Rock, Paper,....?

"Nauros;c-1836240" wrote:

"leef;c-1836226" wrote:

"Nauros;c-1836182" wrote:

"leef;c-1836179" wrote:
well, the change basically only counters sith (namely palp lead with perhaps some of the same characters you'd typically find in a DRevan/malak team).
so there's that

The change sends the message that they are willing to micromanage the meta if players come up with something they don't like, and that is a much bigger problem than one team becoming useless in arena.

i order to achieve a somewhat rock/paper/scissors meta they'd have to micromanage the meta anyway, so i feel like that's a moot point.
I'd also like to point out that this kind of behaviour by the devs isn't exactly without precedent, usually not in favour of the "have nots".

We had something very close to rock-paper-scissors before JKR's second coming (barring the very top occupied by JKR) without such targeted changes to existing characters. Changes to specifically disable counters are, afaik, unprecedented (I believe that zFinn was actually nerfed because of the raid) and not a healthy way to go for the game. Besides, we did have a true r-p-s meta before this change.

I reckon roughly the same amount of players unlocked malak now as unlocked JKR when he was first released.
I wasn't specifically talking about nerfing counters, but it has happened with Finn and nest. One could argue HK aswell, but that's rather recent. It was more a general statement in terms of they'll make sure their new shiny toon has the least amount of possible counters. I probably should have phrased that better.