Please fix the Galactic War difficulty! Something is very off lately

At the risk of shooting myself in the foot with this in case the devs really listen and balance GW, but it has become almost ridiculously easy lately. Someone told me that a Bastila-led Jedi team, even an underdeveloped one, usually sails through GW without problems. So I gave it a try with my 3* gear VI Bastila and my recently unlocked GM Yoda, who was still on gear V. I stuck with this one team and didn't preload any other. I also resisted the urge to buff the entire team with Basti+Yoda on early nodes and mostly used basic attacks.

The first night, I finished all but the final node. The next night, all nodes were surprisingly easy. Tonight it is easier still, to the point of being ridiculously simple, even though I kept developing my Jedi. It's too early to say if this but an RNG fluke in my favor, but it has never been easy for several days in a row since I passed level 60 weeks ago. And even before that point, it was never this unchallenging. GW also scales from node to node now. Node 12 had a mismatched lvl 64-71 team tonight (I'm currently 73) and that was the toughest one of the entire run. The previous teams barely scratched my protection bars.

I'm beginning to suspect the difficulty is based more on overall performance, specifically on which and how many teams I use, than it is on my top five characters. Preloading top teams on early nodes seems to be a huge mistake. Switching between teams at all might be counterproductive. If I remember correctly, every time I hit a brick wall on early nodes, I had either preloaded multiple teams in the same run or used several teams the night before, including my top teams.

I'll post if something changes drastically while I stick with my Jedi for entire GW runs. Right now, using nothing but a Bastila-led team with some underdeveloped characters, and without using the full extent of their abilities if possible or autoing any round, seems to be an easy way to finish GW.

ETA: I still think it's very unbalanced even though the lack of balance seems to work in my favor right now. Ideally, it would always scale from one node to next, with the final nodes being challenging at any level (but not to the point of being utterly impossible). I realize that randomized encounters may not allow for a lot of fine tuning, but maybe it's possible to narrow the RNG range down a bit and make it err less in either direction.

"Darth_DeVito;c-1689608" wrote:
So I gave it a try with my 3* gear VI Bastila and my recently unlocked GM Yoda, who was still on gear V.



The first night, I finished all but the final node. The next night, all nodes were surprisingly easy. Tonight it is easier still, to the point of being ridiculously simple, even though I kept developing my Jedi.

Bastilla grants protection up at the beginning of each batte. On the first many nodes the enemies' damage won't even get past this protection up. I believe your experience with your jedi team supports that GW is mostly about having the right team(s) to beat the enemies you meet, and that matchmaking is not way off, like some players claim.

I'm beginning to suspect the difficulty is based more on overall performance, specifically on which and how many teams I use, than it is on my top five characters. Preloading top teams on early nodes seems to be a huge mistake. Switching between teams at all might be counterproductive.

I still trust, that if the design changes this much (away from being based on power of your top—5 toons and the node, you've reached), the developers would inform the community about it.

ETA: I still think it's very unbalanced even though the lack of balance seems to work in my favor right now. Ideally, it would always scale from one node to next, with the final nodes being challenging at any level (but not to the point of being utterly impossible).

Don't hold your breath. It's been officially announced, that the designers' goal was to create a challenge and that players should not expect to complete GW every day (before reaching the power cap).

Something happened to GW a month or so ago. I had 150 completions before getting to level 80. My son had 150 completions before hitting 80. Never ever did I see a team with 50% more Power than the top 5 on any account my family or I have access to. Until a month ago. My son with a top 5 in the mid 40K range, ran into a 72+K nightsisters team on node 12. My wife(30K power top 5) ran into a 55K power Phoenix squad on node 8. I ran into a 75K power Empire team on node 3(my top 5 was mid upper 40k) just last week. My son (15K top 5) ran into a 30K power squad on node 8 last week as well.

Something happened.

"Waqui;c-1689633" wrote:
Bastilla grants protection up at the beginning of each batte. On the first many nodes the enemies' damage won't even get past this protection up. I believe your experience with your jedi team supports that GW is mostly about having the right team(s) to beat the enemies you meet, and that matchmaking is not way off, like some players claim.

As I've repeatedly pointed out, I used to face teams up to 10 levels above my own with much better gear. But all teams on my last two GW runs were underpowered compared to my own. The characters were at least 2 levels below mine. Mostly blue gear, very few 7* characters, and max. two per team. That's not merely caused by the great damage mitigation of a Bastila-led Jedi team.

