I'll try to keep this short and I am not aware if this point has been made.
There has been a lot of speculation that the yoda event will not be available this month. As it has in the two months prior. Here is the thread with the discussion as well as the dev comment about CG not releasing the date because they do not want to, "ruin any surprises."
https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/21135/i-have-a-sneaking-suspicion-yoda-isnt-coming-back-next-month#latest
I will speculate (I know that's not always good around here but...) Yoda will not be here during the level grind to 80 and will return once the level cap has been reached by a majority of the player base. What does this mean?
Anyone who aquired 7* Yoda at 70 will be at a major advantage to anyone completing it post patch. When Yoda does return he will be a lvl 80 bad **** green killing machine. You will have to build a full lvl 80 squad of Jedi with max gear and abilities to defeat him. This will require a large amount of resources even more so then 70 because of the quantity and rarity of the materials needed.
Those that have him will allready be working on the new meta and those that wish to add him to their roster will have to sink a large amount of resources into Heros that others will be leveling on there 2nd, 3rd, 4th team.
This being said it may be a better investment of your time to wait until you have the resources to spare rather then forcing the issue and making your team less competitive. I'm not sure what I am going to do yet.
Just wanted to bring up this possible scenario to give everyone something to think about. Good luck with the new patch.
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I've already said my peace on the bogus "surprise" for something that they clearly said would be on a regular schedule.
Wait, by advantage, are you assuming that they are going to scale up the difficulty of Yoda to match the new cap in effect at that time? Like an inflation adjusted Yoda difficulty?
I think advantage is the wrong word. If they scale yoda (which only makes sense), then that means that people who got him at 70 spent less mats and gears.
Now, if they keep the same yoda, then a lvl 80 jedi team has an advantage because he will be so much easier.
"It's a surprise! Isn't this fun? WE are certainly having fun because we know everything! Oh, you guys don't know anything? Well, it will be so much fun when you are surprised!"
Blergh.
This.
In game guild: TNR Uprising
I beat the REAL T7 Yoda (not the nerfed one) and did so before mods were there to help
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Seems a safe assumption. When have they ever made something easier or more fair?
They might also be considering how fortitude fits in. If they are really balancing down speed toons and improving slower toons then Yoda would likely become easier even w/o the level cap increase.
Sucks for anybody who didn't get him yet.
Yep, spend a lot of time, effort and money in get the jedi's and not I do I can't get yoda
I don't know for sure of course, but I'd think they'd keep him the same and not scale it up. There are also new people joining the game that will be at varying levels of XP and by continually upping the scale to benchmark to the first group of players doesn't seem to make sense. The early Yoda winners are not disadvantaged because they are rewarded for getting him early by having him to use for many months while the players lagging behind have not.
There is the conundrum. I opted to take Ima-Gun Di to 7* because I thought he would have future use. I knew the grind would be longer and I would only be able to get 6* yoda the second time around. I was OK with that. But if I knew he wouldn't be coming back I might have finished Mace instead to get 7star yoda earlier. I guess patience is a jedi trait unless you want yoda then screw it you only get 2 shots at it.
I feel ya man, he was the only one I could grind that made sense (thinking that we had a month to figure out/plan our Jedi for Yoda) and he is a 6* blue geared waste of space.
Exactly. It makes more sense to leave him as is and he will become easier to get for those who try next time. The ones who already have him arent negatively impacted by this because they have been using him this whole time. So it still was more advantagous to get him early on even if he does become easier.
I agree, otherwise you are now saying all new players must grind all the way to 80 just to get him when everyone else was able at 70. It should be possible at 70 and if it's too hard you can try again at 71, 72. .. So on until he is easy enough for you to beat.
Exactly. And then take that same logic months from now and past the 80 cap when the cap eventually goes to 90 or 100. So new players have to push to 90 / 100 and go gear 10+ before passing the Yoda event? I just don't see that happening.
Lack of logic hasn't stopped them before.
Clearly they are doing something, or why remove the timer and then refuse to answer a simple question when asked by dozens of people whose plans are now in limbo?
I hope so!
Maybe something good... Like they are bringing the event back permanently. So the turned the timers off. Now he'll just be there until you beat it....