I've always been of the opinion that if you need any particular discs, perhaps you aren't supposed to reach the red chest.
Probably unpopular.
I would think unpopular, and elitist. “Particular” disks don’t just make conquest red crate possible for smaller rosters, they make certain feats a lot more efficient for everyone, when the game is super busy. Something clearly taken into account with the design of many feats. If I had bad datadisk luck on a round I purchase conquest pass plus to be more efficient, I would be frustrated too. Availability of roster already gives varied difficulty levels, why should datadisks vary players experience to such an extent too? Serves no purpose as investing in squads or purchasing conquest pass will not address bad datadisk luck.
Think of it this way, if we didn't have a good disk setup, a lot of our teams would become useless because of how overpowered the enemies are, even in the early sectors. In the later sectors, even 100% stamina GLs with 600+ speed often find themselves waiting for the entire enemy team to go before said GLs can take even just one turn, that's not taking account the Rebel/GR/Sith/etc. modifiers. Without a good setup, a good portion of the feats would become impossible to complete, even for the best rosters. Look at the Sector 3 Geonosian feat this Conquest, I doubt there are that many teams they could beat, let alone survive against, at that stage. And all those "Win the battle with [insert latest toon] surviving". Those of us that don't/can't spend an unholy amount of crystals or money to get the toon instantly to 7* and relics need good disks to have a chance at completing the feat, regardless if it's just 2-3 tickets. Even outside Conquest, anything below G13, or G12 in some cases, is literally useless and probably won't survive one hit from the enemy.
Now, if CG ends up changing Conquest so that there are much more feats like "Gain Y buff 100 times", "Inflict Stagger/DoTs/Stun/Shock 100 times" than there are ones that require a C-tier team to win 14 times in Sector 3-5 or the latest toon to survive, then I would agree with you. But with the current state, I don't know if a lot of people would be happy that they have a great and developed roster but couldn't get any of the final crates because they end up getting trash disks and therefore couldn't complete even half the feats. For the sake of comparison, that would be like CG removing all the player modifiers from the Naboo raid while keeping all the enemy modifiers unchanged and active. Just imagine a Luminara team in the R7 tier. You may have the entire team at R7 with god-tier mods, but that doesn't help a bit because of how strong the enemies are.
that's not my point, of course i will redbox it. what i am saying is that the current setting with disks makes a potential grind fest the worst/sloggiest grindfest in the game if you dont get the right disks.
that's not my point, of course i will redbox it. what i am saying is that the current setting with disks makes a potential grind fest the worst/sloggiest grindfest in the game if you dont get the right disks.
Its really not a grindfest. I thought the last one was easy but this is even easier. In fact Id have finished a couple of days ago if I hadn't stupidly been doing feats I didnt need to do in Nightsisters and Geos on Sector 3 when I could have just done the Morgan survives.
I'm about 20-25 battles from done, doing all the 50-crystal refreshes. Not every battle achieves optimal result, but I doubt I could be done now even if I played perfectly. Maybe 10-20 instead of 20-25, but still at least 10 battles from finished. Did you purchase the Conquest Pass? If not, did you purchase 100-crystal energy refreshes?
It would be helpful to people reading your post to know how you finished quickly so that they can decide for themselves whether your strategy can work for them. I mean, I could have done the 100-crystal refreshes, I have the stash, but I just don't have a reason to do so given that I'm still going to red crate by Tuesday.
Disks are primarily time savers. My opinion is that SWGOH isn't Dark Souls.
The "never-hardcorde-enough" mentality of some gamers who think that tedious grind for the sake of grind is a mark of distinction is alien to me.
Red chest has had to do with ability maybe one conquest in the last 2-3 years. The single biggest qualifier for the red box is do you have enough of the absolute most recent toons and, are the ones in question geared enough to survive the survival requirements (if it's a survival requirement).
With the absolute crapload of stims you get with the conquest pass, not having the right disks might make it rougher, but it shouldn't be impossible to complete the 5 sectors. However, not having those latest toons R0+ is what blocks the red box 99% of the time. I think Queen Amidala's conquest was the only cq of the last 2-3 years that didn't require enough recent toons to block you.
As an example, If I recall correctly offhand, not having Enoch/Peridia/night trooper high enough costs you like 24 points this go around. I'm not sure offhand what the max for cq is, but not having those 24 points puts your margin extremely thin for the red box as is.
Very true.
I mucked up the cheeses using Deployable Cooling systems by winning the battles, then realised I was doing feats I didn't even need with being able to drop 34 points.
This is a very easy Conquest and yes if people depend on disks to do it then their roster is the issue, not RNG on disks. Also the disks give 2 paths, either quick kills or high survivability either work even if you can't ideally get both options in your picks.
