"Legendary" Character concern
I understand the point that "Legendary" characters are supposed to be powerful, but let's be honest here....with each new Legendary character the game becomes more and more broken. The history of Leg...
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I thought game balance was better than I've ever seen it with the recent EP/Vader reworks. All the legendary and raid reward characters other than Grandmaster Yoda had a place in the meta, and the top 50 of my shard right now is more diverse than I've ever seen it.
Once Traya starts getting popular though, most of the existing legendary/raid toons are getting kicked right out of the arena meta. I feel kind of bad for newer players going forward. What are they supposed to get all excited when after many months of planning and farming they unlock their CLS or JTR and they aren't even arena viable anymore? How dumb is that?
I'm not disagreeing with this...I realize ultimately this game is a business and needs to make money or it closes...but what I'm not looking forward to is the absolute leap in power creep we are about to take. Then again though...Traya is raid reward and anyone that wants to gear her will have plenty of time to save up gear while they collect shards so they won't be making anything off that one.
I think CLS was an example of doing it wrong. When CLS first hit the scene he absolutely smashed the arena and was a total game changer for raids. His introduction just made way too many other squads and character obsolete.
I think NS was an example of doing it right. When they got their pass, they became a rock solid team that could take first place in arena but weren't kittenly dominant like CLS when he first got added to the game. People paid money for them, they're definitely a meta team...but they were never a "You must have this squad or go to the back of the bus" addition to the game like CLS was.
I guess we'll have to see how it plays out when these new characters start hitting the arena...but my guts telling me these new Sith characters are going to absolutely stomp pretty much the entire existing meta and the arena meta will look like it did post CLS release. They aren't going to be like NS where they're a little power creepy and a strong contender...they're going to dominate. Get Sith or get out.
Once Traya starts getting popular though, most of the existing legendary/raid toons are getting kicked right out of the arena meta. I feel kind of bad for newer players going forward. What are they supposed to get all excited when after many months of planning and farming they unlock their CLS or JTR and they aren't even arena viable anymore? How dumb is that?
"kevsmart;c-1475941" wrote:
New characters = money. Without power creep, no one would care about new characters. Therefore, no money.
I'm not disagreeing with this...I realize ultimately this game is a business and needs to make money or it closes...but what I'm not looking forward to is the absolute leap in power creep we are about to take. Then again though...Traya is raid reward and anyone that wants to gear her will have plenty of time to save up gear while they collect shards so they won't be making anything off that one.
I think CLS was an example of doing it wrong. When CLS first hit the scene he absolutely smashed the arena and was a total game changer for raids. His introduction just made way too many other squads and character obsolete.
I think NS was an example of doing it right. When they got their pass, they became a rock solid team that could take first place in arena but weren't kittenly dominant like CLS when he first got added to the game. People paid money for them, they're definitely a meta team...but they were never a "You must have this squad or go to the back of the bus" addition to the game like CLS was.
I guess we'll have to see how it plays out when these new characters start hitting the arena...but my guts telling me these new Sith characters are going to absolutely stomp pretty much the entire existing meta and the arena meta will look like it did post CLS release. They aren't going to be like NS where they're a little power creepy and a strong contender...they're going to dominate. Get Sith or get out.
