Please do something about these GG nuke squads

"Liath;c-1965258" wrote:
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.

Prior to relics, one or two were climbing to the top with it. They had good mods and geared their other Droids. Now people with G10-11 Droids and terrible mods are able to climb because of relics. That is the issue.

"SoonerJBD;c-1965380" wrote:

"Liath;c-1965258" wrote:
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.

Prior to relics, one or two were climbing to the top with it. They had good mods and geared their other Droids. Now people with G10-11 Droids and terrible mods are able to climb because of relics. That is the issue.

I haven’t seen any real change in who is climbing to the top in my shard. But even so, we are what, 5 months into this meta already? Things will change soon enough anyway. It will be fine.

Please re-read the original post. I’m fine with the team if it required a comparable level of gearing and mods to be successful. And the few who were running it pre-relics generally had that. But when you can climb to the top with toons that are purple and mods that are average at best against other metas that require all G13 and elite mods, that is a problem.

"SoonerJBD;c-1965383" wrote:
Please re-read the original post. I’m fine with the team if it required a comparable level of gearing and mods to be successful. And the few who were running it pre-relics generally had that. But when you can climb to the top with toons that are purple and mods that are average at best against other metas that require all G13 and elite mods, that is a problem.

3* Sion says hi.

"Liath;c-1965389" wrote:

"SoonerJBD;c-1965383" wrote:
Please re-read the original post. I’m fine with the team if it required a comparable level of gearing and mods to be successful. And the few who were running it pre-relics generally had that. But when you can climb to the top with toons that are purple and mods that are average at best against other metas that require all G13 and elite mods, that is a problem.

DR/Malak never required g13 or elite mods t beat other teams, only to beat mirror matches.

Obviously. Point being, you generally have a hard time climbing to the top ranks with SE that are mostly purple. Same with Padme squads or CLS or Clones with Anakin. But if you gear them and use good mods, you can. I’m fine with diversity. I like having different viable teams. I like seeing Padme squads up there. I do not like seeing squads with undergeared toons and bad mods in the Top 20. Whether they fall hard or not does not matter. They shouldn’t be able to reach top ranks in the first place until they gear their toons and farm decent mods.

I consider them a cheese team, and I wouldn't use it, but fortunately, not too many in my arena using it. As others have pointed out they do drop like a rock, and one guy in my shard chat sometimes complains about not being able to climb high enough without refreshing. There always seem to be teams that feel like exploits, but it is what it is I guess.

It holds better than other cheese teams because of GG. It is certainly easily beatable, but that’s not the point. My shard was never overrun by poorly geared IPD squads during the Traya era. A few used it to beat one or two specific teams for their climb, but no one left it in on defense, and it wasn’t being used by a noticeable percentage of top players. All of that is true of these GG nuke squads. Before relics, it was a fun and creative team that required some specific modding and decent gearing if you wanted to use it effectively. Now all you need is R5 GG and a bunch of purple geared crap.

"TVF;c-1965403" wrote:
Well I'm pretty sure they're not going to do anything about it.

I’m pretty sure they aren’t going to do anything about a litany or legit complaints. I’m pretty sure their next major release will be as buggy and poorly tested as every other one before. That doesn’t make it wrong to complain about it.

"SoonerJBD;c-1965378" wrote:
Arena isn’t supposed to make you feel good for being average.

If you're deriving your sense of self-worth from your SWGOH arena standing, I have to wonder if everything is OK at home.

"Jarvind;c-1965425" wrote:

"SoonerJBD;c-1965378" wrote:
Arena isn’t supposed to make you feel good for being average.

If you're deriving your sense of self-worth from your SWGOH arena standing, I have to wonder if everything is OK at home.

Not sure what you mean. I like winning. Arena is supposed to reward those who build the best rosters, procure the best mods and learn the mechanics with top spots. It is not supposed to give first place rewards as some sort of participation medal.