Droids VS Meta team.

"CptCaveman;314755" wrote:

"CPMP;314721" wrote:

"CptCaveman;314679" wrote:

"CPMP;314614" wrote:

"CptCaveman;314603" wrote:

"CPMP;314584" wrote:
@Alexone It was Rey because everyone farmed her to get free wins pre update. Did you actually thing there are more people like me to farm Ventress and boba so they can get one shotted in her place? :P Just wait till they make Darth Maul

"CptCaveman;314276" wrote:

"Alexone;314234" wrote:

"Kilton;314210" wrote:
Droids protected by RG is the hardest thing I've come up against. Anything else I feel is pretty beatable.

No way! Poe is the best tank for droids. The reason this is, is because Poe exposes, leaving IG-88 for sick aoe's.

Until you come up against a speed dps team and they kill 88 before Poe gets to go. RG is better at preventing that, but it can still happen.

I love my droids, was glad to be able to use them again. But, they are beatable and still are bad on defense. The video posted was an all offensive droid/geo team, of course they will wreck on offense. But, they will get destroyed on defense against a speed meta team.

I have dusted my droids off and used them in arena and they do great on offense, but can't hold a spot, and do not do well vs certain dps teams. Today I went back to Dooku/Daka/RG/GS and I'm doing just as good on offense and holding spots a little better.

This update has opened the meta allowing for more diverse team comps. Seeing a lot of different characters on my leaderboard now. I feel that it is a good change. Droids are not OP, they are good but beatable just like almost every other team out there. When we get to lvl 80 and Max abilities my opinion on that may change.

This deserves to be a meme... "Says game has more diversity now | Goes back to his meta team to prevent getting beaten" So much for diversity...
You had to replace your droid team for RG team because, it's not enough to win 100% of the games, but other people must lose all of theirs vs your team? Seriously...there is nothing else i can write here, that won't get edited by mods...
I bet if i ask you "what's mob enforcer", i'm pretty sure you'll reply it's some kind of food.

The point is that the leaderboards are more diverse. I can win with my droid team, but my old meta team is still better. My old meta team is still beatable though, even by droids. That is a good thing, IMO. Where did I say "other people must lose all of theirs vs my team". I didn't. I said the game is more diverse and now FTP have a good option to be competitive. Of course I will put in the team I feel is most effective, who wouldn't?

As for the mob enforcer comment, I have no clue what you are even trying to convey with that and don't see the need for any personal insults.

This is getting better and better....Do you know why something as silly as GQJ leader (without any jedi in team) came to play? Because droids were OP as F. The only way to counter them was to kill ig88 before poggle/poe turn comes. This is the sole reason of why GQJ meta was born. Non wake up and said "Today i ll farm GQJ, just to put him as leader on my non jedi team, lol"
Then Yoda event arrived and since yoda speed was also high, being a jedi helped GQJ ensure 1 hero kill before enemy team can play. And because of that, we got the Dooku led teams, to counter GQJ meta, that was created because of the OP droids.

Do you ever played any non meta team??

Are you mad because you made bad choices on who to farm and can't keep up with the evolving meta?

Lol? GS was the first hero i farmed and he still rots at 60lvl and gear VIII. I had to leave him because everyone farmed him and i wanted to try more combinations. Also the first Sith i farmed was Dooku, which i used him and still use him as leader, but i also aknowledge that his leadership needs a nerf. 15/20 teams using him is a strong indication. Not everyone acts like you. (Farm only the top tier toons and then tries to find excuses in order to defend them from being nerfed) I belong to the portion of people that actually care about the game. That care about the 80% of unused toons. I want real diversity in this game and i actually TRY for it. I belong to the 4 people in my shard in top 20, that used different squads than the meta ones, because they are sick with using the same heroes over and over just to get easy wins. Again, don't imply that everyone acts like you, because this is what i take as insult.

GS was also the first toon I farmed to 7* and I still use him. No where have I ever said I don't want the 80% of unused toons to be unusable. I would love for the meta to open up more to allow those toons to be used, but how does nerfing droids make that possible? So they nerf droids and we go back to speed/dps only, how does that help?

I have slow toons that I spent time and resources farming up and are still unused, but that doesn't mean you need to nerf the viable toons. Maybe those slow toons still need some work.

I play to win, you may play different. I hated the speed/dps meta, but I changed my team and farmed up who I needed to be successful. If you didn't, hey that's your choice. But, don't come calling for nerfs for every "op" team that you can't beat because you didn't keep up. I evolve to the state of the game, you seem to want the game to evolve to suit you.

