Arena is No Fun Anymore
Keep on getting beat by teams that have no more speed or power than me. I seem to be able to hold my position okay, but get killed 90% of the time I try to advance. The 10% is when I encounter a Jedi team. If it weren't for the fact it generated needed crystals and arena currency, I wouldn't bother with it at all anymore. It does not seem to matter whether I try a maxed Sith team or maxed Rebel team.
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Running the same squad
I fear R2D2 will make things a lot harder in 2 days from now
Just see it as a means to an end - I do my battles and if I get some crystals, then great. I enjoy it when I get to fight droids or a resistance team, or anything I'm not already overly familiar with. I don't enjoy 5 fights against Maul teams.
Yeah, there are pretty much only two viable leaders in the top spots, but theres still a wide variety of team compositions
There are more than 2 viable leaders for top 5 in arena. I'm assuming you reference Zaul and Rex. But Jyn Erso, Vader, Nihilus, and even Phasma can all hold top spots.
The fixed payout times are the worst part of this game and makes it absolutely family-unfriendly.
The fixed payout times are the worst part of this game and makes it absolutely family-unfriendly.
But why should speed above all other stats always be the deciding factor? Why even have other stats? Just give everyone speed that's all that matters.
New toons release but may take 6 month-12months to be viable as we can not farm it to use soon.
In the top 20 on my shard 3 out of 4 Rex leads are below 210 speed. Rex doesn't need speed to beat the fast teams aka zaul.
The fixed payout times are the worst part of this game and makes it absolutely family-unfriendly.
If you go first but don't hit hard enough, you're still toast. Speed is the most important stat but not the only important stat. Don't get that confused. I'll trade out mods with say +3 speed with crapppy other stats for another god mod that doesn't have any speed.
I know the idea of Mods was to allow people to customize their favorite characters to make them more usable in the way the player wants but all it did is drive people to find speed thus making arena all about who has the fastest meta instead of strategy.
I admit that I am starting to grow tired having the same fight over and over again with my Maul team against everyone else's Rex team. It was good for a while but we probably need some kind of change soon.
As for speed, I actually thought that was one of the good things about Chaze, Sith and Rex/GK teams, because they can still survive and win against faster squads. With Wiggs it was just about who went first.
I never liked mods but too late now to change it.
Trolling lately?
Yes and no....
If speed were the real meta, you would see more diversity other than mainly Maul and Rex teams at #1. You would see any team that got the best speed mods whether it be jedi, sith, rebel, empire, clones, etc. The meta report clearly shows that team composition and synergy are most important
Missing the point though. The way the mods are constructed atm, speed stat on the mods make the most difference. In the realm of mods, speed is the most useful by FAR. Yes synergy and team composition are hugely important, but equally so is the speed stat. For example, in my shard there are two jedi teams that have equal synergy and team composition, but one has yoda at slightly higher speed then another. I destroy the prior team because yoda doesn't get his tenacity up before my EP gets his shock out; however, the later team I never win to merely because my EP can't gets his mass shock out before yoda can trigger that tenacity up buff. This is just one example, so yes, in a way, speed mods are the deciding gods of the arena.
This would eventually lead to only seeing characters with the best speed before mods being the most dominant.
It's not what determines the meta, but it is what makes the meta viable. Take that speed away from any of those meta teams and any other team with decent team composition with god speed mods will be able to beat it.
Who is talking about +3 speed other than you in your silly example?
When your top opponents have on top of their natural speeds in average 90-100 and you only have 70 would you not wish you had doubled, tripled or quadrupled that raise on the speed stat instead of getting +prot%, +defense or something equally useless?
It doesn't quite work like that, speed can help some match ups but character selection is more important.
I used Rebels for a long time and they need the speed to do well. I now use an Empire team and have not even moved my speed mods off my Rebels as I use them in other parts of the game. My Empire team does a lot better than my Rebels ever could as most of the team don't require going first to do their thing.