shut down, I'd definitely appreciate being able to just eat Kenobi.

That said I don't often get shut down by that nonsense, but I sometimes do.

I think the issue for the devs is more that you could bank annihilate on node 1, and then leave Nihilus on the bench. You wouldn't need to actually build him up to full power to do this, G7 would probably be enough.

I can never use Anihilate even in GW, this ridiculous Cooldown refresh on Galactic War renders Nihilus useless

I don't see how Nihilus is useless on GW. If anything using him (at 7* for me) has made GW even easier, thanks to his primary attack which gets rid of annoying buffs, helps speed up the annhiliate attack for any potentially long battles, and he also proves rather valuable when I use him as a lead in the late nodes for my sith toons who can benefit from the health drain at the end to close out a show.

I also agree, by letting him bank the annhiliate attack to wipe out a select heavy toon is overkill IMO (even though, sure I'd love to have that option given all the $ I put into him)

Another possible reason why you would want Nihilus's cooldown reset at the beginning of each encounter, is to imagine that you are going up against a Nihilus team in GW node 11/12 and you sent in your first "sacrifice team" to burn their specials, only to have Nihilus one-shot anihilate your key toon on your second team. Any ability can work both ways for or against you.

It depends who you have paired with DN. I sometimes run my Shoretrooper in a DN squad just to buy that extra turn or two for kicks lol

"T_Landis;928959" wrote:
Another possible reason why you would want Nihilus's cooldown reset at the beginning of each encounter, is to imagine that you are going up against a Nihilus team in GW node 11/12 and you sent in your first "sacrifice team" to burn their specials, only to have Nihilus one-shot anihilate your key toon on your second team. Any ability can work both ways for or against you.

Does it go both ways though? Have devs confirmed enemy Nihilus gets reset in GW?