Paper zombie... [MERGE]

Here is my proposed solution to the zombie problem of being less valuable with more gear. My aim is to make zombie better at a higher gear without changing how she currently performs at G7. This will make NS better overall, but I think that’s ok because it will offset yesterday’s nerf in the raid and they aren’t really meta in arena right now anyways, so a boost won’t braak the game.

New Unique:
Zombie gains defense% equal to 0.002% of her protection. When zombie is damaged she gains plague that cannot be resisted. Zombie does not spread plague during her turn. At the start of her turn, she inflicts plague on a random enemy one time for each instance of plague on zombie. This cannot be resisted. When zombie is healed to full health she grants all NS allies 2% offense and crit damage (stacking) and 5% TM for each instance of plague dispelled.

The point of this is to make it more valuable to make Zombie tanky than to die, while still keeping the same value for her death. Now a G12 zombie will be able to absorb a lot of hits and then buff all her allies when she is healed and spread unresistsble plague when she takes turns after being damaged. The exact numbers might need some fine tuning, but I think this concept would be a great fix that would make almost everyone happy.

Or maybe make zombie grant other night sister allies turn meter every time she gets hit and lower that turn meter by a percentage every time she dies. Just trying to brainstorm here.

I don’t why they don’t just flip reverse it. The more you gear her up the weaker her health pool gets.

Seems like a simple fix to me.

"FredsFatties;c-1612582" wrote:
I don’t why they don’t just flip reverse it. The more you gear her up the weaker her health pool gets.

Seems like a simple fix to me.

Because a paper zombie isn’t ideal in all situations. On defense in arena/TW a strong zombie that can keep taunt and prevent other NS from getting Fractured/stunned/isolated is better. It shouldn’t be a choice, it should always be better to be strong.

I had been thinking about how they could do this and make it so it wouldn’t be unreasonable. What I pictured is something like this:

Instead of making it so Zombie dies, her health is reset upon a finishing blow. But to feed the Assajj/Daka loss - a new zeta part of her unique that stacks damage and health boosts to all NS for all damage she takes that resets with her health on a finishing blow. That would give a new use to her being geared up completely, would keep some of the damage and health benefits like before, and also a use for that zeta refund.

How about a fix that trades up on one of the zombie’s weaknesses (speed). Rework zombie so that her base speed is 50, and add this to her unique:
Nightsister zombie gains speed equal to 0.5% of her max protection (max 100).
That way whoever wants the paper zombie can keep it for raids, but whoever geared up their zombie would have a huge speed advantage for tw/arena, where the faster she is the sooner she gets taunt back after dying.

Could give ns stacking offense at the end of zombies turn that resets when she dies. Asajj still gets her unique when zombie dies but all ns get a boost if she dosnt.

P.s. not my idea I read it somewhere and I think its the best option so far

I get that you guys don't like that people are having fun with a character without having to max gear it, but does it really warrant action? Even if some people feel left out because they leveled their zombies, couldn't you just refund everybody's zombies so that they can choose to gear-or not to gear now that they have all the information? I find it hard to believe that low level zombies are so game breaking that they need a nerf. If you really want to "encourage" people to level them up might I suggest carrots over sticks? And certainly carrots over (unavoidable cram down throat changes).

On damage effects from bonds of weakness don't work, so says the devs and description in the raid for bonds of weakness. They're probably going to use the paper zombie excuse to nurf the nightsister faction, as they probably see the damage as being too high in the raid. My assumption is the zombie will no longer count toward stacks of daka and Assaj, making Daka's zeta pretty obsolete, which is why they're refunding her.

If they wanted to keep the faction the same, they could add a new ability on a toggle that requires G11 or G12, which gives her increased max protection for a significantly decreased max health. They could also increase her base max health to make said ability worthwhile.

Zombie should be left alone. A weak low geared zombie is a form of strategy that allows Dakas unique to be triggered more often making NS stronger.

Even kozispoon said it’s a strategy and not a bug.


https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/153504/fix-the-nightsister-zombie-gear-exploit#latest

I look at it like this...every toon in this game requires max gear to get the most out of them...why not just leave zombie alone..we all know just how much gear it takes to max to g12. Having a toon viable with green or blue gear is a nice change.