Powercreep: how is swgoh handling it?
Traya is really strong, although ZFinn RT Poe and Holdo pretty stomp over her. This does not take out that she has an incredible kit, and question is how CG is going to balance all this for the “long term health of the game”.
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Otherwise they would have realized that a 50% nerf of expose makes no sense if the next raids has the double the hp again....
They just go with the flow, release the next toons and in doubt, nerf old toons to make newer toons stronger and more valuable...
Still my impression.... I bet Bossk will be a Sithraid Monster behind a massive pay/playwall
I know there are concerns about treya, but as always it's a wait and see.
I think things have been heading in the right direction for a while as far as pvp is concerned, but that may be shard dependent.
Power creep is always present, and they have handled it well enough. Maybe a bump or 2 on the way.
Honestly from the information we have in hand I dont think that will be the case.
With the rework of 4 and the addition of one new one through a marquee, I see the inevitable path as, we will see a legendary requiring BH. Bossk may be good in the raid, but he will be behind the same paywall as other marquee.
With the cadence as stated there is no paywall that could be introduced beyond the ones already in place, unless a marquee is "required" for a legendary/hero event before he is farmable. But we have more than 5 BH already, so it may just be harder without him, but doable. Kinda like Thrawn, with the chopper/sabine debate.
Their bussiness model relies on a certain amount of power creep and not balancing everything. It's a well known strategy and CG have great success with it.
Treyas kit looks crazy but as with everything time is the great leveler here. I know that’s probably the most hated answer on this forum but it is true.
Also I think this when the forums shine: putting together teams that oppose the super op ones.
That's how they will deal with it. Stinks but until most people have her she will dominate. Once most guilds can beat hsr. They will make a counter. Don't expect it anytime soon.
I also haven’t seen a video yet of Treya,Sion, Nihlas, MT and zombie lol
I thought they would be more PVE-esque. That’s a total guess though. If it’s any -it will be Bossk.
I say the true counter will be with a Jedi pass.
Except Droids+Poe when the game first started... and Dooku lead with Rey shortly after... and Wegde+Biggs after that which eventually morphed into the Danger Zone squad... and the Palpatine meta that killed that off... and the Zaul meta that emerged after Zetas came out... and the triple cleanse that mostly killed that off... and the CLS+R2 meta that finished the job... and the JTR meta... and the most recent Zeta Palpatine meta.
So basically 90% of all major arena shifts have been OP, and gutted most other squads to some degree. Anyone remember Chirrut and Baze beating other meta teams 2 vs 5 with no leader ability? Yeah that wasn't fun. But we will adapt, survive, and overcome.
What? And what do you remember KOTOR 2 for? Bao Dur?
The most memorable character is hands down the Jedi disciple
loved that tbh and i still don't have baze.
lol my boy Bao Dur. Kreia/Traya is arguably the most important character in KOTOR 2 other than the exile that you are playing as.
Wiggs killed EP META — not the other way.
... but good point anyway.
Many of those metas weren't blatantly overpowered like traya appears to be. Dooku/Rey was more annoying than overpowered, and wiggs could be beat by droids, Rex, and Jedi teams.
Traya looks like she's similar to how chaze was but at least when chaze came out they also released zeta abilities at the same time, so people who were smart with farming zetas could keep in step. I don't see anything like that so far
I think what Jacen is conveying is that toons/teams have always been op at a time and follow through on being pushed back after time.
Treya’s opness is also because this game is different than the days of dooku and Rey.
Anytime you have a meta people are going to complain about it being overpowered. The real question, is whether or not that complaining is justified. Is that specific set of characters so overpowered that other very strong teams reasonably can't compete against it?
There is also a chance that if/when a new meta emerges, a new counter comes out to balance it to some extent. I know there has been some theory crafting but it always takes time for a solid counter to emerge, some people just need to be in the heat of battle to be inspired.
Yep. Also new toons are coming with the Solo movie.
A good chance the counter will have a Rex lead. Lolol
Yes and no, rex lead relies on a tank, which is usually GK. AI likes his cleans which leads to retribution..... retribution is bad with treya, em kay.
I’m so out of the loop! Playing the third tier of with raid. I just Auto it.
How about we wait until she is actually in the game before pronouncing with such certainty that the sky is falling.
Also several of those metas were far, far worse than you are admitting. There was a time when the top 50 of my arena was 47 Dookus, and 3 QGJs. Rey was the only instakill in the game doing 2-3 times the damage of any other attacker. It wasn't, "annoying." It was THE only viable team.
CLS was the worst in the history of the game as far as I recall. The SWGOH.gg meta report looked like a blue Packman eating all other teams.
And Chase could literally 2 vs 5 anything in existence at the time they were released.
So if Treya destroys the meta I won't be surprised. It's happened repeatedly. But it's not some new, shocking event that's never occurred before. And I actually want to see it happen before I believe it. Once she's in the wild, players will find the cracks in her armor if any exist.