New TB info: MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR Complaints
WHAT THE ACTUAL HECK CG? R9 minimum to just play phase 5 and phase 6?? I don’t know 1 person (not even Mr whale himself ahnald) who has a full r9 team. It’s a complete waste. Not to mention extremely ...
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"Ultra;c-2395214" wrote:
I do think not a lot of players can engage in last 2-3 phases at all
And once the data comes out that only 100 out of 300k players can engage in the new TB i'm sure CG will do something to make it easier for people to play the content
Worst case, they lower the reqs to R8 or R7 but tuned for R9
That’s correct—because the vast, vast majority don’t have full R8 or R9 teams. The only reason they can’t engage with those phases is because CG arbitrarily decided to make those relic level minimums.
You think CG doesn’t already know how many people have R8 and R9 teams? Maybe the backlash could give them pause or embarrass them into lowering it, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. They knew full well what they were doing when they set those minimums. They knew there was no good reason to do it. Does Hermit Yoda or C-3PO need to be R9 to function in their teams? Nope.
The truth is a combination of CG being lazy, greedy, and not testing stuff. They want to artificially gate the TB so they don’t have to work on another TB for half a decade. They want to pressure everyone to buy more to stay at the forefront of content. And how many times has CG given ‘recommended’ gears for legendary or other events, but players figure out how to do it well under that? That’s what would happen. R9 is almost certainly not needed for the last two phases. It’s the same situation as the Profundity. They claimed Raddus needed to be at R9 because it would compete with R9 Pietts. Completely untrue. Profundity almost certainly would have been just as effective at R5, maybe less. They just wanted to force people to do R9. That’s it. Same general mentality here, just on a larger scale.
