Mods.. the true meta?

Well there's a limit to how much mods can help or else every single character is arena viable. No amount of God mods will help me make 2 Tano 1 CUP into a meta team.

"Huatimus;c-1545665" wrote:
Well there's a limit to how much mods can help or else every single character is arena viable. No amount of God mods will help me make 2 Tano 1 CUP into a meta team.

and godly teams will be viable with inferior mods

I think mods are a long term advantage when you get good ones. (This is dependent on if/how they implement 6/7 dot mods)

But no, mods do not "buy you a win".

You can take a unmodded Han Solo into a team to get that initial stun and use that tactic to win a match if your toons and mods dont quite match up. Yes you would do better with good mods, but there are times where strategies will help you overcome an opponent more often than not.

Great mods can help you overcome a mirror match, but you dont always need to, that's part of the strategy in game.

"Kyno;c-1545713" wrote:
(This is dependent on if/how they implement 6/7 dot mods)

^^ if/when they do implement them, i think that’s when haat will be more soloable for the majority of the community.

To op’s point - I think at one time it all came down to mods ( speed secondaries) in arena but the community cracked that nut. One of the reasons why Rex was so wide spread as an arena team was because he didn’t need great mods to win.

Mods are obviously super important but how available they are now and how many different game modes we have now I think it’s more important to build “good” mods and spread them out in your roster. The “great,awesome,god-like” mods should be on arena if they need them.

Mods separate top 100 from the top 20.

Squad composition will get you to x
Gear level will get you to y
Mods will get you to z

If any of the 3 are lacking it will be apparent.

I'm still not sold mods are amazing, but they do give a bonus. I had my R2 decent for arena, with speed and potency mods. I took the speed set off, and R2 was still rocking strong. It's a combination of everything, imho. Gear, level and mods.

How can you not be convinced. Go look at the top 20 in your arena and tell me how many don['t have a speed primary or secondary on all of their mods for all of their characters. If there's even one then I'll amend and say top 10. That should tell you something. I have an exact mirror of a team in the top 10, (EP lead, GK, Vader, DN and GAT). Maxed gear, levels, etc and modded OK, but not speed on all.I struggle to make it into the top 100. What's the difference? Speed mods.Not just mods being meta but speed being meta.

Also be prepared to have this thread moved and buried into another forum topic so it will stop being commented on. That seems to happen to any thread I respond to.

Yep

"Chucko_marek;c-1545774" wrote:
It's a combination of everything, imho. Gear, level and mods.

This.

Mods are important. But so is everything.

"MntMan;c-1545786" wrote:
How can you not be convinced. Go look at the top 20 in your arena and tell me how many don['t have a speed primary or secondary on all of their mods for all of their characters. If there's even one then I'll amend and say top 10. That should tell you something. I have an exact mirror of a team in the top 10, (EP lead, GK, Vader, DN and GAT). Maxed gear, levels, etc and modded OK, but not speed on all.I struggle to make it into the top 100. What's the difference? Speed mods.Not just mods being meta but speed being meta.

Also be prepared to have this thread moved and buried into another forum topic so it will stop being commented on. That seems to happen to any thread I respond to.

Because speed. Speed is everything in arena. If mods didn't provide speed, then what?

I guess my ultimate point is what you said, speed mods. I have speed mods on my characters, and stick between 100-50. Like swiftmooky said, 10,000 plus health and protection does little if their toons are faster. All the other stats mean little if their team hits you 2 to 3 times before you get to go once.