Anyone else notice JTR squads received some kind of boost?

I don't underestimate what it can do at all. I also don't underestimate how poorly it holds defensively against any of the subsequent metas. I actually thought Zaul would make a slight resurgence against the JTR meta due to it's efficacy there, but that didn't come to pass.

I didn't say anybody was catching up to you. That's long since passed. I said they're pulling away from you. It's the nature of power creep. I'd estimate that your shard is probably about a year old. Everything about your roster and mods tells me you're fully FTP, and that's fine, but you can't always expect parity with those who aren't.

To my original point, I did over 25 battles myself the past two days against several permutations of JTR squads, most of them recorded. Much of my payout group did the same. No unusual behavior at all, not even once. When I say not unusual, that means we're already aware of the turn meter issues and they're still functioning in the normal broken way in a mirror match.

My guess would be that what he seems to be experiencing would indicate, to me, that those RJT teams have been getting increasingly better mods over the past week or two. Even small bumps in speed to the main 3 on that team can help to significantly increase the ID cooldown and TM manipulation engines of that team. I would suggest checking the average speed of those in your shard and see if they haven't starting getting speeds of 260 or even 270 on BB8 and r2's in the same range.

As someone who runs an RJT team - with BB8, R2, Scav and CLS, they are very RNG dependent.

I bet the teams have not changed that much, here is an example of how RNG dependent they are.

BB8 fastest and goes first, uses CDT, someone gets secret intel, RJT gets TM.
RJT goes next (in my setup) uses Defiant Slash, call BB8 who calls another - starting here I can land anywhere from 0 to 3 expose which will greatly speed up the whole team if all 3 land.
R2 smoke screen (or Scav if she got enough tm) but we will assume R2, who hides everyone but CLS
Now for Scav - who has the possibility to land 4 expose with flurry, if she does that's another 40% tm for all Res members of the team.
With enough exposes and secret intel, RJT goes again. Then R2 or BB8. If R2 goes and exposes the entire other team 50% more tm and now every time BB8 goes (or any other Res uses a special) the other team loses 5% tm.

There are times I win matches and the other team barely gets an attack. And other times when expose doesn't land that against the same team I lose Scav and possible CLS before winning.

It is crazy weird. Similar to running a zFinn team, when the expose pops your way it is a super easy victory.

You guys that are bringing up my defense is an invalid point. The change I am noticing is on OFFENSE. I've said several times now that it is about a dozen teams I could easily beat on offense previously and now I can't all at the same exact time 3 days ago. Defense is not as rough for me as my shard mates don't step on me unless they have to.

Again I would make the argument that you are probably experiencing the gains on the mods that these teams have probably been making. A speed bump of 5 on bb8 could be the difference. Or on R2, or Rey or even Thrawn, if they are using him.

I encountered the same issue, though it started the week before last. It's intermittent. When Rey first landed she didn't pose much of a challenge, despite the same comp littering the shard (JRey, R2, BB8, GK + Thrawn / Han / CLS). Some people have changed things up and inserted Chopper or Old Ben. Regardless, they were all beatable. I rarely dropped much past 15 (a 105k Titans or Chaze team). For the past two weeks....I've never been more frustrated with this game. I've literally seen the opposing team take 18 turns in a row. I've had to get creative around matchups (Baze and GK work pretty well together, but drop like a rock on D), and if CLS doesn't stick Buff Immunity on GK on the opener, I'm essentially out to lunch.

Interestingly, I've also noticed on some of these matches that R2 can't stick a stun (while the opposing R2 stuns everything in sight, with 10-15% lower potency), Han crits for 4k and his second non-crit can be as low as 2k and there's a preponderance of enemy dodge's (even when fractured.....you would think...ah,nevermind).

Some of my guild mates indicated a Bug Report was filed, with video evidence and all, indicating that Rey and BB-8 were getting TM when they shouldn't have been. That 'feels' right to me. I had never seen ID go off prior to last week. I've asked my shard mates what changes they had made to their teams..."None"

Soooooo, while Occam's Razor might suggest that teams have added G12 pieces and upgraded their mods (because everyone in a PO rotation is surely still mod farming after a year....), I tend to believe that there is some behind the scenes tweaking that is, um, unpublished.

Does anyone happen to remember, I want to say late summer, a brief period when arena matches were unwinnable - opposing squads were hitting for twice what they normally would, were much faster, etc. etc.? We ended up getting some crystal comp for it. Lasted an afternoon, hot fix had to go out. That's more than enough evidence for me to know that the 'gaming' in this game runs deep. Like Ben said...

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See I knew I wasn't crazy... these are the same squads I've been battling for a year that went from Zaul meta to Rex meta to CLS meta to JTR meta... these guys didn't all of sudden get a bunch of improved mods and gear on the same exact day. There has been some kind of backdoor change or a bug and it should be put back.

If there are buff/nerf/hotfix, then why have to conceal it? It will make people curious and start make assumption. I mean, most of us here not start this game just yesterday. Sure we can easily notice if there is something different.

I would guess they would conceal it because they want people to invest money farming for her next event as well as other toons who go with her like Holdo who happened to be in the update that occured right when this issue started for me. JTR was not a good enough upgrade from CLS. Can't stop the meta chase.

What exactly is holding you back? Does bb8 no longer die in one shot?