Endurance Counter on Leviathan Broken
I've been climbing in Fleet Arena in a 10 year old shard with Endurance for about 6 months at this point. I'd say I have around an 80% win percentage and a good understanding of the flow of the battle. The issue is occuring with when my endurance takes its second turn to call in the Phantom reinforcement. In order to give the best opportunity at a fix, I'll provide as in depth of a battle analysis as I can.
Part 1 of the attack:
Fives does his special. Endurance fires torpedoes to give Valor. Sith marauder takes a turn to place detonators. Anakin basics. Marauder uses second special to stealth self and Anakin. Leviathan isolates Fives and damages the engine to take away turn meter from Endurance.
Part 2:
Sith Trooper does his AoE attack. Malgus fires missile at Fives. Fives basics on target locked Marauder ship to remove taunt. At this point, the battle goes one of two ways and only one of those two ways:
Option 1: The turn meter boost from Valor on Fives is enough to give Endurance a turn to call in Phantom.
Option 2: Marauder goes first and does the AoE attack which then gives Endurance the chance to call in Phantom.
I've done 8 fleet arena battles this evening and not once has one of those two options occurred. Every time, the Endurance has failed to have enough turn meter to go at one of those two junctures and Leviathan ends up running away with it via turn meter train.
I've triple checked my mods and ship speeds and everything looks the same to me. I saw in the patch notes that something was changed with Profundity to prevent Valor. It seems to me that, instead, something was done to change Valor and now Endurance is unable to operate as intended.
That means one of 3 scenarios has occurred.
- I had a nearly statistically impossible RNG night in fleet arena and all my bad luck has been consumed for the next 7 years.
- The edit to Profundity/Endurance interaction had spillover to Endurance more broadly with unintentional consequences on Valor's functionality.
- This was done on purpose to prevent Endurance from countering Leviathan and not mentioned in patch notes to avoid controversy. An annoying counter to their meta fleet quashed and swept under the rug.
I believe 2 the most likely culprit between the 3 scenarios. If that's the case, I think an address of the situation is warranted. If that be to say that the unintended consequences are going to stick, so be it. I would hope not for my own sake but would understand. What I don't want to happen is to be left wondering what happened and unaware if this will be fixed or if I should move on to the next off-meta Leviathan counter as an older account that recently started playing again in a Leviathan heavy fleet arena.
Please don't leave me hanging here.
Warm Regards,
Endurance Enthusiast