Don't rank top 10 if you want to beat GW lol.
I am 100% FTP, level 63, with arena power of ~21k. My main squad is Sid/Lumi/JC/Phasma/Poe.
I am consistently in top 20 on my server, and GW has been relatively easy.
Then, I placed 10th two days in a row. Then, GW went on steroid mode lol.
This is what I got last night, I only took screen shots of 2nd and 6th, but since 2nd every battle is gear 8 level mid 60's opponent team, with 68 being highest. Yes I did beat it but it took over 3 hours.
So if you are FTP and largely rely on 15 shards from GW daily to reasonably stay completive, do not place high in area.
I am consistently in top 20 on my server, and GW has been relatively easy.
Then, I placed 10th two days in a row. Then, GW went on steroid mode lol.
This is what I got last night, I only took screen shots of 2nd and 6th, but since 2nd every battle is gear 8 level mid 60's opponent team, with 68 being highest. Yes I did beat it but it took over 3 hours.
So if you are FTP and largely rely on 15 shards from GW daily to reasonably stay completive, do not place high in area.
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Yesterday I spent like 2 hours restarting on back to back level 70 teams that made my run a nightmare to finish.
Depth is the key to beating GE easy. Drop rank and miss those rewards if you like but its not as hard as ppl make it sound, they just want everything to vome easy is all and dont wanna take he needed time to build and earn it and beat it when they are ready.
I swear, its like ppl wanna start out the game at lvl 1 ad be able to beat full gear 7* lvl 70 teams ffs.
As a developer said here
https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/432ybr/dont_reset_gw_at_rank1/czgkyc5
"Dropping ranks no longer helps you. We save your highest rank and we do some "maths" with that and with your 5 most powerful characters to determine where you will stand in GW."
But yes I agree the devs intended for us to have a deep roster in order to finish GW. I think that was explained in an announcement post recently.
I walked right through GW today and didn't loose a single toon. I haven't lost a GW since my 3rd one back is early/mid December. All I have done is leveled all my toons to 6* and kept them at 100 shards. Never promoted to 7*.
I haven't see a single full 7* team opposing me in GW yet. I would venture to say it is more related to the collection of characters rather than arena ranking. But I suppose arena could contribute somehow.
This seems to be true for me since I recently downgraded my team power but increased my arena rank and made gw easier. A low star poe is that **** good!! Haha
Obviously I am only talking about F2P.
If one spends money on this game then of course it is a cake walk.
Makes sense and thanks for sharing, but too late for me now LOL.
Do your first arena with a lower powered team need to win though but first arena of day should be easiest. Then que up your galactic war. Should be based on last teams lower power...then go back to main team for last 4 arenas.
At very least que up the gw before ya equip any gears or promotions that you would do that day...
The GW difficulty is very random... some days you get very easy runs through the 12 nodes, occasionally there will be one or two major stumbling blocks... it's utterly random the difficulty...
From everything I have seen the GW isn't based on anything but your account level... I don't even think it takes into the account your strongest five power ratings like a lot of people claim..
As far as I am concerned it was just coincidence that when you broke the top 10 you hit a hard bunch of GW nodes.
Game used to be fun when it wasn't a grind... if I wanted a grind I would have went and played old school Everquest or some Korean MMO!
I'd like they would tell us how exactly GW opponents teams are selected.
After the updated I got 2 really reeeally hard GW, the hardest ever, losing around the 6th nod, after that I won everyday.. until today.
2 days ago I got to the top 10 for the first time (10th actually lol), yet GW yesterday was pretty easy, and got 20 on arena, but GW today holy ****!
From the very first nod I was facing teams that looked stronger than mine, I just lost on the 11th nod (was really hard to get there, lost almost my entire B team), but against what a team! All 5 chars lvl 69, 7*, gear8!! While my team consist on all 5 lvl 63, two 7*, one 6* and two 5*, all gear7. That's A LOT of power difference in there, much more than the 10% limit gap I've read!
The only difference in my team from yesterday is that I star up one of my chars (from 4 to 5*) and lvl them up from 62 to 63, which meant an increase on power around 300. I don't think that's such great increase to justify today GW.
