Geared Magma Trooper Viable?

Ha ha, no no no no no. Such a waist, thankfully he is in GW so it doesn't matter all that much to me. I think you would need to tripple his damage and potency before he becomes viable. In his current form he does less damage than JKG, who at least has enough potency for her utility to work.

"DarthMelkor;404891" wrote:
Ha ha, no no no no no. Such a waist

He looks fairly skinny to me.

I'm still going to develop him to gear ix, with hopes they fix him. I have him 7* lvl 70. And Empire. I will have 5 7* Empire toons when the event comes out. I'm not making the mistake I did with the Jedi event.

I'm not optimistic about Empire teams, seems like Yoda would have a field day against a team with RG, Vader, Tarkin, Magma, and Veers. His tenacity up would remove all utility that team gains from TM reduction, dots, and offense down on their Aoe. What you would have left would be a relatively tanky team with not great damage and not great speed.

He is solid in an empire team and serves his purpose there... Outside of that he lost a lot of his usefulness with TM reduction now able to be resisted. His damage is pretty low although not as awful once he is geared up.

Since we're on-topic for Magmatrooper I have a question since you guys are obvious users and promoters of him. Has anyone seen an issue where using your Imploder and the enemy TM is low, it drains it then bounces it to like 75% FULL? I feel like when I use my Imploder it GIVES the enemy speed-up instead of the opposite.

I have him 7 stars GL 8 and he's terrible - maybe he gets magically fixed when he's at GL 10 but my guess is you'll be regretting putting all that effort into him rather than someone who can actually be useful

"Darth_L_Jackson;404939" wrote:
I actually love Magmatrooper! I've been using him since like level 74. Outside of an Empire squad he is pretty good assuming you can get the ton of stun cuffs that he needs. I eventually put together an Empire squad and this is where he shines. The 30% buff from Vader and the additional -10% TM from the leader ability makes him even better. His damage gets bumped to about 3k (critical hits are in the 5k).

He is also a great counter to Fives. When Fives attempts to constantly apply speed down on Magmatrooper it only speeds him up. One time Magmatrooper went like 4 times in a row because Fives kept trying to debuff him. Besides this being one of my favorite abilities, I absolutely love the fact that he has a ton of protection unlike his brother Stormtrooper. If Magma had a taunt that would be even better.

Only complaint I have is that his AoE does not do critical damage and sometimes the enemy resists his AoE TM reduction but it works for the most part. Even without the critical damage it still applies a good amount of hurting. I once used him with a Vader lead and a Poggle offense buff and it was almost applying 4k in damage per enemy. I would highly recommend him only if you have already gotten your Phasma, Poggle, Lumi, etc.

http://i.imgur.com/JUwJVe0.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/DZmPNUn.jpg

I am building empire team I'm almost done well except for Vader who is In g9 at 5 star. The main thing I see with Magmatrooper is he needs potency that aoe needs to work on at least a couple enemy and I just don't see it. I been running Vader lead Stormtrooper Phasma RG ig88 and win for great percentage against meta teams but drop on defense pretty badly. Magma just don't cut The mustard right now can't even lick the jar. Stormtrooper gains potency up to 80 percent in g9 why so high for him magma needs that makes me wander if mistake and was intended for magma.

"Darth_L_Jackson;405599" wrote:

I haven't seen that happen before. I've been using him for a few weeks and only time I noticed that is when Old Ben is leading on the other team and someone dodges the attack. Were you playing up against a QGJ squad or something where they have fast speed?

The only SPECIFIC case I have is the Rancor, for sure. If he has maybe 1/4 of his TM bar blue, I'll throw the Imploder, it'll drain the TM to nothing, but then bounce right up to 3/4 full. Immediately. This is even in a case where he just had his turn, and there's 5 of me out there. I try to keep his meter as low as possible, with Yoda and Magma, but it seems like the Imploder is doing the opposite because it works perfectly with Yoda.

Maybe I'm crazy, but just wondering if anyone had noticed this in-general.

"K_G0sling;406339" wrote:

"Darth_L_Jackson;405599" wrote:

I haven't seen that happen before. I've been using him for a few weeks and only time I noticed that is when Old Ben is leading on the other team and someone dodges the attack. Were you playing up against a QGJ squad or something where they have fast speed?

The only SPECIFIC case I have is the Rancor, for sure. If he has maybe 1/4 of his TM bar blue, I'll throw the Imploder, it'll drain the TM to nothing, but then bounce right up to 3/4 full. Immediately. This is even in a case where he just had his turn, and there's 5 of me out there. I try to keep his meter as low as possible, with Yoda and Magma, but it seems like the Imploder is doing the opposite because it works perfectly with Yoda.

Maybe I'm crazy, but just wondering if anyone had noticed this in-general.

Maybe his tenacity has something to do with it? I haven't notice, but I haven't paid attention. I use him against the rancor, so I'll pay attention next time