Leave GA alone

"Voltarc;c-1869351" wrote:
To Yae and Liath: I have 3.4 GP and currently 10 gold geared characters (up from 6 or 7 at start of Grand Arena.). I have been playing just under 2 years and think I’m doing just great thank you. I have spent about 20 bucks on this game and probably won’t spend any more because like I said it seems to be a hole to waste your money. It would cost thousands to make a significant change. I agree the problem is me...I have not spent nearly enough money. I just scanned through the other 7 players. Two have 46 gold gear characters the weakest looking player has 21 gold gear. When I say I have about 20 effective fighters I mean that I have about 10 characters or so that are not gold gear that I can use to sometimes use to kill the defensive characters. Most of these players should be able to slaughter most any defense I put up, but sometimes I get lucky (or they mess up) and only clear a few areas. I got the phonix squad fairly early and was able to get Thrawn fairly fast mainly because I watched the show and they appeared to be pretty good. Was still gearing up an emperor lead sith team. So I got lucky twice when they added thrawn and reworked the emperor. So other than the classic emperor lead making up 5 of my gold gear characters the rest are crew for my arena ships. I got biggs early with a maxed out Ackbar capital ship. (Don’t laugh it got me to top 50 in arena) and my main mistake was I should have switched to my maxed out Chimera faster when Bosk’s ship became a thing. (I currently have a gold gear Bossk). So if I had focused all my grinding on old republic I might have gotten Jedi Revan by now but to do that I would not have been able to work on my arena ships. (Which had priority prior to Grand Arena)

My opponents REALLY have about 4 Jedi Revans, Malik, about 3 Treyas, etc and in most cases those characters are also gold gear. As far as I can tell I was right in line with what I was supposed to do... and in fact got very lucky and twice focused on critical teams before they became meta changers. Some people ignored ships and maybe that is what a mostly free to play player should do though I believe the ship arena scores were well worth the effort. However even there I am feeling the squeeze: already took on an all Rebal team with the falcon which does seem to be the new top meta team. My current chimera team with Bossk is probably the second best meta team, but I happen to have most of the rebel ships close to were they need to be...if I can upgrade two bounty hunter ships a bit more I’ll have the falcon also.

You have several facacies in your arguements.

1. At 3.4 mil gp, you don't see that many malak teams. I'm at around 3.5 mil go and got darth revan ftp. And I usually only see maybe one other darth revan team in my ga and usually it doesn't have malak. So it isn't like all you opponents are whales with malak.

2. You don't have to spend money to have several good maxed teams. It just takes focus. I'm 100% ftp and I have enough good teams to win at you level easily enough.

3. At 3.4 mil gp and two years playing you should have jkr and traya by now. No excuse not to. And you should have their teams maxed. Traya has been out for almost a year and a half as a raid reward and revan's event has run 3 times. If you didn't decide to focus on the two best teams that are ftp available that's on you.

4. Focusing on ships doesn't mean you can't win in arena or ga. I have focused on ships and have had top arena teams in ship arena for well over a year and a half. I'm pretty sure the 400 crystals a day for taking 1st more than pays for the gear on a fleet arena team.

5. You don't have to have the newest meta to do well in arena and ga. There are counters. The most recent 3 metas or so work pretty well. I get top 5 daily with no malak. I use dr to do so but jkr can still get up there as well with the right mods/strategy.

So from your comments I can tell it isn't the matchmaking that is your problem.