My handle is A New Hope and I love this game. Sadly, this raid makes it seem that hope is lost for at least the next year for me and my awesome, fun guild. Instead of reveling or at least enjoying the fruits of our mid-tier labors, we all have something to complain about together.
Guild GP: 72 mil
Our guild started doing T4, but that took a week, so we have dropped to alternating between T2 and T3, so we can use our raid tickets and get guild tokens more frequently. We'll do a T4 when we feel masochistic.
Shaman zader (Zader l, tusken shaman, zidious, thrawn, GMT or Nihilus) is the most useful squad I have, followed by the Haat closer (Akbar l, cls, asajj, bb8, zthrawn if I saved him) and Trooper / Zeers lead squads. I complete STR at rank 1 or 2, depending on how much I care about the raid on any given day, and depeneding on whether the sole JTR owner in our guild participates fully.
It's literally like a daily: do my dailies and then get my hits in STR, to help the guild complete the thing in a reasonable number of days.
Like everyone else, I agree that the reward to energy ratio sucks. Everyone in our guild hates this thing. It makes playing GoH a chore; not a pleasure. And all of us who chat in game say so.
Seeing the typical guild that completes Heroic is at 120 mil+, and that everyone needs JTR and KRU squads, our guild is at least a year away from heroic. Which would be totally acceptable in the meantime, if the effort we all had to put in resulted in something meaningful. Like Haat before we beat heroic. But it doesn't. Spending days for the T3 / T4 level reward just isn't worth it for most of us. So instead of throwing all 5 squads per day that we could, we throw our best single squad and leave it alone. Because again, it's Every. Single. Day.
I read the other comments from HSTR winners. HSTR is worth it. That's great news. That's a little Rey of sunshine. In my opinion, given the effort required for a guild to earn Traya, Traya should be an absolute GoH god, and good on those guilds who earned her.
Thank you for asking us what we think. Despite this post, I think overall, you guys are doing great. And CG Carrie, you're a standup leader to take so much control and responsibility. All of you: keep it up.
Capital Games Team
