Fourth triple Guinan this month
Lincoln Hawk
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Am I going crazy or is this the fourth triple Guinan trait Gauntlet event within a month?
Unnecessary comment removed. ˜Shan
Hey DB. The Gauntlet is already the least favorite part of your game, no need to pile on.
Unnecessary comment removed. ˜Shan
Hey DB. The Gauntlet is already the least favorite part of your game, no need to pile on.
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If you are not one of those who are lucky enough to have won Guinan previously you have no chance.
I kept hitting walls of 65% crits last time around
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You must be on the B schedule, one day off from those of us suffering through 65% Guinan Round 4. Consider yourself lucky!
I've often said this exact same thing. Imagine gauntlet with no base crits (i.e. no traits = 0% crit chance) and each trait only gave 5% boost.
To compensate could give 4 traits but typical maximum to deal with is 5%-10%. A 15% could be the new 65% and 20% impossible (no combo of 4 traits).
Streaks would last longer (more blue trainers) but would end soon anyway due to exhaustion.
All it would do is remove frustration over RNG uncontrollable aspect. Crits never work for your good since we are the attackers and we always try to attack weaker (or worsecase mirror) opponent.
Defence does not give points or merits so who cares how many times you crit on defense.
Gauntlet needs a 2.0 version.
Haven't you heard the old saying, "defense wins gauntlets"?
It doesn't matter how good you defense is if you don't score any points on offense.
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In addition, these traits are geared towards characters that are pretty decent gauntlet plays, further separating the causal player from the game. It would be my wish that all of the traits could be used in a true RNG mix-up in order to encourage players to use other characters other than the main plays, which would reduce the walls a bit. This way, there would be less 45% crits, and 65% crits would be possible, but as rare as Jazz Musician Riker Enabran Tain. Even 25% crits would require some luck to be used with the best gauntlet crew.
This is somewhat of a compromise between the people who like crits, and the people who don't. It will also encourage more people to play, and therefore create less walls.
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Despite often having slightly better proficiencies, this is the usual outcome for me with mirror matches...😞
even if you *have* guinan, it's only about 50% chance of winning once, and then all following matches are (almost) guaranteed losses. these are not fun conditions.
@Warrior Willo : Have you heard of the "defender bias"?
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These 4 hopeless guinan guantlets could be a *test*.
You don't need her FF. Even at 1/5 FE she is still useful. I have her at 3/5 and she is on every voyage. Apparently, she is top 10 for voyage so if you don't have a lot of 5/5 just tack an extra star on her or two on her.
I have her at 3/5 stars thanks to some luck at Gauntlet, too, but she's not on my voyages all that often. She has the same three skills as Prisoner Cornwell, Mirror Inquisitor Troi, and now Bell Riots Bashir. So if you have (or very soon will have) two of those at 4 or 5 stars, the value of adding a star to Guinan is diminished for game play purposes, including Voyages.
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I hate the 65% Guinan gauntlet as much as the next guy, but I found an easy solution to being forced to spend merits - I don't. Turns out, I'm not being forced after all.
I also just beat a FE Guinan with my Mirror Phlox for the MED/SEC combo. I was probably pushing the odds when I tried that, but hey, it worked!
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Preach, brother. Even with walls of Guinans, I still find a way to turn the gauntlet into a merit farm rather than a merit sink. Not pushing buttons is easier than pushing buttons.
Civilian trait bonus pops up often for Med on voyages. I don't have many strong voyage Med with Civilian, so when they added it to Guinan, I was ecstatic. She also has other traits that pop up for Dip and Sec that other strong Meds don't have, like Communicator and Marksman.
I can't say that she is worth using citations on, especially because a lot of her voyage score comes from her prof, but she is often in voyages for me (I have mostly 1/5 and 2/5, with some higher fusings)
Much more guinan gauntlets !
Like a month with nothing else.