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Well, I think I have to eat my words. Today has been completely different for me. Aside from a few nuances, the game is now playing like it used to after their last patch. I'm able to finish the Galactic War again (though I did have to exchange out Sid for Phasma--now Sid's on my B team), and the challenges are about like they were. They seem to have fixed things for us newer players just fine...not sure about end game yet though.

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I bought the $20 Ewok pack, so I could play the event and because it goes to charity. It came with some crystals, I had about 5k so I bought an 8 pack against my better judgment. I must've gotten really luck with my pack as I got a Leia and 2 Mauls (so 32/65 shards to 5*). Unfortunately I'll never buy another 8 pack so I will never upgrade them. Maul could be a little useful since he's 4*.

Question for anyone else who has a chromium exclusive character, my next GW last node gave me a Maul shard in the chest. Has this happened to anyone else, getting a chromium character in GW? maybe I will get Maul to 5*

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Yeah, I get Chromium shards all the time from GW. It's rather annoying.

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Tons of new info on guilds up on Reddit page. Bottom line, looks like we need to collectively accomplish a certain number of tasks per day. I think we need at least ten more people.

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I'd like to be in the guild. I entered my info in the spreadsheet. Dumb question: I don't remember my in-game name and cannot seem to find it.

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Ewoks are pretty fun. I might have to invest some training into them.

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Welcome, we are glad to have you. If you need allies we can try to help if you post your code.

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My code is 977-177-649

I cleared my random allies, and I'll send requests. Thanks!

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Your in game name is Imprint, lol.

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Mystery solved! I thought I used a default name.

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Thank you... i will try that. 😊

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Got Daka to 7* a few days ago. Just hit her from a bronzium so 32 unusable shards get converted to 480 Shard Shop tokens. Now I have 960 and I've already bought Vader twice thanks to the free Phasma shards iOS got recently.

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I am on iOS. I told them that they nerfed the characters that I paid for. That I felt it was bait-and-switch. That major sections of the game were unplayable. I pointed them to the app store ratings. 2* at the time I looked. I got the notice today that the refund was approved.

The original statements that I saw from the devs was that everything was fine. They said they'd played through on their personal accounts. Now they're blaming "bugs". "Bugs" that they didn't notice in testing. "Bugs" that they didn't notice after release. I think they became "bugs" when the ratings cratered and a lot of people applied for refunds.

I hope they fix things, but I'm glad to be out.

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http://swgoh.gg/raids/the-pit/

If this info holds, we should be happy to complete tier 5. Tier 6 looks like it'll pose a real challenge at this point.

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I think we are good to tier 6. Tier 7 looks to be the terror.

I hope we can get a good 35 people out of this thing or we will be screwed with some of the accumulation requirements.

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Looks like fun..

Can't wait to try it out!

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I'll have an Old Ben level 70, 7* for the guild by the end of the week. I'm like 4 days away from having a 7* QGJ. I don't care if he's less useful now, I have come this far, I'm getting 7*.

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That's how I feel about mace. He should be much better. I feel dumb for choosing him over ashoka but she hadn't been buffed at the time. Oh well. When I get Yoda at 7* I may never farm Jedi again unless it's Luke.

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Nice! I've been farming Lando from Cantina after my analysis last week but I'm getting a shitty shard drop rate. I've got him to L74 and G7.5 but still at 2* and only 11/25. I'm also spending 100/day in there on a refresh.

I may try to see if the 8-energy node offers the same drop rate as the 12-energy one. At least I'd be getting 50% more attempts even if I willingly reduce my token rate from 1.75 to 1.625 per energy ;)

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I've just been doing the 8 energy nodes for Ben. I think it's just random, some days Ill get like 14 shards, today 8. I use a refresh daily there as well. After Ben, I'm going to go for Dooku (glad I 3* that cantina node before the update).

With GW, I was doing IG86 to start working on a droid team, but that may be on hold after the update and go Phasma.

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I was planning to go for a droid team too with Poggle, IG86, IG88, HK-47 and GS but have to put that onhold for a while by the looks of it.

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Once I'm done with Mace (this week, thank the lord) I am moving back to 7* Dooku.

