"bolobaby;d-115650" wrote:
this important information is not lost to all the folks coming on to the forums in response to the event.
.
Good post, many good points. Just a couple points I'd like to make. Many of us have been damn near begging EA to make the Empire competitive for a long time now. On more mature servers, things like Krennic, Veers, and even the new Tarkin do not work, period. When I say do not work, I mean finish 1st / 2nd and not lose 20+ rank over night. There have been some reliable leaks within parts of the community and Thrawn sounds incredible, we just need to see his base speed and other stats now. For those of use that have been biding our time on Empire, forcing us into Phoenix kind of sucks because we have to do it to get the character we've been asking for.
As for Phoenix being competitive in arena... perhaps on a newer server but definitely not on an older server. Those stats displayed in the video are a joke when I'm facing Chirruts between 260 / 270 speed, 90k - 100k GK's with 240 speed on them, etc. Phoenix wouldn't break the top-20 on my server, so once I farm them up for the Thrawn event; I now have 5 useless characters that I invested in for Thrawn.
So while I agree it's not impossible to get a squad in-time for Thrawn, being required to invest so much of my resources into a squad I will never use and then probably have no gear left for Thrawn really sucks.
