I see all the speculation about the Old Republic characters being needed for Revan, but I can't get past one detail: there is no synergy between the OR faction. Bastilla's lead is the only one for the five characters, only helps one other toon in the faction.
Compare this to the strong synergies for Bounty Hunters (OG Chewbacca), Phoenix (Thrawn), First Order (BB8), Empire (R2), Jedi (Yoda), Rebels (Palpatine), and the rebels/resistance toons needed for CLS and JTR, etc.
Wouldn't the Sith being needed to unlock Revan make more sense? Maybe a new faction for Traya, Sion, Nihilus, Marauder, Assassin, and Trooper is created.
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We don't know who is gonna be needed, but there's a good chance it's the OR toons. Throw the buffs on Mission and let Z taunt and you've got a lil squad going. Especially with Vao's zeta. Don't even need someone to take health damage for Z to counter and call Mission to assist with Bastila's Meditation. And if it comes to health damage there is Bindo. Seems decent enough to pass an event to me.
While the OR are good for their factions (Bindo and Vao didn't leave to big a splash, tho), I think they were introduced for such an event. Otherwise, why make the tag? There are other toons from the era that don't have a special tag
And we don't know if this is the only event involving Revan. Could be one for Sith and one for OR
Personally the BH glut and the Solo glut have kinda worn me out. I'm Going to finish Solo team and Embo and get Zaalbar from the KOTOR team. Then I'm just going to take a break and get whatever KOTOR will be needed for the 2nd time around.
I did get get Chewie at 7* and I'm gld for it, but it made me realize how much I hate having to do forced panic farms.
Could be the OR faction was added for synergy with a Revan leadership and as a massive red herring.
I concur with the OP we've not had an event where the leadership ability(s) available benefitted only one other toon in the faction. So I think we'll either get Carth as a precursor legendary for a HJ type thing or we will need sith to unlock revan in a legendary event.
Either way I'm not worrying about farming for the event, the BH event showed that panic farming isn't likely to net you a 5* unlock anymore unless your toons were already g11.
I agree with your assumptions, though I'm still farming OR characters in case it's a hero's journey type event. But not panic involved since if that's the case we likely have a few months. So I'll focus not panic.
And I already have 5 7 star sith that are more than adequately geared for any event so no need to divert resources for that.
Why on earth would CG introduce 5 KOTOR marquee characters this year.... for no reason? If there's no panic farm, CG doesn't make much money. Why would they suddenly change the hard node attempts to 8 and first refresh of said hard node to 25 crystals - the same day they make Big Z, Mission and T3 farmable (with Bastila and Bindo farmable weeks before.)
They're all but telling you, without actually telling you. KOTOR characters will be needed.
Zaalbar is easily one of the best PVE tanks, but slap a buff immunity or fracture or shock and he's utterly useless. Most good arena tanks bring something more than just taunting. (Sion- damage, Shore- healing/crit immune, Old Ben- mind trick, taunts past fracture GenKen- group hugs, foresight, and crit immunity even when fractured, SiT- so many auto taunts, possible cleanses)
Mission's got some good moves, but again I just don't think it's enough. Sure, you dazed one toon, but nowadays you need to daze all five. Blinding something like a DN drain could be the difference between taking an annihilate or killing DN, but I have my doubts.
If you need Bindo for healing in arena, you are already dead. And while his revive is slightly harder to stop than most toons, teams bring stun and ability block. He might be useful in like a 2v2 or something, but if a better toon was used then it wouldn't go down to 2v2 in the first place.
While I do think they are better than the average Joe, I don't think they work well enough for arena, even if all their abilities had the old republic tag added.
Then again, I could be like those guys who got JTR, said she was garbage, and then she was meta in a few days
That's was different tho. It was a heroes journey not a legendary event
Carth will be released eventually with some kind of OR synergy. Also don’t be surprised if HK 47 gets a rework with the OR faction tag.
One thing about Bindo, max his unique and he gets +100% tenacity, if with Bastila lead(maxed) thats another 150% tenacity when he has protection up.
So good luck getting those debuffs off with what could easily be 300% tenacity. Better be a cant be resisted style.
Although for sure if you run bastila lead odds are you don't need the revive, situational can be good but not a gameplan like nightsister revives.
Still 3 more player character kotor toons(not counting revan) so maybe like Carth will have a OR lead ability or the kitty cat.
This guy gets it. I keep thinking about that Carrie quote of “Hero Journey like” as well.
I lock him out pretty regularly with JTR’s special. All you need to do is call BB8 to assist first, which gives tenacity down. Then you ability block for 2 turns, which means he’s dead before he does anything useful. Not saying he’s useless, but he’s definitely not in the same category as current meta toons.
Also the fact they've all been in weekly shipments the past two weeks.
Revan glued these misfits together. He will be their synergy.
Show me the dev post that said it was going to be a legendary event.
It won’t be a raid because there would be no need to farm old republic for it, so no incentive to panic farm.
It won’t be a legendary because the video shows you fighting the beast in the sith caves on korriban, so to me it’s fairly obvious that it’ll be a legendary event in the same vain as wicket or mother talzin.
Fighting the beast would be similar to fighting the AT-ST, and probably require old republic at 5 stars to receive 10 revan shards per go. There’s defo logic behind this and there’s certainly money to be made, because people will gladly pay to refresh and unlock him.
Definitely agree with OP in regards to synergy, but Revan will have a leader ability to tie them all together, after all, that’s literally what he does in the original KOTOR game.
I think it's close though. Don't think of it as Hero's Journey, think of it as Hero's Journey Light. I predict that there won't be a leader synergy and it'll require all five OR characters.
Think of it as a new format for legendary characters. Right now people have squads from most of the factions ready to take on anything new that drops. As CG has a pretty specific definition for what they want from their factions they'll need a new way to narrow the amount of playable characters used for new legendary characters.
So what you end up with is a story event with seven tiers and a new character to unlock at the end (or after tier 5 depending on how they want to do it). CG gets people to focus on a specific character group (which helps them make money) but they can now release more legendary type characters. Otherwise we're likely to get more wookie-level difficulties with our legendaries that are going to need one of the new faction characters to have an easy chance of pulling off.
slight correction- Mission was no slave. 'scrumrat' is probably a better term. She just lived in the Lower City and owed her life/alliegence to no one but her friend Big Z. While she did hang out with the 'good' swoop gang, she wasn't a member.
as for the event type. Have no idea. Hopefully 5* will be enough to unlock, pushing for 7* just in case. Don't think I'm refreshing enough tho unless he comes in December
I'd say without a doubt, at least some of the OR characters will be necessary, so by all means there should be some focus toward those characters. T3, Jolee and Bastila all have extended life beyond the Old Republic in Jedi and future droid factions, and I still pray that Wookiees will become a thing!
There will almost certainly be one other significant upgrade or drop ahead of Revan that will distract us, so as usual, focus and eyes on the prize!
Hey good catch, i must've been thinking about Vette.
Id also prefer a 5 star unlock or if not then the necessary toons be placed in the stores for at least a week for f2p friendly farming.
Someone in my guild also had a funny idea that I would love to see actually happen- maybe we'll need to use Jedi Consular as a fill in for Revan in the Heroes Journey (like farm boy Luke or scavenger Rey). He was Revan all along!! He/we just didn't know it!
Show me the post where it was going to be a Heroes journey requiring Old Republic characters