Please do something about these GG nuke squads

"SoonerJBD;d-214215" wrote:
People with crappy mods and G11 Droids do not belong in the Top 20 in arena simply because they can G13 one toon. That squad needs a serious nerf. At the very least, it should require G12/13 on every toon in order to beat other meta squads that are all G13. Just another side effect of OP relics.

We had a couple reaching first pre-relic.

They also drop like a rock. Counters are nothing new.

"These filthy plebs don't deserve to associate with the likes of me! Jeeves, nerf these common rabble immediately!"

Running this squad properly requires significant investment in characters that wouldn't otherwise warrant it, and requires specific modding as well. It's not just getting one character to g13, and bam beat everybody. It takes advantage of the weaknesses in the current meta, but is easily beaten by several other teams. And it has nothing to do with relics since these teams were perfectly capable of taking first before relics existed. It's not really a problem.

Grievous nuke is a squad that takes advantage of the mechanics of the Darth Revan squad and directly counters them fair and square. It's a good and reasonable counter. The game is better overall for the technique existing than not.

"Zar1234;c-1965265" wrote:

"TVF;c-1965250" wrote:

"SoonerJBD;d-214215" wrote:
People with crappy mods and G11 Droids do not belong in the Top 20 in arena simply because they can G13 one toon. That squad needs a serious nerf. At the very least, it should require G12/13 on every toon in order to beat other meta squads that are all G13. Just another side effect of OP relics.

We had a couple reaching first pre-relic.

They also drop like a rock. Counters are nothing new.

I got GG to R6. I dropped to 16 in my launch shard, and I have a G7 IPD. Of course I'd consider my mods to be sublime and results not typical.

Not all shards are created equal.

I don’t have a nuke team but I like the fact that someone took the time to theorycraft a non-traditional team. Mirror matches are annoying and a diverse arena is better for the health of the game. (I run sith empire and the nuke teams actually help me climb easier because they don’t hold up well on defense)

"Jarvind;c-1965254" wrote:
"These filthy plebs don't deserve to associate with the likes of me! Jeeves, nerf these common rabble immediately!"

let them eat cake

If the GG nuke squad didn't exist right now I might have quit a while ago

With GG nuke you can beat bunch of other squads than just DR malak.
I just used it against an old republic with carth lead squad in TW and it works well too

"Jarvind;c-1965254" wrote:
"These filthy plebs don't deserve to associate with the likes of me! Jeeves, nerf these common rabble immediately!"

Actually, yeah. People who geared one toon and haven’t farmed mods to be competitive to do not belong in the top 20 ranks with a bunch of people who have done everything right to obtain meta toons, gear and mod their squads to be among the best in the shard. That’s the entire point. Arena isn’t supposed to make you feel good for being average. It is supposed to separate the best players from those who don’t put in the work to develop their roster and mods. And yeah, money can substitute for work, but being smart and making good decisions about farming and allocating crystals can get you to top of the arena. That’s perfectly fine. This is akin to when people with three star Bastila and terrible mods were climbing in many shards. It’s not healthy for the arena.