So no sure how they are selecting my opponents, but to go from such effortless GWs to the one today.. Well, something tells me they aren't doing things fine. I'd rather have challenging GWs everyday, yet achievable, than effortless one day and impossible the after.
EA itself has already made statement that it is not random. It is determined by your record high arena ranking and your best squad power.
There is no way GW difficulty is random, and it shall not be.
EA can say what they like... fact remains my observations seems to indicate otherwise to what they claim... I wouldn't question them if they said it was based on your account level.. but on your arena power level, that I doubt primarily like I said because of my own observations in the GW and Arena..
I should elaborate on what I mean by random... it's not random in the sense it is based on your account level...
BUt the teams you get faced with their difficulty is random because of the composition.. If the team has good synergy it can utterly decimate your team... hence a hard node.. occasionally you will see a node with probably the same approximate power rating... but because of teh lack of synergy between those characters, it becomes a heck of a lot easier...
There is no randomness in the sense that the over GW is based off your account level...
However because not all teams are equal even with the same power rating, the difficulty of each team is random!
I can easily go through a day encountering a whole bunch of poorly put together teams but then another day get hit with several teams that have great synergy between the members of that team... That's what I mean by random...
The level range will still be the same as usual.. starting at -10 lvl in the first few nodes, then similar level and the last few nodes may sometimes contain teams higher level than mine. That has always remained the same...
The team composition varies greatly and hence the randomness of the difficulty.
Game used to be fun when it wasn't a grind... if I wanted a grind I would have went and played old school Everquest or some Korean MMO!
so i dont believe arena has anything to do with it
i finished my 50th yesterday and my last 20 have been super easy
i dont buy crom packs i run FTP heroes apart from a few hero packs at the very start
Pretty sure arena's rank influence is minimal compared to your server's age, the number of 7* guys in your main 5, and the timezone you play.
I understand what you are saying, some L66 7* gear8 teams are easier to beat than the others because its lacking good synergy.
But my point is, for 3 straight days, I am encountering full 7* gear7-8 teams from the 2nd node until last node. Before that, it was as you described, started with mid 50's non purple teams, and then ran into 7* purple gear teams around 8th node, 8-11 is hard then last node became easy again. So that's an obvious change to me.
Im not f2p, but Im far from being a whale. Ive been playing for almost 2 months. Ive bought few bundles (Dooku, Barriss, Mace) and ~10k crystals in packs. I only spend my crystals for recharges, never on chromium.
I have only 9 heroes at max lvl - basicaly 2 teams, one for arena and one for GW (Lumi is in both thus only 9 heroes). I blaze through GW daily without resets/substitutions/team changes.
In my opinion most players do the common mistake - they spread thin building a lot of heroes instead of focusing on few. It is not true that one needs seweral teams to beat GW. One proper team is enough if one plays smart. There has been a lot of guides how to beat GW. It is really easy. Arena rank has nothing in common with GW matchups.
Can you define "scrubs"?
They are scrubs just because you defeat them easily?
Or are they scrubs because they are 5* non-purple gear teams?
I hardly ever get matched vs top p2p decks (filled with chromium 7* cards). Usually my opponents use the same cards as I (farmable ones) and they are lvl 65-70, always purple gear.
I call them scrubs coz I easily beat them. I think the reason is that all my heroes have maxed skills and gear while theirs are probably not. Plus the AI is reather stupid.
My GW team consists of:
Barris 4*, lvl 70, gear VIII & 4/6
Lumi 7*, 70, VIII & 4/6
JC 7*, 70, VIII & 5/6
Daka 6*, 70, VIII & 5/6
Dooku 6*, 70, VIII & 4/6
Facing hard teams in GW and beating them easily, are two entirely different thing.
Those "scrubs" you encounter, can easily be impossible to beat for F2P players. You beat it easily because you are P2P (although not whale) at max level and gears.
Therefore my point is valid. You can only call it invalid, if you rank high in arena but encounters 5 star same level team without purple gear.