Opinions on Wave8 design and meta?

By Blail Blerg, in X-Wing

I do like the design of Tractor Beam, but sadly its effect is weak agaist large ships. And guess what, the meta is filled with large ships. I'm beginning to think it will be better to have 2 ion defenders over having tractor defenders specifically because of all the large ships.

At one point Manaroos point cost was known at 27 and the Scouts cost was not. So I thought, 'that means Scouts will cost 26 because they have 1 less pilot skill.' I like everything about jumpmasters (including EPT on scouts) but Scouts costing 26 points would have helped keep more meta variety. X-wing meta is so sensitive, that single point is quite significant.