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obikenobi123's avatar
6 years ago

Squad Arena isn't fun anymore

All the mirror matches, all the revans being in top 50.....i just do my 2 battles a day and just leave it at that. its not worth potentially timing out to try and go up a couple spots. Squad arena is very unfun right now. There is no non-revan defense against Revan teams. The best defense at this point is to have a revan team that times out other revan teams. The main culprit in this meta being as dominated by Revan is zeta Jolee Bindo. He's just so hard to kill and you can't debuff him or crit him. he's tanky and his zeta makes going after everyone else in the squad worthless. if you don't kill Jolee quick enough, you lose because you time out. Really frustrating and unfun. Jolee needs to be nerfed a bit. Maybe make his revive SA start on cool down?

Right now Grand Arena has replaced Squad Arena as what is the most fun in this game. At least in Grand Arena i get to use all my other teams and i don't have to fight against a wall of other Revan teams. There is a lot of viable squads to use in Grand Arena whereas there is really only one in Squad Arena. Right now if you run anything other than Revan in squad arena you fall a lot in rank, so it really makes the meta as one sided as it is right now. I hope CG adds something soon to mix things up because it's really starting to sap my enjoyment of this game. And i have 3 accounts and have been playing 3+ years.

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  • Just watched a DB official video where he had Plo Koon in place of GK and he removed his speed arrow from Revan for the test and the rest of his team was slower than enemy. Claims he won 20/20 of the fights and it held the same on D. Plo TM special and Dispel on Basic makes the mirror matches easy.
  • "VonZant;c-1793890" wrote:
    Just watched a DB official video where he had Plo Koon in place of GK and he removed his speed arrow from Revan for the test and the rest of his team was slower than enemy. Claims he won 20/20 of the fights and it held the same on D. Plo TM special and Dispel on Basic makes the mirror matches easy.


    Those defending the current situation in arena or suggesting using different counters are missing the larger point - even if all of that is true, you still have to fight against the same team 5-10+ times a day. every. day.

    The lack of diversity in arena is the worst it has ever been in the 3+ years I have played - and it's not close. Yes, there are counters. Yes, they work. Yes, it is still a mind-numbingly boring arena - and has been for quite some time.
  • "Nikoms565;c-1793895" wrote:
    "VonZant;c-1793890" wrote:
    Just watched a DB official video where he had Plo Koon in place of GK and he removed his speed arrow from Revan for the test and the rest of his team was slower than enemy. Claims he won 20/20 of the fights and it held the same on D. Plo TM special and Dispel on Basic makes the mirror matches easy.


    Those defending the current situation in arena or suggesting using different counters are missing the larger point - even if all of that is true, you still have to fight against the same team 5-10+ times a day. every. day.

    The lack of diversity in arena is the worst it has ever been in the 3+ years I have played - and it's not close. Yes, there are counters. Yes, they work. Yes, it is still a mind-numbingly boring arena - and has been for quite some time.


    I'm not defending the meta. I'm on record as saying hes broken. There is a guy on my shard in the top 100 that has a Revan with +3 speed and none of his other toons have more than +50. In fact I have Revan and just refuse to run him in arena, much to my detriment.

    But that doesn't mean that you should not look for ways to make riding out the pain a bit less ... painful. ;)
  • I’d just like to weed out some of the riff raff that appears in the top 10 almost weekly now. But it is fun beating these teams with NS, GG, Traya and other counters.
  • "VonZant;c-1793908" wrote:

    I'm not defending the meta. I'm on record as saying hes broken. There is a guy on my shard in the top 100 that has a Revan with +3 speed and none of his other toons have more than +50. In fact I have Revan and just refuse to run him in arena, much to my detriment.

    But that doesn't mean that you should not look for ways to make riding out the pain a bit less ... painful. ;)


    I'm pretty much the same way. I'll throw him in on my last attempt I'm willing to do of the day just so I don't drop 60 spots like I do when I use one of the counters.
  • So many of these threads. It's like none of you have played this game for 3 years.....

    This has been the way the game has always been (at the top of the shards anyways). One meta squad will defend against the most teams. As a result almost everyone runs it on defense. As far as it being boring or exciting, I guess that's in the eye of the beholder.

    Personally I found the Traya meta to be far more boring. .

    At least the Revan meta requires some thought and planning on offense.

    I think the crux of the matter is too many people are just bad at this game and can't figure out the attack pattern required to down ai revans quickly. As a result, many are timing out and not able to climb as far as they could in previous metas.
  • Honestly, I agree wholeheartedly with this thread. Arena is less fun than it has ever been by a large margin. I'm a long time player, I have Revan, and I win most of the mirror matches, but it's just not fun at all. Arena is so tedious now that I play it only to maintain my rank, not because I enjoy the matches like I did in the past. Something needs to be done about the lack of diversity and also about the trend towards longer arena matches that we've been seeing lately. Diversity in arena has never been great, but it was certainly never this bad, and when you combine that with the potential for timeouts you've got the perfect recipe for a zero-fun situation.
  • "7AnimalMother;c-1793975" wrote:
    At least the Revan meta requires some thought and planning on offense.


    You can't be serious? ???
  • Grand Arena and regular arena is no longer fun for me either and I don't have the money to blow to buy Revan. I have never dominated the top 100 but I was doing well enough I was getting there. Revan stopped my progress. I'm actually going the opposite direction now. I can't even play grand arena anymore because non marquis characters cannot beat him specially with Jolee Bindo in the Revan squad. Just had to vent.
  • "Crazygone510;c-1794576" wrote:
    "7AnimalMother;c-1793975" wrote:
    At least the Revan meta requires some thought and planning on offense.


    You can't be serious? ???


    I am actually. It is inarguable that this meta requires the player to take an active role. It's one of only two metas where you couldn't just hit auto and win. The other was traya, but that meta only took about 25s to get to the point you could kill enemy dn. Then you could hit auto.

    This one takes about 1:45 min to get past revives/savior and kill jolee. After that it still may not be safe to hit auto depending on which characters are left.

    And honestly that's why so many people hate this meta. They have trouble if something is not spoon fed to them.

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