Lord of Hunger Packs ***MEGATHREAD***

My initial reaction was disappointment, but after about a minute I got over it. This was a pretty well calculated move by EA. It's only 2598 crystals to move 1 toon to 4* pretty worthless for the assassin, but Nhillus and Sith Trooper are perfectly functional at 4* so I dropped 5196 saved crystals, got them to 4* and dropped them in my Zaul arena team. At g11 Nhillus has about 70k hp and Trooper has about 90k. The Nhillus basic crit around 10k and his uber special is an insta-kill. Trooper is a meat shield, so his attack (3k crit on basic) is an afterthought.

This price point may be awful on assassin and other future characters, but for Nhillus and Sith Trooper I say it's worth it to spend to get to 4*. Anyone who spends $300 for 3 more stars just needs to get their OCD under control... the difference between 4* and 7* on those toons is minimal.

Came out of ftp retirement to star DN. Dropped 1 vault to get him to 5*. 17 pulls and ALL 5 shards. If even one of those were more than 5 I may have tried another vault. Now back to retirement on spending. 5* g11 should be viable for a while.

"GrimmHammer;925584" wrote:
I think, there are enough players spending the crystals for the two packs to get the new sith to 4* So everything is running nice for EA.

To give 20 of 30 shards to the players was very good, because many players will think: "purchasing two packs should be ok, and I have a chance to get 60 shards" ;)

good job.

In theory, yes. But it could do the opposite too when people with 4* and above are getting beat by 3*s

"warmonkey;925452" wrote:

"Darth_Jay77;925421" wrote:

"Dooku_for_days;925409" wrote:

"warmonkey;925405" wrote:

"BnBTobacconist;925319" wrote:
darth n is a game changer in arena, so you pay a premium. If you don't realize that you haven't been playing the game long enough.

Proof he is a game changer? I am getting reports now from players saying that he is not.

He works brilliantly at 3* gear 11. No need to spend money IMO. He's a great improvement to most arena teams.

I just brilliantly smashed a Maul squad with gear11 star DN, he's good but far from a game changer. We're talking top 4 game play too. Love to see him as a leader so I can bring my 287 speed TFP with Vader and just smash him in the face again.

Juat watched smithieD's video of 3* nihilis. Does look fun

No doubt Nihilus is fun, but he's not this OP beast that many are portraying him to be.

"DoomeyEyes;925607" wrote:
My initial reaction was disappointment, but after about a minute I got over it. This was a pretty well calculated move by EA. It's only 2598 crystals to move 1 toon to 4* pretty worthless for the assassin, but Nhillus and Sith Trooper are perfectly functional at 4* so I dropped 5196 saved crystals, got them to 4* and dropped them in my Zaul arena team. At g11 Nhillus has about 70k hp and Trooper has about 90k. The Nhillus basic crit around 10k and his uber special is an insta-kill. Trooper is a meat shield, so his attack (3k crit on basic) is an afterthought.

This price point may be awful on assassin and other future characters, but for Nhillus and Sith Trooper I say it's worth it to spend to get to 4*. Anyone who spends $300 for 3 more stars just needs to get their OCD under control... the difference between 4* and 7* on those toons is minimal.

Yeah,I agree with this. For a toon like Nihilus, who has a really good kit and seems to work really well under a zMaul lead, buying 2 packs to get him to 4* and then gearing and leveling him up and sticking him in your Arena seems reasonable.

You can't use him in raids for now, but he can really boost your Arena. I mean, you can use him zMaul, Palpy, Sidious and use a tank like General Kenobi or Shoretrooper and not even spend any resources on Sithtrooper and I bet your Arena team gets better.

And then in about 6 weeks, you can start farming Nihilus to 7*.

These packs are an example of a release cadence that does very little for ftp players who have been around since Dec 2015 (or anyone who has been level 85 for a while). We want new toons that can be used in the endgame material. Currently that means HAAT. Unfortunately, none of the recently released toons are meant to get to 7* unless a great deal of $ is spent...

Please, either give endgame material where sub 7* toons can be used or make sure that some new toons can be brought to 7* (ex. sith assassin gets added to GWStore...).

Continuing to release batches of toons that cannot be used in endgame material by players who have spent a great deal of time in the game to reach said material does wrong by those players.

"greycloak;925843" wrote:
These packs are an example of a release cadence that does very little for ftp players who have been around since Dec 2015 (or anyone who has been level 85 for a while). We want new toons that can be used in the endgame material. Currently that means HAAT. Unfortunately, none of the recently released toons are meant to get to 7* unless a great deal of $ is spent...

Please, either give endgame material where sub 7* toons can be used or make sure that some new toons can be brought to 7* (ex. sith assassin gets added to GWStore...).

Continuing to release batches of toons that cannot be used in endgame material by players who have spent a great deal of time in the game to reach said material does wrong by those players.

They will be farmable soon so be patient. The players who spend deserve to have a head start. Unless you are going to spend to have an advantage then please wait.

"Misanthrop;925234" wrote:
With every new release you slowly chip my excitement for this game away pack by pack and piece by piece...

It's scary how true this is.........

"Bobby777;925876" wrote:

"Misanthrop;925234" wrote:
With every new release you slowly chip my excitement for this game away pack by pack and piece by piece...

It's scary how true this is.........

I had bought every premium character up to the Rogue One Rebels and I thought I was crazy then, but these prices are insane. How can a game like Force Arena be so completely F2P friendly and affordable but this game is a premium game basically. Sure F2P can technically play it but there's a huge disparity between F2P and P2P.

I think all can agree on this or at least see where I coming from on this.

I would happily pay 20 dollars for ST or SA to be 7 stars and pay 50 for DN. Considering the star level doesn't add as much as zeta and gear I think that is reasonable.

At 400 a pop it's a bit overkill.