With each introduced character/ship becoming a meta I have to ask is the arena too boring. With the Falcon released all the top slots in fleet arena are Home one, Biggs, Falcon and hounds tooth in some faction or another. then with the 2nd coming of Revan almost everyone in top 50 are Revan teams. i do not know about anyone else but battling the same battles over and over again are not fun. i miss the days when I started and everyone had different characters so it ws uncommon to hit the same lineup twice in a day. Too bad they do not give bonuses for uniqueness of lineup the encourage people to switch it up a bit. And before someone says well the Next release will knock down Revan that does not solve the issue everyone will go to the lineup and those who don't have the characters there Revan teams just get pushed down farther on the list so you will still have a lot just in lower spots .
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It’s unreasonable to think that the game could work in a way that no single team would be better than the rest. There will always be a top team , we are close to a Rock Paper Scissors game , which is good enough for me.
I played another game for a while that actually did really well at not making new cards the meta. When I would check the top ranks, each team was usually different. I think making all characters viable would be great for the game and the players, but I doubt it would ever happen.
I understand the OP’s frustration that all top teams are the same. But the current business model is built to play on people’s tendency for addiction.
seems legit. not like the game is making millions and millions of dollars............
Agreed. I loathe my daily arena battles to meet daily reward requirement.
That's not even the case for new players now. Everyone gets Phoenix first....then they all switch over to EP teams. There's always been a meta team.
I hope this was meant as sarcasm as this game brings in 10's of millions a month on average if you analyze the data from Apple and Google.
For example, I’d love there to be better counter teams. And when I say counter, I don’t just mean a team that can beat Revan or Milleniun Falcon. I mean a team that counters it so well that Revan or Falcon can’t even beat it on offense, but it’s not OP and isn’t actually that great if it’s not facing that team it’s meant to counter. This would help keep 1 team for overrunning arena.
I Completely disagree! Yes Revan dominates right now but I can easily place top 10 with chew crew and 3P0, it's all a matter of mods! I am a veteran player not a whale so I'm not paying my way to the top. There are also a number of Treya teams other CLS Finn leads and even an NS team in my top 50. I actually think the devs have done a great job of making multiple viable teams for squad arena. Normally the Meta is the Meta, 50 identical teams at the top and that is not the case. As for the new toon that comes out making Revan look weak... That's the game! If they didn't release new meta toons the game would get stale very quickly as has happened in the past. This game is not all about arena, as someone who has played for over 3 years I can assure one thing the devs have done is consistantly create new uses for characters by continuously creating new areas of the game to play. Having said all that, Revan is a pain to all and I look forward to his downfall... Bring on sith lord Jar Jar
that was my point. people thinking the game is dying aren't rational
I didn't say CG was dieing, EA might be in trouble tho.
CG is a great company and I would love for nothing more that EA not be a part of it. But you know that pesky license and all.
uh, ok. not sure what you mean
subtle having-revan brag is subtle. wp
Fleet Arena is another story. If you don't have Bossk and the Falcon forget about it. I think that's down to there being to few ships and ship farming being to much of a drain to be honest.
I tried to run with the fleet meta once and farmed Geos. That meta lasted about a week after I got them farmed. That farm set me back elsewhere so vowed to never chase another meta again. To be fair they still hold their own in the top 50 but the more Bossks I see the less I'm able to win, eventually I'll just get crowded out because my Bossk isn't up to snuff.
Purists could argue that's my fault but then I'll fire back and say... 1. I'm not able to sink 100's into this game to keep up with all the meta shifts and 2. I've been playing 1yr now and have been grinding for the Thrawns CLS's etc etc and have just unlocked JTR this time. I've done as much as I can as fast as I can and would say I'm in good shape but my resource will only stretch so far. My BH were adequate before Bossk came along and coupled with the fact ships has not been a priority for me, he didn't get the love.
He's being farmed now for the Chewie event but I'm not farming his ship. I can't spare the resources.
Maybe my attitude will change IF they dump a ton of new ship content and actually make the fleet store and fleet nodes pure ship farming. That way we don't have to stretch other energies too far, but for me right now the Geos are doing a job, when they stop they stop, I've too much going on elsewhere and I think THAT is the fundamental problem with Fleet Arena.
If it is more about the mods than the team, prove it. Show us how well you rank with a CUP team or jawas or anything that isn't current meta, I will wait for you to complain about your drop in rank.
I agree. I think of it like this, to do better in arena, you need to spend crystals to get higher. You earn more crystals. Cyclical. Now you factor in the "high school" click mentality of you're not part of the cool kids table (top of shard chat and colluding conspiracy) you don't get to place higher because our friends don't like you and we don't like you either.
I'm a more guild focused player that's in it for the fun of the game, being dictated as to when and who I can or can't attack is not for me.
The guild stuff is more fun, especially beating Hsith, or team building stuff. I simply loath arena.
You don’t have to do them though. You can just enter and forfeit, or toss it on auto and put it down. I guess if you’re trying to get that 10k arena wins achievement in like 5 more years you have to try to win them but... that seems like a pretty strange thing to care about if you hate arena that much.