So who is ENJOYING the reworks?

EP lead (zeta on leader, not on unique yet), zzVader, zThrawn (unique), Shore, SA. Tons of fun, completely obliterates CLS squads.

I put a zeta on Emp unique and I ran zVader lead,EMP,Shore,DT,Thrawn with pretty good mods..i sit in the 30s on a "Far Away,long time ago shard".I dominate Nightsister squads even with Kenobi in them which is great because 15/20 run them but CLS mows me down and raid han can still 1 shot Emp...they drop like a rock on defense,personally I should have put my zeta on r2-CA..

I am so happy about the reworks.. look at my face
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wSI4KAIHrVQ/UGaxahZWflI/AAAAAAAAPJ4/CmL6MjwoR6Q/s640/grumpy-cat-03.jpg

Lol @RacerDejak

Seems like the updates are a good start but still need some love. Hopefully we get a couple more updates this month to really round the DS out which I strongly believe we will.

This was a team in my shard that I previously avoided like the plague. Now? See for yourself (Palp is not zeta'd by the way). TLDR; I only lost Palp :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl0Tg0cVe-E&feature=youtu.be

I'm happy about the updates but I feel like I'm pretty alone in it. I put a zeta on palps unique for some survivability and that's it. Running a Thrawn(L), Vader, palp, shore, and stormtrooper with thrawn at g12 and the rest g11. I rose from 200ish in arena to 50 with two refreshes today on an old shard. Palp just eats up zarriss teams and often gets at least one char to 1 hp while I work on another with just his unique. I tried using only shoretrooper as a tank but the doubletaunt is necessary to protect EP.
Sure there are teams that beat me but at least I win easier and more often than before.
Like I said, I'm happy :)

update:

I'm having great success using a tarkin lead. I'm up to #4 on my arena shard and it's the highest i've ever been.

I only have 61k power but i have a fast empire team. my thrawn is at gear 10 and my other 4 are at gear 9. I'm very surprised at how well they're doing. I'm the only guy in the top 10 under level 80 (currently at 78). All other 9 are 82 or higher and gear much higher. The number 3 and 2 guys have 79k power and the #1 ranked guy on my shard currently is running empire as well but with 3 of his toons with gear 12 and total of 86k power.

I'm a lowly 61k total and sitting at number 4 as of this moment lol. no doubt i will drop back into the teens but it was fun getting ALMOST to the top. can't climb any higher though.

EMPIRE!!!!

I've the hell out of Vader's unique no zeta needed. I just need to know how much more durable EP is with crackling doom before I spend the meta. Please so.eo e throw me some info!!!

EP(L) - Krennic - Sht - DT - Thrawn

Zeta on Palpatine lead.

The rework made my team worse.

I'll try some other variation despite really liking all those toons.

I am enjoying it very much. People who are underwhelmed are likely whales. This rework literally only requires 1 zeta for sith/empire to become arena viable. I'm running EP zlead Vader zDN zzThrawn and ShT. There isn't a squad that it doesn't beat every time. the only time things get wobbly is vs a faster BB8/R-2 RJT squad. A faster EP team will wreck a slower EP team. Overall amazing start to the sith rework. If it is the only thing that happens the month of the sith gets a B. I'm guessing there is more to come to satisfy the whales. It will likely be heavily paywalled though