Platoon Requirements

"Woodroward;c-1267899" wrote:

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Most guilds do not have a surplus of Poa's. I'd say very few do. He is a useless toon in a slow farm where a lot of useful toons come from. If you've been playing less than 18 months, I'd venture you don't have him at all.

Everyone that's been playing for over 6 months should have gotten enough shards to unlock him when he was the login character.

And the person you are responding to said WILL have a surplus of Pao's SOONER or LATER, not that they do right now.

Requiring a few is fine but you are really setting a guild back a lot to start farming poa's. What if he isn't required last week? I have phoenix and resistance toons to farm from there as most people do. With currency needed to farm mods, Poa is in no way an easy farm. Especially considering he's useless.

Alright. when TB got released, there was a perspective shift.

Before that the most important areas in the game were HAAT, fleet, and squad as they were the sources for your crystals, gear, and zetas.

Guess what they are now? TB, fleet, and squad.
Guess which one is most important right now? TB.
Eventually it will shift back to a kind of 3 way tie, but for now it's TB.

So Pao is now a needed character for the currently most important game mode. I'd say that makes him one of the most important characters in the game, and it would be NOT farming him that could really set a guild's progress back.

Pao just went from being useless to important. My guild is seeing a lot of CUP requirements. Guess what? CUP's not useless anymore either.

This game mode was designed to realign our thinking about which characters were good and which were bad (to: "there are no bad characters". Clinging to those conceptions is only going to hurt you, not get CG/EA to change their minds.

How does one argue that Squad and fleet aren't more important than TB? Squad is still far more crystals and is definitely more important. Fleet has zetas. More important. Not sure it's that close considering you are 1/50.

Because it's where the new gear comes from. Your Squad will suffer if you don't get your toons into t12. Your fleet will suffer if you don't get your toons into t12. The pieces that come once they're in t12 are absurdly powerful.

Not prioritizing TB will make all your other important game modes suffer, which makes it the most important game mode.

I get 1400 crystals from squad. You can't gear toons without crystals. My arena team still needs 4 zetas. Both gear and zetas will help in TB as well. Still seems they are more important. You can't farm everything.

I said they were still important. I just said that TB is the most important. It's not like you are going to stop doing squad and fleet, but if you don't do what you can to be as maxed as possible in TB, you are going to lose your spot in Fleet and Arena.

You want to keep those crystals from arena? Better work on TB. You want to keep that fleet currency coming in so you can keep buying zeta mats? Better work on TB. Because I guarantee the people that are maxing out on TB are going to be gearing up their squad and fleet in G12 and knocking you down. And you won't be able to fight your way back up since you won't have that gear.

There's always a trifecta of the 3 most important game modes : gear, crystals, abilities. Since there's a brand new bunch of gear out, it is automatically the most important and not treating it as such is going to cost you progress in the other areas. If and when they come out with level 9 abilities, the source for them will automatically be the most important game mode. If they come out with a better source of crystals than Squad Arena, it will be the most important game mode.

There will never be a point where one of them isn't important, but gear is most important right now.