What to do about Royal Guard

It's very hard to with slow toons like the droids but if you bring Geo plus another fast toon to go along with your 86 then you have a chance. Also stuns if you have them. Like others have said you bring someone down to 60-70% health then use an assist toon to take them out. Use your stuns on the other DPS in the meanwhile to lessen the damage you take. Also a dispel skill is great in case you get a critical hit and accidentally take a toon to below 50%. The game really has become more about strategy than just point and click, even if you have the best toons you can't just unload your specials and win the game turn one.

The devs did exactly what we asked them to do, the only problem was Jesse mentioned that slower toons would do more damage and that has people outraged because it didn't really happen.

4/16 patch no notes says qui qgj will only dispell on ai or auto now...ugh

"Citoak;312121" wrote:
4/16 patch no notes says qui qgj will only dispell on ai or auto now...ugh

No I can see how the wording confused people. It means that the AI will only use Humbling Blow if there is a positive status effect to dispel. He would use it sometimes as just a regular attack.

Assess the biggest threat, remove protection, use a little brain power to figure out how to kill that threat before you get taunted to rg (assist works well) or after (aoe). Remove taunt, and repeat, or kill rg. There are a variety of strategies to beat teams that use him. Is he an annoyance, yes. But once you get the method of how to deal with him down, he becomes trivial. That's not to say AI won't have its way with you on occasion.

Humbling Blow from a well equipped QGJ will usually clear RG's taunt, allowing your team to finish kiling the character you had initially targeted.

QGJ humbling blow, phasma advantage, the dps can take down the red ghost in a turn. I've done it.

QGJ is what I've been using to kill an opponent using RG. But I do run my own RG.

I always keep in mind that RG only taunts when someone goes below 50% health. Keeping that in mind, I make sure I can get someone from slightly above 50% to dead in one attack. That often means judicious use of attacks on your current target, and perhaps even having a character or two focus on something else until you have a toon taking a turn with an attack that can accomplish the task.

"chuckwing;310851" wrote:
@Dcmone1 Just like Dooku and the people who used to say "The best counter to Dooku is running Dooku yourself", that is not a way to balance a game. That is how you force people to use the same characters which is what ruins the game. You are right though, RG is the best way to fight RG.

This - in the worst way. :(

Guy who is #1 ATM on my shard is running 7* RG, Dooku, Daka, QGJ, GS all gear level 9.

Try to focus Daka? RG taunts
Focus Dooku - Yoda prevents the ability blocks and stuns for 2 turns but RG taunts
Focus QGJ or GS - sure but after 2 turns of Yoda BM wears off the Dooku, Daka, RG stun rap kicks off and you perpetually have at least 2 usually 3 toons stunned per turn. Going nowhere fast with that one.
Focus RG - sure NP - 41k plus change HP and Protection...10 actual hits (not including dodges ftom dooku) needed to bring him down 2 - 3 full rounds.

Not much left of my team left at this point. I will say however that all my toons get about 2-3 turns before dying. They just don't do anything against this line up.

There is just no viable strategy right now to counter all these stuns and huge health of RG. If I am wrong please let me know what the strategy is without mirroring that team and relying on a looooong coinflip?

Sad and dejected atm

This is so much like GS - a no name nuff nuff toon ruling the known galaxy and just pwning acknowledged named masters left right and centre.

What testing was actually done - did anyone actually test to see at current levels if the likely combo was reasonably beatable or does it all change somehow at l80 as if by magic.

This game design, the consequences of which, leave me considering other games as more worthy of my time and less of a magnet for my frustration.