Grand arena 3v3: Do you enjoy it?

"Abflexer;c-1756731" wrote:
It's something fresh and I like it. Much better than banning key characters or buffing useless factions to be OP as f*** in TW. Yes, it gives a bit of disadvantage to ship-heavy players, but why would you focus on ships after you have say two usable fleets? That's a disadvantage everywhere else, too.

Fleet meta changes. I used one fleet pre-ships 2.0, eventually switched to another fleet (which required gearing up a few more characters/ships; would've been an even bigger change had I gone to geos after 2.0). Now, with Falcon, there are more switches to be made.

In TW, it's definitely not a disadvantage to have more than 2 fleets, btw.

3v3 I like.

Being matched on total GP when there isn't even a single fleet node, not so much.

I'm open to new stuff but 3 vs 3 or 2 vs 2, in my opinion needs a way to test the pieces in action not just thought craft what may occur and everything in the game is on a 5 vs 5 or more standard. In most modes you will face 5 opponents sometimes more even when your allowed to place less how do you truly get a feel for how the sith trium does against say cls/han/chewie for example. Thumbs down on 3 on 3

I like it, maybe they should go crazy in the other direction like a 10 person squad, just for schitts and giggles.

I had been skeptical at first about 3v3, but after playing it I enjoyed it. 5v5 is fun too, I don’t know which I prefer.

"Durango;c-1756788" wrote:
I thought I would like 3vs3 because of the fresh challenge and theorycrafting, but it ended up being really dissapointing.

1) RNG is even more crucial than before. 3v3 leaves very little room to breath and is way less forgiving than 5v5. Every member of the team is vital, a lucky evade in round 1 or a stun being resisted will have much more impact than in 5v5, where other characters can palliate such minor failure.

2) Abilities like Fracture, Mark or isolate are even more potent than before because you're effectively removing 1/3rd of the opposing team instead of 1/5th. In the same vein, the Han's opening stun will cripple the opponent much more. If you're facing it, it's also way more likely to hit a crucial gear of your team since you only have 3 character in your team.

3) Any strength and weakness are amplified. Plug-and-Play characters (such as Thrawn or even MT in this case) becomes incredibly powerful, as well as all characters with "small team synergy" (Triumvirate; CLS/Han/Chewie, MT or Assajj with Zombie; Revan/GMY and a third and so on). Teams that really requires a full 5 peoples synergies becomes borderline useless. Teams like Pheonix or Ewoks, that really only shines when all the synergies are shared are really crippled a lot by this 3v3 format.

Strong teams and OP characters just become stronger, while weaker characters or more complex teams are just being weakened. The game wasn't really thought or balanced that way, imo, and you can see it. I really tried to love this 3v3 format, but I just can't.

Couldnt have worded this any clearer, well said @Durango

"Abflexer;c-1756731" wrote:
It's something fresh and I like it. Much better than banning key characters or buffing useless factions to be OP as f*** in TW. Yes, it gives a bit of disadvantage to ship-heavy players, but why would you focus on ships after you have say two usable fleets? That's a disadvantage everywhere else, too.

Fleet is exactly like the character aspect of the game insofar that you need certain ships for certain events and different enemy fleets in the arena require different counters. Which means you ultimately want to collect and develop pretty much all ships. Plus, collecting is the main point of the game.

The disadvantage in areas other than GA is negligible. You might have to develop a few toons that have little use outside of fleet, such as Consular or GeoSoldier. And you might spend more GW and Fleet currency on ships instead of characters and zeta mats early on. But without a strong fleet, you wouldn't be earning fleet currency. Or bonus crystals, for that matter, which greatly help with character farming. You have to invest resources to gain resources, and ships strike me as one of the best investments in this game.

3v3 is my single favorite game mode. It requires a little more strategy and allows for more diversity at lower GP.

I have 1.5M character and 1M ships. For a typical 5v5 GA I have to place 5 character squads plus 1 ship, which means planning to use 10 character squads minimum to attack. I have 42 characters at G10/11/12. To get 10 squads of 5 I'm dipping into my G8/9s and strategically placing weaker squads on defense to reserve a strong enough offense.

For 3v3 GA I am currently placing 8 squads. This requires effectively 16x3 for a perfect offensive defensive combination.

16x3=48
10x5 = 50

Im essentially using the same number of characters. The difference is magnified in 3v3 where a duo or solo offense has a stronger impact. Where in 5v5 a trio might be required to attempt to take a banner advantage.

Either way I want more grand arena. And 3v3 breaks up the monotony of always using the same squads against each other such as arena and TW. It's always the same boring garbage. 3v3 requires theory and strategy.

All the thumbs up from this guy!!!!

P.s. the OP 5v5 factions get broken up and allow more options for both sides. Revan is SIGNIFICANTLY weaker 3v3

I prefer 3v3