Does lowering your arena team's Squad Power change the toughness of the GW???

I need people who have done this to respond. Thank you

Stays the same I believe.

CG just says too bad. Good luck. Tell you what I do. I try to make it to node 12 with A squad hopefully...maybe 1-2 toons lost. Then I throw my entire collection at node 12 starting with the weakest squad and working my way up to C team, then B, then A. Hopefully by the time A/B get there...I've taken out a lot of protection and maybe 1-2 of the other teams toons. It's still a joke they think it's working correctly. Correctly would be having a matchmaking system that took into account the mods. It's such a joke how overpowered my A team is by the node 12 team. The mods destroyed a fair battle. Their algorithm was turned into the biggest pile of shit when mods were added. Basically they want you to spend $$$ to get your mods all 5dot, A, level 15. Like credits weren't an issue already.

GW is hard. As I rose through the the ranks and toons there were times I could finish it and times I couldn't. I kept working on my squads and my strategies. You'll get to where you can always clear it. Persistence and perseverance.

No.

But I will say this. Switching from meta to droids( which were a lower %) months back has been my saving grace as far as GW is concerned. I didn't have qgj and was building up rg, and decided to build up droids instead. Now having built a solid droid team left me a Meta squad as my b team.

I know this is not a solution but the full roster I have produced is a great asset to completing GW.

I know it's tough but I think the devs have
GW right, the goal is to make ppl develop toons they might not have developed for an arena team. This game is more then arena.

Lol, no it's not. This is purely arena. "Developed teams" that aren't arena just get crushed by the arena max gear teams at the end of GW. Get lost dude.

I've tried it before and lowering doesn't do anything. You're still registered @ that power level. Here's my suggested list of important units to gear up by order since it's the team I use to finish GW in 20-30 minutes

Rey - Max whenever possible

RG - At least Gear8 lvl74+

QGJ - Max whenever possible

Phasma - At least Gear8 lvl 78+

Lumi - At least Gear8 lvl70+

GS - At least Gear9 lvl 78+

Teebo - At least Gear8 lvl 70+

Chewie - At least Gear8 lvl70+

IG-86 - At least Gear8 lvl 78+

GW is just broken. Really needs to be fixed

You will hit a breaking point when GW does get easier. Not sure that's through code or just a deeper bench. Not saying it's ideal and I simpathize with the frustration but if you stick with it in a few months it will not be a problem.

I lowered my arena squad power from 35,000 to 29,000 yesterday. After restarting the GW this morning it's still the same level of toughness. :(
They threatened to ban me for complaining about the GW already. I guess I'll just stop at the point I'm getting ready to throw my phone. Very sad. I just don't understand why they think the GW is not broken. It was very different before the Protection Bar update. Played for months without all of these GW issues.