Speed and how this version has affected it across the board:
- Speed, prior to this update, was not incredibly precise (hence the grouping of units of close Speed characters into a Tier).
- Speed is now very precise and 1 point of Speed over another character guarantees the initial turn order.
- Only in the case of an exact tie is it a coin toss.
Poe Dameron’s balancing changes were made by changing equipment pieces at Gear Lvl II and Gear Lvl III. This was done to avoid as much disruption as possible for players working toward completion of higher Gear Lvls. We aim to make targeted changes such as this as to not directly change the statistics of Gear items as that affects numerous characters who share it.
Due to this targeted approach, the goal was to address his high amount of Tenacity, additional stats were affected – both positively and negatively. These totals are provided at the end of this post.
We value the developer and community relationship but mistakes will happen on both sides when it comes to communication. We’re in this together to make Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes the best game it can be.
With that said, the following are all very important aspects to developing the game:
- Balance changes will happen. Some popular, some not. It’s a double-edged sword where one side of the fence is pleased and the other is upset.
- Going forward, if we make a targeted change like this, we will aim to detail out the full and complete change to all statistics. This was our mistake and we own up to that. It was not intended to be a stealth nerf.
Due to the missed communication of Poe, here’s what we’re doing:
- We’re going to let all of his balance changes remain as they exist today but will keep a close eye on how he’s performing and address accordingly.
The following statistics breakdown is the entirety of changes that affected Poe Dameron at level 70 and his absolute maximum gear level:
- -23 Strength
- +15 Agility
- -7 Intelligence
- -1 Speed
- -444 Health
- +5% Health Steal
- -15% Tenacity
- +31 Physical Damage
- +9 Armor
- +6 Physical Critical Rating
- -29 Special Damage
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I'm sorry, but "owning up to it" would be rolling him back to what you said you would do, or refunding all resources spent on him since the official patch notes preview.
The WHOLE point of releasing patch notes is that this game requires an immense amount of time and planning!
So when you release the patch notes you are signaling to people HOW they can plan!
I dumped ALL my Cantina Resources into Poe based off of information YOU gave us! This is unbelievable - I spent MONEY on this and now it gets pulled out from under us without notice! Worse yet- it was pulled out from under us with a FALSE PRETENSE
I am done with this game if I don't get my cantina shipments back that I spent over the last 7 days on this character. This is unbelievable
EDIT: Nice. Suspend people who criticize you.
Any thoughts on allowing in game refunds (in game appropriate currency like cantina credits) for characters changed in a significant way?
Agreed. Either roll back or refund the resources we spent.
Love this idea since so many spent so many resources on Poe (who is now useless) BUT...
How in the world could they do that? Refund cantina currency to everyone that has Poe?!?! I would love it, but it would then all go to everyone having a max QGJ immediately.
By "all those resources" do you mean mean a few days worth of energy and some cantina tokens?
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Terrible job of managing a game. Great way to chastise your player base when you completely dropped the ball.
So very nicely done trying to quietly get rid of all of the posts about these changes and how much of your player bass does not agree with them or how they were conducted.
I'm going to make sure to post a guide on how to get a refund in the Reddit something you don't have control over.
+1 what's the point in releasing patch notes early if you're not going to follow it. I guess "official" posts aren't so official after all.
Well, ideally when a character was changed, you would have a window (say a week?) to disassemble the character, ie you no longer have the character, but you are given the appropriate amount of relevant currency and and gear.
They should either rollback that change or offer refunds for misleading us.
That would be awesome. Chance of it happening is slim to none.
The humility on the lack of communication shows empathy and hopefully adjustments are made to explain updates better in the future. In fairness, if a 1 point adjustment to speed was announced last week it wouldn't have changed a thing. This string is about to be full with flames. Then or now.