Proving Grounds

"Thorvald85;d-256404" wrote:
You know, if you are going to make the game just as hard to beat as it would be in Conquest, maybe give us power ups like in Conquest cause my R7 squads can’t even beat these rounds and I have them packed with speed and turn meter and all sorts of top mods.

What'd you expect? An event that requires R3 characters to be tuned to R3 characters? ?

R6 DR/BSF/Malak/HK/SET lasts about 4 rounds. DR/BSF/Malak/DV/SET even less. With DR/BSF/Malak/EP/Mara no difference. R9 Bossk doesn't even get a turn. Grievous lasted 2. CLS just evaporates.

I haven't found a combination that works yet, I don't think you can do the CAT side without a GL.

Ya know, if we were all quiet about it, we probably could've enjoyed free shards for a while ?. Expect a patch to this next time round, no more freebies.

I think Traya lead can work for the Maul one, if you have Traya at r3.

Thought there would be more outrage over the fact that players with them at 7* can still get shards. Huh.

"Hothballs;c-2363562" wrote:

"Magruffin;c-2363554" wrote:
I can't complete hard but finish 1 or 2nd crate normal; I beat both events in one shot.

What teams did you use? I tried GAS 501ST, Padme GR, imperial troopers, and Ep/Vader/Thrawn/Piett and didn't even sniff victory.

I used R3 Veers, R8 Piett, R3 Dark Trooper (really ought to increase that one), R3 Starck and R4 Range on Gideon and 1 shot it with 3*. Even with Veers lead giving Piett 346 speed, Gideon went first but I survived that, marked DT and I don't think they took another turn. Kept killing DT to build stacks of Emperors Trap and TM.

Solo'd Maul with SEE. Failed on first attempt, likely just bad RNG as I beat it easily 2nd time. He is R8 though. Hope that helps.

"JackedJedi;d-256403" wrote:
This was supposed to be a catch up event for new/lower gp players but now they have to wait years, for a year old character?

It doesn't make sense that someone like me who has had CAT at R5 for almost a year get to not only play the event, but also earn shards when a large of player base under 4m GP can't.





GP is irrelevant and does not equal good roster. I have friends who have GL's and have earned CAT shards from normal conquest + farmed her with crystals but because they're below 4m GP they can't attempt this event?

They why was she available through normal conquest?

You should be glad you can earn the shard shop currency since CG said we wouldn't be able to. But given their history, it's not a surprise that they were unable to enforce their own policies lol.

I beat CAT tier 3* with SEE lead, Vader, Malak, badstilla and dooku.
I linked maul and and gar Saxon, worked quite well.

"Rius;c-2363576" wrote:

"Lumiya;c-2363541" wrote:
What is the GP gate for, if it is so difficult you need a GL? Isn't the difficulty already gate enough?

People under 4M with a GL could beat it and those over without a GL can't.
Sure, more available... /s
Well colour me surprised.

People have completed it without a GL this just shows what GAC has been showing for months, GP is not a measure of skill 3-4M GP can out match 6M in GAC so why do we expect everyone >4M to be able to complete the event. CAT would be exclusive enough without the arbitrary cut off, just from the difficulty level this appears to be. Would much rather try my squads and lose than not be allowed in.

I think you misunderstood me, that's basically what I just said. I am all for the same.
I am under 4M yet I have SLKR and other good squads and I would like to be able to play it.

Padmé lead with JMK in the comp for the CAT tier got 3 stars for a close friend of mine. (I had already beat it with LV on my first try...albeit with only LV and Thrown left standing...so I wasn't going to pay 2200 crystals for some shard shop currency just to try a different squad).

Neither of us 3*'d the Razor Crest one (again, I just threw LV at it not knowing the difficulty and got mostly wasted. 1*/minimal victory, but since I won I couldn't experiment with other comps).

Next month if people haven't already put out videos on how to get it at 3*, I'll play around with comps and retreat rather than win with less than 3* so that I can share more info.

Of course, that would require them not preventing me from trying since I have 7* RC and 7* CAT and I'm not actually supposed to be able to attempt this thing at all...

But in the meantime, yeah. I think it's a little weird that they're putting r3 requirements and 4Mgp requirements on this thing. While it's clearly beatable via brute force (as my LV first attempts showed), there's no way that you brute force it at g12.

My guess is that specific comps make it pretty trivial, but most comps struggle to brute force it without a GL, no matter what your relic levels.

Advice to people struggling:
For Razor Crest, try Jedi Knight Luke (L, modded with 0 speed), with your fastest other jedi in the comp, plus GMY, plus a couple assist callers. Use HeroesArise on the first turn, mass stun the Imps, and then go to work with GMY, calling JKL's Heroes Arise again frequently (every time you can, basically, if JKL is below about 75% TM. Above that you might wanna just take a look at everyone's TM and see if you're better off waiting for Luke to use it on himself and thus reduce CDs faster).

For CAT, try Padmé lead, with JMK, GK, and GAS in the following crew if you can arrange it. Remove Maul using anyone who has a lot of stacks of Courage, then try to hang on.

"LordDirt;c-2363561" wrote:
This is a character collecting resource management game. Just do everything you can to boost up your roster. The more this game goes on the more CG wants everyone to have a huge well developed roster. If you want the new things faster you will have to always grow your roster to be ask big as you can.

Sorry, but what you say is a contradiction. Either you manage your resources and use them wisely so you can build your roster effectively and get the best out of it or you have to bloat it to "grow" as fast as possible for a specific GM. To achieve that you use your resources for toons or ships that you will not be needing in the near future or ever.
If you have a focused roster and use the resources where they are needed, you don't waste gear or credits on toons that are not helpful for your next goal. But that way your GP grows a lot slower as if you just level not needed toons to 50 just so you can slap mods on them etc.