Paper zombie... [MERGE]

I honestly can't think of a solution that doesn't infuriate someone. My one hope is that CG shares the proposed changes to zombie well a head of time and takes feedback into consideration before actually making the change LIVE.

"Edison;c-1612611" wrote:
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.

I like this the best...But the taunt should reset as well when her health reaches 0.

What about just making NS zombie function differently in a raid? Much like Thrawn's fracture or Traya's isolate.

My 30-second brainstormed Zombie “fix”....

Change her unique to this....

“At the end of her turn, and at the start of each encounter, NS Zombie gains Taunt for 1 turn. Whenever dealt damage, Zombie has a 50% chance to be defeated. When NS Zombie is defeated while any other NS allies are active, she is Revived with 100% Heath and TM% equal to her % of Max Health when defeated. This Revive can’t be prevented.”

No changes to any other NS needed. People can keep their paper zombies, but g12 Zombie will be a much better(and MUCH faster) taunting tank, while still being able to feed Ventress and Daka significantly better then a geared Zombie does now.

People chill out a bit. I swear I feel like half of you didn’t even read the bit about zombie so let me show you.

Our goal is to make Zombie still fit her roll as the same constantly dying awesome taunting tank she's always been. We're also looking at how we bring some of the juice of her constantly dying under the Paper Zombie paradigm and bring that into the powered up Zombie.

This is very important, especially the last sentence. They want to take the idea of paper zombie and bring it into powered up zombie. This will most likely be in the form of a new unique that unlocks at a higher gear level. It says nothing about making a low level paper zombie less viable. They want to make a g12 zombie MORE viable. Then you can decide for yourself if it’s worth it to gear or keep her the way she is.

I'm not sure if this has been said or not.
But wouldn't it be possible to make zombie unique in that as she gains gear levels, her health and protection pool are diminished, instead of increased? Wouldn't this make her initial kit still work just the same as "paper zombie", but allow for better results at higher gear levels?

"Lion_Harte4;c-1614674" wrote:
I'm not sure if this has been said or not.
But wouldn't it be possible to make zombie unique in that as she gains gear levels, her health and protection pool are diminished, instead of increased? Wouldn't this make her initial kit still work just the same as "paper zombie", but allow for better results at higher gear levels?

Paper zombie in the raid is clearly better. It’s not always the case everywhere else. It was a hot debate back when she was being run in arena whether it was better to have her strong or weak. I personally preferred strong

Not sure how they would achieve it, but if you unlocked zombie at max HP and Protection then gearing her reduced it, that would be fun

I believe CG could possibly implement a gear requirement for Zombie’s ability to revive (possibly at G8) this promotes people to at least gear the toon up to have protection, while still maintaining the ability to revive.

A lot of these other suggestions that want to make the toon less durable as you gear it up does not align with what CG wants gearing toons up to be (their model). They want toons to be more powerful as they are geared up and want to incentivize gearing characters up.

That being said, if they truely believed in that model, they should have thought of it from the beginning when they were creating this toon. There is no easy “fix” without changing the character completely (that I can think of besides the above recommendation). I think any changes made will cause a negative reaction from the community at this point.

The biggest surprise is they left the Zombie alone all this time. They've known for months that a less geared Zombie was more beneficial than a better geared Zombie and that should be an obvious crime in a game like this.

They want you to gear up. They want you to feel BETTER about having better mods, better gear, better levels, etc. etc. Imagine if they let any star level character participate in heroic raids instead of just 7*, now suddenly the people with a 2* zombie are even further in the lead in terms of Nightsister teams. It just doesn't make sense.

Summary: All the people wanting the Zombie left alone are dreaming. I don't know what their plans will be, but you can bet that the person who actually put gear on their zombie is going to see a bigger return on their investment, as it should be.