Thoughts on IG-100 Magnaguard?

"UNivek;281962" wrote:
I like my droids so gave my 7* magnaguard a try today hitting gear 9. As others say, in the Tank challenge, he's good at applying offence down, so great pair with RG to shut down Mace. In the arena, he's so-so now at gear 9. Great turn meter gain with HK and also gains on dodge with AOE which is plenty against a Dooku led team. I showed a video that included a close fight vs. Dooku. Have other ones where I win with 4 standing, also vs. Dooku, but this one is closer and many RNG against me so probably more interesting.

If anything, I enjoy as the only droid team in the top 20 in the sea of Dooku. : ) I think @Reyia would be proud of this. :smile:

Tank Challenge
https://youtu.be/6bYU7iRHOUA

Arena
https://youtu.be/6OGtnlfdqwg

Bro, how are your droids going on with actual meta?
And by the way, do you think droids will be more dangerous on next update? I think yes.

"Mephisto_style;282764" wrote:
I have 7* hk 88 86 and halfway to 6* with Lobot. I will run lobot all droids 1 day

Living the dream!

"Zathrack;282802" wrote:

Bro, how are your droids going on with actual meta?

On how I'm doing, if you meant by staying on top rank. Yes, I frequently finished #1 over last few month running droids @ payout. Alternated between HK and Poggle leads. Having said that, and a great perspective. I recently took some time off the game - needed some break, and dropped down to ~ 190. On the way back up (now again top 5), I saw many previous #1 teams so that tells you all teams in the top 200 is capable of beating top teams and can compete vs. top teams in ranks 'if they choose to'. I actually enjoyed fighting up because I saw lots of variety. By the time I hit top 20, it was like 95% Dooku led teams! I don't think it says Dooku stays on the top but rather players who takes the effort to stay at top 20 follow more meta. I showed the video above with a close fight vs. Dooku. Here is one vs. another Dooku team - also with double stun opening that shows me having 4 standings at the end. https://youtu.be/1WvJq1TSh4I

I guess what I'd say is with the game today (who knows what balance will do), many team comp can win, so just pick what you enjoy and go with it. I mean I replaced the undisputed #1 DPS character in GS with probably the most neglected character in IG100 and kept top rank. Adds more variety and not feel like you need certain characters to have fun. I know I truly enjoyed levelling up my Magnaguard, just by having all those droids gives me a smile when I enter a battle.

"Zathrack;282802" wrote:

And by the way, do you think droids will be more dangerous on next update? I think yes.

I do think droids, and many other toons will be even more viable after next update - that's also development's goal. So we'd have toons - hopefully all, be able to act and do their thing before being one or assist killed before they act.

@UNivek , thanks for the video, my nets a little slow right now, I'll watch later. Good to know you could replace GS. I have all the toons for a droid squad except GS and have been working on 100 as a side project. So maybe I can run a droid team too after all.

My wife also runs the typical Poggle droid team and manages no 1 against Dooku/ QGJ etc on most days. I'll share the video with her too. Thanks again.

Has anyone tried full droid team under HK-47 lead, without Poggle but with GS as party starter? Once You get first critical it should get rolling and IG-100 turn meter reduction may be some small help?

@zerizut, haha, ya, I have to add Magnaguard to my collection (the important one, Lego that is). And Lobot : ) Stay tuned.

"zerizut;283361" wrote:

"I do think droids, and many other toons will be even more variable after next update"
May the Freud be with you!

Oops, I made a typo, meant viable but variable works too! : ) good catch.

@Azraelrulez, GS still does more damage (let me timestamp this one for Apr 11 @11AM EST). ;) And so does other IGs compared to IG100 (also at this moment in time). So you can decide on the priority based on damage if you like. But I'm just saying for fun and variety, there is no meta, just get what'd put a smile in your face when you load up the team.

@UNivek , nah, don't have GS and no intention of farming him. All I've heard is Sith (thanks @Ouchie for the word, haha) about 100 but was farming him in the hopes that I might be able to play droids later on (Poggle, 88, 86 maxed, HK47 at 2 shards to 7 stars). Just saw the video and it was good to see he can be played even now!

@UNivek that was a great Arena video! Loved it. You seldom see Magnaguard in action. But I hear something is up with its attack power, that it was actually nerfed when they remade the toon? I noticed it did seem to do very small damage compared to the other droids. Do you still find it useful?

"Nonemo;283519" wrote:
@UNivek that was a great Arena video! Loved it. You seldom see Magnaguard in action. But I hear something is up with its attack power, that it was actually nerfed when they remade the toon? I noticed it did seem to do very small damage compared to the other droids. Do you still find it useful?

Haha, agree on 'seldom', more like never. I may be the 1st to get him to G9, 7*. :) I think he can only be better, can't be worse with any update. :)

Let's be geeky here for a moment with my toons' physical dmg and critical rating # from the game. (addd GS for reference)
7* G9 Magnaguard, IG100: 1,665, 318
7* G8 IG86: 1,648, 521
7* G8 IG88: 1,733, 562
7* G8 HK47: 1,446, 284 (really just there for leader ability)
7* G9 GS: 1,926, 500

So pure stat wise, you can see IG100 is in the ball park with 88 and 86 in damage stat, but its critical chance is lower. However, I think here is where skill bonus comes in, the attack he does is without a doubt (and experience too), much lower than 88, 86 and GS. e.g. I can easily see 88/86 crit over 10K with offence up, and 6-9K without. While for 100, his #s are about half of 88/86. With offence up, he crits up to 5K and without, ~3-4K. So damage wise, no doubt, he is worse.

To answer your question. Useful from damage wise, not as much in comparison to 88/86/GS. (again, at this moment in time) But I like how he can apply offence down, counter (a droid that counters!), another AOE that can remove turn meter. So if you need a DPS to win, then don't pick him. But if you don't, he can jump in. For me, he is 'useful' in making me enjoy playing and does enough DPS for me to win still.

"zerizut;283987" wrote:
So, yeah. At level 80 IG-100 is no chump and Geo not awesome anymore. Plus, the update to combat mechanics is at hand. I'll be working on IG-100 from now on, Geo will stay at one star. My thanks to everybody, who has contributed to this thread. Great read!

I'm confused. How did you get to the conclusion that Geo is not awesome anymore from that? Geo has a 6645 special attack which is a ally assist attack, so there is also the basic attack of another character not included. Geo deals about 600 more damage with the basic attack than 100. 100 has about 9k extra HP on Geo, but Geo's speed is a little less than double 100s. So Geo will currently goes first and has a huge burst. In terms of balancing, GS is an easy takeout if you focus on him early cause of low hit points, and his damage, while good, isn't up to the level of Rey/RP/HRS/even Yoda (GS really benefits from the basic attack offense up primarily.) I don't see GS being changed too much with the damage-speed changes because he is fairly balanced. IG100 is low damage output and slow, so he will be almost surely get a buff - but there is no knowing how useful the changes will be. He does provide TM control, but seems like GS is more of a known at this point. Not saying not to go for IG100, but not sure how you came to that conclusion based on the numbers you provided when everything there points to 100 being the worst of the 5 listed.

I have magnaguard 6* gear 8 i love him actually he has a great kit.