Legendary Difficulty Philosophy

They have a challenging task. They have to make end-game content to keep the long-term players challenged, then also have to find a way to give newer players a leg up to close the gap. On another level, they also need to balance F2P and P2P so that they don't get too far apart either.

I think the Chewy event is catered to long-term players. Whereas they've made all these changes to Sith raid (lower health, easier mechanics, more toons catered to clearing sith raid) as a way to close the gap now that the top teams easily cleared it.

I was able to unlock him with only one g12 character.

"Fredy5;c-1656358" wrote:
the difficulty only depend if you have or not Bossk. with Bossk it's an easy event, withour Bossk, dont even bother trying to have Chewee 7 stars. Play Loto instead ....
I have Boba G12 and all the others G11

Or read the guide how to beat the event w/o Bossk..

I believe it was difficult as a tradeoff for not having any panic farm involved. You could beat it with all F2P characters there were 2+ years old and with retries, could be done with an average gearing of 11 or less (i've seen some geat it with 1 g8/9 character and just Boba G12). Every other legendary or journey toon you had some element of a panic farm (phoenix for Thrawn or vets for RJT) or really hard character to farm at that time (single hard node toon, raid exclusive character, etc.). That's what I see as unique this time anyway that could justify the increase in difficulty. In prior events, the difficulty hurdle was becoming eligible for the event; this event everyone is eligible cause of the lack of rarity of the toons. If they later combine a panic farm with this high of gear requirements, than we all grab the pitchforks and torches :)

"JerryHello;c-1656425" wrote:

"JohnnySteelAlpha;c-1656368" wrote:
I believe it was difficult as a tradeoff for not having any panic farm involved. You could beat it with all F2P characters there were 2+ years old and with retries, could be done with an average gearing of 11 or less (i've seen some geat it with 1 g8/9 character and just Boba G12). Every other legendary or journey toon you had some element of a panic farm (phoenix for Thrawn or vets for RJT) or really hard character to farm at that time (single hard node toon, raid exclusive character, etc.). That's what I see as unique this time anyway that could justify the increase in difficulty. In prior events, the difficulty hurdle was becoming eligible for the event; this event everyone is eligible cause of the lack of rarity of the toons. If they later combine a panic farm with this high of gear requirements, than we all grab the pitchforks and torches :)

Yoda, Emperor and R2D2 were legendary events and didn't require panic farm.just saying..

They did. By that time rebels and jedi were not at common. R2 on the other hand was kind of easy, but not as much as you suggest

"Immortal;d-183298" wrote:
With the difficulty of the Chewbacca event being so high, I'm curious about CG's philosophy of new legendary events moving forward. What is the philosophy behind the Chewbacca event? Why so difficult? Is this going to be the new difficulty of all legendary events moving forward? G12 takes a long time for me to get to, even with 3 refreshes/day. I think it takes me roughly a month to get a single character to G12, so with 12 per year at that rate, is CG adding steps to make that grind faster? Anything CG is able to share at this point in time?

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Assume all legendaries will be this hard in the future. I have no problem with it. I don’t think legendary toons should be handed out like Halloween candy like they did in the past. I managed to get Chewie but I doubt I will have enough time to gear and star the Kotor toons for the next Legendary.

"Mr_Sausage;c-1656503" wrote:
Assume all legendaries will be this hard in the future. I have no problem with it. I don’t think legendary toons should be handed out like Halloween candy like they did in the past. I managed to get Chewie but I doubt I will have enough time to gear and star the Kotor toons for the next Legendary.

the event is not difficult if you have Payed to have Bossk. it's only difficult for those who doesn't have it.
The philiosphy of the game : Marquee, then Marquee, again Marquee, Whale Legendary Event (You need a marquee) then Marquee, again Marquee, again Marquee, Hero Whale Journey (Chewee 7 stars required + 2 or 3 Marquee)n then Marquee, Marquee .....

"Fredy5;c-1656524" wrote:

"Mr_Sausage;c-1656503" wrote:
Assume all legendaries will be this hard in the future. I have no problem with it. I don’t think legendary toons should be handed out like Halloween candy like they did in the past. I managed to get Chewie but I doubt I will have enough time to gear and star the Kotor toons for the next Legendary.

the event is not difficult if you have Payed to have Bossk. it's only difficult for those who doesn't have it.
The philiosphy of the game : Marquee, then Marquee, again Marquee, Whale Legendary Event (You need a marquee) then Marquee, again Marquee, again Marquee, Hero Whale Journey (Chewee 7 stars required + 2 or 3 Marquee)n then Marquee, Marquee .....

What r you talking about dude? I'm F2P and got 7* G12 zBossk for about 2 weeks just by farming him from hard node 24 battles per day. And why do you think that they should make some giveaway with g8-9 requirements? I cannot say that g8-9 reqs isn't giveaway cuz u can up all 5 characters from 0 to g8 in a single day. In this legendary u need only 5 old characters even without Bossk just with g12 gear. Maybe it's hard for new players, but...this is the game, play longer or pay money thats how it works u cant get everything within few months just by tapping few times on ur screen/day.
Here's a lot of people who play this game for 3 yeas and we don't wanna log in and take one more "free" legendary, we want some challenge, objective, what to do next, who to farm next to get that legendary.

"JerryHello;c-1656425" wrote:

"JohnnySteelAlpha;c-1656368" wrote:
I believe it was difficult as a tradeoff for not having any panic farm involved. You could beat it with all F2P characters there were 2+ years old and with retries, could be done with an average gearing of 11 or less (i've seen some geat it with 1 g8/9 character and just Boba G12). Every other legendary or journey toon you had some element of a panic farm (phoenix for Thrawn or vets for RJT) or really hard character to farm at that time (single hard node toon, raid exclusive character, etc.). That's what I see as unique this time anyway that could justify the increase in difficulty. In prior events, the difficulty hurdle was becoming eligible for the event; this event everyone is eligible cause of the lack of rarity of the toons. If they later combine a panic farm with this high of gear requirements, than we all grab the pitchforks and torches :)

Yoda, Emperor and R2D2 were legendary events and didn't require panic farm.just saying..

I think this is the reason for some of the frustration. Legendary events (save for possibly Thrawn) used to be a "tip of the cap" to players who had played a long time and had built good/deep rosters.

This one is clearly not. It's simply a "Bossk check" or a whale check....or a check to see if you have several hours to kill remodding and running hundreds of attempts.

As someone who beat the Yoda challenge BEFORE CG nerfed it to make it easy for everyone, I must say I am very disappointed in this event. And extremely concerned about the direction of Legendary events in general. As I said, they used to a be pseudo "reward" for player loyalty. Now, they are nothing more than a cash grab...like much of the rest of the game lately.