It’s been great, more than 10 Darth Revan in the top 50 now and I only dropped to 9 yesterday. Fights also go so much faster. A lot of the 2nd timer Revan with crap mods can’t even break into the top 10 now so the guys at the top drop less overnight.
Top 50 is 19 DR, 30 JKR and 1 CLS right now. My shard is brutal.
There are quite a few more DRs still not there simply because they belong to people who are not rushing to gear the team, like me. Eventually, they will get there.
Sounds like my shard. Maybe we’re in the same.
Top 20 is mostly DR and outside that is JKR.
I’m still taking 1st with JKR, but having to climb from 50.
If you are Azasal, then, yes, we are on the same shard
top 50 only 2 of us running dr lead right now- a few traya leads, a couple ep and a few cls. Still vast majority is jkr. I'm loving the 1 minute arena matches again though.
5 people have switched to Revan so far. None have used the full Sith Empire lineup. One is using Talzin+Zombie (which stumped me a few times until I figured out how to approach it) and the others are using a combination of Sion/Nihilus/Sith Trooper.
There's also one or two people using Revan and Bastila under a Traya lead and one using Palp lead.
The rest is JKR with a couple of CLS and one lonely NS team holding in there
Jan ‘16 shard.
7 DR teams in the top 11, and another 14 are being tooled up in the top 40.
The rest of the top 50 are a few Traya and CLS teams with balance JKR teams.
Both top-10 and top-50 split almost evenly between DR and JKR with more or less DR advantage. Other teams are virtually non-existent (usually 3-4 in top-50, almost never in top-10).
Most obvious thing that has happened in my arena shard is that I've almost stopped dropping.
Before DR I usually dropped out of top 100 every day and then barely fighting my way into the top 50 again.
Now around half the players in the top of my shard has swapped out JKR with DR, and since then I've begin to hover around top 50 and can easily fight my way up to top 20 every day with my exact same JKR team.
There was a point yesterday where the top 10 were all DR. Used to intimidate me, until a guildie told me a trick to getting past DR. Now I am just happier about the quick battles. JKR, DR, it's just another Arena fight.
My shard has about 30 active DR squads and will have about 50 in a couple weeks. We already have worked out that there is a counter rock paper scissors system. It is a mix of JKR, DR, EP and Bastila. DR destroys JKR. EP destroys DR. Bastila destroys EP. Some very good well modded JKR can pick off a weaker team or 2.
A few more people, including myself, have been able to get DR to G12 in the last few days, so now there's 8 DR, 2 CLS, 1 Talzin, 4 Palpatine, and 1 Traya. I like the increased diversity so far.
I really love the change! I dont have the best mods so my JKR team used to drop from top 20 to 150+ over night. Now my DR team only drops from top10 to 30-40ish.
As far as diversity goes, the only NS team in my top50 switched to DR and right now in my top 50 we have 21 JKR, 1 Traya, 5 Palp lead DR and the rest DR with various compositions incl. Talzin Zombie Sion Chewie Trooper and even one with bb8 and r2
My shard about equal amounts of JKR and DR, some of the DR are running Palp lead. A few CLS teams in there too - FYI, CLS can easily beat the DR-Talzin variant if your CLS is fast enough.
At first, JKR could reliably beat DR. Then the DR folks figured out better comps and mods. But they aren't unbeatable, it's just an arms race. Soon enough the JKR folks will adjust, and new counters to DR will be found. DR wins through massive offense and crippling debuffs, but it is not very resilient. It has no revive, and outside of HK it doesn't have much heal. The ferocity nerfs defense so much that DR can easily kill himself with counter attacks if he uses AoE at the wrong time. DR clearly has weaknesses, it's only a matter of time until the meta finds efficient ways to exploit them.
I just got hammered by a EP lead team with DR, DS, DN, and **** Fallen. Rosted. And my team is decent. Not uber, but decent. Got hammered. Here is my squad..
My arena shard is from the beginning of the game, so everyone who still plays is a dedicated veteran. That said, a good handful of us are down to shell the $$ for characters.
The top 15 of my shard are all DR. We have 1 guy who runs CLS into everything, we have 1 Talzin and 2 Traya leads. The last 30ish are all JKR. People with JKR probably go back to the top 200, and any one of them can break top 50.
In TOP50, there are ~30ish DR or Palp with DR, ~15ish JKR, 1 JTR maybe 2 CLS
My arena is hard, very competetive. I havent seen Traya under 200 for a long time now i am 50-200 usualy....I dont know how to beat DR...3vs3 i did, but arena teams not.
How do u beat DR with JKR? Like seriously, and i'm not talkin bout the talzin zombie variant either. Is there a way?
JKR can mark anyone and bypass taunt. Go after DR's money maker in Basitlla shan fallen. Once she's gone, that group loses a ton of potency. It's still dangerous, but - not as without her.
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If you are Azasal, then, yes, we are on the same shard
There's also one or two people using Revan and Bastila under a Traya lead and one using Palp lead.
The rest is JKR with a couple of CLS and one lonely NS team holding in there
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7 DR teams in the top 11, and another 14 are being tooled up in the top 40.
The rest of the top 50 are a few Traya and CLS teams with balance JKR teams.
There is and has never been an impossible to beat team in this game. Jedi Knight Revan can beat Darth Revan on offense and vice versa.
Before DR I usually dropped out of top 100 every day and then barely fighting my way into the top 50 again.
Now around half the players in the top of my shard has swapped out JKR with DR, and since then I've begin to hover around top 50 and can easily fight my way up to top 20 every day with my exact same JKR team.
As far as diversity goes, the only NS team in my top50 switched to DR and right now in my top 50 we have 21 JKR, 1 Traya, 5 Palp lead DR and the rest DR with various compositions incl. Talzin Zombie Sion Chewie Trooper and even one with bb8 and r2
At first, JKR could reliably beat DR. Then the DR folks figured out better comps and mods. But they aren't unbeatable, it's just an arms race. Soon enough the JKR folks will adjust, and new counters to DR will be found. DR wins through massive offense and crippling debuffs, but it is not very resilient. It has no revive, and outside of HK it doesn't have much heal. The ferocity nerfs defense so much that DR can easily kill himself with counter attacks if he uses AoE at the wrong time. DR clearly has weaknesses, it's only a matter of time until the meta finds efficient ways to exploit them.
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The top 15 of my shard are all DR. We have 1 guy who runs CLS into everything, we have 1 Talzin and 2 Traya leads. The last 30ish are all JKR. People with JKR probably go back to the top 200, and any one of them can break top 50.
My arena is hard, very competetive. I havent seen Traya under 200 for a long time now i am 50-200 usualy....I dont know how to beat DR...3vs3 i did, but arena teams not.
EDIT: just saw DR @125 spot....