What dictates GW difficulty?
Just curious as to why sometimes I can make it all the way to the end, and other days I get locked up at the end 2 or 3 battles? Is it based on Arena rank cause that's all I can think of that really changes...?
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Maybe a week ago I had that easy node 12 again. The only thing I changed on my relevant toons was changing a mod for EP. The day after that I was back to hard node 12 again.
75, 75, 85,
75, 75, 115,
95, 95, 125,
105, 125, 140
This doesn't explain easy N12, but that behaviour is known to devs.
Only good solution is to have wide roster and dont use too many tanks in your arena team.
I sure don't and I have the bugged node 12.
N6 95%
N7 75%
N8 75%
N9 100%
N10 85%
N11 105%
N12 115%
The purcentage is the purcentage of your 5 powerful toons.
If the game don't find an opponent with 115% of the power of your 5 powerful toons, you'll have an easy N12 !
Sorry for my English, I'm a French player !
The weak node happens when you bust the overall power score, let's say you have a 52k power (power of 5 toons combined as stated ahead) so the algorithm is looking for a 52k+20%, if the result doesn't exist....you get freebies as node 12.
Guess I'm gonna have to up some other took teams to help myself out.
Your English is very good. Much better than my French.
It's not your 5 most powerful toons but the arena power that shows under your name in the guild screen. That is based on the highest power lineup you've ever won arena with. I've tested this before when I had around 43k power and was getting real 12th nodes then put a 47k power team in and started getting cupcake ones.
Edit: sorry meant won an arena match with
I'm quite sure people with GW problems have not yet given CUP his due's. Please correct.
I have a bugged node 11 and 12 ... not sure if it's due to me using a troll team once before, but I once put my top 5 players for the heck of it on arena and won .. was a 54,000 power team so maybe that did it for me
There is something important we are missing, I would guess it has to do with timing... when your toons change vs when nodes break.
I recently broke and unbroke and rebroke node 11. The only thing that changed was my top 5 toons power.
First break was when I completed Palp and he hit the top 5.
Unbreak occurred when I changed mods and he dropped to 6.
Rebreak occurred when I completed Kylo and he broke into top 5.
My arena power stat stayed at 50450 (in guild management) from my last attempt to break node 11 with my top 5 toons (at the time) in arena, which didn't work. At the time I thought I just needed more power.
So while I think there is some other factor, I think top 5 is much closer to reality than arena win/power stat.
I think so too. CUP comments aside, I really do notice an increase in difficulty when I finished GW the day before -- as opposed to restarting it half way through because I don't care/don't have time/don't have Boba because he died fighting Chaze previously. Those restarts without finishing always leave the next GW nodes much easier.
I have no evidence outside my experiences, like much of this game.
But every once in a while I'll get a challenging node 12 again, usually on Tuesday or the weekend. Sometimes it'll be a bunch of top 5 tanks or high health heroes (such as Sunfac (L), zNihilus, RG, Shore, Baze that I faced the other day), and other times it'll be an actual squad (like Kenobi, Chaze, Aayla, zKylo). So getting a match seems related to who's actually playing as well, as both my top 5 and arena power don't change (esp. doing the 2 GW's on Tuesday night - 1 easy 12, 1 hard 12).
I can go from node 1 through to node 12 without losing anyone, daily, and I don't get easy node. That statement doesnt work.
Now you're just making stuff up.
In game guild: TNR Uprising
I beat the REAL T7 Yoda (not the nerfed one) and did so before mods were there to help
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If it's based on points, then it's broken out of the gate because the games point/power system doesn't work. It doesn't take synergy into account, and that's an enormous factor in team performance. It's how you get a 35k point Wiggs team blowing away a 45k point Jedi team. Until synergy is included in the calculations, team power rating means nothing. And if that's the case, GW trying to calculate enemy strength purely based on power rating means nothing, as well.
Yes it is No it isn't
Although, it is possible that both play a role.
Thanks for the data. Did you track your guild arena power in this span? Are you using the top 5 highest power toons of yours in arena?
I'm basing it upon what I've seen and what my guild (BHG) has told me in the past. But if your datas accurate, then it seems to be pretty conclusively based on top 5 power.
The answer to your first question is yes. Answer to your second question is no. But I am now using two of them in Arena. My top5 is now 49280, and my Arena power is 47486, also shown in guild screen.
If you are interested in the underlying data (I don't update this anymore): https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/66883/galactic-war-power-by-node-where-are-we-now
That's only true for you because you have reached whatever power level causes the calculation to give the broken node. Until you reach that point, node 12 is the hardest (120% of whatever it's using to calculate your power or something). Once it no longer has a team to give you at 120% because you are too powerful, node 12 becomes a gimme.