"VonZant;c-1653697" wrote:
Paper zombie was obviously not intended. It was a broken cheese mechanic (that I have abused a lot) that needed to be fixed.
It may not have been foreseen, but it was accepted for 11 months before the zombie was reworked. It was even announced way back, that it was regarded as an interestibg strategy. Do you remember, how quickly unintended strategies in STR, which were based on various TM bonuses were changed? THAT was unintended. Those made a whole phase trivial. Paper zombie didn't.
Yes, paper zombie caused a lot if frustration in the arena, but that was only until players learned how to deal with it and until more METAs using AoE were introduced. I personally didn't have troopers until I needed them for DS TB. The EP / Vader rework further helped dealing with paper zombie.
A geared zombie was always better in STR p3, however, ironically a paper initiate / MT will help setting up a good run much easier.