And it's not like I didn't use my Jedi team before in GW. But what I also did in those runs was to preload my best-developed teams on early nodes and then switch to my less developed ones, including the Jedi team. On those occasions, I usually hit a vastly overpowered team before I was halfway through.

You can either believe me when I say that I couldn't have possibly beaten those teams at my level or you can continue patronize everyone who faces a problem that you don't have to put up with at level 85. But frankly, this repetitive choir of "you people are just not good enough" that I see in dozens of threads from the same 2-3 posters is really getting tiresome.

"Darth_DeVito;c-1689809" wrote:

As I've repeatedly pointed out, I used to face teams up to 10 levels above my own with much better gear. But all teams on my last two GW runs were underpowered compared to my own. The characters were at least 2 levels below mine. Mostly blue gear, very few 7* characters, and max. two per team. That's not merely caused by the great damage mitigation of a Bastila-led Jedi team.

Sounds like you are seeing what you are supposed to get in a GW the last couple days. Teams with Power no more than 15-20% of your top 5 Power on the last node, and less than that on all the previous(I think the guides said roughly 50% of your top power on node 1). The stupid over powered teams you are seeing(especially on nodes not named 9, 11, or 12) are the anomoly that started happening about a month ago.

"Darth_DeVito;c-1689809" wrote:


You can either believe me when I say that I couldn't have possibly beaten those teams at my level or you can continue patronize everyone who faces a problem that you don't have to put up with at level 85. But frankly, this repetitive choir of "you people are just not good enough" that I see in dozens of threads from the same 2-3 posters is really getting tiresome.

A. GW is designed to be a challenge mid—game, and you should expect to not finish it some days — even if you are a skilled player.
B. Please tell me which of my comments are "you people are just not good enough" comments in this/those thread(s).

@Darth_DeVito i'm seeing the same as you. My jedi led by bastilla plow through GW almost every day. Today I had 2 nodes give me grief (one of those being 12) but I still won. For two weeks it's been pretty easy.

And if it helps, I'm trying NOT to power up my GW team. I'm lvl 83 but my jedi max out at 80. I don't want to rock the RNG boat by boosting them up. Just 32 more wins and i'll be eligible to sim it.

"Waqui;c-1690083" wrote:

A. GW is designed to be a challenge mid—game, and you should expect to not finish it some days — even if you are a skilled player.
B. Please tell me which of my comments are "you people are just not good enough" comments in this/those thread(s).

Regarding A: If you build your roster from the ground up with GW in mind, with several teams and some interesting utility characters all within 15-20% of each other GP wise, Galactic War is pretty easy to complete every day. It's meant to test your roster, so if you have a sizable roster as good or close to it as your top 5, you will do well.

What happened in the last month or so is to introduce teams randomly on potentially any node that are supposed to essentially be Gandalf saying "You shall not pass!"

Regarding B: maybe not necessarily you, but there has been an air of dismissal from what has been going on in GW with these super teams on random nodes(not just tough team on node 12 like you are supposed to get). While not saying "get good", it tries to dismiss the complaint without thinking about it critically.

"papy72;c-1690089" wrote:
@Darth_DeVito i'm seeing the same as you. My jedi led by bastilla plow through GW almost every day. Today I had 2 nodes give me grief (one of those being 12) but I still won. For two weeks it's been pretty easy.

And if it helps, I'm trying NOT to power up my GW team. I'm lvl 83 but my jedi max out at 80. I don't want to rock the RNG boat by boosting them up. Just 32 more wins and i'll be eligible to sim it.

It definitely helps to stick with a team that isn't overly developed. I've finished GW four nights in a row now. Last night, the difficulty was a tad higher, probably due to the fact that I had been working on Bastila and Yoda. Tonight, I exchanged my two Phoenix Jedi for two less developed ones, JK Anakin and Mace, and it was a walk in the park again. All enemies were at least 4 levels below mine.

I guess I could continue to beef up my main Jedi team as long as I still have a few low level Jedi with blue gear to use in GW, but I don't want to mess this up for myself either :)

"Waqui;c-1690083" wrote:

"Darth_DeVito;c-1689809" wrote:


You can either believe me when I say that I couldn't have possibly beaten those teams at my level or you can continue patronize everyone who faces a problem that you don't have to put up with at level 85. But frankly, this repetitive choir of "you people are just not good enough" that I see in dozens of threads from the same 2-3 posters is really getting tiresome.

A. GW is designed to be a challenge mid—game, and you should expect to not finish it some days — even if you are a skilled player.
B. Please tell me which of my comments are "you people are just not good enough" comments in this/those thread(s).

@Darth_DeVito