Proof Armor has increased.

"Zip0zilch;603250" wrote:
Defensive mods working correctly now? Percentage of increase close. That 11.75% might mean just that now. Was adding SFA before

The percentage from mods is colored blue in parenthesis.

Yep - several people in my guild who are running droids are having MAJOR problems beating arena teams they destroyed 2 days ago. Mainly when they run into teams with high health/protection.

Even I have had issues beating teams I easily crushed. Rey double tapped Rex on a team I always crush. Instead of the usual wipe of almost all of his protection - only half came off. Something is definitely different.

I just wish they would at least announce/explain when they make changes like this.

"Radonis;603074" wrote:
Seems like the Devs want ot change the Meta of what it currently is that of a evasion to a more drawn out defense and health wear them out type of meta?

Drawing out fights benefits dodge teams as they last longer and dodge more. I'd say its more a shift away from dps and speed rather than dodge. I guess this is in line with their initial stated intention of making it more difficult to kill an opponent before they have a chance to move.

I suspect old ben lead teams and high health counter toons benefit the most from this change. Fives and aayla get an extra bonus given that counter debuffs have also been buffed.

If this was the droid nerf, I count them lucky for dodging the brunt of the nerf bat.

5s had highest natural armor in my roster. OB and other clones also good.

I was hoping Kit would have massive armor for his other lackluster stats

Lol this is a joke. My fully geared/modded Rey just double tapped Sun Fac (I've fought this team dozens of times in the past few weeks) - normally she knocks off about half of his protection.

This time it was less than 25% gone.

I've also had two battles time out today (that hasn't EVER happened to me before).

This needs to be fixed. Arena has completely changed in one update.

"EscapeArtist51;603284" wrote:
Woohooo less damage, yay. Hooray! I don't really see a problem though. Everyone does less, what's the problem?

The problem is arena is about to become Anakin Aayla Fives Tank Tank on every single team and we won't be able to finish in 5 minutes.

I'm glad 3/4 of my droids has 211% critical damage. In all my team still hits the same. 10-14k for 88 11-13k for 86 and 7.5k for 100. This is their basic attack damage.

"EscapeArtist51;603284" wrote:
Woohooo less damage, yay. Hooray! I don't really see a problem though. Everyone does less, what's the problem?

One problem (among others that have already been stated) is that the change is clearly not equal across the board. Certain characters have benefited by the change, others have been made far less potent by it.

Another issue is the complete lack of communication (or they simply threw out another untested update).

"Nikoms565;603297" wrote:

"EscapeArtist51;603284" wrote:
Woohooo less damage, yay. Hooray! I don't really see a problem though. Everyone does less, what's the problem?

One problem (among others that have already been stated) is that the change is clearly not equal across the board. Certain characters have benefited by the change, others have been made far less potent by it.

Another issue is the complete lack of communication (or they simply threw out another untested update).

How do you know it's not equal?