Galactic War almost impossible now
I completed 49/50 before this update but now with the new protection update it's almost impossible. My protections are gone by the 1st or 2nd fight and every team I face has full protection. Plus Dooku's leader skill is useless in GW. I'll go thru 2-3 full battles without dodging a single hit.
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This is because you inevitably lose your squads Protection relatively early from attrition, and it gets worse the further you progress. Soon enough, you are facing enemies with their own Protection buffs, in most cases entire teams who not only have their full range of abilities to call on but now have a distinct advantage as your teams Protection will now be all but gone.
At this point, multiple casualties are inevitable as you are simply at too much of a disadvantage no matter how smart you play or how powerful your team might be. And it only gets worse with every new stage, making a full completion of Galactic War all but impossible.
Please listen to your playerbase and reconsider the Health and especially the Protection change, it has only regressed the game instead of advancing it.
The problem is that people are doing it wrong. Going to write a miniguide later.
EDIT: It's fine to provide your feedback, but please do so without foul language. -EA_Jesse
If you finish before you probably will finish now but you'll need more toons from your roster and apply more strategy.....and yes....takes more time than before...like other stuff because protetion is a delay in killing the opponents.
I could see that being frustrating, I have a close friend who is mid game going through same issues I am almost level 74 and a diverse squad being FTP. At a certain point GW will become easier and its really only to get credits fast.
This is not as hard as people say it is.
I run a speed jedi squad with 2 healers up to the first node where one dies, as soon as they die i retreat and start the node again with a new squad which includes daka and ee. I can generally get this squad all the way or at least to the last 2, then if this dies (i let this team die) i use jedi squad again, if that dies i have a final droid squad. Multiple "A-teams" (not an a team and a b team and a c team), healers and revivers are what you need. And of course throwing some low level cannon fodd at the really hard nodes if needed, but i didnt today.
Each new team I field is a new team with full protection so it's actually a bit easier now, just takes a bit longer to whittle through the protection.
I have 19 toons that are GW viable (level 60+, gear 7+) and I don't see myself having to burn through them anytime soon.
Ultimately GW completion depends on having a deep bench and some level of skill, coupled with some deft retreat manipulation. I don't think it's fair to say that GW has become impossible or close to that.
Furthermore, I always managed to beat Galactic War with 1 or 2 losses if I played right. Now I am losing 2-3 on one singular fight because of the Protection advantage. I shouldn't be forced to waste shards for multiple tank characters to soak damage when I could do it by playing smart before the health/Protection change. It's too high a skill jump and needlessly difficult for players who may not have as many players as some others who have played longer.
My team:
Node 1 - 6
Lumi (L)
QGJ
JC
Sid
GS
Node 7 - 12
Dooku (L)
Lumi
QGJ
GS
JC / RG (swap out once or twice)
Done 2 days in a row with no issues. Royal Gaurd is not essential at all, I use it if needed in regards to maybe keeping JC alive for one more round but after 1 round he's done for anyway. You can use any toon actually, RG is just my safety score.
If you are lower than max lvl (lvl70-) then of my experiences it's going to be difficult. The enemy squads I think fall into a bracket (I.e. 1 - 5, 55 - 70) around your current lvl, sadly if you haven't hit cap it's going to be a bit tough due to not having a diverse squad or even max gear, max Heros. But I promise, it gets easier once you cap out. You can save & actually focus on Heros you want instead of need.
The new update has given you something beautiful... The ability to actually refresh your skills on the last 1 or 2 Heros. If you aren't refreshing your skills at that time, you're attacking the wrong Heros first.
Whats the point of playing for a long time and getting lots of characters if you want everything to be easy enough for new people with hardly any characters to beat it? :,)
Simply put I'm f2p, i beat it with no losses. Therefore it can be beat IF you do it right. It takes skill, don't just expect to be able to do it easy and thats that, you gotta learn how to beat it, thats what makes these things fun when you can easily beat them. Heck i never won the thing till 3 months into playing the game! I thought getting to the last 4 was fantastic :,) Now I've won it 100 times in a row. I don't know where this attitude of it sucks cos i can't beat it comes from, but its sympomatic of our culture. If you can't beat it, work at it till you can.
I can usually do it losing none or one characters.
Lumi (lead)
JC
Sid
Dooku
GS
Bariss is crap tier. Anyone who runs her, lead or not, are wasting their time
+1
Realized GW was fine without protection, making healers more useful early on, and then it's easier to reset cooldowns because we hit the opponent longer.
Careful Murphy might get yeah.