"Qeltar;77949" wrote:
You had me up until "Old Ben".
At any rate, I am just holding out waiting for the update to hopefully return some diversity and sanity to PvP. I can still get into the top 10 with my same old team that I haven't changed in weeks, but I hate relying on lucky stuns to win.
Let's make sure we're not losing sight of the forest for the trees here. The big takeaway here isn't "x build and x toons" beat "x speed team." The big revelation here - and this SHOULD change people's views on the game and balance in general - is that you CAN tank vs. this DPS squad and make it a turn based game. The game DOES have much more balance than everyone (including me even) realized. In fact - the game actually looks to be pretty well balanced when you're fighting on the extremes.
If everyone is being open to new information and not stuck on their prior arguments and beliefs - than this should open people's eyes to other possibilities and approaches. You can hit this team back - even with Poe you do have a turn meter based game - now the challenge is what can you put together to hit them back effectively.
Further...this is JUST like the first initial attempt here. Poe has only been turn 1 for what, less than 2 weeks? This isn't done. @Pilot is working on some wicked builds as well that may not require Ben and are not "AOE tanks" as a tactic...they're pushing another approach that may be superior to this one overall and as a D-slot if it works. I'm working on Snowtrooper for example as another tanky aoe option. I do want to have aoe tank depth going forward.
What I think happened here is that mostly people had built toons and teams around moderate to low health heroes such that rosters weren't equipped to challenge this meta well. Think about what most people have been farming: Droids (88 & 86 are not tanky), Lumi / Sid in arena (not tanky), JC as a healer (not tanky), Chewy is tanky, but doesn't do the damage or have AOE. People do have Poggle, some have Kylo and Phasma..but you need multiple aoes here to pull it off and with offense up. So I think most when they turned to their roster had limited options that could actually survive and if you can't survive round 1, you can't start to put something together that would work.
