Let me start by saying that i’m Playing this game for more than 4 years and for us players this matchmaking is killing us. Being a old player obviously I have teams at G12 that no longer serve any purpose like “Rogue One” and can be beaten in GA using only one character but it has inflated my GP massively thus matchmaking me with a whaler which is not fair. I can’t even put them of defence nor can I defeat any other teams with them, but the new whalers are not gonna invest anything in Rogue One for obvious reasons which give us that have them a massive disadvantage. You just killed the game and killed the true fans. No joy whatsoever
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I agree with the sentiment, it really feels like you are being penalized. I'm carrying a lot of extra pre-TW weight too. Back when you could experiment and there was no penalty for increasing say, Ugnaught, because it was fun to use him with the only 4 Ewoks available and knock down Separatist droids. Oops.
There's 2 fixes for you:
1) don't hesitate to use Rogue One on defense. I do, and I've climbed to Aurodium. I use Ackbar on defense too. It gives you more teams to attack with, and you'll occasionally surprise people who think they can take your properly modded and geared Rogue One with an under-geared squad.
2) in GAC, focus on offense. They beat your defense, sure - beat them harder.
3) The last thing, if losing in GAC really bothers you, stop collecting new characters / shards and focus solely on gearing up complete squads. You say you have the meta teams, gear them and use them.
Ignore the negative comments from people who have been in the game for less time, they don't understand because they didn't have a free pre-TW sandbox to play in. But there are steps you can take right now to improve your roster, and my advice is to focus on that.
I miss enjoying nodes and events. I really enjoyed gearing whatever faction I wanted to enjoy working on.
Heck malak??? Has dozens of counters. Including the most famous gg suicide squad. Or padme.. both have teams that have been f2p for years with the exception of padme solo character(as for her whole squad the fact you dont have them g13 already is cause you didnt want to.) Gg however has been out and g13avle for months now f2p with a killer squad that doesnt need to be g13 to crush a fully geared malak team..
You arent even trying anymore so people who are starting to try to build their rosters are crushing you. Relics arent hard to get a few up. Sure getting them to 7 without spending money is impossible to do full squad. But give it more time.
I am not a whale - I spend a minimal amount of money on this game. But what I am, is a giant guppy. My entire roster is inflated to 7*, Level85, GL8+, A&A7+, with only a handful exceptions.
I do have most competitive teams at decent levels too, but only one GL13, who now also has Relic 4. When I'm matched up, it generally matches me against other giant guppies. The whales are more top heavy for their GP range, and I have never met one, even at 4.7-4.8 Million GP.
I feel the matchmaking is way better now, and I have enjoyed every fight I've been in. I've won some, lost some.
Perhaps I'm just lucky to not have run into someone I feel is way out of my league.
Perhaps the solution is to inflate your roster.
As someone who is also been playing for years it also means you burn a lot of gear even though I have a lot of squads between g10 getting to g12 requires a focused gear hunting which normally stops meta progression. Aside from spending $$$$$ on the game you normally can't just get meta toons on the first or second wave unless you have planned for it. But any way if you have 3mil with 2 g12 vs the guy with only pillar and meta g13 plus it's very irrelevant that you have 1.5 mil in worthless toons.