Here is how GW works:
It uses your strongest arena power in a win. So, raising those last stars might matter. I wonder if there are brackets (more than 23000, 24000, etc)
Source, the real official forum, reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/469vj1/sad_post_i_was_wrong_about_galactic_war_using/
Source, the real official forum, reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/469vj1/sad_post_i_was_wrong_about_galactic_war_using/
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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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Hey Guys,
So some clarity here: A while back our server engineers were talking about using Arena Rank to calculate how we picked your opponents. For a while it was discussed that we were going to use your highest rank ever earned.
This was my full understanding as to how it functioned, and I preached it to the hilt, as you can see here.
In my discussions as to how we could fix GW, it became apparent that I was wrong. It went something like this:
Im-Not-Really-A-Jedi: "So why are we using Arena Rank when the pool of people will change over time?"
Awesome Server Dude: "What are you talking about?"
INRAJ: "Arena Rank, why do we save their highest rank and then pick opponents against it?"
ASD: "We don't. We decided not to use that method a while ago."
INRAJ: "Wait. What?"
ASD: "Yeah, we don't do that anymore. We just use their highest Squad Power now."
INRAJ: "What?"
ASD: "Are you okay, man? You don't look well."
INRAJ: "I told Reddit we use Arena Ranks..."
ASD: "Good luck with that."
INRAJ: "..."
ANYWAY, as you can see, we use SQUAD POWER to calculate your opponent and NOT ARENA RANK, and I was wroooooooooong.
Now the good news: Awesome Server Dude thinks he's found the reason why GW keeps selecting those OP level 70 purple 7-stars for you, and he's working on a solution. The problem is that our server engineers are buried under a small mountain of work, so WHEN that fix will be ready is anyone's guess right now.
I'm really sorry I was wrong, guys. I will always own up to my wrongness, and I mean it when I said that I'm here to help in the best way that I can--and that means making sure everything I say is 100% factual and true!
Thanks!
INRAJ
EDIT: So here's EXACTLY how your opponents are figured, and where my confusion for Arena Rank came in:
We use your LAST PVP SQUAD WIN so long as that power is greater than the last time you won. So we DO take it from Arena, just not RANK, just Squad Power.
If you have a weaker squad win than a previous win, does it go down? Or does it use your all-time highest powered wining pvp squad?
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[–]Blargh9182-175-221 [score hidden] 46 minutes ago
so long as that power is greater than the last time you won
Does not seem like sandbagging will work
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[–]im-not-really-a-jedi [score hidden] 20 minutes ago
No, we lock your last highest. You cannot reduce it.
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My highest Arena Rank: 83
My total power: 25,500
Yet my GWs seem to be getting easier and easier by the day.
Do you just roll with your A Team? I have found GW has gotten easier, but I attribute that to the fact that I have tried to diversify. I keep adding a little to my arena team, but am really focusing on my B Team and other characters (Jedi, so I can get Yoda next month, for example).
I find that having these other options in GW has helped in terms of synergy and matching up my stengths with a GW team's weaknesses.
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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Yeah just my A Team.
Yep. I like it for that reason. Glad to know this. It does change how I will construct my arena team moving forward.
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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I realize there's a glitch that is being worked on that is the probable cause of this, but it takes GW from being challenging to completely lacking in fun or strategy when it triggers. Hopefully it's addressed sooner rather than later. Fighting teams that act first and 1 shot your characters with basic attacks negates any benefit from burner squads and leaves you with a bad taste for trying.
It would be an invite if they had told us. They didn't and now people has to live with consecuentes of choices they made, unknowing the risks
I used to only use my a team and won...once. Then I took a bunch of losses lol. Now I have 3 squads I use in GW. I've got a NS c team that's good for the first few fights although they get on a roll sometimes. Then I've got a b team for yoda and Jedi and then I've got my DS a team. Everyone is not equally powered but I find this combo helps me progress and I've beaten it 3 days in a row now.
But,
WHY ON REDDIT AND NOT HERE!
As I said in that thread it's false. Not going into as much detail, but my team is all 7* and gear 8 yet I'm lucky if I run into 2 GS teams that are 70. I only lose toons when I see I high lvl poe team were I need to sacrifice people to his taunt.
I might see one team a day close to my teams power rating (27,496). So no I don't believe this at all
It still matches you with teams used in GW, not arena. Very few people use the same thing in arena as they use in gw, I don't. My gw team is probably 5k less in power than my arena team. So you would be matching up with people the same power as me but facing my gw team that only has 2 7 stars, 1 6 star, 1 5 star and 1 4 star where only 2 toons are up at lvl 70 but all are maxed gear.
If we fought arena teams instead of gw teams it would be extreamly more difficult.
Edit - to be clear, the OP is clearly and obviously correct. Switching out a hero to increase the power of my final winning arena team by 1,000 yesterday, and no other changes at all, caused a massive increase in GW difficulty, to the point that I had my worst GW performance in 2 months (9/12). I almost always go 12/12.
This is the smartest strategy for the entire game.. Always be building a better B team.. & C team. & Diverse but synergistic teams is the way to go. This just helped me figure out why my GW is so easy. My highest ranking is 143 (yesterday) but all the teams out power me by 4000+. I have a wicked turn meter team. I have to do all my arena battles an hour before awards. Otherwise with my low squad power I become a target. I've just now started cracking the top 200. I have a squad B & C that are nothing to cry about either.
For some reason Reddit seems to be the official forums. That is where the developers comment. I keep this site and the Reddit site bookmarked so I can make sure I don't miss something. The post by INARJ is huge and I'm glad I saw it! Now that the Jedi event is over I was going to focus back on my arena team. Now I think I will leave them alone and keep working on my B and C teams instead.
@Tony167 when did you start playing? I encoubter the same phenomenon so im wondering if there isnt also a limitation due to the time you started playing
You do what often happens when users do things that Programmers did not expect. You break the game
I'm sure that it is not JUST the arena power. But if matters. Now that I know, I realize it, my GW jumped in difficulty a bit a week ago. Right when I broke 24000 arena power
The fixed payout times are the worst part of this game and makes it absolutely family-unfriendly.