Why did I invest in Malak?

"Bulldog1205;c-1841693" wrote:

"leef;c-1841368" wrote:

"Jarvind;c-1841350" wrote:

"Armatores;c-1841211" wrote:
Right, speed mods wins. Get yourself +160 speed mods on all team and team composition will not be so important.

This is such a worthless comment, and people always say this as if you have any control at all over whether you get 20+ speed mods.

ofcourse you do, farm more mods. Ofcourse some players are more lucky than others, but it's not like you don't have any control over it whatsoever.
Most of the time i face a player who has a faster speed set than me, they also have more +10's and vice versa. Imo that's a better indication of how many modfarming someone has done since it's less dependent on RNG.

I’m still bitter about mods. I originally farmed only the purple and gold mods, and spent my refreshes on searching for the best high tier mods in the store I was rewarded with some of the best mods on my server. Then 6 dot mods come and everyone got to upgrade their mods and mine are already capped out. Outside of a temporary advantage while everyone else needed to accumulate extra slicing materials, I’ve fallen so far behind on mods.

That's a fair critisisme, but doesn't necessarily make what i said less true.

"Bulldog1205;c-1841715" wrote:

"leef;c-1841702" wrote:

"Bulldog1205;c-1841693" wrote:

"leef;c-1841368" wrote:

"Jarvind;c-1841350" wrote:

"Armatores;c-1841211" wrote:
Right, speed mods wins. Get yourself +160 speed mods on all team and team composition will not be so important.

This is such a worthless comment, and people always say this as if you have any control at all over whether you get 20+ speed mods.

ofcourse you do, farm more mods. Ofcourse some players are more lucky than others, but it's not like you don't have any control over it whatsoever.
Most of the time i face a player who has a faster speed set than me, they also have more +10's and vice versa. Imo that's a better indication of how many modfarming someone has done since it's less dependent on RNG.

I’m still bitter about mods. I originally farmed only the purple and gold mods, and spent my refreshes on searching for the best high tier mods in the store I was rewarded with some of the best mods on my server. Then 6 dot mods come and everyone got to upgrade their mods and mine are already capped out. Outside of a temporary advantage while everyone else needed to accumulate extra slicing materials, I’ve fallen so far behind on mods.

That's a fair critisisme, but doesn't necessarily make what i said less true.

The original point was that we can’t control what mods we get and that it’s all luck. I’m just supporting that saying that I’ve spent a ton of resources into farming mods, and a combination of poor RNG and changes by CG that I couldn’t foresee have left me with subpar mods. It’s just extremely frustrating that such poor balancing there leaves us with this.

I don't know man, maybe you got unlucky, maybe you didn't. Having sold a bunch of prime slicable mods just prior to the mods 2.0 announcement (which was well in advance of the actual update iirc) sure sucks, it could even be the reason you have subpar mods by your own standards. Who knows
But generally speaking the players who invest more resources into mods end up having better mods. Even if you personally get exceptionally unlucky it still doensn't mean that it's all luck.
You won't hear me say that the amount of resources invested into mods always directly translates into the qualitiy of someones mods, but there's definately a correlation. Maybe my own bias is to blame, but every time i see someone calling it all luck i imidiate think that the one saying it is just using it as an excuse and just didn't farm alot of mods. Obviously that means i'm wrong about that atleast some of the time since even i believe you can get unlucky with mods, but it is what it is.

I'm not certain its "poor balancing" related to mods. I'm pretty sure its intentional. It think it makes them a lot of money. I'm guessing if mods 3.0 comes as rumored, it will make them more.

I have always spent a lot of time on farming mods before 2.0 and had some decent ones, but have not taken advantage of slicing very much. My best set is about +145 and I have a +140. After that its pretty average. I don't see myself ever having a +160 set.

They did say they were going to try to reduce reliance on speed but I havet seen it. They have made other stats more useful, but speed is still king.

I REALLY want them to release a plug and play tank who provides a 1 turn damage immunity and tenacity up at the start of battle. That will stifle some of the hyper-speed teams.

"VonZant;c-1841789" wrote:
I'm not certain its "poor balancing" related to mods. I'm pretty sure its intentional. It think it makes them a lot of money. I'm guessing if mods 3.0 comes as rumored, it will make them more.

I have always spent a lot of time on farming mods before 2.0 and had some decent ones, but have not taken advantage of slicing very much. My best set is about +145 and I have a +140. After that its pretty average. I don't see myself ever having a +160 set.

They did say they were going to try to reduce reliance on speed but I havet seen it. They have made other stats more useful, but speed is still king.

I REALLY want them to release a plug and play tank who provides a 1 turn damage immunity and tenacity up at the start of battle. That will stifle some of the hyper-speed teams.

Of course, then you end up with said tank being basically a requirement because there are already so many lightspeed teams out there. And now speed is no longer king, but you only get to choose teams of four instead of five because you need Invincible Tank Guy as a safeguard against ultra-fast Revans and whatnot.

Introducing speed on mods in the first place was a terrible idea, because obviously "going first and getting more turns than your opponent" was always going to be the biggest possible advantage. Well, terrible from a gameplay perspective. In terms of "getting people to spend crystals because the only way to get speed mods is sacrifices to RNGesus" I'm sure it was a phenomenal move.

At this point the only way I can think to fix it would be to change the speed stat so that there's some element of chance to it, such that it increases the amount of TM you CAN gain per "tick" or whatever, but there's some variance to it. Or at the very least put some kind of diminishing return on speed so that stacking it past a certain amount grants progressively less turn meter.

It'd still be a flawed system, but it would make speed less essential, and I'd take that over "if your Fallen Bastila is faster than the other guy's team, you win automatically."

Triumvirate, Thrawn, Malak - all that bonus protection going to health makes Malak crazy.

"Darth;c-1841896" wrote:
That’s what u get for spending money! Nobody to blame but yourself

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How about the people you gave money to? For example, is it my fault if someone deceives me?

"Nihion;c-1842861" wrote:

"Darth;c-1841896" wrote:
That’s what u get for spending money! Nobody to blame but yourself

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How about the people you gave money to? For example, is it my fault if someone deceives me?

Sometimes yes it is your fault. Do you remember grevous rework ? Devs said one thing which meant to people who had to much money “ he beats revan with 4star and no zetas “ and then the people who wanted to spend money ... blamed the developers. But it was the players fault. Sometimes a nigerian prince emails you , asking for help. But it doesn’t mean you’re not at fault if you help him.

Haha no counters are allowed for the shiny toy but people with toy wanting to nerf mod speed of
Others. This is rich . How about just having a soft counter available to get around that speed .

"DarkstarSunrise;c-1843192" wrote:
You could win against a faster traya, you could win against a faster jkr, but you cannot win against a faster DR (unless you are ungodly lucky). This meta is trash. My Malak is useless since my mods can't compete.

Then it’s not the meta that’s the issue, it’s the mods.

Pro tip: the new toy may be really good, but it wont give you free wins if you aint good (mods, strat and such)