Well then don't nerf droids. If droids are fine, buff other heroes to crit 8k+ like them. They are balanced after all, right? I would gladly settle down for this. And i won't call for nerfs anymore.

I will even hop on that train with ya. I hope the unused toons get a buff. I hope EA does what they say they were gonna do and balance those toons better. I think that is always the better path. Don't take something away from the people who have worked hard on those toons, but give the others a buff so they can compete. This way, the people who worked hard on their toons don't get screwed, and others who made different choices end up with better toons.

Buff every toon so they can do do 8k crits...

Check out ig88/86 protection levels.

Show me hk 8k crits. Ig88, for that matter, without requiring 4 or 5 debuffed enemies and an offense up.

I have farmed droids from the start. And I could never even use them in arena. I still farmed them for darkside. I can use them now. And I can use other teams just as good without droids. Droids are the same on my server. 4 or 5 teams in the top 50 and no more than 1 in top 10 at a time.

Personally I'm shocked they are holding on defense so well right now. And I am sure that will change soon as people figure out the new changes. Even on offense AI often beats the obvious weakness in any droid team. And it takes obvious AI blunders to hold on and even have a chance.

My server is still all about qgj and dooku.

"CptCaveman;314807" wrote:
I will even hop on that train with ya. I hope the unused toons get a buff. I hope EA does what they say they were gonna do and balance those toons better. I think that is always the better path. Don't take something away from the people who have worked hard on those toons, but give the others a buff so they can compete. This way, the people who worked hard on their toons don't get screwed, and others who made different choices end up with better toons.

Yeah, I think that really is the best answer for unused toons. I think they were starting to do that, but now have focused solely on the level cap and balance update

"LastJedi;314877" wrote:
Buff every toon so they can do do 8k crits...

Check out ig88/86 protection levels.

Show me hk 8k crits. Ig88, for that matter, without requiring 4 or 5 debuffed enemies and an offense up.

I have farmed droids from the start. And I could never even use them in arena. I still farmed them for darkside. I can use them now. And I can use other teams just as good without droids. Droids are the same on my server. 4 to 6 teams in the top 50 and rarely more than 1 in top 10 at a time.

OK I do admit my 88 crits for 7.5k. But that was with two debuffs on the Credit challenge Cad bane. I might replace poggle for IG 100. I know he's not the best but he applies offence down and is like a droid equivalent of Fives. So I'll have four Droids and geo.

I'm so much more worried about St han and rg and rey and daka. It would be a relief to see more droid teams in order to climb ranks. It is possible to beat them on offense with a lot of comps. Right now I'm using droids simply because I can, and it is fun. I worry about leaving them on defense. They are very beatable.

My prepatch speed team with one sub (3 star rg in, 7star lumi out) was enough to climb to 12 on my server the day after the patch. Previously 19 was the highest. With my droids I am barely cracking top 30. I think in a very short time they will be revealed as a second rate team as people figure out how to beat them. Anyone that fears to take on droids more than high gear rg daka rey I wonder what I am doing wrong.

Yeah, they are far from op. I like running droids, they are my favorite team to use. Cavemen are just fascinated by robots. I played with them for a few days after update,but have benched them again. I want them to be viable at 80, but I also want to see other full teams like sith, jawas, rebels, empire, and the other factions be viable as well. Who knows, they might be once we get to 80 and Max gear/abilities. I think synergy should be the biggest driving factor for teams. I hate mixing toons that would kill each other if put next to each other in canon on the same team.

There is always a droid team or 2 in top 10. It's the FTP dream team that can smackdown pretty much anything.

"Alexone;316285" wrote:
^^^ This is also why i never had a problem with QGJ/Yoda. Sure good in offense...so what? I could always beat them in defense.

Good attitude and by far very rare nowadays going by the look of the forums.

I don't run droids, have all core components maxed except for GS. Going by my wife's experience, building a droid team itself is very risky as none of the components except for GS sit very well with others. Arguably, of course. My wife had a rough time working on droids and ensuring enough support for GW. The speed/ evasion meta was rough on her though she survived. I'm happy droids are getting another shot at the top. It's not an OP team like the Poe days and she still struggles against maxed RG with the right support but yes, the update did make things easier for droids. But then the update made even Barris, Savage, 5s and a whole lot of other toons easier to play with in Arena.

Honestly, droid team is the only team that i constantly avoid fighting. I never seem to defeat them after the update. Before i could easily kill both 88 and 86 but now i could only manage to kill 88, then 86 just rekt my whole team like its nothing. It is nice to lose though, at least now i know whats wrong with my team. At least losing this way is better than losing cause of RNG.