Proving Grounds

1) wrong team (comp)
2) too low gear level
3) wrong/bad mods
4) wrong strategy / lack of skill


It's always one or a combination of the above. The event is challenging but more than doable. No GL needed.

I'm starting to get a little bored with people being salty and expecting to be able to get everything at once ... some of the toons are locked behind steep requirements, because they are considered "later game"-stuff.

If you don't have 4m GP, sorry, CAT is not for you yet. You probably wouldn't have been able to unlock her from Conquest, when she was there anyway.

Don't have teams that can beat the proving ground events? Sorry, but you wound't have been able to unlock from Conquest either.

I'm not saying that you have to be able to get her "the original way" to be able to get her now, and that's not the case either. It requires a lot less to get her from proving grounds in terms of roster, than getting her from her sojourn in Conquest. You only need ONE good team to get her now, and not a whole plethora of teams to get all the feats during Conquest. That's already a huge relief.

Also; yes, refreshes are expensive, but shars are still cheaper than when her shards were available for crystals in weekly shipmens (550 for 5 instead of 600 for 5).

Keep calm and grind/whale on. You'll all get the PG toons eventually. But it'll take a while - like everything else in the late and/or end game.

Is there anyone who unlocked CAT ftp who’s below 4M GP?

"TargetEadu;c-2363695" wrote:
Is there anyone who unlocked CAT ftp who’s below 4M GP?

I know there are players who used every Conquest currency and crystals to unlock her, whom have been in normal mode/under 4M.

But that is also something that bothers me. I, and I am sure many others, thought after a year I will be able to further farm her so I did not farm her that way, knowing it would take longer but eventually I would be able to after a year.
If I would have known beforehand that it would be gated by GP, I might have considered farming her the same way. But I didn't have the necessary info to be able to make that/an informed decision. CG made it impossible for us to really be able to plan our strategy, eventhough in this game it is essential to have this kind of information. In games like these things can't be changed from one day to another and if you start something it takes several months to be finished. All the crucial information needs to be provided in a time that accounts for that.

Guild mates have had success with padme and also JKL led jedi for your non-GL teams

"crzydroid;c-2363579" wrote:
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.

I think people generally don't care if someone else can get something. People get angry when they can't get something that others can, or can't experience the same content that others can. Honestly I was a bit salty that I'd be locked out of the content for having unlocked CAT during her conquest run (thankfully that wasn't the case at least for this PG) but I'm more bothered by the GP gate. What's to stop them from creating a 10m GP gate in the future for something else? That's what bothers me the most about all this.

ok, my main accounts aside, this is what I used on my just turned 4m account not yet done hard conquest:


1star RC, 3star CAT

I only had 13 eligible characters

I see a lot of players on this forum sagely (and let’s be honest, pompously) counsel newer and more impatient players that this is a resource management game and that it’s all about the choices you make. Well of course it is but I think that’s what feels so galling to many is when choice is denied. Why not give people the choice to have a crack? What possible benefit is there in gating this little catch up event?

On a related note, the argument that there is an equivalence with Conquest doesn’t hold up. Conquest is only gated for difficulty levels - it’s open to pretty much everyone to participate in, in some way. Proving grounds is straight up barred for everyone under 4m - which I believe is a first as an absolute gate in SWGOH. So, what makes PG so special as to warrant that unannounced raising of the bar? On first evidence, not a lot.

Personally, I think the 4m gp requirement is stupid (and i'm an almost 8m gp player). You can get shards of her from normal conquest, which doesn't require 4m gp. But clearly people have forgotten the days of waiting a year plus to get a 7* negotiator, 7* malelvolence, 7* gas, 7* malak.

"crzydroid;c-2363579" wrote:

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

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Able-to-earn-shards-from-Proving-Grounds-when-unit-is-7/td-p/11526668

Why did you need to report it? There is stuff much more important to "fix". People earning some extra shard shop currency really won't hurt CG that badly.