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.

If only there was another topic about the boring Revan meta.

"Roopehunter;c-1792970" wrote:If only there was another topic about the boring Revan meta. Revan is the meta in arena and also the meta in forum posts for a reason. He's sucking the life out of this game a little bit each day.

I see these complaints, but I can only assume they come from those who are used to dominating in arena using other squads that held the meta, and now they're upset because it's more difficult or "impossible". Sure, Revan (and zJolee) makes it crazy more difficult to climb that ladder... but given I could rarely break 100 before I got him, and now I'm breaking closer to 50 on the regular, I'm willing to bet I'm not the only one who likes the new mechanics for Jedi in the game. I agree that timing out is a pain in the ass, but there's a guy in my guild who gets #1 in his shard with NS against all of those Revan squads. I still see NS, Traya and CLS squads in my shard's top 100. Going up against well built STR squads with EP and Thrawn is still a pain in the ass, even with Revan and sometimes I time out against those purely because of Sion. Bitch about zJolee but Nihilus can still annihilate and Traya can isolate and no one comes back from those. How is zJolee as a single toon worse than a zzMT lead? Or add in Daka behind her?Come on. Get creative. Play if you want to play, don't play if you really think it's no fun. Your strengths won't be at the top of the pile all of the time. Do you think the majority of the player base is in the top 50 of every shard? Or the thousands of ranks that fall below that still using plenty of other teams?What do I know, though? I'm just some n00b trying to apply rational and reasonable thought to an argument on the internet.

Squad arena has never been fun. It’s just something you have to do for crystals. The outcomes can only be in a limited scope. The recipe to win will always be the same. Get the best team > gold gear >fastest mods possible > success. It was before revan, it will be after. It’s never going to be able to be that different. Not like grand arena, where there is so many more variables

"obikenobi1;d-197208" wrote:Squad Arena isn't fun anymore Was it ever? It's always been the most tedious, stressful part of the game for me. Tedious because it's been a LONG time since there were more than one or two teams capable of taking top spots, and the introduction of mods made it so that there would always be opponents who were just so stupidly fast that they became nearly impossible to beat unless you were as insanely lucky as they were, in addition to having the current New Hotness geared and zeta'd up.Stressful because it forces you to monitor your position in the ladder every. single. day. to ensure you're where you want to be when your payout hits. I don't enjoy being forced to constantly jockey for position just to get my pixels. Joining a shard chat helps, but it still eats butthole.If I didn't have to play it for crystals, and arena coins to convert into credits, I'd drop it like a bad habit before you could say "Utinni."

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kookermader
6 years ago
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.
crzydroid
Retired Hero
6 years ago
You can always do four battles with something else, I suppose, then switch to Revan for your last. It might strain your mods. But I have seen Revan teams swap out a fifth for Chewbacca while climbing, then switch back for defense.
pedro2511
6 years ago
Why are people complaining about mirror matches? They chose mirror match over using a counter!
Complaining about own choice is strange, isn’t it ?
trystanspyder
6 years ago
"Kalano;c-1793329" wrote:
Why are people complaining about mirror matches? They chose mirror match over using a counter!
Complaining about own choice is strange, isn’t it ?

Because Revan teams hold. Partly because of the strength of the team and partly because it's easy to blend into the terrain.

Sure you can climb with Traya or CLS or NS, but you're gonna stand out like a glow-in-the-dark zeppelin.

Also - the Revan team is pretty user friendly - you already need Bast and Jolee just to get Revan, likely have GK sitting around, and GMY as well.

Traya is a much harder team to acquire. NS are good but apparently highly mod dependent. CLS only works with 3P0, which relied on really well geared Ewoks.
v1vc5lzsjvv
6 years ago
i'll second (or third or fourth) the notion that arena was never fun. revan didn't make a good thing bad, but made a bad thing much worse.
pedro2511
6 years ago
You are saying Revan holds best on defense. Got it. Still no reason to complain about mirror matches. Set him on defense after climbing.

You say, one needs to actually work on alternative squads to beat Revan. Got it. Still no reason to complain. Of course you have to work on your squad if you want to rank high.
Even clone wars chewie is able to beat Revan!!!

Still it’s everyones choice to go mirror or not ?‍♀️
Mephisto_style
6 years ago
"K1r_Kanos;c-1793190" wrote:
I see these complaints, but I can only assume they come from those who are used to dominating in arena using other squads that held the meta, and now they're upset because it's more difficult or "impossible".

Sure, Revan (and zJolee) makes it crazy more difficult to climb that ladder... but given I could rarely break 100 before I got him, and now I'm breaking closer to 50 on the regular, I'm willing to bet I'm not the only one who likes the new mechanics for Jedi in the game. I agree that timing out is a pain in the ****, but there's a guy in my guild who gets #1 in his shard with NS against all of those Revan squads. I still see NS, Traya and CLS squads in my shard's top 100.

Going up against well built STR squads with EP and Thrawn is still a pain in the ****, even with Revan and sometimes I time out against those purely because of Sion. **** about zJolee but Nihilus can still annihilate and Traya can isolate and no one comes back from those. How is zJolee as a single toon worse than a zzMT lead? Or add in Daka behind her?

Come on. Get creative. Play if you want to play, don't play if you really think it's no fun. Your strengths won't be at the top of the pile all of the time. Do you think the majority of the player base is in the top 50 of every shard? Or the thousands of ranks that fall below that still using plenty of other teams?

What do I know, though? I'm just some n00b trying to apply rational and reasonable thought to an argument on the internet.

LOL my shard has top 50 all Revan, except #'s 2 and 45 are Traya.
Aneima35
6 years ago
"crzydroid;c-1792969" wrote:
You can always do four battles with something else, I suppose, then switch to Revan for your last. It might strain your mods. But I have seen Revan teams swap out a fifth for Chewbacca while climbing, then switch back for defense.

That's actually a great idea...bad thing is how many teams can 100% beat revan?

I agree with the OP. Arena is boring now. At least before revans second coming we had the choice of fighting Traya and CLS....now not so much. The meta needs to change seriously fast. Never in this games history has a single team become the most played highest meta percentage ever.
templarphoenix
New Spectator
6 years ago
I drop my ranks to 300 and still boring.
Bastilla
Palp
Un-geared revan
Traya
NS
CLS
JTR
Sometimes a ewok team.

Thats not diversities, because you fight those teams twice a day over a year.
GifafiTho
6 years ago
it's the best it's ever been. mirror matches aren't bad (might be boring for those who had revan first time, but now it's down to squad comp and mod investment for all who have him now). Some timeouts, but it's kinda fun strategerizing against mirrors. I mean, people complain but before "who will their revan target first" it was "whose DN will get off annihilate first" and before that it was...etcetc