The Royal Guard + Rey combo has got to be addressed

I think Mods have made this a problem. The poor Mod design aside, Rey get so much speed and damage from Mods it's ridiculous. She is 1 shotting max geared characters at this point. The problem isnt so much Rey as it is what can be done via Mods or lottery tickets as I like to call them.

"OGrebelscum;594665" wrote:
The problem is Mods......

^ This

I actually don't think there's any problem with mods, Rey, RG, or anyone. What I think there does need to be is more focus on team synergies and more characters for more variety. I don't dislike Rey because she's OP, because she's not, I dislike her because I see her all the time (literally every team I face).

As usual. Two sides to this argument. Those with Rey and using her. Those without. :D

I knock her teeth in all day erryday. Rey doesn't bother me. I have a maxed Rey. She has one place. Speed mod challenge. She used to have a place on strength challenge. Technically still does. But...since I just sim that now. I guess that's irrelevant.

She does 1 shot kills. Maybe you're playing a different game. It's usually her first move. Then she'll do it a couple more times. Team gone.

"Boo;596645" wrote:
I think RG should get a normally activated taunt like stormtrooper Han or Chewie, rather than his auto when a team mate falls in health;

Or perhaps landing an ability block should be able to stop RG from using his taunt ability for 1 turn.

- problem solved.

Now, everyone is going to complain about the droid situation - when does it end???

EA need to develop new toons that can counter these issues. The answer is not nerfing every existing toon they think is OP.

Dude no, you obviously use Rey but not RG to suggest nerfing him and not Rey. Honestly I'm on the fence about the whole Rey thing, I do believe she does too much damage for someone with that kind of speed should, but she does have weaknesses you can exploit.

RG on the other hand is balanced out by having high health, but low damage, and about average speed I would say. And his synergy works really well with Empire characters, it's not his fault it also works well with Rey. Without an auto taunt his whole kit would fall apart and how would he be viable when Chewie taunts, grants himself a massive health up buff, and of course has a rather powerful self heal.

He also has a number of counters, more than Rey I would say. You can dispel taunt with a number of characters, two of which, Qui-Gon and Teebo, are arena favorites, and Anakin who just started showing up in arena can apply buff block which stops him from auto taunting.

Rey can only 1-shot kill characters which are underpowered in regard to her level+gear+mods, which is a not fair comparison (even barris can 1-shot kill a sufficiently underpowered character.).

The thing is that the Rey + RG strategy can be countered. A strategy is OP only when there is no counter to it.

There are lots of characters which can nullify it. If you get QGJ + Teebo for instance, you have two chances of removing taunt, and both characters can remove TM.

A lot of people on this thread are solely wanting Rey nerfed and I disagree with that conclusion as that would not really address the real issue, being that the Royal Guard auto taunts every time an ally falls below 50% health. Rey herself does have a very high damage output but if she is suffering any negative effect then she looses 25% Offense bonus that she gets from the "Focused Strikes" ability. What would be more realistic is that the RG is not nerfed but changed so that the only time he auto-taunts is when an Empire ally falls below 50% health. This makes much more sense as the RGs actual role in the Star Wars universe is to protect high ranking Imperial assets like Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader.

"Boo;608763" wrote:

"War;603595" wrote:

"Boo;596645" wrote:
I think RG should get a normally activated taunt like stormtrooper Han or Chewie, rather than his auto when a team mate falls in health;

Or perhaps landing an ability block should be able to stop RG from using his taunt ability for 1 turn.

- problem solved.

Now, everyone is going to complain about the droid situation - when does it end???

EA need to develop new toons that can counter these issues. The answer is not nerfing every existing toon they think is OP.

Dude no, you obviously use Rey but not RG to suggest nerfing him and not Rey. Honestly I'm on the fence about the whole Rey thing, I do believe she does too much damage for someone with that kind of speed should, but she does have weaknesses you can exploit.

RG on the other hand is balanced out by having high health, but low damage, and about average speed I would say. And his synergy works really well with Empire characters, it's not his fault it also works well with Rey. Without an auto taunt his whole kit would fall apart and how would he be viable when Chewie taunts, grants himself a massive health up buff, and of course has a rather powerful self heal.

He also has a number of counters, more than Rey I would say. You can dispel taunt with a number of characters, two of which, Qui-Gon and Teebo, are arena favorites, and Anakin who just started showing up in arena can apply buff block which stops him from auto taunting.

I use Rey - of course you are mad not to. I am working on Royal Guard. I have him at level 80 gear set 9 and just got to six stars - working on the grind for a full 7 *.

I'm nearly there with him and it would suck if he gets nerfed just as I finally get to 7* with him, but I'd understand.

He doesn't work well with empire and Rey but so many other toons - he works well with every toon, which is why he dominates the higher ranking teams in arena.

I love having great toons, but I am more for the game developing diversity and strategy to survive, not relying on toons that are too OP.

I get his health and protection are huge - fair enough, he's a tank. I also understand the need for his character to taunt. I also understand he has low damage, but his taunt and stun are what are the main problems and one has to be nerfed I truly believe.

He stuns my team all the time - even without Rey on his team, lesser characters pick my team apart because his stun seems to last ages and also seems to land every time.

On the other hand is his taunt - which we have already discussed in detail above.

The trick is one of these abilities has to be nerfed, as any team he is on is OP. That's not opinion - that's a fact.

The only way this game will survive is with toons/teams that are diverse and require strategy. Not certain made up teams that are OP they dominate the game (usually favourable to P2P).

His stun is necessary for an Empire team using Darth Vader, if cull misses that could cost you the match, and stun makes it auto hit. And how would an activated taunt work with RG? the only two ways to do it would be to put it on his defense and health up ability, which would probably be more annoying with its short cool down and buffs his health and defense, and now that strength is properly calculating armor, that would be a wall you'd have to wail on for a whole turn. And the AI would start with that move every time, which eliminates the slowly down her health and then kill her with one big attack.

Or you could replace the stun on his basic with a chance to taunt instead, now that would be horrible for trying to get around it. He can only stun when above 50% health and you can work around his taunt, there is no reason to nerf him or proper way to nerf him, unless they just straight remove one those two abilities without compensating for it, and I doubt they would do that when they won't even tone down Rey's damage. As it is with strength giving more armor, characters with even a decent strength score can't be one hit killed, so I fail to see how Rey is still considered OP unless your team is full of glass cannons.