Raids Preview - MEGATHREAD

"Alexone;326282" wrote:
I feel like these high level raid guild requirements are quite insane and the biggest turn off i have heard so far for f2p. In a full guild, you have to be in top 3 in Arena everyday, as f2p, to even have a chance of doing most days, then you need to follow a certain and strict plan in order to pull your own weight. After reading the data mined info...Wow...i am seriously hoping you guys will reconsider this because it does NOT sound like fun at all. I also feel like the guild shop will most likely be another shard shop! Again, i hope i am wrong about all this.

If the difference between Tier 7 daily and Tier 6 daily is getting 1000 guild tokens instead of 900, who cares that you can not get tier 7?

"ubn87;326856" wrote:


Myself will participate in this event but i feel for those who want to be f2p.

f2p can still do them fine, with absolutely no problem. Just like a f2p can get into top 20 arena, it just will take a little longer if you ar enot in a 50 man guild that is army-level organised.

My theory on Raids:

There are 7 Tiers to Raids. Each tier has five or six stages. Five or six Guild Members enter a Tier, and then each use their own squad of 5 characters (and maybe a 6th if Ally Characters are supported) to take down their own stage. Everyone who successfully beats their own stage gets Guild Credits.

This is just my best guess.

"Advan;329258" wrote:
With the info we've seen concerning the tier requirements of the challenges there are some concerns. Yea the fact that you have to spend tons of crystals and hold energy for a day before to be able to maximize your battles sucks. But the problem I really see is that with GW, arena, challenge battles you don't have to sacrifice anything to complete these, just continue to do what you generally are already doing. However to maximize the amount of battles you need to complete for the ls/DS/cantina you have to forego farming the character shards and gear that you desperately need in order to advance your heroes. This is my biggest issue and don't see how it's helpful for the guild you are in or yourself to lose your farming essentially 5 days a week with saving your energy for ls/DS and hard nodes

This is a valid concern, imho. Some would suggest you don't "lose" the farming, but, in fact, since you can only do a node 3 times without a refresh, you do lose out on several days worth, even if you hit those nodes on appropriate days.

"Nikoms565;331081" wrote:

"Advan;329258" wrote:
With the info we've seen concerning the tier requirements of the challenges there are some concerns. Yea the fact that you have to spend tons of crystals and hold energy for a day before to be able to maximize your battles sucks. But the problem I really see is that with GW, arena, challenge battles you don't have to sacrifice anything to complete these, just continue to do what you generally are already doing. However to maximize the amount of battles you need to complete for the ls/DS/cantina you have to forego farming the character shards and gear that you desperately need in order to advance your heroes. This is my biggest issue and don't see how it's helpful for the guild you are in or yourself to lose your farming essentially 5 days a week with saving your energy for ls/DS and hard nodes

This is a valid concern, imho. Some would suggest you don't "lose" the farming, but, in fact, since you can only do a node 3 times without a refresh, you do lose out on several days worth, even if you hit those nodes on appropriate days.

My main worry. I don't see myself doing just LS/DS missions one whole day every week. That's just beeped. And planning which days to bank energy, which days to spend on what missions... I love the game and devote quite a lot of time through out the day. I'm not sure I would spend the same amount of time if I'm forced to.

If those figures are correct, the number of 50 active members required, the mandatory conditions to trigger event, the energy and gems requirements, all this affecting progression for other activities, etc... Then this game player base will rapidly shrink to a few thousand of nerds who have no job, no childrens, no friends, take no holidays... basically the archetype PC MMOholique. There is a good reason why more mature MMO have schrank from an elitist design like this down to more manageable and smaller guild/raid size.