In fact, I'd like to recommend that everyone 7* all characters that they have a good chance of doing. Pinata was right - from what I've been reading, the bread and butter of guilds will be 7* characters and we need as many as we can get.

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Week 14 Report:

Level: 74 (+1)
GW Won: 75 (+7 GC)
Arena Won: 404 (+21 AW)

A Squad:

1) L72 IG-86 7*/G8 (+2L)
2) L70 Lumi 7*/G8
3) L70 Barriss Offee 7*/G8 (+1*/+2L)
4) L70 PTL 7*/G8
5) L72 QGJ 7*/G8
6) L70 GS 7*/G8
7) L72 Count Dooku 6*/G8 (+2L) (28/100)

B Squad:

8) L70 Phasma 7*/G8 (+2L)
9) L68 Yoda 6*/G8
10) L70 JC 6*/G8 (46/100) (+2L)
11) L70 Old Daka 6*/G8 (60/100)
12) L68 IG-88 6*/G8 (19/100)
13) L70 Sid 7*/G8
14) L66 HK-47 5*/G8 (23/85)
15) L70 Fives 5*/G8 (49/85) (+2L)
16) L68 Mace 6*/G8 (85/100)

Bench:

17) L62 Poe 5*/G8 (51/85)
18) L60 Luke 4*/G7
19) L64 Talia 5*/G7
20) L60 Chewie 4*/G6
21) L52 Jawa 4*/G6
22) L52 Greedo 2*/G7
23) L50 Ewok Elder 3*/G6
24) L60 Royal Guard 4*/G7 (28/65) (+1*/+1G/+6L)
25) L60 Stormtrooper Han 4*/G8 (+1G/+6L
26) L60 Vader 4*/G7 (49/65)
27) L56 Asajj Ventress 5*/G7 (NEW)
28) L42 NS Initiate 4*/G6 (NEW)

Not actively working on/GW Burners

29) Resistance Pilot 2*
30) Grand Moff Tarkin 4*
31) NS Acolyte 2*
32) FOTP 1*
33) Clone Sgt. (3* from bronze pulls alone, FML)
34) Tusken Raider
35) Snowtrooper
36) Kit Fisto (for now, if he becomes farmable I'll build him up)
37) Ewok Scout
38) Teebo
39) Resistance Trooper
40) IG-100
41) Biggs Darklighter
42) Magmatrooper

Plans:

1) Continue farming hard nodes/cantina for Mace to 7* (this week)
2) Continue farming hard nodes for Count Dooku to 7* (ongoing)
3) Continue using cantina rewards to promote Daka to 7* (two weeks)
4) Switch to STHan for arena rewards to promote to 5* (today)
5) Continue farming hard nodes for Fives shards to 7* (ongoing)
6) Farm Hard nodes for JC shards to promote to 7* in preparation for 7* Yoda
7) Continue farming and leveling/gearing Royal Guard (ongoing)
8) Continue farming gear to get main players to purple and beyond (ongoing)
9) Continue farming stun cuffs. (long term)
10) Continue farming Rey from hard nodes (63/80) (+9 shards)

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Here are the guild daily requirements by tier. You can now see why I'm saying we need more members to be truly viable:

Guild daily events:

Monday
1: 495 LS battles
2: 1238 LS battles
3: 2228 LS battles
4: 3466 LS battles
5: 5198 LS battles
6: 7425 LS battles
7: 9900 LS battles

Tuesday
1: 30 GW stages
2: 74 GW stages
3: 133 GW stages
4: 207 GW stages
5: 310 GW stages
6: 443 GW stages
7: 590 GW stages

Wednesday
1: 279 HB
2: 279 HB
3: 502 HB
4: 781 HB
5: 1171 HB
6: 1673 HB
7: 2230 HB GW stages

Thursday
1: 27 daily challenges
2: 67 daily challenges
3: 120 daily challenges
4: 186 daily challenges
5: 279 daily challenges
6: 398 daily challenges
7: 530 daily challenges

Friday
1: 495 DS battles
2: 1238 DS battles
3: 2228 DS battles
4: 3466 DS battles
5: 5198 DS battles
6: 7425 DS battles
7: 9900 DS battles

