Leave GA alone

"Voltarc;c-1881364" wrote:

"DarkHelmet1138;c-1869650" wrote:

"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.

Amazing...everything of which you just said was wrong.

I have fought at least 1 (sometimes 2) Maliks in Grand Arena since the day he was released.
YOU got Darth Revan free to play (NOT MAXED?) and you usually only see 1 other Darth Revan? You need to check the rosters, not just the defense, of the 5 other players...though that still means there are two Darth Revans...Not to mention all the other gear 12s. You should have several players with about 40 gear 12s.
You COULD have saved all the gear and crystals needed to outright buy Darth Revan but at the cost of upgrading a lot of other stuff. Not the normal way to FTP but possible. With a really awesome guild you could make up for some of the gear you would have sacrificed to do that...but you would not have the most recent 3 metas either(I assume you mean Malik, Jedi Revan, and Padmae? Grevious? Chewy and C3PO?). Need some cash to get all that fully geared up and modded properly. The Emperor is NOT beating ALL of that. (I hope your not trying to say Emperor Palpitine is one of the 3 recent metas)

TO ALL OF YOU STILL trying to say you don’t need a potential couple of THOUSAND DOLLARS cash to climb to the top of Grand Arena:
in an interview the developer literally said you might need several thousand dollars to catch up! Gotta give credit for being honest, and appreciate the effort to fix things so the (I think...gotta wait and see I guess). Heck I even blew another $20 on energy recharges...gotta take advantage of those double rewards lol. Still I am concerned that the match ups might be deliberately setting recent cash spenders against FTP players. Apparently the developer says this has not been done...but EA literally has a patent on the tech to do this....matchups can be based on purchasing to make sure the players gets someone they can beat.
This kind of stuff makes me very queasy. EA had to publish the payout rates because some states consider it online gambling. But tech that does matchmaking based on purchasing would undermine this.
In my opinion EA must also publish anything that then changes matches based on purchases because that is also then a purchased advantage. I will believe the developer for now...but I have been so consistently burned by grand arena I am very suspicious. (Kind of wonder if I should have spent that $20)

I do check tge rosters. And out of the GAs that have sice darth revan, Ihave seen another darth revan about a third of the time and usually only one other player has them.

That means in my gp 6 to 7 out of 8 do not. So you can't be facing only darth revans.

And there is opportunity cost on everything. But if you focus you can get metas the first time ftp. It does require hoarding and focus. And probably getting to the top of arena. But that is all possible ftp. And yes I am in a great guild but I contribute to it as well. I get top 3 in most raids and do well in tw as well as beating all combat missions in tb.

Once you reach a certain gp, you learn not to level everything. Right now I'm sitting on. 15k in crystals again because there isn't anything worth spending them on. If it won't improve my performance somewhere in the game, I don't use crystals for it. (except for the energy refreshes and normal farming but I have a surplus after that.) It's as simple as that. Once you start putting resources only to characters that help you do better, you'll do better.