Too many characters riding the bench!
So, I have 57 of the 83 characters available and 21 are 1* - 4*'s sitting at level 1 keeping the bench warm. This is really sad that this many characters are not worth leveling because of the current meta. The only way to use these characters is to drop to the #10001+ ranks. I'm wondering if the new lineup will even be worth buying? I would rather they fix the current lineup instead of releasing more characters. So many great characters just sitting collecting dust.
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yeah, i agree. i level and play a lot of the characters, but must sacrifice the arena becuz a good arena team can never be fielded. i save resources by getting heroes to 4 or 5 stars and work on squad in Galatic War. It works well, so while I have 4 star Ackbar, Nute, Bobba, and Han at level 55, I don't have 7 star Sidious like everyone else. But playing All my heroes is really fun and I like getting everyone involved in Galatic War. I don't focus on 5-10 players like all the guides suggest. But I do focus on the farmable heroes and gear them.
Rank 200 to 500 = 600 Arena Points and 60 Crystals
meh. I'll hang out in Rank 400's.
I only stay there if I can use my daily 5 free battles. I'm not sure if ppl do the math. I don't know about you but I would rather have 100 gems instead of 50 or less. If you spend 100 gems just to stay or to advance to the next rank your in the red. Doesn't really make sense to me that ppl think spending gems on arena is some how helpful at ranks 50 and below.
It's not worth it if your server is already mature, as you will drop again. It is if you are low level and your server is starting. Much better idea than pulling a random chromium pack
completing 5 galactic wars can give you the credits to level 1 character from 1 to 70. that's 5 days..
But with a deep bench and a bunch of 4 or 5 star heroes, you have the ability to finish (or go farther) in Galatic Wars. You get more than 600 Galatic War Points per day and I see Galatic War Shipments as better than Arena Shipments. You also get Credits, a few crystals, and some training droids. And as your topic states, I get to play all my bench players. While many are 7 starring Lumi, my Lumi is 5 stars and does well in Galatic. My Sidious is 6 stars and I don't plan on taking him to 7 (maybe I will, I already got all the others I want).
I think a good bench is a plus. For Galatic War, it's a must. But if you want to climb Arena, that's great. But I just don't want 5 to 7 great heroes and just put all my eggs into their basket. I'd rather have the 3 Ewoks form a squad, the First Order forming a squad, the NS forming a squad, droid squad, a GEONO squad, and a mix-mashes depending on who I get. And no, I don't buy Chromium at all.
I did buy the Dooku, Droid, Mace, and Barris offers.
For f2p and even for slightly p2p players there will be always a lot of toons on bench
Your posts always make me lol. You're absolutely right the Devs will never introduce new toons until what you said happens.
By the time u finish getting resources to star and gear 20 toons
I think u would even have to swipe for credits.
20 purples already takes at least 480 energy to farm if u are lucky.
That's a day worth n 2 refills a day.
Not considering other misc parts credits shards required.
Even an easy GW farm will take u about 3 weeks to fully 7* and gear.
A cantina toon from tokens with 2 refresh will take u about a month 2 weeks?
Only a whale can swipe his way to gear star every toon. But without insane refresh costs. It will still take them a sick amount of money to gear n star everyone
What would you do if you have them already builded? Stop playing out of boredoom and lack of goals for the future I guess?
If... they keep cap for a while.
I'm not there yet, but I figure they will keep level a lil' while before bringing it to 80
For instance, Cad Bane is supposed to be a "glass cannon" (well, his health is certainly low enough) with a stun and bonuses against Jedi. Ok, that'd be fine if he could actually dish out damage to rival other glass cannons, but he actually gets out damaged even against Jedi (and his multi-attack isn't broken like Leia or FOTP). So, not only does he do less damage than other characters for that role, his speed is 107 (low), and his health isn't on par. So, why field him anywhere other than the AGI gear challenge, really?
The example above applies to MANY units (the logic), not just Cad, mind you.
Lastly, arena currently boils down to a combination of high speed and high damage, where there are very few units that can compete with with certain kings of this. Sure, you'll see occasional differences in line-up, but so long as FOTP, GS, QGJ, Leia, and Rey are capable of one-hitting (or almost one-hitting) the sturdiest units (highest health, armor, etc.) in addition to first-turn (due to speed) capability, the vast majority of the roster will be bench-warmers.
Lastly, Phasma's leader ability needs a hefty damage penalty attached to it even at high levels. Reason for this: multi-hitting units that get called (Leia, FOTP) dish out too much damage for an innate assist, and self-buffing/de-buffing units via basic attacks (GS offense up, Leia crit chance up, QGJ turn-meter up, Rey's foresight, etc...).
Basically, I think Phasma's leader ability should either permit full damage to be dealt without penalty (at level 7) if bonus affects (self-buffs or enemy debuffs) are disable during it, OR needs a hefty damage decrease (even at level 7), but continues to permit bonus affects attached to basics. Personally, I'm in favor of the second option as it would maintain strategic tact, and would help balance the current meta.
That's fine. I bought droids and barris and some crystals. I paid crystals to raise my rsnk in arena, doing 10 battles per day. I'm top 5 in arena the days I can play before 6pm, top 10 or 20 the data I don't, so I get between 200 and 400 crystals per day. Which is a huge difference from 60. I don't have any 7*, but I have several 6*, some 5*, and a good bunch of 4-3*. I kill GW daily, don't lose chars or need to abuse retreat for RNG.
So, while I can totally understand that you preffer to play some other style, that's a long stretch from "paying crystals to raise your Arena rank isn't worth it". It pays off, if it allows you to sepoarate from the pack and get ahead of curve.
I would like to try different teams but most of the current groups aren't any good in arena. Maybe if they create some new type of arena where the other groups would be useful.
I'm all for playing for fun, but its a looooong road ahead if you play at the turtles pace.
Are you ask if there is 83 characters or are you questioning if I have 83 characters? I say in my post I have 57 characters not 83. Maybe I miscounted but here is what I don't have.
Lots of toons I'd really like to level up and use.
The reason: not the meta, lack of credits. When I was below 60,it was the lack of droids.
I have switched focus a few times, such that I have a deep-ish bench for GW, and I also compete in Arena (top 100, anyway) because I need the crystals to do my cantina refresh and 3 regular refreshes (I buy the crystal subscription). GW and Arena are still sometimes difficult, but that's fine. I worry more about being able to complete missions to farm gear, which has become much easier since I unlocked, geared and leveled Daka.
Either way, there are thousands of people playing, there will undoubtedly be at least hundreds of different play styles. Though I often think it is too resource intensive to upgrade a toon, think of what the game would be like if it were easy to level up all 53 of those characters. It would get real boring real fast.