Upcoming Change to Darth Malak [MERGE]

"Degs29;c-1835508" wrote:
CG, would you stop shooting your own foot? We need more diversity in arena, not less. This change is the most blatant attempt to micromanage the meta I've ever seen in any game I've played. Allow the players some ingenuity, would ya?! We need some room to breathe!

Yes! Yes! Yes! If this were reddit I would give gold for this comment. Please CG, for the love of all things holy, why are you tinkering with the meta now after letting the JKRevan dark ages go on for months??? Prime example is the way Malak is being adjusted to kill the Papa Palpatine turn meter express. Sometimes CG, less is really more.

"Ultra;c-1835720" wrote:
Those are some solid points. Didn't realize their way of neutering EP leads ended up doing more harm to other Sith and Sith teams, such as Darth Nihilus or Darth Maul, Savage Oppress

Exactly, not only does it negatively impact a portion of the current Sith Faction, it will also negatively impact any future Sith release that rely on TM gain (Or they will never release another Sith that has TM gain in their kit which further limits their design choices). Retroactively adjusting character kits to facilitate introduction of new characters is not a great design choice. It only increases overheads.

This change is not only bad for the present state of the Sith Faction, but also bad for any possible future. Heck, even a bandaid fix like "If palpatine is enemy leader" is not as terrible as this change (it is still a terrible way to do it, but hey they have already started putting text like "If Jedi Knight Revan is enemy leader"). At least the rest of the Sith won't get penalized for having the "Sith" tag.

Another way I could suggest them doing this exact same thing would be "When Sith Empire lose debuff, enemy team lose x% TM. That would be a better way to make Darth Revan teams stronger without neutering the Sith Tag.

Please note, I am not advocating Palpatine nerf. CG is going to do it regardless of what I have to say. I am suggesting better ways to do it.

I said it many times before, but I'll say again, this CG team is really, really, really bad.

"Cs99;c-1835504" wrote:
They should have just added malak automatically defeats any team led by emporer palpatine.

Basically what it boils down to.

It was possible as F2P, but I don’t think it was obvious. Many people seemed to think he’d be a marquee to just finish up. There was no evidence to say that a new event with crazy requirements would pop up a week after DR.

UPDATE TO THE ROAD AHEAD: Previously we said there would be balance in arena in the future. We have now updated the text of the original post to more clearly reflect our intentions. "There will be a balance sheet for arena in the future. Insert credit card here." We hope this clarifies things! –CG_CashGrab

Much more disappointed than DR's release.
CG should consider more about make the game more variable not official meta.

And people wonder why I say "ignore the meta".

"Boba_The_Fetter;c-1835670" wrote:
How do you beat Darth revan and malak without Darth revan and malak?

Funny that.

What kind of Lazy un-creative change is that?

Like no thought went into it at all, you just wanted to remove TM gains from arena sith characters. This hurts more then just Palp too.

Its been great seeing diversity in the arena after so long, there is no reason to do this change to Malak, which also hurts his own sith empire faction.

Anyone who invested gear into SM and SA just wasted every piece of gear. Sith who are a part of the empire now must never be used?