"RebelBass;c-1102601" wrote:
Reducing the efficacy of Tenacity Up would amount to a wholesale nerf of entire swaths of Light Side characters, effectively making only Dark Side toons arena viable.
If only Dark Side toons are Arena viable, it would be those with the best speed mods who would always win in arena, as those players able to apply debuffs the fastest would always win.
Rex provides a much needed balancing effect to arena matches - by both keeping Light Side toons relevant through Tenacity Up, and by generating turn meter per critical hit scored, which de-emphasizes the need for OP speed mods.
There are counter to Rex and other LS toons which feature Tenacity Up. The issue isn't Ten Up, Rex, Chaze, etc. An able player with a deep understanding of theorycrafting can field an Arena team capable of overtaking Rex/Chaze squads.
I disagree. DS is basically rendered useless already due to Rex, Chaze, GK and R2. DS cannot compete with this setup. You can claim to say just use B2 and problem solved but that's not the case. You're talking about a wet noodle hitter who's got only 1 useful thing about him... AOE dispel. He's not good for anything else. And as soon as he clears the tenacity up and other buffs, they all get reapplied immediately since there are 3 toons in the other side to do this. It ensures there's always someone ready to put them back up. And all 3 have a great kit to go with their cleanse.
Rex: cleanse, debuff immunity, TMR basic, TMG leadership
Chirrut: cleanse, massive HoT abilities, powerful attacker, assist attack, great synergy with Baze
GK: cleanser, retribution, powerful special calling everyone with buffs to attack (which on this squad is usually all 5)
You don't see DS teaming ruling arena anymore. Not since R2 came into play. But there was at least a chance without R2. Now there's very, very little chance of a DS team winning vs that team. I imagine it'll be tougher once Fahsoka comes out too.
As much as you want to say DS had their run with Zaul... (which I agree it was a nice run) there was still a great mix of Rex, GK, Chaze in there. Arena is now dominated by LS characters since R2 and will be further more by Fahsoka. And calling for a Nihilus nerf will only further dominate the cleanse/tenacity up meta.
I get both sides of the debate. I run both squads. But calling for a nerf for one and not asking for balance for both is the problem imo.
