Speed stat should be removed from the game.
Instead turns should be RNG based (at least in Arena), this would make most characters viable. Or at least the first turn should be RNG based, then all other turns afterwards could remain determined by speed. Thoughts?
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Sorry if that sounds harsh but I don't know how else to say it.
Darn trolls smell the food and they come into the forums. Always throw away your garbage and use zipblock bags
And while we're at it lets just do away with all these names toons. Some are way cooler than others and that upsets me. They should just switch over to using numbers. Come to think of it though, someone would have to be number 1 and that wouldn't be fair to number 2. So maybe skip that and we can just start naming them ourselves
I call buttface
Having speed actually adds some strategy to the battles.
The reason everyone is using the same teams is because of the mechanics of the arena battle is fought, not true pvp. If it was there would be many more viable and different teams.
Would be cool though if, on the character screen, you could sort by more stats
And the excess damage relative to health and armor makes this worse. If tanks could actually tank, speed would become much less important as there would be time for slower teams to get set up and working.
or......Or.......OR!!!!! Make armor do something, besides nothing.
I disagree.
Pwned
There are so many chars you don't even realize you have so little knowledge of this it appalling to read. My eyes are burning by the though of the myriad other chars that can make your team go first if speed is changed, starting with Talia, Phasma (with team advantage buff!), FOO and many others.
Guys, accept it, eliminating speed wreaks the entire (flimsy) balance of the game remaining. Fast chars should hit less because they go first, and more often. If Rey could go last, she'd no be viable. If Dooku goes last same thing.
What I propose is something in the middle: make speed a highly probable but not an absolute certainty. Give chars a random +\- chance to go 1-10% faster or slower each game.
It DOES do something. 30 off of that 6749 double-shot Rey just got you with. See? It's only 6719.
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No, not at all, we are all entitled to our opinion. I just don't agree.
Absolutely agree. Damage to Health ratio actually balloons as you level up, since the armour damage mitigation formula is as follows:
Damage Reduction % = (Armour) / (Armour + Level * 10) * 100
For instance, let's use a level 70 character with 200 armour as an example:
Damage Reduction % = (200) / (200 + 70 * 10) * 100 = 22.22%
Let's say he gets defense up and thus, + 50% armour:
Damage Reduction % = (200 * 1.5) / (200 * 1.5 + 70 * 10) * 100 = 30%
So yes, damage reduction % did go up significantly. But compared to Offense up for say, a base damage of 3000:
Normal damage, Normal Defense = 3000 * (1 - 0.2222) = 2333.4
Normal damage, Defense up = 3000 * (1 - 0.3000) = 2100
Offense up damage, Normal Defense = (3000 * 1.5) * (1 - 0.2222) = 3500.1
Offense up damage, Defense up = (3000 * 1.5) * (1 - 0.3000) = 3150
From these simple calulations, it is painfully obvious why defense becomes more and more irrelevant as level goes up.
Yes, health and armour does go up with increased level, but the net damage mitigation % does not seem to go up to compensate for ever increasing damage, hence the rampant 1 or 2 shotting of even the tankiest characters. Not to mention absurd design flaws such as GS being allowed to go to Gear Level 9 and thus, being much faster and toughe than he's supposed to be. Another case of a glass cannon that's made of metal, like FOTP, only worse because he's a death star that can outrun and outmaneuver an X-Wing.
.....and I disagree. This will bring us back to the coin-flip era (where speed was in tiers)where everyone took coinflips to see who started first. At least with the new speed changes we can better theorize who starts first and so on and formulate a strategy against it.
Second, giving characters a chance to go 1-10% chance enables more dps characters and characters with potent abilities (etc, poe/phasma/han/old ben) to go first. Not only does this not solve the current issue, it will also exacerbate the problem further.
Randomness is nice(etc crit) but too much randomness will only make people feel that their counters aren't working(e.g dooku against qgj) because the extra randomness in speed allows their target to move before them.
In the next level cap there are gonna be some seriously high hp toons. I honestly think that by that time the meta will be much different and we will all be singing praised to any toon like GS or Rey who can put a dent in them before Bariss equalizes.
Total guess on my part though