The lesson we learned from Rey.

Nerfed and obsolete could be considered similar... The only thing helping rey atm is that she is useful in GW and Rancor still... other characters may not be so lucky.

Also power creep... Some of the characters coming out now are literally replacing 2 characters in one.

Not sure how power creep can be avoided completely given the business model, but ultimately you would want to counter metas with a character that generally viable yet still a direct counter to the meta. Thus creating multiple rock paper scissor characters/teams.

EDIT: No this does not mean characters can be safely farmed... some maybe if they are useful in other areas. It's really hard to comment unless you give context... most around here talk almost exclusively about PvP arena. Yet there are now other parts of the game to balance...

"Hanburger;79555" wrote:
Instead, they created a new group of characters at Rey's level... if not above.

If not? Lol..
Rey would come as the last character to kill nowadays.

empire tie pilot does more damage than rey on basic
i think the new toons ignore armor more so they have much more damage potential

"Malthael;780910" wrote:

"Hanburger;79555" wrote:
Instead, they created a new group of characters at Rey's level... if not above.

If not? Lol..
Rey would come as the last character to kill nowadays.

True story. I fought her in arena today. She did go down before RG but just because of his higher health pool.

Once Wiggs and Lando were gone I just hit auto.

It's funny, in tournaments I use legacy meta teams as I progress up to more difficult opponents. There's OB, then droids, then Wiggs, then Empire to spread out my tokens cost

Rey can still be viable, even in the arena. Put crit damage mods on her, preferable with some speed and stick here behind a Boba Lead... She can hit for 30K plus. I've played with Boba (l)- Wiggs - 88 and Rey or QGJ, both work well, depending on the opponent. I stay consistently top 5 in my shard.

In terms of single target DPS

Han>Rey

It's not even close, g11 Han is a beast

"Twin;780862" wrote:
Nerfed and obsolete could be considered similar... The only thing helping rey atm is that she is useful in GW and Rancor still... other characters may not be so lucky.

Also power creep... Some of the characters coming out now are literally replacing 2 characters in one.

Not sure how power creep can be avoided completely given the business model, but ultimately you would want to counter metas with a character that generally viable yet still a direct counter to the meta. Thus creating multiple rock paper scissor characters/teams.

EDIT: No this does not mean characters can be safely farmed... some maybe if they are useful in other areas. It's really hard to comment unless you give context... most around here talk almost exclusively about PvP arena. Yet there are now other parts of the game to balance...

Chewbacca, Ugnaught and Eeth Koth are still the best three characters, even with the powercreep.

Poe, Bariss, etc. Enough people complained before that they just go with the power creep option

Rey dazes on special with Zeta, at high speed. Could be good for stopping a specific TM gain in the first round