The one truth. The balance

Lightside is dominant everywhere, all the teams enumerated as an example of variety are LS, with the exception of Empire which is sporadic at best, and all of them have toons in common.

"BulYwif;c-1200078" wrote:

"danflorian1984;c-1200069" wrote:
I'm so sorry that I cannot/ don't know how to put pictures in post, to show you the "variety" in my shard. Rex and Wedge, Wedge and Rex is all you can see in my shard. Wiggs never left my shard anyway, it's just that R2 and/or FAT raised the wall of Wiggs from the bottom of the table to the top once again. Most of the Wiggs users in top 50 stayed in using them for more than 6 months straight. The Chaze users the same, never faltered once since the pair became available.

Your shard is recent, so people are farming what goes fast to be competitive and whales are farming Chaze since it's he best way to rank top 10 in a newer shard. In some months when your shard will become more mature, variety will come for sure.
Rex still represent 50% of the leaders but he's not anymore associated with Chaze everytime, which is a good indication that Chaze is not mandatory anymore to win.

Yeah, now Rex is also asociated with Thrawn and R2 in place of Chaze. So different than before.
People have been telling me for more than 4 months that is just a phase, as soon as EP will appear so will diversity in arena. That was a bust.
Then that once my shard will reach level 85 then the diversity will appear. Bust.
Then that once the empire pass will be complete then the diversity will appear. Mega bust.
Now I will just wait again. Maybe, just maybe, devs will actually make a real counter that will remove rebels from my shard. But I don't believe it will happen. There are NO meta shifts in my shard, they never were in 7 months, they won't be if devs will let this situation continue.

It is clear, as long as rebels are viable, that is all my shard will know, and now Commander Luke is looming on the horizon. It is hard to continue to be passionated about the game in this conditions.

"Olga;c-1200087" wrote:
My shard is an early shard and has a bunch of variety looking at top 5.

1. Rex, GK, R2, GAT, DN
2. Maul, SiT, EP, Savage, DN
3. QGJ, JKA, Ezra, R2, GAT
4. Wiggs, Chaze, R2
5. GAT, DK, DT, GMT, GK

That looks like a pretty healthy mix to me, compared to what I've been used to seeing. Obviously there's gonna be a higher presence of meta chars R2, GAT, GK, DN. But overall, it's good to see different faction synergies involved.
LS = 13
DS = 12
Not bad I'd say.

Oh my... all the shortcuts for toons. We now have way over 100 toons and I just don't know what GAT, DK or GMT might be :/
But yes, we have a huge variety in arena now. But Thrawn, Nihilus, Kenobi and of course speeeeeeed is the key to top 10

"RobArt;c-1200104" wrote:

"Olga;c-1200087" wrote:
My shard is an early shard and has a bunch of variety looking at top 5.

1. Rex, GK, R2, GAT, DN
2. Maul, SiT, EP, Savage, DN
3. QGJ, JKA, Ezra, R2, GAT
4. Wiggs, Chaze, R2
5. GAT, DK, DT, GMT, GK

That looks like a pretty healthy mix to me, compared to what I've been used to seeing. Obviously there's gonna be a higher presence of meta chars R2, GAT, GK, DN. But overall, it's good to see different faction synergies involved.
LS = 13
DS = 12
Not bad I'd say.

Oh my... all the shortcuts for toons. We now have way over 100 toons and I just don't know what GAT, DK or GMT might be :/
But yes, we have a huge variety in arena now. But Thrawn, Nihilus, Kenobi and of course speeeeeeed is the key to top 10

Grand Admiral Thrawn, Director Krennic and Grand Moff Tarking. I love the Dark Side, all those cool titles.

Aaah, thank you :-*

"RobArt;c-1200104" wrote:

"Olga;c-1200087" wrote:
My shard is an early shard and has a bunch of variety looking at top 5.

1. Rex, GK, R2, GAT, DN
2. Maul, SiT, EP, Savage, DN
3. QGJ, JKA, Ezra, R2, GAT
4. Wiggs, Chaze, R2
5. GAT, DK, DT, GMT, GK

That looks like a pretty healthy mix to me, compared to what I've been used to seeing. Obviously there's gonna be a higher presence of meta chars R2, GAT, GK, DN. But overall, it's good to see different faction synergies involved.
LS = 13
DS = 12
Not bad I'd say.

Oh my... all the shortcuts for toons. We now have way over 100 toons and I just don't know what GAT, DK or GMT might be :/
But yes, we have a huge variety in arena now. But Thrawn, Nihilus, Kenobi and of course speeeeeeed is the key to top 10

Huge variety? In most cases, its still only 12 -15 character, mostly combination of Rex, Chaze, Wiggs, R2, GK. No, its not variety for me. Diferetnt factions a their teams, thar is variety, not still same Rebel kitten or mixed "cheat" teams.
Solution could be easy, forbidding mixing of characters of different factions.

"danflorian1984;c-1200090" wrote:
It is clear, as long as rebels are viable, that is all my shard will know, and now Commander Luke is looming on the horizon. It is hard to continue to be passionated about the game in this conditions.

Because rebels are faster to farm and need no zeta to be viable in top arena. But Empire is way more fun to play than rebels for me, but drawbacks is that they need more time to be farmed (DT, ShT and even Snowtrooper or Thrawn) an also maybe to gear, this is why you have more variety in mature shards.

"Ambassador;c-1200108" wrote:

"RobArt;c-1200104" wrote:

"Olga;c-1200087" wrote:
My shard is an early shard and has a bunch of variety looking at top 5.

1. Rex, GK, R2, GAT, DN
2. Maul, SiT, EP, Savage, DN
3. QGJ, JKA, Ezra, R2, GAT
4. Wiggs, Chaze, R2
5. GAT, DK, DT, GMT, GK

That looks like a pretty healthy mix to me, compared to what I've been used to seeing. Obviously there's gonna be a higher presence of meta chars R2, GAT, GK, DN. But overall, it's good to see different faction synergies involved.
LS = 13
DS = 12
Not bad I'd say.

Oh my... all the shortcuts for toons. We now have way over 100 toons and I just don't know what GAT, DK or GMT might be :/
But yes, we have a huge variety in arena now. But Thrawn, Nihilus, Kenobi and of course speeeeeeed is the key to top 10

Grand Admiral Thrawn, Director Krennic and Grand Moff Tarking. I love the Dark Side, all those cool titles.

Who's Grand Moff Tarking? :smile:

"BulYwif;c-1200120" wrote:
Who's Grand Moff Tarking? :smile:

Good catch !

"Grand Moff Tarking" : from the verb "to Grand Moff Tarkin", action of ruthlessly and ambitiously promote military power to assert one's authority. Example : blowing up a planet to have the last word.

"Olga;c-1200127" wrote:

"Algeroth;c-1200115" wrote:
forbidding mixing of characters of different factions.

And you think this will create greater variety in the meta?

It's possible. What happens too often now is people assemble the most Op toons and chuck them under the leadership of say, Rex and it all works great because there is no "penalty" for multi faction squads. So again, a dogs dinner of OP toons that require no synergy to still work well. So we get the same few toons used everywhere in the top end of the arena. If successful squads relied on synergy (which was also faction based) then we wouldn't necessarily see the likes of Nihilus cobbled together with Rex, GK, R2 etc.