Let's Talk Jawas

Yeah, I've long since 3*d the T3 mod challenge. I took Dathcha to 7* because I didn't have anything else to farm in the GW store anyway, and when I 7* my Raid Han, I'll run the Brotini team in HAAT. I also took Scav to 7 for the same reason, and Engineer because I'd like to use him with droids.

I've given up hope on Jawa. I took him to 5* and that's where he'll stay until I can find a use for him or start needing whatever gear is on his hard node.

Nebit, I'm sure I'll bring up to 7* just because of the droid team above, but I still have 2 more toons I want out of the squad store before I feel like I can get the last star on him.

Thanks again for those who replied. There were a couple of very useful suggestions in here that I hadn't though of or read elsewhere so thanks for the input!

Well, with the change to mod challenges, I think we can drop the reasons to ever farm a single shard for any of the jawas down to 0.

As outlined in some of the posts above, they can be used in some parts of the game, but finding a use for a toon you already have and going out and actively farming one are two very different things. I think we can all agree that the things we've discussed here and the areas of the game that we've been able to find roles for them can be done by other toons, and often in a far superior way.

I don't understand the change to the jawa mod challenge requirements from CG's perspective. Why create a game, 5 characters, build in faction synergies and a role only to eliminate the one reason people had for using them? We've created a product, now lets eliminate the market for it!

Hopefully they create some kind of Jawa event like they have for Ewoks, or make them the "other" faction in one of the existing (or upcoming) Assault Battles or something.

Jawas dont really have a race wide synergy now...if they gonna rework them.

For example,
FO: advantage.
Resistance: expose.
BH: contracts.
something like that.

Jawa? huh? probably have more synergy with droids than themselves.

I very much doubt we'll see a faction rework for jawas, nor am I calling for one.

I just figure it makes most sense for CG and the game in general for as many toons as possible (or at least each faction, if not every toon within it) to have an actual use for something in game. Yes, the jawas weren't good in arena or any other game mode for that matter, but they were needed to be able to farm one type of mod in the game, and that's fine. One small purpose is better than no purpose at all. But as it stands now, they just took 5 toons from their game and made them 100% irrelevant.

"YKMisfit;c-1619446" wrote:
Well, with the change to mod challenges, I think we can drop the reasons to ever farm a single shard for any of the jawas down to 0.

As outlined in some of the posts above, they can be used in some parts of the game, but finding a use for a toon you already have and going out and actively farming one are two very different things. I think we can all agree that the things we've discussed here and the areas of the game that we've been able to find roles for them can be done by other toons, and often in a far superior way.

I don't understand the change to the jawa mod challenge requirements from CG's perspective. Why create a game, 5 characters, build in faction synergies and a role only to eliminate the one reason people had for using them? We've created a product, now lets eliminate the market for it!

Hopefully they create some kind of Jawa event like they have for Ewoks, or make them the "other" faction in one of the existing (or upcoming) Assault Battles or something.

Jawas aren’t the only useless faction. When is the last time you used a Tusken for anything?

I'm not saying they're the only useless faction, but they did have a use and now they don't. Not only that, but Tuskens are 3 toons and actually have an omega battle that they can be used in (I think jawas do too, actually). There are lots of useless toons from meaningful factions (Lobot-Various Rebel Events, Mob Enforcer-CH/DH), and there are other useless factions that have useful toons (Separatists-Asajj/B2/Dooku), but a useless faction made up entirely of useless toons? That's just terrible.

Look, I run 2 alternate accounts that don't have jawas or crit damage mods yet (I was farming them, but that's fine, I'm happy to stop) so this change actually benefits me. I'm not bitter or anything, I just don't get why they would want to have any more useless factions than they already do. I would think the goal would be to give people more reason to use all the things you've built into the game, not less.

"Kai_Mulai;c-1619630" wrote:

"YKMisfit;c-1619446" wrote:
Well, with the change to mod challenges, I think we can drop the reasons to ever farm a single shard for any of the jawas down to 0.

As outlined in some of the posts above, they can be used in some parts of the game, but finding a use for a toon you already have and going out and actively farming one are two very different things. I think we can all agree that the things we've discussed here and the areas of the game that we've been able to find roles for them can be done by other toons, and often in a far superior way.

I don't understand the change to the jawa mod challenge requirements from CG's perspective. Why create a game, 5 characters, build in faction synergies and a role only to eliminate the one reason people had for using them? We've created a product, now lets eliminate the market for it!

Hopefully they create some kind of Jawa event like they have for Ewoks, or make them the "other" faction in one of the existing (or upcoming) Assault Battles or something.

Jawas aren’t the only useless faction. When is the last time you used a Tusken for anything?

Um...TW clean up team?

It's all factions which really bugs me. If you want CD or Potency mods for example and don't have Jawas & Empire developed enough you had an option: settle for 1 & 2 dot. The 3-5 dots were a reward for players with a wide balanced roster. Now it's just a free-for-all and removes the resource management and attention needed to actually build 8 solid teams with different cores. Rewarding players who don't bother focusing on goals and just build one really strong team. I feel it's made the game weaker overall.

I really wanted CD mods for my FO team so I was in the middle of farming Jawas. Now any bloke who hasn't bothered farming or focusing can go out and farm the same mods I was building towards.

I take it all back. I see that you can use them in the Jakku Omega Battles! Step aside 7* G12 NS team...Nebit and his crew got this! lol

Utinni!!! :D