When Thrawn was launched and the new Phoenix squadron was a must use, it was a really tough decision for many to drop everything we've been working on to dump everything into 6 toons we may not have any interest in, to obtain a character that everyone should have been interested. I chose to stay on my path and did not get Thrawn. I'm ok with that and when I was done with the other characters I figured that I could go for Thrawn next time around.Again, providing new toons that must be used to get the newer toon gets a little frustrating... at least to me. When I 1st heard that we had to develop characters that have been in the game since launch like Luke, Old Ben and Leia... I was really impressed. I thought it was a brilliant idea to encourage the community to go and get the original characters, make them great and put them to use to get a new character.Now we're in another situation where new characters are going to lock down sections of Territories and force guild members to abandon their efforts in order to comply with the new content and grow their guild. Don't get me wrong here, because I love where the game is going, so when the devs develop a process to get the new material by completing the old material 1st is just makes some sense to me.Thank you for all the great new stuff and keep up the good work, but I really had aspiration to max out nightsisters, Cad Bane, and Nute Gunray to unlock special sections of TB :)

It's not exactly new. All of the events are faction-locked. Yoda > Jedi, EP > Rebels, R2 > Empire; Assault battles all have faction and/or specific character locks, as do omega battles... Can't really call it a trend when it's just how the game operates.

I'd say it is a trend of specific characters... as the title suggests. Allowing the option to select 5 characters in a faction of 10-15 characters allows some flexibility with our efforts. Must have 7* Luke, R2, Old Ben, Leia, and ST Han does really offer that. Also, Locking Special Territories behind very specific NEW Characters is the continuation... or "trend" that follows the CMD Luke event.Not really complaining, but it feels better to use older characters, thus allowing us to go after characters in our collection that we may not have had a reason to complete otherwise.

Agreed. For the CLS event an option would of been nice. Include raid Han. Choose 5/6. Something so simple would of helped a lot for the community.

I don't like the denominator limitation to 5 characters. I think it's better for diversity if it's "farm 5 of these 10 toons" like the first 3 legendary events.

"Speedokillz;c-1210675" wrote:I'd say it is a trend of specific characters... as the title suggests. Allowing the option to select 5 characters in a faction of 10-15 characters allows some flexibility with our efforts. Must have 7* Luke, R2, Old Ben, Leia, and ST Han does really offer that. Also, Locking Special Territories behind very specific NEW Characters is the continuation... or "trend" that follows the CMD Luke event.We have had those in the past as well. The one Assault battle has Ugnaught on the list of characters, we had the female character only event that one time... Just not sure we can call it a "trend" when it's been around the entire life of the game.

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Persimius
Rising Scout
8 years ago
It's not exactly new. All of the events are faction-locked. Yoda > Jedi, EP > Rebels, R2 > Empire; Assault battles all have faction and/or specific character locks, as do omega battles... Can't really call it a trend when it's just how the game operates.
speedo256
8 years ago
I'd say it is a trend of specific characters... as the title suggests. Allowing the option to select 5 characters in a faction of 10-15 characters allows some flexibility with our efforts. Must have 7* Luke, R2, Old Ben, Leia, and ST Han does really offer that. Also, Locking Special Territories behind very specific NEW Characters is the continuation... or "trend" that follows the CMD Luke event.

Not really complaining, but it feels better to use older characters, thus allowing us to go after characters in our collection that we may not have had a reason to complete otherwise.
kerwyn2
8 years ago
Agreed. For the CLS event an option would of been nice. Include raid Han. Choose 5/6. Something so simple would of helped a lot for the community.
SchnauzerBaba
8 years ago
I don't like the denominator limitation to 5 characters. I think it's better for diversity if it's "farm 5 of these 10 toons" like the first 3 legendary events.
Persimius
Rising Scout
8 years ago
"Speedokillz;c-1210675" wrote:
I'd say it is a trend of specific characters... as the title suggests. Allowing the option to select 5 characters in a faction of 10-15 characters allows some flexibility with our efforts. Must have 7* Luke, R2, Old Ben, Leia, and ST Han does really offer that. Also, Locking Special Territories behind very specific NEW Characters is the continuation... or "trend" that follows the CMD Luke event.

We have had those in the past as well. The one Assault battle has Ugnaught on the list of characters, we had the female character only event that one time... Just not sure we can call it a "trend" when it's been around the entire life of the game.
Persimius
Rising Scout
8 years ago
"SchnauzerBaba;c-1210685" wrote:
I don't like the denominator limitation to 5 characters. I think it's better for diversity if it's "farm 5 of these 10 toons" like the first 3 legendary events.

But then what sets the CL event apart from those legendary events? CG specifically wanted this one to be a step above those events, so they would make it more exclusive, and that's not a bad thing.
speedo256
8 years ago
You're not really paying any attention, are you? Requiring that one MUST use Ugnaught is different than Ugnaught, and/or 4 others from an entire faction...
Persimius
Rising Scout
8 years ago
"Speedokillz;c-1210716" wrote:
You're not really paying any attention, are you? Requiring that one MUST use Ugnaught is different than Ugnaught, and/or 4 others from an entire faction...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Semantics. Call it a trend if you want, but it's not the first time they've limited things by specific characters, however you look at it.
DarthR244D
8 years ago
All of those toons are easy to get. Even R2, they brought the event back and it is empire toons. People need to quit complaining because they are never prepared for an event. They gave hints in all the journey posts to what might be needed and look, it is exactly what 90% of the people thought it would be.
speedo256
8 years ago
Um, big words that you do not understand? This is not a situation where the same thing can be manipulated to be seen more than 1 way.

You must use these 5 characters and no other characters will be allowed access is very different that any 5 characters out of these 12 will allow access. You probably will come up with something clever here to prove your trollness though.