GW Report 3-11-16

GW has gotten significantly more difficult since the patch I went from average teams of level 58 to 63 to average teams of level 70 by node 3. In fact, 2 weeks ago I auto'd all of GW without a single death, retreat, or even manual targetting it was that easy. With the patch it has become more of a challenge, but I still haven't lost yet. I'm currently on a 60 plus GW winning streak today was a moderate challenge yesterday was alot tougher, but here is how today went.

http://i.imgur.com/dKOprXZ.png
80 GW Wins

http://i.imgur.com/2NRO8GE.png
Node 1

http://i.imgur.com/HkShY1C.png
My A-Team (team stays the same unless otherwise noted)

http://i.imgur.com/Iv5sWBZ.png
Node 2

http://i.imgur.com/aVMgP9Y.png
Node 3

http://i.imgur.com/tiFQgNQ.png
Node 4 - difficulty begins to increase

http://i.imgur.com/TbfUVup.png
Node 5

http://i.imgur.com/0NqNkUi.png
Node 6

http://i.imgur.com/l62WcoQ.png
Node 7 - 1st real challenge

http://i.imgur.com/NXuognS.png
Suicide Squad 1 sent in due to not being to beat node 7 without a main character dying

http://i.imgur.com/DOyswmj.png
My B-Team (brought in to gain speed advantage on node 7)

http://i.imgur.com/q5S7Ksn.png
Node 8 - a breather

http://i.imgur.com/Ogle4DL.png
Back to A-Team due to near fatal damage Old Daka took in Node 7

http://i.imgur.com/c6R9o95.png
Node 9

http://i.imgur.com/xbWRzyb.png
Node 10 - the toughest challenge of the day

http://i.imgur.com/DVVqTWg.png
Suicide Squad 2 sent in to absorb devastating special attacks

http://i.imgur.com/M63mWiK.png
Hybrid Team of A & B used due to Old Daka damage

http://i.imgur.com/JtS4f7p.png
Node 11 - required many retreats due to Savage Opress

http://i.imgur.com/2dWBHVh.png
Node 12

http://i.imgur.com/4Aodn75.png
Back to A-Team

http://i.imgur.com/R1K8J2K.png
GW cleared - Luminara died on node 12 because I didn't feel like retreating

http://i.imgur.com/oDroTyz.png
GW full clear complete only 1 main character death and 2 suicide squads used.

http://i.imgur.com/GW6St6f.png
81 GW Wins - 60+ Day Winning Streak continues

Most of the nodes from 7 on required retreats, but not enough that it became annoying. Doing GW, all the dailies, all the challenges, and all 5 Arena matches took approximately an hour and a half. I do enjoy the increase in difficulty compared to the steamroll mode of the last month before the patch.

My Current Arena rank: 158
Highest Ever Arena Rank: 75
Arena Squad Power: 26,406
Number of Characters: 52
Number of 7* Characters: 6
Number of Level 70 Characters: 22

pvp

11 Replies

daddyngo007
9 years ago
Something to look forward to when I reach level 70. Great! Not! Lol.
Gold53
New Spectator
9 years ago
"Daddyngo007;193726" wrote:
Something to look forward to when I reach level 70. Great! Not! Lol.

What are you facing now?
daddyngo007
9 years ago
Low 60s
Gold53
New Spectator
9 years ago
"Daddyngo007;193985" wrote:
Low 60s

I wish there was a clear method of telling how the matchmaking is done.
AELeoo
9 years ago
Im purposely avoiding any increase to my pvp squad power right now just so I can continuously have easy GW opponents.

My squad power is 25.6k, highest rank is 5. Although because of my low squad power I get targetted a lot in arena, so I guess thats the tradeoff of having easy GW opponents.

My highest possible squad power is probably 27k ish
snoochiebear
9 years ago
I see a post about drawing special fire, I do that with my suicide squad, then go back in and am immediately faced with the same special fire.

IE, Sid gets 1 turn against suicide squade and AOEs, I lose, go back in with better team and Sid AOEs on first turn.
PiffGuru12
9 years ago
Ive been saving pics of my GW for like 2 weeks now and I can tell you it has gotten easier not harder. Used to be that I would start running into full maxed out squads from node 3 on, now thats happening from node 6or7 on. Either way ive been able to complete them every day but before the patch it would take much longer because of having to start retreating from node 3or4.

here an example of b4 patch for me
http://i.imgur.com/IUzREJ7.png
Gold53
New Spectator
9 years ago
"PiffGuru;194009" wrote:
Ive been saving pics of my GW for like 2 weeks now and I can tell you it has gotten easier not harder. Used to be that I would start running into full maxed out squads from node 3 on, now thats happening from node 6or7 on. Either way ive been able to complete them every day but before the patch it would take much longer because of having to start retreating from node 3or4.

Easier for you harder for me. That's why GW is so strange because there seems to be no logic to the matchmaking. People talk about Arena Squad Power being the key but my old squad actually had higher power than my current squad yet my matchmaking was much easier with my old squad.
EventineElesedi
9 years ago
Interesting. Node 4 would probably have stopped me cold. Those matchups are what is keeping me from promoting anybody to 7*, although my arena rank suffers horribly for it. When I get my themed teams built up, then I'll start promoting.
lopomokf
9 years ago
"J7000;194076" wrote:
"Robbathehutt;194017" wrote:
"PiffGuru;194009" wrote:
Ive been saving pics of my GW for like 2 weeks now and I can tell you it has gotten easier not harder. Used to be that I would start running into full maxed out squads from node 3 on, now thats happening from node 6or7 on. Either way ive been able to complete them every day but before the patch it would take much longer because of having to start retreating from node 3or4.

Easier for you harder for me. That's why GW is so strange because there seems to be no logic to the matchmaking. People talk about Arena Squad Power being the key but my old squad actually had higher power than my current squad yet my matchmaking was much easier with my old squad.

Actually this shows the change worked out well. Your current GW is easier than mine and easier than mine was before the change too. His was perhaps a bit too hard and now is reasonable. Yours, to me at least, looks totally reasonable.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what are saying though. Or maybe I'm just used to my GW being hard.

This x 7 trillion.

For the last week, I've been logging all of my GW's on a spread sheet so that I can verify for myself whether or not things are better, worse or unchanged. I can tell you with absolute certainty that something within the last week or so has changed.

Just for reference, I'm currently Level 65 and I use the same crew for Arena and GW. Such is life when you're - currently - F2P and don't have a ton of characters.

For every day of the last week, my GW has gone almost identically like this:

Node 1 pits me against a squad that is somewhere around 8-9000 power LOWER than my squad. Every day, without fail.
Every single node from that point on has increased by approx. 1000 squad power, with the occasional (less than once per reset, on average) 2000 jump in squad power.
Nodes 10-12 have all been within 1000 power (+/- 500) of my squad's power.

Taking that into account, I have finished every GW for the last 10 days or so.

I am no longer hitting roadblocks at the midway point or getting obliterated within a turn or two. I require several retreats, have had to change up the team several times as well as use a couple suicide squads to help deal with a couple of speed / assist teams.

I think the devs have done a great job fixing GW and making it enjoyable again. They deserve the credit for fixing things and getting them back where they belong.