How the Sith Raid fun factor could be increased

A large amount of people don't like the raid, potentially 77% of your player base in fact:

- Is this raid unfun poll:
https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/161766/anyone-else-find-this-raid-unfun
- Raid is boring:
https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/163416/sith-raid-is-boring-just-saying

But high end guilds are ok with it:

- Players responding to a user that the raid is fine:
https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/163900/swgoh-we-are-waiting-for-sith-raid-re-work
- Evidence that guilds are clearing Heroic, proving the raid is not only doable but that people think it's worth doing:
https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/163601/icbw-a-131-million-gp-guild-has-cleared-the-heroic-sith-raid

My opinion is that free to play and dolphin players in lower GP guilds don't like the raid because their personal experience with it is low. The journey is poor and painful. As an individual, you have no control over anything because the bosses are immune to everything.

Whale players who are more about winning and being the best are obtaining Traya shards and are happy with the raid. The destination is great and they can achieve the destination enabling them to get a super powerful Sith character unlocked over time.

Possible solutions to the Sith raid problem:
1. Give players more control. I'm pretty sure the most detrimental thing to the player experience is the lack of control and our inability to apply anything except for irresistible debuffs like Jedi Training Rey's expose. Currently, tenacity increases by huge chunks whenever the boss takes damage.

In order to allow a larger variety of teams and to make the raid more fun, how about you change the raid boss passives, eg: Change Nihilus passive "The Darkness In Which All Life Dies" to:
"Nihilus is immune to tenacity down and his tenacity is increased by 20% per active debuff on him. Every time Nihilus fails to resist a resistable effect his tenacity is increased by 20% (stacking) until the end of his next turn. Ever time Nihilus is affected by a turn meter removal effect his speed increases by +30 until the end of his next turn."

This change has a few benefits for the player experience:
1. Irresistible effects will not increase Nihilus' tenacity, meaning that a greater variety of debuff-based alternative units can be mixed in with irresistible ability characters.
2. Resisted effects will not further increase Nihilus' tenacity. Having resists increase Nihilus' tenacity causing even MORE resists is just annoying and cripples debuff-reliant characters like zeta Vader leadership.
3. Debuff-reliant characters will be prevented from becoming TOO powerful. For example, a zeta Vader leadership will be able to apply SOME damage over time effects but the more that get applied, the more that Nihilus will be able to resist new applications. This will prevent the super high stack counts you see in the tank raid that make Wampa so overpowered but will give zeta Vader some utility and power. Additionally, with the above wording, the active debuff tenacity increase and the "failure to resist a resistable effect" tenacity increase will stack until Nihilus' next turn meaning if Vader does Force Crush and applies 3 damage over time effects and the slow debuff, Nihilus' tenacity will be increased by 160% until the end of his next turn but it will then reduce down to 80%, due to the 20% per debuff bonus only. This gives Nihilus a high level of tenacity increase when the debuffs are initially applied but will reduce again after Nihilus has made it to his next turn.
3. The combination of +30 speed, increasing tenacity whenever a turn meter removal effect isn't resisted, plus the 5% turn meter gain that happens from the "Fearsome Foe" passive, should all prevent infinite turn meter removal cycles without making resistible turn meter removal effects completely useless.

Similarly, change Sion's "Impervious Foe" to:
"Sion is immune to tenacity down and his tenacity is increased by 20% per active debuff on him. Every time Sion fails to resist a resistable effect his tenacity is increased by 20% (stacking) until the end of his next turn. In addition, he has +100% defense and is immune to Turn Meter removal effects and defence debuffs."

This change has a few benefits for the player experience:
1. Irresistible effects will not increase Sion's tenacity, meaning the player won't accidentally cripple their ability to debuff Sion.
2. Resisted effects will not further increase Sion's tenacity.
3. Debuff-reliant characters will be prevented from becoming TOO powerful.
3. Sion can't be controlled using turn meter removal effects and he will still gain 5% turn meter from the "Fearsome Foe" passive whenever he is damaged. As such, turn meter gain teams will still increase his turn meter whenever he is hit, he won't be turned into the super speed-boosted monster that he can become currently.

Finally, Traya's "Patience Has Its Limits" should be changed to:
"Traya is immune to tenacity down and her tenacity is increased by 20% per active debuff on her. Every time Traya fails to resist a resistable effect her tenacity is increased by 20% (stacking) until the end of her next turn. Ever time Traya is affected by a turn meter removal effect her speed increases by +30 until the end of her next turn. If Traya is toppled, she becomes immune to turn meter removal effects.

When Traya becomes enraged, she dispels all buffs from all enemies and inflicts buff immunity for the rest of the encounter (can't be resisted or dispelled.)"

Once again, similar to Nihilus:
1. Irresistible effects will not increase Traya's tenacity, meaning the player won't accidentally cripple their ability to debuff Traya.
2. Resisted effects will not further increase Traya's tenacity.
3. Debuff-reliant characters will be prevented from becoming TOO powerful.
3. The combination of +30 speed, increasing tenacity whenever a turn meter removal effect isn't resisted, plus the 5% turn meter gain that happens from the "Fearsome Foe" passive should all prevent infinite turn meter removal cycles without making resistible turn meter removal effects completely useless.

Understandably, if the above changes are made then other balancing changes will likely need to be done as well to make sure the Heroic level of the raid is not accidentally made too easy. Due to the effectiveness increase of debuffs, perhaps the Heroic tier health level should be increased even further.

Lower tiers of the Sith raid should be tweaked for less powerful/active guilds by having the raid maximum health levels reduced proportional to the participation rates of players attacking. A 50/50 participation rate seems unlikely when a guild of level 85 players is doing a T4 or T5 Sith raid.

The raid is a chore. I hate doing it and I'm considering either not doing it or quitting the game.