How can you reconcile Anakin with Carrie's statements?

It doesn't but cg is releasing and updating stuff i honestly have no clue what cg is doing. It seems they are throwing things into chaos so we don't know where the meta is so we spend frivolously trying to keep up. Because a cadence is making to many ftp players successful at unlocking powerful characters. (This is my opinion and is solely based kn what i am seeing in game). It's the only thing i can think of as to what's happening because none of this makes any sense. And cg just can't communicate with us fast enough. For whatever reason.

To be clear i really didn't see anything wrong in carries statements. If people are in an uproar over the fact that if you wanna compete you spend! The fact is this game makes over 100m in earnings so spending 5k in the grand scheme of thins is small potatoes. She just acknowledged what everyone knew already! So cut her some slack. Honestly it's the first time they were brutally honest and it wasn't even through an official channel it was her private account. I hope she hasn't gotten in trouble with that post because it's almost certain she's had a conversation about in in the office.

In any event it's at least clear to me cg cannot test their new characters well enough. The evidence is there for all to see. They need to give game changers pre release content again and get guidance and input from them it's clear since they removed their pre release access the quality of kits has gone down. Community testing live just isn't working.

What part of the rework suddenly added this ability to deal massive damage? ?
I didn't see them adding damage or anything to his kit..
If it works now, then it likely worked before now anyway, so I don't get it.

It is a strange time. So many drastic and seemingly not well thought out changes that produce an equal reckless reaction.

Because I enjoy the game, I hope it stabilizes soon. However in my 3+ years of playing, I'm really wondering what's going on and what this means for the future.

"Gannon;c-1839953" wrote:
What part of the rework suddenly added this ability to deal massive damage? ?
I didn't see them adding damage or anything to his kit..
If it works now, then it likely worked before now anyway, so I don't get it.

They increased the damage bonus of Righteous Fury, gave him Offense Up, and increased the damage ratios on his abilities (which is invisible in the text description) significantly. There are videos all over YouTube.

"Draeth;d-201843" wrote:
Regardless of what you think about Carrie's statements on Twitter, she said what she said: Malak was a reward for spenders to get the exclusivity they wanted and reap an advantage from it.

So... How, in that context, does reworking Anakin to do 100k damage AoEs under Jedi Revan lead, wiping out the entire Darth Revan + Malak team in one hit, make any sense? At all?

It’s pretty ridiculous. They do this to themselves. I’m pretty sure if you asked ANYONE who gets top 10 in arena what the first thing they should test when doing the Anankin rework, everyone would have said “how he performs in a JKR team.” How they could have possibly missed that he will destroy DR teams is mind boggling, which leads me to believe it must have been intentional. If it was intentional, you’ve just told your community there is no point on spending money to get new heroes journey characters because they may be easily countered by F2P characters.

Malak is still exclusive. Those who have Malak still have an advantage. He's just not the only show in town, and he shouldn't be.

"Gannon;c-1839969" wrote:

"Draeth;c-1839955" wrote:

"Gannon;c-1839953" wrote:
What part of the rework suddenly added this ability to deal massive damage? ?
I didn't see them adding damage or anything to his kit..
If it works now, then it likely worked before now anyway, so I don't get it.

They increased the damage bonus of Righteous Fury, gave him Offense Up, and increased the damage ratios on his abilities (which is invisible in the text description) significantly. There are videos all over YouTube.

I don't have a **** or clip of the old upgrade values, but the aoe damage (+50 in upgrades) looks the same to me as before. Offense up was there before, but was a chance.
I do see the extra 25% damage increase to fury tho, but I don't get how a 25% increase makes that big of a difference, as it isn't going to trigger very often.
I've use him under bast before revan tho and nearly one shot enemy teams..

Again, the damage ratios of abilities is not visible in the text of the game. They are hidden values you can read on swgoh.gg and you can easily verify this by watching the videos on every SWGOH YouTube channel.

"YaeVizsla;c-1839977" wrote:
Malak is still exclusive. Those who have Malak still have an advantage. He's just not the only show in town, and he shouldn't be.

How is having a tank that gets destroyed in one hit by a 3 year old character an advantage? Jedi Knight Revan is going to be the only viable team again because of this change.

This is the part I really don’t get. Malak was supposed to be a “super-legendary” that offset reworks... If he was supposed to be a super legendary that offset reworks, why in the world did you release a rework like a week after releasing your super-legendary that completely destroys him??? I can’t even put into words how nonsensical that is.

Then there is the part about how Malak was supposed to satisfy the whales whining about wanting something exclusive for the money they put into the game. Again, Malak was supposed to fit that role. He did fit that role perfectly...for a week. The whales, like myself, were generally pretty happy. Those of us that got malak, especially those of us that were able to 7 star him right away, were holding really well on defense in arena. Then a week later you made the whales angry again by countering Malak with the Anakin rework.

What in the world is going on?? My only conclusion can be not to spend money on anything because whatever you spend money on could be made useless (or at least made far less effective) a week later. That’s just my personal take from all this and I’m not telling anyone else what to do or how to spend. I feel frozen now. Do I whale to get a new character not knowing if it’s going to actually be worth anything? Do I whale to get the new character but not gear it up for a week or two just in case something else is going to immediately come along that counters it? I almost feel like I need to put a two week hold on anything new. Get it, but then don’t touch it until I’m sure it’s actually going to work as advertised.

Yeah I don’t know that you can reconcile it. It appears that Malak is underwhelming compared to expectations... but that said I’m so happy Anakin is a beast. It’s about time.

And Anakin should be able to walk all over Malak and Darth Revan and eat them both for breakfast lunch and dinner. No way the chosen one whom George Lucas says SW centers around shouldn’t destroy Old Republic. Just give us the dark side version that everyone wants.