I'm lvl61, and this happened just now! Please fix this!
This is only 2nd fight! I can understand if it happens at the very last, but...
Who ever designed this matching algorithm, please fix this!
Who ever designed this matching algorithm, please fix this!
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square are my strongest characters and they are lv 81, 7S.
Node 6 today has a Level 85 Sith team with Darth Nihilus leading with 2 zetas with EP on the team! How is that anywhere near fair?
If we can't balance the table better, can we reduce the requirement to Sim the table? I need 90 more completes before I can Sim. Doing the GW table is by far the longest part of the dailies that I do in game. While I expect to get caught a couple times a week on node 12 as part of progression, being stopped at 6 is just crazy. I am trying to get stronger but I need GW credits to help get me there and this is a huge bottle neck.
Thanks for taking the time to read!
Okay, so I have been seeing a lot of these complaints, and I think they are justified. Something does NOT seem like it is working correctly. We can argue nits about which 5 are truly the strongest characters on these players' rosters, but the fact remains that they are encountering teams that are way stronger than is expected or reasonable.
As a comparison, here is the team I fought yesterday on N9. No zetas, no synergy, junk mods. @PhillyJediShawn would walk all over them with his PS team.
OP is still very early in GW and is probably going to struggle until their roster is built up.
I strongly disagree in the case described by PhillyJediShawn.
A. At node 12 he's supposed to meet teams with higher combined power than his 5 highest power toons combined.
B. Using Phoenix against sith with Vader and EP (even under zzDN lead) is supposed to make it even harder. Phoenix are weak against those teams. Using a weak team instead of a counter team is supposed to be hard — even if they were on equal power level.
On node 12 he is supposed to meet teams with 15-20% more GP than his. Now your point about Phoenix Squad vs Palpatine/Vader is spot on. His roster does also appear a bit top heavy which can be tough in GW as even against properly power balanced teams you can still lose characters. However it does not address that the team on that node (node 6) should be slightly LESS than his [insert metric of choice you think the game uses to determine your opponents in GW]. However we can't see the GP of his team, just the health/protection so tough to get any raw data from it.
Would also be a good idea if people would go to the training menu from the roster screen so we can see the actual power number of your best characters when determining if it is just a good synergy team that happens to be a hard counter to your best team, or actually supremely over powered.
His team are all 7*, while the opponent team is 4 x 6* + 1 x 7*.
His team are all lvl. 81, while the opponents are all level 85.
The opponent has 2 zetas — he probably has none (5 x level 81).
The opponent has 3 x g7 + 2 x g8. He has 5 x g7 (his words).
We don't see stats, omegas and mods.
As I've learned, the matchmaking is not based on GP but rather on some 'stat power' calculation, which is different. I'm not even sure, that omegas and zetas are included in that calculation. Anyways, the match doesn't seem too far off in this case, and might even be spot on.
I can think of plenty of reasons.
I think he meant to say extremely higher than what your level is.
70 is higher than 65, but at the end of a GW not that out of line. But 85s at the end of a GW for a level 65 would in my opinion be out of line.
As to your previous point that it may be a hidden rating that the game uses to calculate your opponents, That may be true but it may just be GP. Plenty of GW guides that I read have had people take GP and compare it to their own over several GWs and they all came up pretty close to having a uniform relation.
Until the change over a month ago threw a monkey wrench into it.
My GW after the reset this evening were all within ranges given on these guides of my top 5 GP. (no super high powered teams today) Battle 11 was a tough Phoenix Squad but when I looked at the GP ratings, it all seemed to match up.
I can't discuss what Cavalcade means - only what he expresses in his comments.
Again: Using a weak team instead of a counter team is supposed to be hard — even if they were on equal power level.
This is not a case of a mismatch against an overpowere enemy. It's a case of using a team which by design is weak against that specific opponent (of reasonable power compared to your team).
I second that, but there might just be a way for you to fix this by yourself. Have you borrowed any character from an ally recently who is quite a bit ahead of you in terms of level and gear? This may have something to do with it. I had a surprisingly easy GW run just now after deleting my main account from my alt account's ally list. Whereas yesterday, I had opponents on node 3 that were in my main's level range. Coincidence? Maybe. But also something worth trying, imho.