What tier or tiers did you play?
My guild cycles between Tier 2 (26-28 hour completion time) and Tier 3 (4-5 day completion time)
What GP is your Guild that is attempting the raid?
36 million GP
What teams you did you attempt the raid with?
Most of us use our arena teams as primary damage dealers (Wiggs Rebels are mine). A few in my guild are trying more focused teams like Thrawn Snowtrooper and Magmatrooper (P1).
What part of the raid motivated or demotivated you to continue trying?
Motivating: phases where I feel I accomplish something. At these tiers, P3 is my favorite to play because it requires some attention and strategy, but there's some leniency. If I make a mistake, I can recover from it; I don't need to retreat and start over. P2 is so easy for my 3 main squads that I can throw them in there and hit auto; the risk/reward element isn't there at this level because Sion can't do enough damage to kill them. While it's less fun to play, it's nice to post some big numbers quickly. Also, the brief-lived GE tokens for Tier 3 were motivating to move up from Tier 2.
Demotivating: everything about Nihilus. You can't make a mistake. Very frequently you're forced into situations you can't get yourself out of, whether it's hitting him with a basic or not being able to get a shield up before Annihilate. P1 and P4 are the reason we don't complete Tier 3 faster; our guild could probably do it in 3 days (and we could probably complete Tier 4 in a week or so), but our members won't fight Nihilus. Also, Traya at the end of P4 with stacking speed is all kinds of horrible. Only my arena team can do any kind of damage on her.
What about the raid did you enjoy? What did you dislike about the raid?
P3 is somewhat enjoyable. P2 is tolerable, if dull at this level. Everything else I dislike. This is a mobile game. I'm not sitting down in front of a console for hours trying to beat a boss; I'm pulling this out on my lunch break or when I'm winding down in the evening after work. On top of that, once the boss is beaten, we have to beat him again and again and again, and it never gets easier because of RNG. It's exhausting.
I dislike having to plead with my guild members to hit all phases instead of just waiting for Sion to come up. Those who slog through Nihilus get lower scores and worse rewards, whereas those who just auto Sion are closer to the top. We're starting to rotate launch times to try to give everyone a fair chance at scoring, and to hopefully take some of the burden off our guild leader who tends to do most of that first phase.
I dislike how miserable the rewards are for the effort put in. Tier 3 Sith is far, far harder than Tier 4 Rancor, but the gear is the same.
I appreciate the opportunity to give feedback. Thanks for listening.
Capital Games Team
