I think they increased the difficulty of 'places of power'
Last night I breezed through this event with no problem. Today, I won but barely.
Wave 8 was crazy Yoda. I am guessing his effective speed was set at around 1000. It was down to Yoda and I still had Vader, Palpatine, Maul and Sidious.
Vader attacks, Yoda attacks 5 times in a row.
Maul attacks, Yoda attacks 5 times in a row.
Sidious attacks, Yoda attacks 5 times in a row......
Usually Yoda ends his attacks with forsight, so my attack does nothing.
It took me about 20 minutes to beat this guy!
Wave 8 was crazy Yoda. I am guessing his effective speed was set at around 1000. It was down to Yoda and I still had Vader, Palpatine, Maul and Sidious.
Vader attacks, Yoda attacks 5 times in a row.
Maul attacks, Yoda attacks 5 times in a row.
Sidious attacks, Yoda attacks 5 times in a row......
Usually Yoda ends his attacks with forsight, so my attack does nothing.
It took me about 20 minutes to beat this guy!
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Squeaked by on 2nd run.
Today breezed through non-issue.
The first time i used palp lead and did fine, but this time, he barely gets me to the last battle. So i switched to (non zeta) maul lead. But now, even if im lucky enough to start battle 8 with palpatine, the jedi have too much evasion and tenacity for EP's stun to stick.
Im not saying its too hard (i still enjoy the event and think its the best we've had in a while), but i've been doing the bonus tier over and over and still can't pull off a win. I get REALLY close (often its just yoda and maul 1 on 1) but cant quite get it.
Eventually Yoda uses his two specials to spread tenacity up/health up and the unstoppable force. If he uses those two in a row he won't have Foresight. Also, I just annihilated Yoda today with Nihilus so it went even faster than yesterday
It really depends on how much TM you have banked on your characters when you start phase 8. If some of them are near 80-100% TM you'll probably just run right through them, but if most of them are under 50% they'll attack a lot.
I used a zeta phasma FO team, not sure how bonus tier went down cuz I put on auto and put down my phone, picked it up later when I saw reward screen
It's not that bad, although I think a lot of people have most of their sith under geared and are just relying on their anti-jedi abilities. Also the sith are fairly slow and have less TM gain/manipulation than the newly reworked FO team does. They have individual TM gain, but none that's synergy based. And they have fairly low speeds in general other than Sid and Dooku. If yoda spreads tenacity up right away before you can land debuffs I can see how the last phase might start off rather difficult, but I had Sid, Vader and my 3* g8 nihilus go before Yoda in the last phase and made things very easy. (GK was taunting when Nihilus went so I used the cooldown increase), then Maul went and took out half of them and it was really quite easy. Also I was using a Sidious lead to stack offense throughout the 8 phases (Maul crits all the time and was getting 4-5 crits per phase at least which lead to a veryyyyy big offense increase heh
For anyone interested, it is possible to beat the bonus tier using the above mentioned Nihilus as lead, Vader, Dooku, and Maul at gear 8 no omegas, and EP at gear 10 with all omegas. You can use one annihilate on stage 4 or 6 to give Nihilus a solid amount of health, and then get another ready to take out Yoda on stage 8, at which point he should have so much health he could solo all the remaining enemies.
Yesterday I tried Palpy lead, and it was quite hard, but with Zader Yoda is sooooo easy. All you have to do is just place 2 dots on Yoda, and he will kill himself with his unstoppable turns XD
Used at least 4 annihilates meaning Nihilus was quite the tank by the end
Arena is the same now too. Good example is boba; does he proc ability block on rex for two turns and also others like chaze and GK in opening move? If not you lost. If so, you won with full protection. Yesterday I played and ability blocked entire team then next battle vs same team (we went back and forth trading places) ability block doesn't proc on primary target at all and only one toon gets the debuff. It's so unfun
Nothing has changed from yesterday
Generally speaking, the only thing you can do about this element is use characters that rely less on RNG. QGJ zeta, you know Jedi will start with foresight. Rex and Yoda, unless buff immunitied, you know they'll give tenacity up. When it comes to sith and the dark side in general you usually don't know what the heck they'll proc.
On topic, I autoed places of power today and barely lost protection. Didn't notice an increase in difficulty.
Pretty much this. If they went first then I had a very tough time since Yoda would just give everyone tenacity If Vader was able to get Force Crush in first, and Palpatine could stun everyone then I had a much easier time. Yoda on his own was able to defeat 3 of my characters on a few occasions. Vader was hitting his basic pretty hard through foresight and has ability block so I found this very useful. Once I got Vader to T11 it became much easier.