Please fix Leviathan mirror matches.
At Tie Dagger update part 3 (https://forums.ea.com/blog/swgoh-game-info-hub-en/tie-dagger-update-part-3/5001184) many players, including myself, expressed their concerns about the dagger changes and how it affects the meta. And to call the results anything less than disastrous would be understatement.
Before the change Leviathan mirror matches (with Sith fighter start) had three deciding factors, that I rated from better importance to less. 1. Whose SF gets first and hits (its more important Leviathan coz then ships also go after and get dodge from SF for damaging damaged opponent), 2. Which Leviathan goes first or 3. If Sith bomber resists disruption from Malgus (if it does not, you usually get Sith bomber killed by the time you call Dagger as first reinforcement). If even one of these conditions are filled, you will win, especially since a.i Leviathan calls MK7 too early for instakill. There are many more factors but you get the point.
What are the deciding factors now? Coinflip. That's it. There is also Mk7 starting to reduce the debuffs from enemy sith fleet so you can get faster ultimate if you lose the coinflip but even then the games stretch SO **bleep** LONG, even if you start first. All the strategy, everything to reduce rng GONE. But atleast a Executor plus some Dengar ship cant counter us right? You can only use Leviathan right? Oh boy.
The sad thing is , Executor can STILL beat Leviathan. And once people start to replace sith bomber with MK7 for better mirror matches I can imagine Executor being even better since P1 destroys MK7 stacks so well. So THE SHIP THATS THE REASON FOR THIS CHANGE IS NOT EVEN AFFECTED THAT MUCH.
Leviathan had such a rough start (and rightfully so, the bugs were hilarious (rip MK7 destroying enemy capital ship)). But after the buffs and changes the meta was fun. People were rewarded to gear up poor old forgotten Sith Assasin. Oh right didnt even complain yet about how many people who R9 Sith Assasin's and wont get refunds.
Im so glad CG ensured that our investment into difficult-to-acquire Capital Ship is recognized with wasted relics on one of the best sith in game (Sith assasin) and relaxing coin flippings. That was sarcasm and for some reason I feel like I had to explain it.
Just revert the turn meter denial. Protection boost is fine I guess for Dagger, I didnt really care much about it, but what we top fleet meta chaser want is a steady and reliable climb to rank 1 at fleet arena. We are not really worried about some random Finalizer to take our spot since they never stay at top for long anyway and at worst it brings variety to climbing (fighting the same fleet every 10 minutes can get boring, who could have guessed) and Sith Fighter was, and still is, essential for healthy climbing.
Thank you for coming to my ted-talk.
