"Globuhl;c-1887988" wrote:
To sum it up, we used to farm characters, now we are farming entire teams at once.
Eh, not really. That's mainly a thing for the Old Republic farms that were basically generating factions from scratch, but other than that?
Yes, you have to build up different teams of different factions, but that's always been the game. Most meta/event teams have been two or three old established characters, two or three new hotness characters.
Going back in time?
Devan, HK, Bast, Malak, Trooper. Three new toons. Two old solid toons.
Padme and a number of lineups, but let's say GK, Ani, Snips, R2. All old, established toons who've been useful for one reason or another at various points. The only toon competing for a spot in Padme's lineup who's new is 3PO.
Kevan, Bast, Jolee, Yoda, GK. Three new, two old.
Current CLS. Slot the new Chewie and 3PO into the old Titans.
Separatist droids. Two new, three old. One of the droids is often displaced by Nute, who is very old and easy to gear.
We've got the upcoming Geonosian team, which is four very old characters, several of them launch characters, three of them pilots who a lot of people have lying around at high gear. Just one new unit to make that work.
Now there's Shaak troopers. One new leader and four old clones.
Hunters for Chewie. Lot of shiny new hunters happened, but you only needed Bossk with four old school hunters to make a good team.
Ewoks for 3PO. All of them had been good and around for a hot minute.
Sith. Nightmare had one new unit in Sion. Traya had two in Sion and Traya herself.
Bastila Jedi. This was one new unit with four old since Jolee hadn't caught on yet.
Qi'ra Scoundrels. New team, but little incentive to actively farm it. Just a couple new units and some stray scoundrels you probably already have was enough for anything you need them for. The rest is a luxury for TW and now GA. A good luxury, but still a luxury. But it was one of the rare cases of a new, full five-person team being added.
JTR. To really get this working in Nightmare, you needed three new units; JTR, BB-8, and Holdo.
Nightsisters. They were pretty trash before the rework other than Asajj, so they were almost from scratch.
Titans. At the time, CLS and Thrawn were pretty new hotness toons, put alongside old staples Han, GK, and moderately established R2.
Phoenix squad was the last time before Revan where we got a full lineup in preparation for an event. Five new toons who went farmable very shortly before Thrawn happened.
That more or less covers major teams of the last two years, and the general trend has been a couple new, a couple old. That hasn't really changed.
