QOL Update has added handicap to AAT & Rancor Raid

Cheaters is one way to put it, crooks would be another since it was definitely the P2P for the most part that was finishing it before, which is fine because there is no game without them. But now that us F2P have gotten our toons geared up to add this it is bogus. I chatted with someone from EA yesterday after getting the usual run-a-round with pointless form filled emailed responses that had nothing to do with the issue. You know asking if I checked my connection, tried a different device, and my favorite.... have I tried to troubleshoot the issue. Yes I trouble shooted it... the developers added the handicap to the game. The guy acted like they were unaware of it, and said the development team would need to investigate it. What is there to investigate I told them, they added the cheat, now remove it. The usual blah blah blah from them that it may be corrected in a future update. I'll take that with a grain of salt. Just need more of us posting here about it to bring attention, there is probably some players who haven't even noticed it yet. Whether it be they never survived till the "enraged" happens, or always died immediately once it did.

Turns out it isn't just the AAT, its in the Rancor Raid too. Was trying out my Empire team today on phase 1 just for fun and I got hit with the Health Debuff Lock there too.

They probably are trying to make the raid content have a longer shelf life so the guild hoppers don't finish it faster than intended then hit the forums complaining about lack of content in game.

That's old, unless it changed again within the past few weeks. I recently joined a new guild and was able to raid right away. The limit now is raids completed per week. If you exceed that you won't get rewards. You can still participate though.

"JonNoNothing;956485" wrote:
I guess most of us know about this as if you join raid after raid start you can not get join raid.

My understand now is you have to wait may be 24 hour after join guild to allow joining Raid.

So with that condition you can not go back to fill 600 ticket to your first guild.

Why EA need to do that? Before update is OK as no one complain why change which make people complain.

If DEV read this pls reconsider to switch back to previous rule.

You are thinking of something else. I am not talking about joining a new guild/join a new raid. It is in the raid itself. I have been with the same guild since I started playing. What I am talking about is a debuff that is applied once the enraged has completed cooldown. It is a health debuff that can't be removed, it is locked to the toons it hits. This is something new to the game content for raids.

"Bulldog1205;956479" wrote:
That's old, unless it changed again within the past few weeks. I recently joined a new guild and was able to raid right away. The limit now is raids completed per week. If you exceed that you won't get rewards. You can still participate though.

What Jon is referring to is not what this thread is about. He is talking about guild hopping. This thread is about the Health Debuff Lock that was added to the raids once the Enraged cooldown has finished. It is completely new in game content that occurred during the QOL Update. Before Debuffs would be added, but the could be Dispelled or waited out, now there is a lock on the health debuff to ensure you cant regain health to survive the raid.

Screen shot of the handicap in rancor raid.

Well its been about 3 weeks since I posted this and the Devs have dared not to respons to it at all, thus proving they don't care and are very happy with the cheat they added. I noticed it didn't allow my screen shot I put with my last post too so those who haven't seen it for themselves cant comment.

I'm in agreement everyone works hard to gear and omega/Zeta their Toons to have a LOCKED Buff is bad for the game . lol y bother building counter Toons / Squads for counter effects per Phase lol. Might as well just set a timer and do as much damage as u can !! Best of luck to ur Squads and Guilds !!

So here we are nearly 3 months later and the problem still hasn't been fixed nor has EA or a single moderator bothered to comment on this issue. I guess they figure if they ignore it then it will just go away. I can't stress enough how much BS it is that they have done this. All the players who previously had geared up there toons, specifically Darth Maul in my case, did not have to face this problem when they were knocking out the Raid and earned there Han or more importantly Gen Kenobi shards like it was nothing. SO WHY SHOULD WE NOW???? At this point my guild will never finish a single Heroic AAT, it still takes us almost 2 days to complete the Tier 6. Rancor has always been a breeze for us for more than a year because thankfully we figured out how to keep landing TMR. But of course when the created AAT the figured they screw us by not allowing TMR against the tank, and also having Grievous annoyingly be able to call droids and take turns despite keep his TM an nil. So us players being the smart ones we are shift gears and find another way to beat it, and what do they do????? ADD a CHEAT to mess us over some more. FIX THE CHEAT EA!!!!!!!!