"Malif13;c-1965572" wrote:
"SoonerJBD;c-1965554" wrote:
"212Attack;c-1965540" wrote:
Sounds like the OP is someone in this ridiculous shard chat that should be guaranteed a top 10 spot. Thing is this post is exactly whats wrong with shard discords. WAHH WAHH WAHHHHHH!!! someone is wrecking my lame **** DR malak cancer... WAHH!!!
Whether you are in a shard chat is irrelevant. I have worked hard to G13 appropriate toons, accumulate mods that make my key toons the fastest in my shard and learn the mechanics to beat in-game content. I find it disconcerting that someone with 2 million less GP who has one G13 and atrocious mods should be able to climb to Top 10. It makes the top spots meaningless. If you want to climb to the top of the arena, it should require you do the work to earn a spot among the better players in your shard. Or alternatively to least spend the money to pay for everyone else’s enjoyment of the game (this is not a thread about the game’s business model, so I concede spending as an alternative).
When it came to the Darth Revan/Malak meta, lots of people who wanted to stay on top spent money on the game. Now, I'm not against spending money, but spending money does not mean working hard. So how can you say you worked hard to get the meta?
By now, anyone who knows how to play the game well has had the opportunity to acquire DR and Malak, so the P2W argument doesn’t work. I farmed mods heavily nonstop for over a year, neglecting Cantina toons I didn’t find worth the investment. Because of that, I have an excellent mod collection that has allowed me to stay on top in arena for the three years whatever the meta. When I’ve been on the ground floor of a meta, I could mod mine better than the other versions. When the meta included a marquee toon I didn’t have, I found other teams that could compete, geared and modded them well. That is what you are supposed to do to finish at the top of arena. F2P can usually manage it, but it requires better planning and discipline. That is “the work.”
