Grand Arena Matchups
When players received GP to give a value to their inventory strength, some players, like me, maxed out all of their characters' levels, gear levels, and mods. The increased GP gave players better rew...
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"WEDWAY;c-1864099" wrote:
You did nothing wrong. Agreed. But your choices in the past should of course influence your current ability to win GA. It's no different than guilds who didn't build JTR teams and NS teams. They are at a disadvantage in heroic STR. It's no different than guilds that din't build counters to JKR, DRevan or similar teams. They are at a disadvantage in TW. I see no problem here.
It is completely different than guilds who didn't build JTR teams and NS teams. This is not a disadvantage because of a choice of farming one character over another. Those guilds can eventually build the team they need.
If a player wants to beat an opponent with strong META teams that player needs to build strong counter teams instead of building CUP and geonosians. The only difference is, that raid mechanics are static, while the META constantly evolves.
Yesterday, my son was paired with a player who has 24 g12 toons, all with 6 dot mods. My son has zero g12 toons. My son levels up all of his characters. His oppenent only leveled up the characters he uses. His oppenent has a JKR team filled with zeta's and god level mods. My son is months away from JTR, nevermind any of the current meta teams. His oppenent has 33% more zeta moves. This happens often.
Your son's playstyle is sometimes referred to as 'collecting', while his opponent seems to have a more competitive playstyle. The competitive playstyle has an advantage in GA. Of course it does. GA is a competitive game mode. It's all good.
It is completely mismatched and my son cannot play the grand arena this time because of this problem.
Of course he can. He probably won't win 3/3, but he can play.
There is nothing he can do to fix it either.
He can change his playstile and slowly build a more and more competitive roster. He can start building strong teams only, one ar a time. No, he can't change his roster over night, but that's just the nature of this game.
This has nothing to do with "who" players choose to farm or develop,
Yes it does. If your son doesn't have a JKR team, while his opponent does, it's exactly because of which characters each of them chose to develop.
it has everything to do with GP not being a fair way to match players.
GP is a fair measure for matchmaking as long as everybody battles for the same rewards. Why should your son have easier acces to those rank 1 rewards, than a player with all the META teams? How would that be fair?
You are comparing apples to oranges, which is why you don't see a problem.
You're missing the point with the rewards. It's perfectly fine, that apples have an advantage when competing with oranges.
