Kit Reveal: Morgan Elsbeth
UNIT NAME: Morgan Elsbeth ALIGNMENT: Dark Side CATEGORIES: Dark Side, Tank, Nightsister Key Attributes: Durable Tank that synergizes with Foresight and Stealth to help Acolyte and Spirit do big damage Provides tons of survivability with health and protection mechanics around Foresight and Stealth. Sets the stage for a new Nightsister squad Inspiration: The Ahsoka show! Especially the granting of the Blade of Talzin and the fights that take place between Morgan and Ahsoka. We really wanted to make a kit that shows off how powerful Morgan is and how important her Nightsister ancestry is to her. The animations for her attackers were inspired by the choreography of the aforementioned fight between Morgan and Ahsoka We were inspired for her to be the Tank in the new Nightsister squad from Thrawn’s request that she stall, and hold off Ahsoka while he escaped. Strategy Tips: Morgan has a reactive Taunt to allies gaining Stealth. Use Acolyte's Basic ability so Morgan can protect her allies! Or, if the target enemy had Defense Down whenever Morgan uses her Basic, it grants the weakest non-Tank Nightsister ally Stealth. Whenever a Nightsister ally critically hits an enemy, that enemy is inflicted with Defense Down, which helps Morgan give out Stealth on her Basic and deals more Damage on her Special 2 Omicron! For survivability, Morgan provides Health recovery and Protection recovery whenever a Nightsister ally Stealths or gains Foresight. Morgan creates an Offensively strong squad by providing Offense increases when she is Taunting or to a Nightsister ally who has Foresight and Critical Damage to a Stealthed Nightsister. FAQ: How do I acquire Morgan Elsbeth? Marquee starting on 11a Pacific July 18th. This uses the new Marquee structure. Does she have an exclusive datacron? No, however she will have an affix in an upcoming datacron set. Why does she prevent Nightsisters from reviving? We wanted this new Nightsister squad to feel distinct from the existing one that centers around Plague and revives. Additionally, this allowed us to put the power we wanted into Morgan without concern of lifting Talzin’s squad too high. Who leads this new Nightsister squad? The Great Mothers, coming soon Do I need Morgan for anything upcoming? Baylan Skoll’s Epic Confrontation requirements will require Morgan Elsbeth at relic 7 There will be no official Q/A with this Kit Abilities BASIC: Blade of Talzin Final Text: Deal Physical damage to target enemy and Morgan gains Defense Up and Protection Up (50%) for 1 turn. If target enemy is inflicted with Defense Down, the weakest other non-Tank Nightsister ally Stealths for 1 turn. If Morgan is Taunting, inflict target enemy with Vulnerable for 1 turn. SPECIAL 1: My Loyalty, My Life - 4 CD Final Text: Dispel all buffs on all enemies, and all Nightsister allies recover 50% Health and Protection and gain Defense Penetration Up for 2 turns. If Morgan is Taunting, all Nightsister allies gain 20% Turn Meter and Tenacity Up for 2 turns. SPECIAL 2: Let None Pass - 4 CD (OMICRON) Final Text: Deal Physical damage to target enemy, Blind them for 1 turn, inflict them with Armor Shred for the rest of the encounter, and call all other Nightsister allies to assist. If this attack defeats an enemy, Blind all enemies for 2 turns, which can't be evaded or resisted. While in Grand Arenas: Stagger target enemy for 2 turns, and Expose all enemies and inflict them with Buff Immunity for 2 turns. If target enemy is inflicted with Defense Down, Nightsister allies deal an additional 5% damage and the cooldown of their abilities is decreased by 1. All Nightsister allies gain Frenzy for 1 turn and Protection Up (50%) for 2 turns. UNIQUE 1: Preordained Destiny (ZETA) Final Text: At the start of Battle, all Nightsister allies gain 10% Critical Chance, Defense, and Max Health, 30% Tenacity, and 50% Max Protection. Whenever another Nightsister ally Stealths, they gain 15% Critical Damage for 1 turn, Morgan Taunts for 1 turns and all Nightsister allies recover 25% Health. Whenever a Nightsister ally gains Foresight, they gain 20% Offense for 1 turn and all Nightsister allies recover 25% Protection. Whenever a Nightsister ally critically hits an enemy, that enemy is inflicted with Defense Down for 1 turn, which can't be resisted. The first time each other Nightsister ally falls below 20% Health, they gain Foresight and Stealth for 2 turns, Morgan gains 20% Defense until the end of the encounter, and they and Morgan recover 30% Health and Protection, and gain 30% Turn Meter. Whenever Morgan is defeated, inflict all enemies with Health Down for 2 turns which can't be dispelled, evaded, or resisted, all Nightsister allies recover 100% Health and Protection, and gain 5% Critical Avoidance and Defense, plus an additional 10% Critical Avoidance and Defense per Relic Amplifier level Morgan had until the end of the encounter. Whenever Morgan Taunts, all Nightsister allies recover 20% Health and Protection, and gain 15% Offense until she loses Taunt. Whenever she loses Taunt, she recovers 5% Health and Protection and gains 10% Turn Meter. Defeated allies can't be revived. This effect persists through defeat.