"Pyramidshawn;323938" wrote:
Datamined Raid requirements courtesy of reddit:

Monday
* The Road Less Travelled: TIER I / Complete 495 Light Side Battles
* The Road Less Travelled: TIER II / Complete 1238 Light Side Battles
* The Road Less Travelled: TIER III / Complete 2228 Light Side Battles
* The Road Less Travelled: TIER IV / Complete 3466 Light Side Battles
* The Road Less Travelled: TIER V / Complete 5198 Light Side Battles
* The Road Less Travelled: TIER VI / Complete 7425 Light Side Battles
* The Road Less Travelled: TIER VII / Complete 9900 Light Side Battles
Tuesday
* The Long War: TIER I / Complete 30 Galactic War Nodes
* The Long War: TIER II / Complete 74 Galactic War Nodes
* The Long War: TIER III / Complete 133 Galactic War Nodes
* The Long War: TIER IV / Complete 207 Galactic War Nodes
* The Long War: TIER V / Complete 310 Galactic War Nodes
* The Long War: TIER VI / Complete 443 Galactic War Nodes
* The Long War: TIER VII / Complete 590 Galactic War Nodes
Wednesday
* No Padawans Here: TIER I / Complete 112 Hard Mode Battles
* No Padawans Here: TIER II / Complete 279 Hard Mode Battles
* No Padawans Here: TIER III / Complete 502 Hard Mode Battles
* No Padawans Here: TIER IV / Complete 781 Hard Mode Battles
* No Padawans Here: TIER V / Complete 1171 Hard Mode Battles
* No Padawans Here: TIER VI / Complete 1673 Hard Mode Battles
* No Padawans Here: TIER VII / Complete 2230 Hard Mode Battles
Thursday
* A Challenging Endeavor: TIER I / Complete 27 Daily Challenges
* A Challenging Endeavor: TIER II / Complete 67 Daily Challenges
* A Challenging Endeavor: TIER III / Complete 120 Daily Challenges
* A Challenging Endeavor: TIER IV / Complete 186 Daily Challenges
* A Challenging Endeavor: TIER V / Complete 279 Daily Challenges
* A Challenging Endeavor: TIER VI / Complete 398 Daily Challenges
* A Challenging Endeavor: TIER VII / Complete 530 Daily Challenges
Friday
* The Power of the Dark Side: TIER I / Complete 495 Dark Side Battles
* The Power of the Dark Side: TIER II / Complete 1238 Dark Side Battles
* The Power of the Dark Side: TIER III / Complete 2228 Dark Side Battles
* The Power of the Dark Side: TIER IV / Complete 3466 Dark Side Battles
* The Power of the Dark Side: TIER V / Complete 5198 Dark Side Battles
* The Power of the Dark Side: TIER VI / Complete 7425 Dark Side Battles
* The Power of the Dark Side: TIER VII / Complete 9900 Dark Side Battles
Saturday
* To Crush Your Enemies: TIER I / Complete 25 PvP Attempts
* To Crush Your Enemies: TIER II / Complete 63 PvP Attempts
* To Crush Your Enemies: TIER III / Complete 113 PvP Attempts
* To Crush Your Enemies: TIER IV / Complete 176 PvP Attempts
* To Crush Your Enemies: TIER V / Complete 263 PvP Attempts
* To Crush Your Enemies: TIER VI / Complete 375 PvP Attempts
* To Crush Your Enemies: TIER VII / Complete 500 PvP Attempts
Sunday
* This Should Be Easy, Right?: TIER I / Complete 153 Cantina Battles
* This Should Be Easy, Right?: TIER II / Complete 383 Cantina Battles
* This Should Be Easy, Right?: TIER III / Complete 689 Cantina Battles
* This Should Be Easy, Right?: TIER IV / Complete 1072 Cantina Battles
* This Should Be Easy, Right?: TIER V / Complete 1607 Cantina Battles
* This Should Be Easy, Right?: TIER VI / Complete 2295 Cantina Battles
* This Should Be Easy, Right?: TIER VII / Complete 3060 Cantina Battles


Looks like F2P are going to take an L on this one

Quick question, how can a guild of 50 complete 530 challenges on Thursday? @EA_Jesse

@EA_Jesse or anyone can help.

Big question say Im in the USA and its sunday timezone and say the leader is in China timezone and its Monday.

Which tier list will we follow Mondays or Sundays? Or will everyone start on the same tier list

Hey guys -

Please see some of the more recent announcements and megathreads on the topics of Daily Guild Activities.

You're working from old / invalid info.

Thanks.

"CG_JohnSalera;340617" wrote:
Hey guys -

Please see some of the more recent announcements and megathreads on the topics of Daily Guild Activities.

You're working from old / invalid info.

Thanks.

True, but they get credit for trying to keep faith when the official figures are worse than the data mined ones :dizzy: