Galactic Republic: Jedi & now R2. Does R2 salvage Jedi?
With the 10% offense bonus R2 gives for each Galactic Republic, Jedi will see a boost in damage under a zQGJ (L) combined with the support of R2. Is this enough to make Jedi elite in arena? I think so and I'm excited to try. Jedi will become a talking point in the meta conversation.
what an ugly thing to say... does this mean we're not friends anymore?
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With the news of R2 yesterday, my plans (hopes) for May 4th are (all times in CEST):
06:00pm: Loose to a zDM team in Arena
08:00pm: Start R2 event
08:05pm: R2@7*
08:10pm: R2@7* Lvl 85 G11
08:11pm: A couple of test runs in GW
08:15pm: Beat the hell out of zDM teams and anyone else in arena
Anyone with me?
At the start of battle, R2-D2 gains 10% Max Protection for each Droid ally, 10% Offense for each Galactic Republic ally, 10% Max Health for each Rebel ally, and 10% Potency for each Resistance ally. At the start of battle, and when R2-D2 revives, other Droid, Galactic Republic, Rebel, and Resistance allies gain 10% of R2-D2's Max Protection, Offense, Max Health, and Potency until R2-D2 is defeated.
Likely his Unique
R2 has 2 uniques. Combat Analysis & Number Crunch. Both will be great, but for me, I'd do number crunch 1st.
I think so too...With Yoda you don't get that many debuffs anyway. I'll go with number crunch
Combat analysis would gain value in a comp without Yoda bm
My question is, would jedi get 10% of R2's offense before or after its increased by 10% for each Galactic republic ally? Essentially R2's offense would increase by 50% (4 jedi + himself).
His physical damage is 2130, a 50% increase would put him at 3,195, 10% of that would be 319.5 to his allies.
Where as if its calculated before the 50% increase his allies would only get 213 more offense.
Doesn't seem like a big difference but its just over 400 damage spread across the 4 Jedi. Jedi need all the extra damage they can get so I hope its calculated like that
I think it's calculated after R2's buff. Also the physical and special Dmg will be calculated individually. QGJ, Yoda work off special Dmg, Ani, gk off physical Dmg. The bonus for special Dmg should be roughly twice that of physical.
It is certainly an obstacle that Jedi are single target, and R2 won't mitigate that. It may be that rex(L), chaze, gk, R2 will simply outlast Jedi under ai control even if the Rex comp also lacks firepower. I would think zQgj(L), Ani, zoda, gk, R2 would do well against zader and zaul though. But nihilus may need to be added in lieu of Ani to break the defensive behemoth of chaze/gk.
It looks like he has to get revived in order to give those bonuses away, so it's not a simple death bonus like old Ben or scarif's gives out. It sounds like you pretty have to run him with elder, jaws engineer, daka, or hera for this to mean anything
Read the first part of that sentence again...
"At the start of battle"
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I still think you need GK -- the lack of a cleanse can still be a big issue.
Maybe. But still no GK in sight for me for at least another 3-4 months.
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Looks solid. I'll try that one 2, but also try zihilus for Ani.
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Hel' ya! Just what i was planning on too bc i can't take top spot with my current jedi. Help me R2...
Im with you on this one. I hate to drop Aayla, but r2 seems too legit. Plus since he helps with evasion, it will help Jka's Aoe not turn into a suicide move vs maul teams lol.
ZQGJ, Zoda, Z2D2, Zarris, JKA?
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That could work but Kenobi gives some fire power with his mass call in. Zarris does everything else Kenobi does but less damage and that is a big deal with Jedi as they need al they can get.
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I am thinking the same. R2's stun will be more consistent than Aayla's anyways and his increase in evasion and burn will help slaughter the Zauls. Plus he has two zetas, number crunch will be a nice buff to the teams stats and combat analysis is pretty much a mini barriss once zeta'd. He is also tanky so that should weigh out not getting foresight.
I'm only speculating, don't have a zQGJ or a max'd Aayla or GK either, so if i'm missing something, please correct me
thanks
It comes down to if you want to zeta r2's combat analysis too. Having Yoda or better yet yoda with zeta'd bm makes that zeta of R2's obsolete. Yoad's tenacity up is one of the main reasons that Jedi have been able to stay competitive. Maybe if the meta shifts away from debuffs than yoda will be less popular but at the current state yoda is pretty much essential. Plus most people dont want to side line a character they have already invested a zeta in.
Aayla, QGJ, Ezra, GK all have assist calls. Thats a lot of damage. With the boost to their damage from zQGJ and an additional boost from R2, plus cleansing themselves on a crit w/ the +10% R2 gives, I could see dropping Yoda altogether and running those 4 w/ R2.
Aoe is bad in the current meta imo, it feeds tm to Maul and Rex leads which r everywhere.
Description says to Jedi Allies only, so no foresight for R2
I would take Aayla over Zarris in that comp. Too much defense already. A little extra control and damage would be good.
JKA's AoE may give himself expose, but as long as he crits once with it, the same move that gave him the expose will cleanse it. R2 totally eliminates that danger... not that tenacity up didn't already. Zaul's daze (if it ever makes it through foresight) wouldn't last too long either with R2 around, his cleanse should proc a lot more often than Zarriss's.
Cool that's what I figured, just curious since I wasn't sure about how far the GR tag expands to
Might not be a bad idea to try Aayla - my goal is until GK is in my hands to probably run a ZQGJ, Z2D2, JKA, Aayla + one more TBD (thinking Ezra)