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"Artas;300938" wrote:

"Darth_Malak;300930" wrote:

"OwexBaill;300906" wrote:

"Darth_Malak;300886" wrote:
@EA_Jesse @CG_JohnSalera @CG_AaronNemoyten @CG_RyDiggs @CG_NotReallyAJedi @CG_Method
Thy for the new content

You mean the 3 ridiculously easy and short "events" or did I miss something?
Or do you mean the fact that everything now takes double the time? That's not new content, mate...

Just wow... Ppl werr complaining about how fast they finished everything( me inclusive ) and now some of you are complaining that it takes too long? Lol

exactly :) sounds strange...

I have a creeping suspicion that most the complaints you speak of were from ppl who prior to the update NEVER PARTICIPATED IN FORUMS. I count myself among them. For many if not a majority of them, this is a CASUAL ADDITION to their day. Not a term life comittment. I was satisfied enough with the previous gameplay that i spent momey to ENRICH the experience... I dont take squandered investments lightly. So yeah, this update drove me to vent on a forum i was content with only being an observer to. Now? I may dig deeper into the game and the upcoming builds because of the community aspect. But Star Wars, as a franchise shouldnt register to audiences as anything half-cooked. Lucas knows that, disney knows it, and EA if not before now should definitely know it. This is a good game. All those complaints were from people who enjoyed Its state before the 4/14 update. The 4/16 patch is great. Im happily tooling away at my squad today.

Started it at 8 this morning, just finished. Probably needed 6+ hours to get through GW. Will I do it again.... Who knows. Cause.... Protection and douku lead teams..,. But if you're relying on casual players at all for the longevity of the game then you definitely need to make this aspect more fun... Having seen how a simple update threw the coding up the creek I don't think having protection in arena but not in GW would work. Hence just change the selector so you're being matched with teams that are 10% weaker at each node for first 6, then 5% less than current for last 6.

Turukano

I don't even see the point of protection. 95% of heroes couldn't one shot. So instead of nerfing the 3-4 that could, they nerfed everyone, added protection, changed light/side battles, changed/ruined GW, changed challenges and then changed them again, brought new bugs onto play, without fixing the ones that existed since the game release. And in the end, all the weak and useless heroes are still useless. I mean, What The Furnace...All these Wasted resources...

"Preemo_Magin;310944" wrote:

"LordAlvert;310917" wrote:

"CPMP;310640" wrote:
I don't even see the point of protection. 95% of heroes couldn't one shot. So instead of nerfing the 3-4 that could, they nerfed everyone, added protection, changed light/side battles, changed/ruined GW, changed challenges and then changed them again, brought new bugs onto play, without fixing the ones that existed since the game release. And in the end, all the weak and useless heroes are still useless. I mean, What The Furnace...All these Wasted resources...

This is all true. Great job fixing the Jedi speed meta that had already been OP countered with dooku lead. Great job making the precrafted problem way worse with the protection. The meta now is gear nine RG daka dooku lead gs and Rey. Maybe a sprinkling of qgj. Yoda is dead from top arena. Jedi are annihilated from arena. Gameplay is RNG hell as much as ever slow grind. You guys are pros Ea: incremental changes. Add tables sure. You are going to anger people when you neuter their hard efforts and or expense. Looking at you Tusken shaman (@EA_Jesse). GS and Rey and DPS are as important as ever. Who sits around after playing last month and though in your offices yoda needed to be neutered after the entire population of games spend months on him. And he was one of 8 toons arena viable. Great now we have 6.

Speaking about DPS, GS is easily obtainable. But FOTP was ritually murdered with the Advantage "upgrade", his regular nerfed to death. This contradicts the stated taming dmg of fast chars vs slow. But get's worst: FOTP is squishy, slow, and now hits like a a berate char. To make things worst to get to 7* you had to spent $800 is equivalent cost for energy and grind hard mode for 5 months. And insult to everyone trusting the game direction stated by the makers.

All slow heroes got nerfed (FOTP became as useless as the rest of them now), while devs stated that they would be getting damage increase.

If you want to win Arena now, remove all the Jedi from your party.

Like in the franchise, the Jedi are extinct.

Maybe 'Old Luke' will come back and change that but I suspect that will be 2017 at the soonest.

"DevTore;300674" wrote:
Great update so far. More thinking required for squad setup which is fantastic. I've completed GW (slightly more difficult than pre update, but doable), significantly improved my arena ranking, completed all challenges attempted (bar 1 failure when savage went nuts on me), and moved further through LS/DS missions than I'd previously gone.

Really frustrating that so many people complained based on posts and datamining, rather than actually playing. Hopefully the devs pay more attention to feedback from those that have actually tried the new strategy for a while rather than the rage-quit vocal minority.

Good job, devs!

My only complaint is LS/DS battles. I don't see how you could have possibly gotten further. The "balance" put favor way too high for the AI's I have a level 72 Sid with level 8 year at 7 stars and all level 7 abilities and he got one shotted by a clone trooper on 7c hard the second protection was gone. This makes it nearly impossible to get three stars. Gas is tough but doable. I think if protection was reinstated at the beginning of each battle of taken away for GW all together it would be as good as it was. Like I said, the DS battles balance is throwin me off they made it nearly impossible to win.

Can you please remove the new 50 piece mystery gear requirements from gear VIII, and place them on a higher level of gear?

That's my biggest gripe with recent changes to the game. It's pretty messed up that those who didn't precraft have to wait till whenever, then farm 50 extra pieces of gear to get to where some people are now.

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We need a way to restore protection through overheads or a repair option on healers or other characters for GW or a simple partial restore after each battle. I can still finish the GW but much harder. Need almost 3 full teams...maybe 4 to ensure completion