GW Report 3-11-16

"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.