Enough of the Galactic Challange difficulty

bUt HeS aN aTtAcKeR

I don't mind the difficulty level. I don't even mind them making half of the GCs tied into new characters or paywalls, although I wouldn't have done that. What I don't like though is that they changed the rewards so that: (1) the character shards are older characters....originally we got shards for new characters, like Greef and Cara when the GCs first started; and (2) we now have a structure where you can complete feats that earn you no rewards....you have to get all the way up to the next tier and, if you can't, you can easily end up completing several feats that don't even increase your rewards at all.

"Vos_Landeck;c-2226815" wrote:
I don't mind the difficulty level. I don't even mind them making half of the GCs tied into new characters or paywalls, although I wouldn't have done that. What I don't like though is that they changed the rewards so that: (1) the character shards are older characters....originally we got shards for new characters, like Greef and Cara when the GCs first started; and (2) we now have a structure where you can complete feats that earn you no rewards....you have to get all the way up to the next tier and, if you can't, you can easily end up completing several feats that don't even increase your rewards at all.

I'll take this over having to do every single feat on each tier like we had to at the beginning.

"Shadroth;c-2226726" wrote:

"Ultra;c-2226724" wrote:

"Shadroth;c-2226721" wrote:

"Nikoms565;c-2226718" wrote:

"Shadroth;c-2226717" wrote:

"Ultra;c-2226714" wrote:

"Shadroth;c-2226709" wrote:
I agree, I’m just wingeing about the difficulty tuning ?‍♂️
Typical forum post, complain about the lack of content and then winge when I can’t beat the content

The difficulty is fine

I disagree

If the difficulty is to o high, either you're using the wrong team, you don't have the right team(s) geared and relic'd or your roster is too young to be targetting top prizes.

I bet if you posted your swgoh.gg, people here could help figure out which is the case.

It’s my sith, they aren’t up to scratch and that is my own fault. I can beat t7 with my Jedi but this isn’t the first challange that has been over-tuned. It wasn’t long ago that Ultra made the query about whether the difficulty spike of t5-t7 was wai and I’m not the only person on the forums disenfranchised by more p2w gates. You could argue that I haven’t farmed the right faction and you would be right and some others have already pointed out that GC aren’t too difficult. For me and my roster a lot of them are.

Any feedback is welcome https://swgoh.gg/p/418413425/

the difficulty spike, i don't remember, and if i did, it doesn't mean anything. I've never struggled in any GCs where I had the faction at appropriate gear levels

Why do you think it is over-tuned?

You can use EP, BSF, DR, Dooku and beat T7 without the enemy AI taking a single turn

Someone did T7 with this:



Only one relic, and two g12s, someone can make an argument that this is undertuned

Well I’ll give that a go and if it’s successful I’ll be the first to admit I was too hasty in venting my frustration on the forum AND spread the team amongst my guildies. Thank you Ultra


Took 11 attempts to make this work but non-the-less it did. I stand/sit corrected.

Ok how does that work?

"Ripperpa;c-2226756" wrote:
Take ep lead, tyrannus, Dr Evan, Malak and bastilla. Bastilla special on other char then Luke to stagger him, stun with ep Malak and tyrannus and win all the feats.

Yes! Dr. Evan. I’ve heard that he force is strong with him!

What can I say? I enjoyed that spellcheck “correction”!

I can get past most GCs, my problem is the difficulty is not worth the rewards. Some GCs I’ve spent a couple hours trying to beat which was about the same for some legendary events. If they up the rewards a bit more id be fine with it.

With no moving mods, just using the team suggestions above, it seems quite easy, and not even hugely RNG dependent, like others have been.

I'm not sure difficult is the correct word to describe this, it's not hard, it does highlight the need for a counter, but this one I though was fun and not nearly as frustrating as others we have seen.

It took me more tries to get the under manned than it did to get the stuns on t7.

"ShaggyB;c-2226719" wrote:
Id just like a dang counter for things that require a certain amount of 'X' as a feat

This!!

I like the difficulty. Nice puzzle to solve each week, except when a count of a particular ability is involved. This week, the lack of clarity on what counts as a “stun attempt” is frustrating. Is Palps stun 1 attempt or 5. Does Dooku’s double tap basic count as one or two? Does it count on JKL since he is immune? We all have theories, but no one really knows. I’ve done T7 a dozen+ times and can’t tell if I’m close or miles away. Makes an otherwise enjoyable event irritating.

"Ultra;c-2226714" wrote:

"Shadroth;c-2226709" wrote:
I agree, I’m just wingeing about the difficulty tuning ?‍♂️
Typical forum post, complain about the lack of content and then winge when I can’t beat the content

The difficulty is fine

The difficulty I don't think is the issue. The issue, at least for a lot of people, is that if you have a 7 tier event, you do expect it to get harder as it goes, but you don't expect to be able to do 1-4 with your eyes closed and then have T5 curb stomp you with impunity. That's the case frequently.

If you have people expecting to get through it with a bunch of toons at 10K power each, then yeah, they're just delusional. But when you have 6 Jedi R3 or better, you shouldn't be getting routed at T5. Now, they may have a reason for this, I mean, I can think of one, but they don't explain themselves the vast majority of the time. If the whole point is so that most people can get through 1-4 (and get something for their effort) and then 5-7 are the equivalent of challenge tiers, so be it, but when you don't say that, it comes across as very poor design. I'd just say, when you stagger tiers, if you want people to invest more in it, you've got to give them a reason. Getting curb stomped in T5 doesn't make the vast majority of people say, "if i just make these guys better, i can get through". It flat out doesn't. It makes them say "screw this". I know people in the 5M+ GP range who say this, so it's clearly not because they don't have the rosters for it.

"cboath7;c-2227053" wrote:

"Ultra;c-2226714" wrote:

"Shadroth;c-2226709" wrote:
I agree, I’m just wingeing about the difficulty tuning ?‍♂️
Typical forum post, complain about the lack of content and then winge when I can’t beat the content

The difficulty is fine

The difficulty I don't think is the issue. The issue, at least for a lot of people, is that if you have a 7 tier event, you do expect it to get harder as it goes, but you don't expect to be able to do 1-4 with your eyes closed and then have T5 curb stomp you with impunity. That's the case frequently.

If you have people expecting to get through it with a bunch of toons at 10K power each, then yeah, they're just delusional. But when you have 6 Jedi R3 or better, you shouldn't be getting routed at T5. Now, they may have a reason for this, I mean, I can think of one, but they don't explain themselves the vast majority of the time. If the whole point is so that most people can get through 1-4 (and get something for their effort) and then 5-7 are the equivalent of challenge tiers, so be it, but when you don't say that, it comes across as very poor design. I'd just say, when you stagger tiers, if you want people to invest more in it, you've got to give them a reason. Getting curb stomped in T5 doesn't make the vast majority of people say, "if i just make these guys better, i can get through". It flat out doesn't. It makes them say "screw this". I know people in the 5M+ GP range who say this, so it's clearly not because they don't have the rosters for it.

Considering you do not have to do it tier by teir, it comes across odd to call out bad design, when your doing it "not how it was designed" to be done.

I also dont see the need for any "smooth curve design", maybe you can clarify why it would need to be that way, or even should be?

It's a puzzle, not a GP or even gear check. Giving up because you dont want to do the puzzle, has nothing to do with GP. Not everyone likes this kind of element, fine, but more often than not in each GC, gear has not been a hard requirement, strategy and moding the right way with a few key toons seems to be working out.