Crit Immunity is going to be terrible for the game
First off, let's go over how crit chance is calculated:
(Critical Chance) = (Critical Rating)/(Critical Rating Divider) + (Level Difference)*(Level Difference Multiplier) + (Base Critical Chance)
You can check out how this formula was obtained https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/11971/educated-guess-on-swgohs-squad-arena-critical-hit-rate. If you notice, it depends on level difference and not absolute level.
What this means is that as we get more and more gear levels, people will crit at higher and higher chances. Crit chance will never go down. Combined with mods, we're already getting to an average of 40-50% for most arena toons.
Instead of making overarching balance changes and risk alienating the player base, the dev team has started introducing crit immunity as a buff to counter this trend. We've already seen what Shoretrooper can do, and Kenobi is coming.
The problem with crit immunity is that it ruins the effectiveness of dps in general. No matter which dps toon you use, they rely on crits to do significant damage. Whether it's Wiggs, Landakin, Rey/Leia/GS, or droids, every dps option in the game needs to crit to kill.
It's like Rex on steroids.
Yeah, aoe dispels like B2 have/will become important to deal with it but we're again narrowing the viable hero pool by introducing abilities that counter such a wide range of toons.
This isn't an issue of power creep, but power extinction.
(Critical Chance) = (Critical Rating)/(Critical Rating Divider) + (Level Difference)*(Level Difference Multiplier) + (Base Critical Chance)
You can check out how this formula was obtained https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/11971/educated-guess-on-swgohs-squad-arena-critical-hit-rate. If you notice, it depends on level difference and not absolute level.
What this means is that as we get more and more gear levels, people will crit at higher and higher chances. Crit chance will never go down. Combined with mods, we're already getting to an average of 40-50% for most arena toons.
Instead of making overarching balance changes and risk alienating the player base, the dev team has started introducing crit immunity as a buff to counter this trend. We've already seen what Shoretrooper can do, and Kenobi is coming.
The problem with crit immunity is that it ruins the effectiveness of dps in general. No matter which dps toon you use, they rely on crits to do significant damage. Whether it's Wiggs, Landakin, Rey/Leia/GS, or droids, every dps option in the game needs to crit to kill.
It's like Rex on steroids.
Yeah, aoe dispels like B2 have/will become important to deal with it but we're again narrowing the viable hero pool by introducing abilities that counter such a wide range of toons.
This isn't an issue of power creep, but power extinction.
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Hopefully now we can see arena battles longer than a minute, as good Wiggs and Lando teams (just to mention some of the ones you said) can tear apart the other team just in seconds in squad arena.
This^^^
Or it's an issue of needing more than five viable characters for arena. You'll need to be able to mix and match depending on who you are facing. Or alter strategies. You know how a Wiggs team will likely need to deal with General Kenobi? Take him out first. If he's dead, he can't grant crit immunity to anyone.
I agree 100% I run Wiggla (Wedge/Biggs/Lando) as a base, but will sub in the back line and change leaders as necessary. Droid team, slap potency on Raid Han and put him in. Team with two tanks, QGJ your up. Need speed, Lando your leading.. need insane speed, AA, jump in the lead spot. It will force you to think and plan, rather than just go blast away.
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I do see that there is a work around by stunning him so I'm not sure what I think should ultimately happen with him. Maybe crit immunity for just one turn instead of two would be a start.
He is my number one goal to achieve now. I'm not sure how using ally points will affect this goal but we shall see.
The meta will shift (e.g. Lando won't be around arena teams any longer), crit chance mods will lose value...
Other characters will take their place... offense mods might be the future etc...
Its part of the evolution.
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I think more crit immunity was needed.
Absolutely everyone was in agreement that dps outweighed defense.
Completely agree with this.
Yes it does. But this is such a bandaid solution it's insane. You're solving one problem by creating another. Crit avoidance buffs would be cool. Defense leader changes would be nice. But completely eliminating critting is going invalidate 60%+ of the hero pool.
LOL the `1st in my shard just buys whichever mod he needs and stays in 1st with his Wiggs. If I thought my shoretrooper could get me through the initial nuking I would take him through the roof but he just buys more mods.
You're obviously modding your Shoretrooper wrong then, I use him at 3* and Wiggs is lucky to get rid of all his protection.
The meta is and always has been Rex lead. Wiggs hasn't changed that, just made it more apparent
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I have him maxed and don't run him.
B2 is glorious and will dispel his taunt or dispel his crit immunity. Then ig88 will ability block him. You can save ST for the last guy you kill ever time when you use a droid team.
I disagree, this is a total valid thing to introduce a counter to criticals.
Sorry, but Lando has been broken since mods came out.
Super fast DPS teams at this point pretty much rule the meta, minus a few forward thinking balanced defensive teams which are handily punking out all the wiggs/meta followers on their respective shards.
There are how many things are in place for crit immunity/countering right now?
Shoretrooper(who very few have)
Ashoka w/ JKA
Rex (the defacto meta leader and top p2p toon)
Crit immunity arrows, which completely sacrifice your speed on.
Those aren't enough options. So thats why its led everyone down the path of the dark side to copy teams and let the fastest mods win, thats absolutely toxic for the game and community and takes 0 stragetic thought.
There's very little going on now to claim the sky is falling on criticals.
If you havn't noticed, most of the major meta changes are in response to the current leading metas.
They want to force balanced teams. That is where the meta is heading.
No single mechanic or ability is meant to dominate. Teams need to be balanced, specializing in crits, or fast glass cannons or, anything really leads to an overall weaker squad which can and should easily be countered by the corresponding counter balance. As it should be.
Defense is a completely worthless stat. I'm not opposed.
And a long battle has never been the AI strong suit.