Galactic War is way too difficult now.

Highest level character at 57, going against level 70 teams...please EA, moar

"SamSausagehead;122013" wrote:
I'm level capped and my GW opponents don't reach 65 until the last series of chests.

Old GW started off 5 levels from your level at first challenge. GW is not harder you just can't use the same strategy of playing off the retreat function anymore.

It's mostly character based now. If you have enough characters you can clear it daily.

3rd clear in a row

This is untrue, at least in my case. I have a fairly large bench including one team at my level, purple all 5-7 star plus a few alts to sub in. Level 63. Every GW since the update I run into teams with 3 to 4 battles to go that I stand absolutely no chance against. I eventually have to feed 3 to 4 teams of characters to them just to get one last chest leaving me unable to continue. I faced one team that wiped out half of my best team turn 1 last GW.

I don't know where the disparity comes from, but I have a number of friends higher level than I am who get significantly easier matches on a consistent basis and our top squad powers are pretty much on part.

Even a reasonable strategy game shouldn't frustrate you this much. Had to uninstall - just not worth it. Every other aspect in the game is grind, grind, grind and grind some more. GW seemed like the one type that seemed a little less monotonous (although, it was getting there). GW always felt it had the best return value.

The problem is becoming that it doesn't matter if you have a deep bench...when you get hit by a level 7, fully geared sidious AOE each battle (don't even want to know what it will be like with the DOT fix reinstated). There is no variety in the comps with the main two of sidious and luminara (AOE sidious combo, heal reduction, plus a 5000-hp force push)...so you're constantly getting hit by copycat teams. Where is the "strategy?" Cross your fingers and play it 10 different times and hope for favorable RNG odds?...

You can only withstand and sustain so long. Eventually, you lose the cooldown battle. The AI is smart enough not to blow the "good" AOE on the cannon fodder haha. Any semblance of a chance is dwindling - so I am going out before I get too irate over a "phone game." It is one thing to go into arena and win ONE TIME against someone that has 2,000-3,000 SP over you, even 2, but not 4-6 consecutive matches...pleaseeee

Adios to another EA game, where EA wins again.

+1

Please reduce the extreme variance seen in GW battles :)

I'm relatively new but my experience has certainly varied. I read in another forum your GW opponents has to do with your arena wins. For the first two weeks of GW I was able to complete GW every day (except one where I just made a few mistakes). And my first few opponents were always week enough that I could knock them out with my B squad that had half the squad power. But ever since I got Lumi and some some arena matches with her, I'm facing opponents 5+ levels higher than me in the first few spuds with more *s. It's taken a lot of baiting with my throw away characters just to get halfway through GW now and I can't seem to beat it anymore. It's seems the better you do in arena the harder your GW

It seems to be based on what "shard"/server you are on. Its not a Learn to Play thing, or a strat thing, its just a crummy match-making system.

My SWTOR guildies and I all play, and a bunch of them have easy-breezy GW literally every single day and consider it weird if they don't clear. Some of us have gotten "cursed" and have a literally impossible GW every day.

I, for example, cleared the first 7 GWs I ever played without much concern. I am 1 for about 20 since. In the 40s and early 50s I would randomly get 1 team per day (could have been more I guess, but I never beat it) that would be 5 60+ toons with 5-7* and GL 6-8.

Now at 62, I am getting 2 easy games per day, then a steady stream of teams 2-4 levels higher than me, all GL 7/8 and often mostly 6* and 7* characters. I have an A team at 18k power, a B-team at 17k power, and a C team at like 15k power. I have 1 clear in 3 weeks.

Now in Arena, its the opposite story. I literally am playing the weakest opponent offered for every match, and have easily cruised through every match I have ever played. Even if I put the match on Auto-mode, I have a 100% win rate (literally, I have never lost a squad arena match except when i put in all level 1 toons to purposely lose for 3 days to see if it helped GW) I even also have literally never had a character die in an Arena match. I was as low as rank 69 in arena before I purposely started losing, got to 3k, and in 1 week of trying to rank back up as slow as possible I will be back to double-digit rankings.

A lot of the same SWTOR guildies who easily clear GW every day have an endless struggle to get below rank 1000 in the arena, facing a bevy of teams that are WAY more powerful than the ones I see at rank 50, despite our arena teams being similar in level and power.

Something is just wonky with how the match-making works.

Another horrid GW experience today. GW opponents should have nothing to do with Arena rank period. Please fix.

Another day of GW bull. 4th node, all level 70 chars, four 7* , one 5*, all purple gear. Impossible to beat no matter what characters I use. This is beyond frustrating. Please address these issues soon. My team were all level 67, only 2 of them were 7*. So thanks for ensuring no completion for me today. Really appreciate it.

If you insist on making it rely on arena rank, current arena rank would at least be fair. Letting your current arena rank drop might allow you to do better in gw but you will lose some arena awards in the process. Using highest arena rank makes sure you get penalized forever for reaching a high rank. No matter how low your arena rank gets afterwards, you will forever pay for that highest rank reached every time you do gw. So dumb. How hard could a fix be?

Are...you...kidding me? I'm lvl 63 (most of my crew is 57-60 since upgrading at this lvl is so EXPENSIVE) and on the SECOND GW BATTLE I was put up against 6* & 7* lvl 65? I rely on the galactic war to earn some credits! Why are you killing all of my best characters ON THE SECOND BATTLE! This has been getting worse and worse...and finally, it isn't even fun! I assume something will be done to resolve this bull, I mean, I know you want me to spend my cash BUT COME ON!!