"Must Use" characters

Speedokillz

When Thrawn was launched and the new Phoenix squadron was a must use, it was a really tough decision for many to drop everything we've been working on to dump everything into 6 toons we may not have any interest in, to obtain a character that everyone should have been interested. I chose to stay on my path and did not get Thrawn. I'm ok with that and when I was done with the other characters I figured that I could go for Thrawn next time around.

Again, providing new toons that must be used to get the newer toon gets a little frustrating... at least to me. When I 1st heard that we had to develop characters that have been in the game since launch like Luke, Old Ben and Leia... I was really impressed. I thought it was a brilliant idea to encourage the community to go and get the original characters, make them great and put them to use to get a new character.

Now we're in another situation where new characters are going to lock down sections of Territories and force guild members to abandon their efforts in order to comply with the new content and grow their guild. Don't get me wrong here, because I love where the game is going, so when the devs develop a process to get the new material by completing the old material 1st is just makes some sense to me.

Thank you for all the great new stuff and keep up the good work, but I really had aspiration to max out nightsisters, Cad Bane, and Nute Gunray to unlock special sections of TB

StarSon

It's not exactly new. All of the events are faction-locked. Yoda > Jedi, EP > Rebels, R2 > Empire; Assault battles all have faction and/or specific character locks, as do omega battles... Can't really call it a trend when it's just how the game operates.

Olga

I didn't bother with Thrawn either. I'm building a phoenix team now but I might not even get him next time around, it might be the time after that. Can't say I'm too bothered about it.

Speedokillz

I'd say it is a trend of specific characters... as the title suggests. Allowing the option to select 5 characters in a faction of 10-15 characters allows some flexibility with our efforts. Must have 7* Luke, R2, Old Ben, Leia, and ST Han does really offer that. Also, Locking Special Territories behind very specific NEW Characters is the continuation... or "trend" that follows the CMD Luke event.

Not really complaining, but it feels better to use older characters, thus allowing us to go after characters in our collection that we may not have had a reason to complete otherwise.

kerwyn

Agreed. For the CLS event an option would of been nice. Include raid Han. Choose 5/6. Something so simple would of helped a lot for the community.

MadMalgusReturns

Exclusivity is always nice

SchnauzerBaba

I don't like the denominator limitation to 5 characters. I think it's better for diversity if it's "farm 5 of these 10 toons" like the first 3 legendary events.

StarSon

Speedokillz wrote: »

I'd say it is a trend of specific characters... as the title suggests. Allowing the option to select 5 characters in a faction of 10-15 characters allows some flexibility with our efforts. Must have 7* Luke, R2, Old Ben, Leia, and ST Han does really offer that. Also, Locking Special Territories behind very specific NEW Characters is the continuation... or "trend" that follows the CMD Luke event.

We have had those in the past as well. The one Assault battle has Ugnaught on the list of characters, we had the female character only event that one time... Just not sure we can call it a "trend" when it's been around the entire life of the game.

StarSon

SchnauzerBaba wrote: »

I don't like the denominator limitation to 5 characters. I think it's better for diversity if it's "farm 5 of these 10 toons" like the first 3 legendary events.

But then what sets the CL event apart from those legendary events? CG specifically wanted this one to be a step above those events, so they would make it more exclusive, and that's not a bad thing.

Speedokillz

You're not really paying any attention, are you? Requiring that one MUST use Ugnaught is different than Ugnaught, and/or 4 others from an entire faction...

StarSon

Speedokillz wrote: »

You're not really paying any attention, are you? Requiring that one MUST use Ugnaught is different than Ugnaught, and/or 4 others from an entire faction...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Semantics. Call it a trend if you want, but it's not the first time they've limited things by specific characters, however you look at it.

DarthR244D

All of those toons are easy to get. Even R2, they brought the event back and it is empire toons. People need to quit complaining because they are never prepared for an event. They gave hints in all the journey posts to what might be needed and look, it is exactly what 90% of the people thought it would be.

Speedokillz

Um, big words that you do not understand? This is not a situation where the same thing can be manipulated to be seen more than 1 way.

You must use these 5 characters and no other characters will be allowed access is very different that any 5 characters out of these 12 will allow access. You probably will come up with something clever here to prove your trollness though.

Speedokillz

DarthR244D wrote: »

All of those toons are easy to get. Even R2, they brought the event back and it is empire toons. People need to quit complaining because they are never prepared for an event. They gave hints in all the journey posts to what might be needed and look, it is exactly what 90% of the people thought it would be.

Again... your contribution is not even close to what was presented... reading is fundamental.

leef

i've read your post, but i don't really get what you're trying to say.

StarSon

Speedokillz wrote: »

Um, big words that you do not understand? This is not a situation where the same thing can be manipulated to be seen more than 1 way.

You must use these 5 characters and no other characters will be allowed access is very different that any 5 characters out of these 12 will allow access. You probably will come up with something clever here to prove your trollness though.

Not trolling. You can twist it around anyway you want, but many events have been limited somehow. When Yoda's event came out, there were very few Jedi to pick from; same for Rebels for EP and (the already stated) Phoenix for Thrawn. We've had events where you could only pick female characters (Play to Give) and some limited to Light Side (Force Champions). Some limited to Ewoks (latest ones, as well as an Earth Day one last year).

Requiring specific named characters is no more a trend than requiring factions was. You're looking for patterns where there probably are none. They needed a way to make stuff more exclusive, so the logical solution is specific named characters.

HardPill2Swallow

Thats why I hoard everything. Gear, zetas, credits. My only concern is to 7* as many toons as possible. Once the event comes around I always have the required toons. All I need to do is use gear and/or zetas incase the event is too challenging. This is hard to do for new players, but players like me that have played since launch learned long ago for the yoda event to alway prepare even when there is no event coming or around. To date I have 102 seven star toons.

This stratagey has not failed me yet. I got yoda the 2nd time around. I got Papatene the 1st day the event went live..same with the R2 event. Thrawn I got to 6* before the event ended...ill have him 7* when it comes back. And as for Luke I'm gonna 7* him the day the event goes live.

Like I said new players will either have to pay money or wait and that is ok cause new players shouldn't have accessibility to new and power toons.

Events like the one coming up rewards longtime players and big spenders.

New players just need to accept this and get him next time.

Boba_The_Fetter

I guess they don't want to release irrelevant characters like Gamorrean Guard and they're finding it hard to find a balance. Or they don't want a balance so people can chase the ever changing meta with $$$.

Either way once you start to care less about your arena rank you'll enjoy the game a lot more, I know I did!
New content looks super exciting

Speedokillz

Thank you for fixing the title... it was mildly inflammatory and unnecessary...

Kyno

Moved to the correct sub forum.


They want to make it so you have to have a diverse roster. They also want to reward those with diverse rosters. We have all missed out on events and new toons at one point or another due to this strategy. Its ok, they all come back.