Training Grounds - What do you think?
Post became longer than originally intended. lol TL;DR at the bottom.
I've been thinking about this for a while, and recently have engaged in some conversation with shard mates and whatnot about the game having a training grounds. The premise being it doesn't cost you anything, but you don't gain anything either (no rewards). You are able to go in and pick an opposing enemy team: Traya, Palp, Nightsisters, First Order, whatever team it is that you want to figure out how to fight against. Not sure how mods fit into it, but just being able to practice against teams to figure out what strategies work for your teams.
I bought the FO pack when I was new to the game so I have kind of "grown up" with this team. The more you play, the more you learn how to utilize them. Which means when I switch to Nightsisters someday, for example, I'm not really going to know how to use them. You learn so much more through experience, especially considering how much of the battling is reliant on RNG, you have to be able to adapt to the flow of the battle in the moment. It would be nice to have a place to go and practice with teams for the sake of understanding their synergies.
I know there are little training events when you are leveling up, and you can somewhat practice in Galactic War, but it isn't quite the same. The opposing teams tend to not really be a proper team.
One of the "issues" brought up with the idea of training grounds is that it will discourage people from doing rebuys in Arena to see if they can take down a team. I can see it working the other way. If you have confidence in your knowledge of a team, you're more likely to try a harder team comp, higher gp than you, higher gear level, etc, knowing you can adapt in the moment and potentially pull off a win. I'm curious to see what other people think. Would it encourage you to push harder, having faith in your team and knowledge of their synergy, or would it discourage you from doing rebuys since you can get the practice for free in the training grounds?
TL;DR: Would you use a training grounds if we had one? Would it discourage you from doing rebuys in arena? Would we need a pvp grounds and a raid grounds to practice teams against bosses without it costing us turns in the actual raids?
I've been thinking about this for a while, and recently have engaged in some conversation with shard mates and whatnot about the game having a training grounds. The premise being it doesn't cost you anything, but you don't gain anything either (no rewards). You are able to go in and pick an opposing enemy team: Traya, Palp, Nightsisters, First Order, whatever team it is that you want to figure out how to fight against. Not sure how mods fit into it, but just being able to practice against teams to figure out what strategies work for your teams.
I bought the FO pack when I was new to the game so I have kind of "grown up" with this team. The more you play, the more you learn how to utilize them. Which means when I switch to Nightsisters someday, for example, I'm not really going to know how to use them. You learn so much more through experience, especially considering how much of the battling is reliant on RNG, you have to be able to adapt to the flow of the battle in the moment. It would be nice to have a place to go and practice with teams for the sake of understanding their synergies.
I know there are little training events when you are leveling up, and you can somewhat practice in Galactic War, but it isn't quite the same. The opposing teams tend to not really be a proper team.
One of the "issues" brought up with the idea of training grounds is that it will discourage people from doing rebuys in Arena to see if they can take down a team. I can see it working the other way. If you have confidence in your knowledge of a team, you're more likely to try a harder team comp, higher gp than you, higher gear level, etc, knowing you can adapt in the moment and potentially pull off a win. I'm curious to see what other people think. Would it encourage you to push harder, having faith in your team and knowledge of their synergy, or would it discourage you from doing rebuys since you can get the practice for free in the training grounds?
TL;DR: Would you use a training grounds if we had one? Would it discourage you from doing rebuys in arena? Would we need a pvp grounds and a raid grounds to practice teams against bosses without it costing us turns in the actual raids?
