GW Match Making

3rd node a 7* ig88 and 86, poogle, hk and lumi fight. I'm rank 800 so I call bs on that, 2 nodes for me tonight from this pay to win game feature that's gonna make me finally give up with the game...

What the heck. Today I start GW and the VERY FIRST node has three 7*, one 6*, and one 5* all with purple gear and all at level 66. My team is at a similar level, but every time I've played the first node for the past few weeks, it's always been an easier team in the 50s and then progressively got harder and the final few battles were always a challenge and fun. I can't even beat the first node. They are destroying me. This is crazy. My best possible team can't do anything, even with a few healers. So frustrating. It always feels like one step forward, two steps back with this mode. I don't see what was wrong with how it was before. I don't know if there was some kind of hotfix or update I missed, or if this all works off some algorithm, but it really upsets me I can't get past the first node. For the record, my team is 7* Sid, 7* Luminara, 6* Phasma, 5* Old Daka, and 4* Dooku all with purple gear. Even when I plugged in my 6* Jedi Consular, I couldn't make a dent. Please check into this!

"Cyn;130909" wrote:
Hey Guys,
So some clarity here: A while back our server engineers were talking about using Arena Rank to calculate how we picked your opponents. For a while it was discussed that we were going to use your highest rank ever earned.
This was my full understanding as to how it functioned, and I preached it to the hilt, as you can see here.
In my discussions as to how we could fix GW, it became apparent that I was wrong. It went something like this:
Im-Not-Really-A-Jedi: "So why are we using Arena Rank when the pool of people will change over time?"
Awesome Server Dude: "What are you talking about?"
INRAJ: "Arena Rank, why do we save their highest rank and then pick opponents against it?"
ASD: "We don't. We decided not to use that method a while ago."
INRAJ: "Wait. What?"
ASD: "Yeah, we don't do that anymore. We just use their highest Squad Power now."
INRAJ: "What?"
ASD: "Are you okay, man? You don't look well."
INRAJ: "I told Reddit we use Arena Ranks..."
ASD: "Good luck with that."
INRAJ: "..."
ANYWAY, as you can see, we use SQUAD POWER to calculate your opponent and NOT ARENA RANK, and I was wroooooooooong.
Now the good news: Awesome Server Dude thinks he's found the reason why GW keeps selecting those OP level 70 purple 7-stars for you, and he's working on a solution. The problem is that our server engineers are buried under a small mountain of work, so WHEN that fix will be ready is anyone's guess right now.
I'm really sorry I was wrong, guys. I will always own up to my wrongness, and I mean it when I said that I'm here to help in the best way that I can--and that means making sure everything I say is 100% factual and true! :)
Thanks!
INRAJ
EDIT: So here's EXACTLY how your opponents are figured, and where my confusion for Arena Rank came in:
We use your LAST PVP SQUAD WIN so long as that power is greater than the last time you won. So we DO take it from Arena, just not RANK, just Squad Power.

^^One of the developers on Reddit.

"Umowois;132415" wrote:


The dev also explains that there is a bug with the matchmaking in GW. It will be fixed. We don't know when and we have no ETA.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/469vj1/sad_post_i_was_wrong_about_galactic_war_using/

Turns out this is roughly how it is calculated.. At least we have a rough idea how it is determined.. hopefully it will be fixed in the future.. :\