Protection + Healing immunity

"int3ns1fy;326071" wrote:
Heal immunity is only annoying in GW. It's not a problem in arena, and since I think healing is even less important in arena than it used to be, it's even more irrelevant. To me Sid is garbage in arena now, and I've definitely been seeing less and less of him there as people are switching to Phasma leads.

Even in GW the problem with Sid is not heal immunity, it's his dodge rate against Jedi which prevents him from being easily nuked. Obviously the solution is to not run Jedi-heavy squads, but this can be problematic for FTP'ers as it's more than likely that our two main healers will be Lumi and JC. The dearth of dark side healers is a pretty glaring issue in this game, especially since Daka is slow to obtain (and is competing with QGJ for token usage). Talia is decent but has a major disadvantage in a long-cooldown heal that actually harms her instead of healing her.

Still, I don't think at all that 3 healers are needed in GW. I've completed GW every day since the update, using either Lumi + JC or Lumi + Talia. I also swap in RG after the first few nodes (which I tend to run DPS-heavy to get them done faster), because even with the DPS loss his stuns are invaluable - and are also another way to deal with heal immunity debuffers. With the AI usually opening with Sid's AoE rather than his basic, it means you can potentially keep him perma-stunned the entire match without him getting a debuff off.

I agree with you here fully, but healing being trivial is exactly the main reason Sid is garbage in Arena. Not many job opportunities for scissors when no one uses paper. Immunity isn't the only counter by far though, ability blocking the healer, stunning the healer, focusing the healer, bursting in between heals and debuffing the regen with QGJ for instance...healing has more counters than anything in the game and full blown immunity is the hardest counter I've seen in any game with tank/heal/dps mechanics. This thread has people that I know would be fully in the "it's a new meta, learn to counter/adapt" camp but are arguing on the other side of the fence here that an entire base mechanic that has tons of counters would have been OP.

I agree his dodge rate is what makes him annoying, and if I wasn't so nitpicky about everyone benefiting from my leader ability, I would swap out someone to kill him but really I just save him for 2nd to last and deal with it in GW, it's a nuisance but not unworkable. I use Yoda to spread evade+tenacity and save barriss heal for a debuffed char if she doesn't cleanse it. I'm not saying it's outright necessary to have 3 healers but it keeps me from retreating very often. It's just slow, painful and boring.

I agree about dark side healers too, but honestly Talia's biggest problem always seemed to be that she was a complete AI magnet and until RG got his buff, there weren't any good taunt tanks for f2p. After finally 7* qgj, I'm working on Daka atm.