Saturday
1: 25 PvP battles
2: 63 PvP battles
3: 113 PvP battles
4: 176 PvP battles
5: 263 PvP battles
6: 375 PvP battles
7: 500 PvP battles

Sunday
1: 153 cantina battles
2: 383 cantina battles
3: 689 cantina battles
4: 1072 cantina battles
5: 1607 cantina battles
6: 2295 cantina battles
7: 3060 cantina battles

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Let's just take Monday for example. Tier 7 is 9900 LS battles. Even if you have 50 members, that is 198 battles PER MEMBER. Assuming an avg. of 8 energy per battle, that would require 1584 energy. You get 240 free energy a day. So you have to refresh 8 times to get what else you need! EVERYONE has to do this!

Tuesday is also tough. 590 GW node clears means everyone has to finish GW basically. 10 of your members can get to node 11. And if ONE member for whatever reason can't do GW that day...you can't get the rewards.

These look like goals for a 100 person guild, not a 50 person one.

Also, is Thursday even possible? 530 daily challenges? That's 10.6 challenges per member, but there are only 8 per day!!

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I very much worry that the P2P and F2P gap is about to get very, very wide.

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Man, I wish they would just lump the LS/DS battles together. I am not going to limit my shard collecting for certain characters.

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No one should.

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Are we sure we're not missing something? Even if you factor in the 1:00, 7:00, and 10:00 bonus energy for 375/day, a 50-person guild can only hit 3,125 LS/DS battles per day which isn't even tier 4. And that's for ONLY the 6-energy battles which no one will do.

We would have to come up with a schedule of who is required to refresh every day to reach that or 5. Insane.

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It should be based on total stars in LS, DS, and Cantina. So we don't have to keep proving ourselves, but strive to get that last elusive star across all the guild.

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Based on datamined info so subject to change. If not, whoa.

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This looks pretty fun, but yes, we'll have to see how far we can get.

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I'm not good at GW any more. Best I can do is 10 nodes. I used to only use my "A team" because I didn't need anyone else. Now I'm trying to play it "correctly" but I just don't have the synergy to make it. Maybe if rested characters healed up I could rotate. As it is, you just have to go as far as you can with the first team and then switch. And again. At the end the opponents are powerful enough to give you a run with a fully healed squad but with this Protection nonsense, you'll never have a perfect squad at that point.

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Not having Barriss is really hurting you in the new meta. Even having her at 4* is a game changer.

I'm still FC with GW since the change but I have a ton of healers and tanks. You are really skilled at this game so I'm pretty sure that in a few weeks or so you'll be back to FC.

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I suppose. I don't currently need 15 GW shards each day and the bonus is usually terrible. I will miss the extra crystals and credits but not enough to switch from my Lando hunch at this point. I'll make sure I farm her nodes but that'll be slow going. Can always pray for a bronzium drop.

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Seems like it would be nice to have Lando at this stage, geared up and what not - but since I don't have Lando and close to having Ashoka 6* (QGJ is already 6*) to go after Yoda 6*, it does not seem worth the effort to try and unlock him at this stage.

I would really like to have Yoda 7* before i can concentrate on getting another character. Maybe I am wrong but its Yoda we are talking about!!

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Official Raid and Guild Info:

Greetings Heroes,

Not much longer to wait for Guilds and Raids - our biggest update yet!

The update will be arriving THIS SUNDAY NIGHT (4/24/16, PST). If you want to start playing with the update as soon as it's available, you will need to manually update your game from either the Google Play or the App Store once the update is ready to go. If you do not update your game Sunday night, it will become a mandatory update on Monday.

Here is some information about Raids to help you better prepare. Raids are intended to be epic, difficult, and exciting tests of you and your guildmates’ collections of heroes.

Summoning Raids

Raids can be summoned only by the Guild Leader
A Guild must have the earned the necessary Guild Funds in order to summon a Raid. This is done by completing Guild Contributions through Guild Daily Activities and other actions.
Once summoned the Raid is available for a set amount of time, or until the boss is defeated


Tiers of Raids
There are 7 difficulty tiers for Raids.

