ArcTrooperElite Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Probably the only thing about KOTFE that I liked was Eternal Championship and it was certainly the only single player content that even remotely presented a challenge (if just a small one). I'd hoped that 5.0 would see EC expanded on with new bosses and new rewards but...... instead it's now pointless. Can't buy any real gear with the trophies now, bosses drop 208 gear even though they are level 70 bosses, CXP reward is a joke except the weekly and honestly that isn't great. Is EC going to be another in a long line of good ideas left to rot (legacy system, macrobinoculars, seeker droids, etc)? In the absence of real endgame content I'd think that a premium would be put on motivating people to do old content, people like to be rewarded for the effort but obviously this fact eludes the devs as evidence by GC and RNG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merovejec Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 The weeklies still give old crafting mat, so that shows it wasnt updated. I did 2 runs today as I was bored and wanted to try if i get the rancor drop. Not much has changed, except the fights are easier due to Merc reflect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUXs Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Of course they are. They always do. Ask GSFers. Ask PvPers. Ask raiders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmadanNaBrona Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Eternal Championship was ever relavent?!?!?!?!???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SithKoriandr Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Eternal Championship was ever relavent?!?!?!?!???? ^This I thought it was just an Alliance Alert made into a weekly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
menofhorror Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Well duh. Everything Post-Makeb Bioware Austin team released got abandoned after 2 months so you should be used to this by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralei Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 I really like the EC as well. I always do the weekly. I put in a bug report about the lvl 65 rewards because I can't think of what else to do about it. I'd also like to see them add some more achievements for it. That'd be a really easy way to keep me entertained lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excise Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 EC is proof that BW is capable of making interesting single player bosses. Sad that is not really a part of regular game play and is the exception rather than the rule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shwarzchild Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 This is just what Bioware does these days. Create something only to leave it to fester and die. They are the developer version of a kid with ADHD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlasmaJohn Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 If they ever do update it (lol, good luck wit dat) then it has to be decoupled from the KotFE story. No I don't give a fig about "lore" reasons to gate the content. And even if I did the random Tactical Flashpoint queue already broke it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuckKing Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 (edited) Anyone else here remember Conquest? I don't. Edited January 12, 2017 by DuckKing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedip_enguin Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 When was it relevant? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andryah Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 (edited) I would not make that assumption yet. They may or may not refresh it to make it relevant again. They do have a history of adjusting, refreshing or repurposing older PvE content, so they may in fact commit a 5.x patch that refreshes EC to make it relevant in terms of rewards for effort. Like in 4.0 when they really did not upgrade crafting fully... they released a patch a few months later that did. Clearly something planned, that just did not make the 4.0 release window. Same could be true for EC.. they have plans... but they have not yet completed them. Time will tell. Edited January 12, 2017 by Andryah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merovejec Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Eternal Championship was ever relavent?!?!?!?!???? Only for achievemtns like the rest of the stuff, then its dead content Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alec_Fortescue Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 First GSF and then EC. So much wasted dev time and resources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phalczen Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 The visual effects on the cosmetic orange shells are pretty cool in my opinion and I use the tokens to buy those. I'd say it's far more relevant than the Star fortresses where they broke the loot completely so that literally nothing drops from any boss at all. Since SF is broken EC becomes the only way to get an Eternal Empire Walker now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dewlmenow Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 (edited) First GSF and then EC. So much wasted dev time and resources. This, I wouldn't care as much if there was any decent amount of actual new content other than the abandoned stuff, but that's too difficult I guess. Not that pretty much everybody except the devs and the white knights saw this coming though. Edited January 12, 2017 by Dewlmenow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
americanaussie Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 It's a no win isn't it? If they added on fights or gave new reward drops instead of this post you'd see the following: BW YOU EXPECT ME TO GRIND OLD CONTENT FOR NEW REWARDS! I'M QUITTING GRRRR. :mad: Hehe. This is me having a sarcastic joke. Yes BW has adhd but we also are never ever happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedimasterjac Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Like every other thing they add to the game, it's run its course of being supported and updated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
americanaussie Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 I strongly suspect it was meant to be endgame content at lvl 65. Meant to be super challenging. They're focused on uprisings now. It's entirely possible that the amount of people playing EC didn't justify upgrading it either. We may get more of that kind of content in the next few months. Their announcement on new stuff is in 2 wks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmorrisson Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 (edited) Even though I took a swipe at it in a previous post, I have come to find Eternal Championship useful. First I did the grind for the awesome legacy gear while getting me reacquainted with game mechanics after extended absences. The legacy gear vendor should at least be returned, then maybe add the gear sets only upgraded to say 234/236/240 ratings. Edited January 13, 2017 by jimmorrisson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eriksarcasm Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 Of course they are. They always do. Ask GSFers. Ask PvPers. Ask raiders. The funny part is, even though there hasn't been new content added for those game modes, they were included in Galactic Command. That made them relevant again (if one were to believe they were ever irrelevant) EC wasn't. For all the extra time they put into developing it they seem to have just given up on it as failed, or forgotten it completely. I had high hopes for EC. I'd hoped it would be good training for boss mechanics, and I found it very helpful in that sense. I'd grind it on bonus day if it had been included. As it stands now, I've gone as far as I care to with it and see no reason to ever even think about it. And that's a waste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voblat Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 I still do not understand why they pushed the level up to 70 for this. If you work through the story, 65 is probably about the level you get to it, they have level sync to deal with people over that. It would then be level appropriate content dropping level appropriate gear. Now its over level for ist place in the story dropping gear that is not good enough to use to complete the thing in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuaRya Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 I still do not understand why they pushed the level up to 70 for this. If you work through the story, 65 is probably about the level you get to it, they have level sync to deal with people over that. It would then be level appropriate content dropping level appropriate gear. Now its over level for ist place in the story dropping gear that is not good enough to use to complete the thing in the first place. Tried this for the first time since returning for 5.0. My lvl 50 companion Ranos get's destroyed by Mister Ripper and Breaktown Brawler in 20 seconds. Found and read this thread what a shame this piece of content is now walled off like certain flashpoints due to bosses dishing out an unrealistic level of damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AscendingSky Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 (edited) But... but... upgrading it would require work! And nothing about the EC is based on EXCITING!!!!!!!™ RNG mechanics! Obviously it's not worth your time on that alone, right? Who wants consistent rewards for specific content!? That's crazy talk! Why would you even care about that anyways? Go run some cut and pasted, unbalanced content (i.e. Uprisings) instead! Experience THE THRILL OF THE HUNT!!!!!!!!™ (and fluff EAWare's almighty mystical metrics so the suits don't fire Ben Irving for being the incompetent, out of touch dunce that he is). Edited February 22, 2017 by AscendingSky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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