Is Picard going to dominate the Gauntlet?
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Mirror Picard has one of the highest CMD proficiencies in the game, with an average roll around 500. The few who can best him are the extremely expensive Kahless (average 560), a somewhat rare sight due to the massive Honour investment, or time-limited legendaries like Admiral Nechayev (~480), Revolutionary Damar (~510) or Enabran Taim (~510).
I might be missing someone, but the list is very short and is mostly very exclusive legendaries, while Picard is going to be given to basically everyone in the game (even relative noobs can get a 1/5* Picard with little investment, I reckon).
Now, it is true that the other proficiencies aren't equally broken. His SEC is perfectly average, and his SCI is so laughable you might as well forget about it. But so what? I see hordes of Mirror Phloxes in each Gauntlet round, despite Phlox's SEC being even lower than Mirror Picard's. On top of that, Picard has many Gauntlet-friendly traits. I see no reason why players won't use him in a multitude of matches.
So, are you expecting to see Doom-Walls-of-Picards in your Gauntlet? Are you ready for it?
And most of all, is DB going to do anything to prevent the absolute staleness in the Gauntlet, now that they are about to give a top-proficiency crew to virtually every player?
I might be missing someone, but the list is very short and is mostly very exclusive legendaries, while Picard is going to be given to basically everyone in the game (even relative noobs can get a 1/5* Picard with little investment, I reckon).
Now, it is true that the other proficiencies aren't equally broken. His SEC is perfectly average, and his SCI is so laughable you might as well forget about it. But so what? I see hordes of Mirror Phloxes in each Gauntlet round, despite Phlox's SEC being even lower than Mirror Picard's. On top of that, Picard has many Gauntlet-friendly traits. I see no reason why players won't use him in a multitude of matches.
So, are you expecting to see Doom-Walls-of-Picards in your Gauntlet? Are you ready for it?
And most of all, is DB going to do anything to prevent the absolute staleness in the Gauntlet, now that they are about to give a top-proficiency crew to virtually every player?
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Not the point? I'm wondering whether Picard is going to lead to an all-new level of staleness in the Gauntlet, whether it's inevitable, and what could be done.
I'm sure that many of us are very happy to receive Picard. Say, for me: you currently have an advantage over me because you have Nechayev and I don't. But as soon as I have Picard... you basically lose that advantage, as I suddenly have someone equally good. I mean, you stop having an advantage over players who started playing one month ago. It is a lovely addition for sure.
You will see him there for sure, like a bunch of other Chars that you see regularly, but no more.
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Gauntlet can quickly become pointless (and a huge merit drain via refreshes) if you don't yourself have these characters at your disposal.
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My guess is that this is already a problem, as those top fleets generally consist exclusively of players who have the strongest crew members anyway. Making their crews better will just add some inflation to the issue.
2 points:
- for those of us who studied Latin, I really do prefer when it is referred to as a wall of Locuti
- I recently encountered a wall I had never seen before (please see attached screenshots), which leads me to think there are many other players like me who have not received the elusive Bartender Guinan drop
If he's so rare then why do I see him all the time?
This.
I don't get the OP suggesting a new character will lead to more "staleness" either. New stuff freshens up, right?
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This is pay to win! Every noob with money can get every crew he wants!
When Mirror Phlox made an appearance in Borg month, I knew his wall was only a short time away. Gunshow Picard will be a brick in the wall next between Kahless and Nachayev.
Weirdly he's a double threat in the Gauntlet. On CMD/SEC his 720 avg is enough to make him 11th best. On CMD/SCI his 550 avg is enough to make him 12th best.
Since he does have a boatload of traits he may be at 25/45 a lot. By way of comparison Mirror Phlox looks dangerous because of his massive average roll but I don't think I've ever seen him with more than 25% crit and usually not even that.
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Someone must have left the door unlocked at a Dominion cloning lab. You thought them activating another Weyoun clone after one died was bad, wait until you see Mirror Phlox 500!
This is honestly my concern.
While those whale fleets do have some of the best crew already, any other person who happens to have chanced upon a good (or a good few) crew member(s) will still stand equal footing. Now with prof plus, people not in fleets don't stand a chance. And people in fleets which are slower to build the prof rooms will also suffer for a while until they can catch up. I kind of want to say that Gauntlet should not be affected by the proficiency rooms in a fleet's starbase.
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Fleets work hard on those rooms. I think that's a really selfish idea. Your fleet has just as much of a chance to work those rooms as anyone else. I don't have a "whale" fleet, we have a lot free to play players, but we get stuff built. You don't need to spend money. You just need 50 active players that hit their daily targets and donate.