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7 years ago

Secrets and Shadows Event

Ages ago, I three starred the second tier of the Secrets and Shadows Assault Battle. The last few times it has come up, I can't make it past Sidious in stage 4. I have done a ton of work on my Nightsisters and Phoenix squads since 3 starring it the first time and I've tried dozens of different toon combinations. I've got a full Phoenix squad all at gear level 8-10 and a zeta on Sabine. For Nightsisters I use any combination of Daka, Asajj, Talia, Initiate, Acolyte, Zombie (my Talzin is not quite up to snuff yet). I know the key is to stun Sidious, but he literally ignores the stun every single time. I'm working on Daka's potency, but it's up a few tenths away from 70% now.

This is incredibly frustrating and makes no sense. If I have 3 starred it in the past with much weaker toons (and far lower potency on Daka), why am I having such a hard time now? This is further evidence to me that the devs have reworked a lot of the assault battles and events to make them more difficult (another example is the ewoks vs. ATST). Am I the only one that has noticed this? Am I the only one that finds this a bit unfair? If I have three starred something in the past, I should be able to do it again - or at the very least make it past the 4th stage without getting annihilated.

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  • Your 3 star may have been lucky. Can you link to your swgoh.gg? W'll see what we can do with your toons
  • "FailingCrab;c-1626856" wrote:
    Your 3 star may have been lucky. Can you link to your swgoh.gg? W'll see what we can do with your toons


    I have no idea how to do that. I'm not a frequent forum visitor.
  • Go to swgoh.gg. Set up an account. Link like so:

    https://swgoh.gg/u/chionophile/
  • "TheHappiestLamb;c-1626835" wrote:
    Everyone in my guild says to stun him...and I'm pretty sure that's how I got through it last time. Did he get reworked or something?

    And yes I have changed mod - better mods and higher gear all around.

    I don't have the zeta on Asajj yet - she is next on my list.


    Everyone in your guild is messing with you.
  • "TheHappiestLamb;d-179437" wrote:
    Ages ago, I three starred the second tier of the Secrets and Shadows Assault Battle. The last few times it has come up, I can't make it past Sidious in stage 4. I have done a ton of work on my Nightsisters and Phoenix squads since 3 starring it the first time and I've tried dozens of different toon combinations. I've got a full Phoenix squad all at gear level 8-10 and a zeta on Sabine. For Nightsisters I use any combination of Daka, Asajj, Talia, Initiate, Acolyte, Zombie (my Talzin is not quite up to snuff yet). I know the key is to stun Sidious, but he literally ignores the stun every single time. I'm working on Daka's potency, but it's up a few tenths away from 70% now.

    This is incredibly frustrating and makes no sense. If I have 3 starred it in the past with much weaker toons (and far lower potency on Daka), why am I having such a hard time now? This is further evidence to me that the devs have reworked a lot of the assault battles and events to make them more difficult (another example is the ewoks vs. ATST). Am I the only one that has noticed this? Am I the only one that finds this a bit unfair? If I have three starred something in the past, I should be able to do it again - or at the very least make it past the 4th stage without getting annihilated.


    I noticed a difficulty increase in other events but not this one, but as I was using NS as arena they still have my best mods, so I may just be over prepared for it.
  • "FailingCrab;c-1626856" wrote:
    Your 3 star may have been lucky. Can you link to your swgoh.gg? W'll see what we can do with your toons


    I finally ended up getting it - 2 stars but I'll take it. I used Hera with success this time, even though it was doing nothing for me before. Maybe I just got lucky again.
  • "Iceih_SWG;c-1627120" wrote:
    "TheHappiestLamb;d-179437" wrote:
    Ages ago, I three starred the second tier of the Secrets and Shadows Assault Battle. The last few times it has come up, I can't make it past Sidious in stage 4. I have done a ton of work on my Nightsisters and Phoenix squads since 3 starring it the first time and I've tried dozens of different toon combinations. I've got a full Phoenix squad all at gear level 8-10 and a zeta on Sabine. For Nightsisters I use any combination of Daka, Asajj, Talia, Initiate, Acolyte, Zombie (my Talzin is not quite up to snuff yet). I know the key is to stun Sidious, but he literally ignores the stun every single time. I'm working on Daka's potency, but it's up a few tenths away from 70% now.

    This is incredibly frustrating and makes no sense. If I have 3 starred it in the past with much weaker toons (and far lower potency on Daka), why am I having such a hard time now? This is further evidence to me that the devs have reworked a lot of the assault battles and events to make them more difficult (another example is the ewoks vs. ATST). Am I the only one that has noticed this? Am I the only one that finds this a bit unfair? If I have three starred something in the past, I should be able to do it again - or at the very least make it past the 4th stage without getting annihilated.


    I noticed a difficulty increase in other events but not this one, but as I was using NS as arena they still have my best mods, so I may just be over prepared for it.


    Glad I'm not the only one who has noticed a difficulty increase in events.
  • This event drove me crazy then I zeta'd Ventress leader and now it's cake all levels. Just need to time use of the special speed up and hold Talzin's group attack for when Sid/Nihilus might go. I know a zeta isn't always the answer but for the 3rd difficulty level I couldn't get the RNG to make it work otherwise.

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