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I understand the urge to complain. I do it all the time. No judgment.

But this isn't as bad as you think. It's a matter of you being a new player. I love the NS, too, and they do just fine (and will continue to do just fine) as they are. No, they're not likely to rank top 50 in the arena anymore (although I see them there sometimes) but they are excellent for TW/TB and can still get you in the top 100 or 200 depending on your shard.

Make sure they're all leveled and zeta'd and have the fastest mods you can find and they'll do fine for you. But the bigger thing you have to realize is that this is how the game goes: one day a faction is uber-powerful, the next day they're easily beaten. It's no more annoying now than it was two years ago. The trick is to have lots of squads you enjoy playing with for a variety of reasons. If you put all your love and care and energy into a single squad... you will eventually be disappointed when they stop being meta. No biggie if you stop playing, I get it! But if you wanted to keep playing, I'd say build lots more teams you think are cool and fun, besides just the NS.

Source: me, been playing the game since it was released in Nov 2015 and have weathered many of these storms! =)

PS: you want a 'shame on you developers?' It's all the pay-to-play characters that have flooded the game this year. I've never had so many 3-star, unfarmable characters laying at the back of my roster. Wait until some of them are required at 7-star to get an important new character, and only people who've spent to level them can get said new character - that day will be a "shame on you developers" day. I think they're still okay for now. =)

most the teams I see with NS are acoylte free, and that was before the update.

The sky is falling too.

The problems in arena generally go away if you use Spirit instead of Acolyte. This was true before this change and is true still. As long as you're on equal mod level NS can defeat anything on offense and will defend quite well against many teams. This is also true no matter if you have a strong or weak zombie.

Spirit is one of the best offensive chars. Insane speed and stun - thats what is great for ns. Hinder the others to wipe your daka and stack the plague/rampage and at some point they all drop.

Nightsisters are amazing in several areas of the game and as someone said in a previous post, metas rise and fall, the powerful become meh and the meh become powerful. Look at characters like GK, Raid Han R2 etc, tens of thousands of players maxed these guys out but have recently dropped from the top spots and benched for empire/nightmare/Tri and even Jedi. They're still amazing characters however much like Nightsisters and have their uses.

End of NS? There's NO truth to that. Try spirit or Tilia as every hit of hers fill health on all NS in the squad. There's more then one way to play this game. So many peeps hop on the popular bandwagon and don't realize how valuable other characters are as well.

@Poxx has a top 10 NS team to this day I think. I think he runs Talia or Spirit or both. May ask him.

was there an update I missed or is this about acolyte?

Maybe I should've explained that this is mainly for Arena. I realize Talia can be successful in raids but I do not think she is successful in arena. I see Talia NS squads often but my experience is they are easier to beat than acolyte teams and most of my guildmates say the same. The major issue I have is the removal of the two shot, major dps reduction even with the 2* dmg because previously you had two opportunities to crit. The previous stealth mechanic was basically a 150% chance of stealth now it's 90%. I understand the nerfs on characters to rebalance the game or allow other factions in the mix but my issue is this nerf isnt for those reasons it's simply due to sith raid and paper zombie. It should've been fixed another way. I shouldn't have to get my NS spirit to GL12+ like my acolyte to succeed in arena when the nerf wasn't needed in the first place.