Randomness of data disks

"Konju;c-2237613" wrote:

"Rath_Tarr;c-2237605" wrote:

"MasterSeedy;c-2237602" wrote:
It's really not impacting my ability to win at all, but it is frustrating & boring to have 3 of 4 disks be speed.

You chose them.

I think you missed the part where Seedy stated these were the only worthwhile disks they have gotten so far.

Nope.

They should make the purple discs exclusive for the node following the boss. Give us 3 options from the purple disc pool and That takes out the randomness completely and makes sense. It’s the same thing MCOC does with incursions, finish off the boss and get rare mods

The best discs are still the cooldown decrease ones.

"Shaddess;c-2237622" wrote:

"Konju;c-2237615" wrote:
Ahhh...so another troll. Good to know.

And yes he is, I ignore everything he says.

Nope.

1) Passing up a valuable buff disc on an early node was a mistake.
2) Chasing speed to the exclusion of other 1-dot discs is a mistake
3) I have no confidence in MasterSeedy's assessment of which data discs are and are not valuable

"Shaddess;c-2237622" wrote:

"Konju;c-2237615" wrote:
Ahhh...so another troll. Good to know.

And yes he is, I ignore everything he says.

Me too from now on. I’ve read most of Master Seedy’s posts and offers great info. I trust their judgment for sure.

"Rath_Tarr;c-2237705" wrote:

"Shaddess;c-2237622" wrote:

"Konju;c-2237615" wrote:
Ahhh...so another troll. Good to know.

And yes he is, I ignore everything he says.

Nope.

1) Passing up a valuable buff disc on an early node was a mistake.
2) Chasing speed to the exclusion of other 1-dot discs is a mistake
3) I have no confidence in MasterSeedy's assessment of which data discs are and are not valuable

Lol how did you get all of that from his message? He only once mentioned what the other options were, and we really don’t have the full context there.

What if he’s being offered the healer buff disks over and over (it’s happened to me so far)? Choosing speed over a buff for my healers is definitely the right decision. I’m sure it’s the same for him too.

1) Passing up a valuable buff disc on an early node was a mistake.

It was the first node, it was a white buff disc but a green speed disk. Both are valuable but since
1) the buff disk doesn't come into its own without a disk to reset cooldowns on buffs, its immediate use was less
and
2) it was white (low quality) while the green disk was, I don't know, "normal" quality on the white to purple scale?

The speed disk was an objectively reasonable choice and certainly not a mistake. Now there might be more than one objectively reasonable choice. Which is best was **subjective**, but what I chose was not a mistake and was reasonable at the time. The 3rd time I got a choice, I had other options and did choose something other than speed. But the 2nd included only 3 options where 2 out of 3 (there were only 3 because the other path wasn't data disks but consumables) were speed and one white disk that inflicted dots - which wouldn't have helped me since I was completely outracing my opponents and they weren't getting many, if any, turns. I can't remember every option available in the 4th choice, but I do remember that 4/6 were speed disks and that the only Blue disk was speed. Since that was a higher quality speed disk with more speed for the single equipped slot, I chose that. I'm sorry I can't reproduce from memory exactly what the rejected choices were on that node, but again, four out of six were speed disks. There wasn't a lot of choice to begin with. Oh, I do remember that one of the two others was a white disk that provided the leader stat buff. I chose not to grab that one because the Blue speed disk could replace my white speed disk, while it was likely that I would get a higher quality leader-stat-bonus disk later, as those disks were common in normal mode. Why take a white disk that's going to get replaced with a better version of the same thing?

So, no. The initial choice between buff disk & speed disk was not a mistake. I simply did not successfully predict the future superabundance of speed disks because I'm one of those extremely limited people who lives constrained by linear time.

I don't mind some randomness, I just wish they built in a rule that you can't have two of the same data disks in the same cache. It is nice to have a choice everytime even if it's random.

In terms of purple disks, yes they are good, but I'm currently running an all green strategy that is pretty op. Heavy buffs that reduce cooldowns, increase offense, and boost tm.

It is nice to have a choice everytime even if it's random.

Agreed. The times when I got 2/3 or 4/6 of the same disk (even when they sometimes differed in quality/color) were just annoying.

all green strategy that is pretty op.

Yeah, you don't need purple disks to stomp the enemy. As near as I could tell, i didn't need any disks at all to beat Sector 1 - 3 of the 4 disks were speed and I was outrunning them by so much I think I still would have gone first even without the +20% speed. In the post-boss node at the end of S1 I got my cooldown reduction disk. S2 requires jedi teams, so I can blow through them with JKL & GMY squads and both will dish some decent buffs without the auto-defensive buff disk, so I've got a bit of time to let that one come together fully. But when it does, Vader + MM infinite loops is almost insane.

People just want everyone to get the same best discs?

This game has RNG everywhere.