Question for top ranked FTP players

"gobears21;30482" wrote:
My supposition is that the only way for a FTP (a true FTP, not a "I spent money but now I don't" one) to get rank 1 on a server is to have the level pause like there was at level 60 then level 70. This must have allowed FTP's to get caught up to the PTP's.

Otherwise I don't see how an FTP player can get to #1 competing with people that are leveling and gearing much more rapidly than others.

Would you top ranked FTP players agree or disagree with this? Did the level pauses assist you?

Pauses definitely help. I'm FTP (sans $10 on a dooku pack and one-time $5 subscription) and am fortunate to only see a few whales on my shard. I was able to catch up at 60 with a single dedicated team (Sid/Poe/IG-86/GS/Poggle). There also weren't many meta shifts at 60 but the one that did happen (Poe) was one that I was a part of early. I got ahead of the whales on my shard that had been primarily running Jedi. When the speed meta came along with 70 I had stored up ~4k crystals from being routinely top-5 in my shard and was able to outpace other FTP and stay within a few levels of my resident 2 whales (there are now a few more at the top) . I had also made sure I spread out my stars and wasn't getting anyone up to 7* so I was prepared for meta shifts. 6* toons are perfectly fine top tier arena but if you have too low of a score, even though it's meaningless, you do get targeted more frequently and there is still no foolproof defensive team.

With the level 80 move I struggle a little more to stay top-5 causing me to typically buy two refreshes instead of one. I think that is much more due to the current Dooku/RG meta being unfriendly to people who don't spend money and farmed RG legit since his buff and haven't farmed Rey. I'll have RG up to 6* in another week or so but I suspect both him and Dooku will get nerfed soon so I'm trying to build up a Rebel team which along with a Droid team seems to be the most likely to survive future changes.