As many players have recently experienced, the new raid is filled with bugs, rare rosters, and overall discontent from players. Hopefully the bugs get addressed and the roster could be rebalanced, as many players are leaving the game because of it.
I initially thought this was more restricted than Naboo. But I started preparing both before the raid released and GLLO my highest score in SBR took 6 months for me to farm. Whilst I already have 4 R7 Gungans which has been max scoring 1.8M without Jar Jar and levelling up Quadme R0, MQJ 6 star and POW 7 star (I am no fan of conquest but it was a very easy red crate for me).
So once the strong teams have been solved I actually think it is easier or at least quicker to optimise. My guild is already matching our SBR rewards. For me with less effort as I only have two optimised teams and 1 in development and nearly scoring my equivalent of SBR (the score required is much lower for the same rewards).
There are some very accessible teams for those below 4M and can not get Quadme easily such as Luminara plus kit with any other GR Jedi. These are old characters many are reqs for other journey or GL’s so will either be high relic already or worth the investment beyond the raid. The Maul and sideous teams are also low investment for early game. But anyone over 4M could easily get Quadme MQJ and POW, since MQJ and POW are fast to farm on cantina and even have an AB with shards. The AB also gives them much value beyond the raid and will recoup investment. And low investment Gungans work well too.
The only roster complaints I have heard later in the game are from GL rushers who do not like levelling anything that’s not a GL requirement but to me that’s a personal play style and most of these characters add to rosters. And investing in Luminara and Kit is worth it for 8-9 months raid rewards. Delaying in the hope they will alter will just make the investment less worthwhile later.
Player experience for the minority suffering from the bugs will improve once they fix that, they have been aware awhile so should be something in the works.
I have beat the raid 6 times now and not once was it a full battle due to it glitching out and ending the raid early
Have you tried turning in game audio off as the developer bug acknowledgement suggested. If it persists log another bug report with the details. This still seems to be impacting a minority of players and they are investigating. The fact it does not impact everyone probably makes it more complicated to root cause.
The reason why there is limited characters for the RAID is because there are only certain characters that were in Naboo. They are trying to keep to the story instead of adding characters that weren’t part of the story.
Huh?!?!?!
I only remember 2 Jedi on naboo for the droid invasion.
They limit the characters so they can "tune" the raid to a sub set of units instead of trying to stop all the op teams from trivializing the raid.
like chasing troopers with other troopers in the Endor raid?
sounds really as trying to keep to the story indeed
Lore accuracy is a side benefit of restricting the design space to make development more efficient. The more characters they allow, the more testing they have to do to make sure there are no undesired interactions. That's why there are limited characters.
They've done nothing to improve this raid. Same bugs with early victories for several in my guild, even with toggling music/soundfx off. Everyone in our guild is putting most resources into raid units and we've gotten WORSE scores on our most recent attempts. This raid is broken and it's indicative of a lot of the game itself.
I have r9 Qabros, but... I don't think I'm ever going to hit a max score there. That was a lot of resources for pretty much zero return.
I wouldn't suggest anyone else take QA to R9. The bros, definitely yes for Duel of the Fates. QA, probably shouldn't for just the raid.
I'm ready to quit because of how stupid this raid is!