Tier 1 – No requirement, Intended for level 30 and Gear Lvl III
Tier 2 – Requires characters to have 2 Stars and above. Intended for level 40 and Gear lvl IV
Tier 3 – Requires characters to have 3 Stars and above, Intended for level 50 and Gear lvl V
Tier 4 – Requires characters to have 4 Stars and above, Intended for level 60 and Gear lvl VI
Tier 5 – Requires characters to have 5 Stars and above, Intended for level 70 and Gear lvl VII
Tier 6 – Requires characters to have 6 Stars and above, Intended for level 80 and Gear lvl VIII
Heroic Tier – Requires characters to have 7 Stars, Intended for level 80 and Gear lvl IX

The highest difficulty tier also has a time limit, so only the most elite guilds, working together with their mightiest squads will be able to best it!

Raid Rewards

Players who participate in and complete the Raid will earn special rewards, such as credits, Merit Tokens and Gear Prize Boxes. Merit Tokens are used to make purchases in the Guild Store, while Gear Prize Boxes contain highly sought after gear, and possibly even a fully crafted piece of Gear that can immediately be used by your characters. This includes new gear pieces which were recently introduced as components in the Level 80 update.


The Gamorreans
These pig-like brutes must be defeated before your Guild is able to take on the Rancor. They are no pushovers and will require smart tactics to defeat them to move onward towards the inner sanctum of The Pit.

Gamorrean Guard Abilities

Hack and Slash - Deal Physical damage to target enemy and inflict two Damage Over Time effects for 3 turns.
Muscle In - Gamorrean Guard Taunts and gains Retribution for 2 turns.
Punch Through - Deal Physical damage to target enemy and Expose them for 2 turns.


Gamorrean Brute Abilities

Heavy Chop - Deal Physical damage to target enemy and inflict Heal Immunity for 2 turns.
Head Splitter - Deal Physical damage to target enemy and inflict Buff Immunity and Ability Block for 2 turns.
Impede - Gamorrean Brute Taunts, gains Defense Up for 2 turns, and gains 70% Turn Meter.


Gamorrean Captain Abilities

Mighty Thrust - Deal Physical damage to target enemy, plus bonus damage equal to 20% of their Max Health. If the target had 50% Health or more, also call an ally to Assist. This attack can't be Evaded.
Rally the Guards - Call all Gamorrean allies to Assist, then summon up to two Gamorrean allies to the battle. This ability is on cooldown when the battle begins.
Bestial Roar - All allies gain 30% Turn Meter and Offense Up for 3 turns, and other allies recover 30% of their Max Health.


The Rancor
The first Raid available in Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes is The Pit, where players will face off against the Rancor. This mighty foe smashes its enemies and will even devour them after so many rounds in the fight.
Rancor Abilities

Crushing Claw - Deal Physical damage to target enemy with a 50% chance to inflict Healing Immunity for 2 turns and a 50% chance to Stun for 1 turn. This Stun chance is doubled if the target has less than 50% Health. This ability deals 30% less damage to Taunting targets.
Rancor Slam - Deal Physical damage to all enemies with a 35% chance to inflict Health Down for 2 turns. Then, Devour's cooldown is reduced by 1 for each enemy that is below 50% Health. This ability deals 30% less damage to Taunting targets.
Bellow - The Rancor roars, Dispelling all positive status effects from all enemies, and removing 75% Turn Meter from each enemy that did not have a positive status effect.
Devour - Instantly defeat target enemy. This ability can't be Evaded, and the defeated target can't be Revived. This ability is on cooldown when the battle begins.


Guild Store

The Guild Store offers Gear for sale, as well as character shards for the all new characters Gamorrean Guard and Jawa Engineer. In addition to this, you may see shards in the store for other characters you are powering up, such as Rey!
Guild Activities
Guilds must work together to complete daily activities, such as completing a set number of light side battles. This is the best way to earn Guild Funds which are the currency used to activate Raids.


Name Change
While it’s not really part of Raids, we wanted to let you all know that in this update you will be able to change your name. This is done by opening your player profile by tapping on your Player Level progress bar in the upper left of the Cantina screen and then tapping the small pencil icon next to your current name. The first time this is done it is completely free, but subsequent name changes will cost 200 Crystals.

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An open question I have is if we waste progress towards guild goals on Sunday by completing tasks before guilds go live.

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Yup .. any idea yet what time it is going live?

I'm in the UK.