Desperate Plea to the Developers
The recent update weakened the viability and usefulness of the Moff Gideon and Eeth Koth Datacrons, and that is something that literally nobody on the forums was asking for, at least from what I could find. The developers release a brokenly powerful a Datacron for their new Great Mothers that could only be achieved by spending absurd amounts of money, only benefiting those who can spend hundreds of dollars on the game at the drop of a hat, a Datacron that needs super specific team compositions and specific Datacrons to have a chance of defeating, and yet they decide that two Datacrons that far more players can benefit from are over performing. These Datacrons are only good for a maximum of four months and lends a viability for often older and otherwise ignored units but the moment they work better than predicted, they are weakened and essentially rendered useless despite the fact there are easy enough ways to get around them. Instead of rewarding the theory crafting and ingenuity of players making the use of the resources they are given to their maximum potential, they are instead punished for it, potentially even making investments in units that they otherwise wouldn't, especially for Eeth Koth, pointless and frustrating. I call on the developers to reverse the Datacron changes this latest update pushed out, it only hurts players and sheds the company in a negative light, that only those who can pay to win can have nice things instead of giving everybody the equal and fair chance to actually compete. I apologize for this lengthy rant, but it is bad optics in my opinion to downgrade something many players have actually been able to make use of while allowing the broken Great Mothers Datacron to reign untouchable by so many.
QOL Suggestion: Add character biographies for each character.
This is a hero collector game and one of the best things to do, especially when the heroes you are collecting are beloved SW characters, is to add biographies. In the same way clicking the triple bar icon can bring up the entire stat sheet for a character showing off all of their stats, we should have an icon that brings up a biography sheet explaining the character's life and their significance with images from their respective media. This can help with new players who aren't exactly SWs fans but like the gameplay of SWGOH, they could be introduced to characters they may not have seen before or be excited to read the biographies of their favorite characters because there is a large majority of this player base that farm characters that they like instead of farming the best characters, this could be a great way to connect with these players. This could also be a great way of putting the 'Inspiration' sections from every Kit Reveal into the biography as a way to connect with the community so that players who don't go to the forums/kit reveals can read what the devs were thinking when they made each character. It could breathe new life into the game and help it feel more alive and grounded while also adding an aesthetic of browsing through the Jedi archives. And it would be incredible if this hero-collector game could double as an encyclopedia for fans to read about and understand their beloved SW characters. This idea came to mind because I am currently working on getting Luthen from this conquest cycle and I'm super excited for him to boost up my Mon Mothma team, but I have no idea who he is or what he's done because I have never watched Andor. Additionally, this could help fans who aren't as knowledgeable about the Legacy characters and some characters that are part of niche media, such as Dr. Aphra, Mara Jade, Kyle Katarn, and even Starkiller. There is also a bunch of empty space in the character details. Primarily in the PC client. I've attached an image of where I think the biography icon could be.P1 and the Dagger changes are too problematic
I get that the main point of P1 is to help Executor on defense. However, Between Executor gaining P1 and the upcoming Dagger changes, this leaves nothing but Levi as a consistent Executor Counter and no consistent Levi counter at all, as the Dagger changes shuts out Sith Fighter start. As it stands, I think both these ships need to be changed (Or rather the change needs to change in Dagger's case). What made Sith Fighter start so good was the reduction in RNG. If your opponent has Levi, you could take your Levi on offense to counter theirs in case they had one on defense. Usually Levi on defense even if you met against someone else who invested higher into Sith Assassin, you had a second coin flip you could win. With the proposed change, we are back to the RNGfest it was on launch of who's Levi goes first. I think if the turn meter prevention on Dagger's unique was altered to instead flip granted bonus speed on dark side enemies (So Punishing one and co would lose speed instead of gaining speed) that should allow Levi to stop Exec again without disrupting the players using Levi to beat Levi and still allow the Chimera fleet to be usable to counter any fleet that is worth putting on defense after these changes. As much as I know it isn't going to happen, Punishing one also needs a nerf. Punishing one is the core problem of all of these issues and re-enabling one of these counters will make fleets much less taxing on players and may end up not warranting a change to dagger at all. Also, If I had a nickel for every time the people who invested Sith Assassin got scammed because another unit in the squad was reworked to prevent turn meter gains in a mirror, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
