LordVika said:
Lxzy said:
Like Trips said- Laser focus on missions is a trap. Progress with your account as a whole- work on your CB team, try and work with your dungeon teams, etc. and arena will follow. Arena rewards are only weekly anyway unlike CB/dungeons.
I've already said this here on the forums before, Plarium is aware with the complaints about arena and it's already being looked into.
So in the meantime the best thing we can do right now is actually take a look at your arena teams and figure out comps, check gear/masteries so you guys can actually compete in arena better. I guarantee you having a full team of 6*legendaries would only get you so far- you need to have proper gear, proper team comp, more importantly you need to know what teams your champions can beat.
Cheers.See that is just wrong.
Missions and quests are supposed to show you the way to progress. By completing missions and quests it is supposed to make you stronger, not halt your progress. There are even missions and quests that require you to actually win in arena, not just fight but win. So when inactive teams get deranked guess what, they are still there now just hurting the lower ranked players and stopping them from getting any progression. People are not going to want to wait months to get past inactive players, wait months to gain any progression, they will just find another of the millions of games out there to play where aspects of the game are not completely cut off from them.
It is a widely known fact that when Plarium took over this game, they made changes to the way arena works and it has made it 100000000000000000000x harder then it was before. While that might be okay for players that have been playing for a long time and have gotten champs that can be used in the different meta, it hurts and drives away new players and F2P players because they feel like they are being made to spend money in hopes of getting the champs they need to make any kind of progression.
Some of the easiest fixes to arena would be, to completely remove inactive players from arena completely, don't just derank them. By deranking inactive players, it only hurts the lower ranks, because if a gold ranked player goes inactive then he becomes a problem for the silver and bronze ranked players, simply because they can not hope to beat a team that has a much higher upgraded guildhall and is filled with 5s and 6s fully ascended champs. Also another way to fix arena is making ranks locked, meaning if you get to silver you can not fight in bronze. If your are able to fight and grind in silver never should you be allowed to drop to bronze. Yes there are players that will intentionally put 1 low champ as their defense to drop ranks, so they can actually fight and derank weaker players, since they can't PK players, that is the next best option for them, being that they are trolls.
I am a little over a month into the game. I realized too late that missions are a pathway to learning the game. When I started focusing on missions I hit roadblocks. But, I was lucky. I read a lot of forums and watched some vids. I found an old forum post how to build a good arena defense team out of players we all get from login and shard drops. I am building that defense now. It should stop me from ending the day in bronze 3 only to start the next day in low bronze 2 because my defense lost all night long.
This is not an easy game. That is why I chose it. Its only the 2nd online game I have played. A few days ago I finally 3 starred brutal. Now I farm brutal 12.3 and its great. It was hard, but I got there with a lot of help from experienced players on the forum. Don't be afraid to ask questions. There are a lot of nice players here willing to help you.
I dont know the old arena because I wasn't here. What I read tells me that something has changed in arena. Maybe Plarium will make an adjustment to cure the problem. Maybe, we will learn ways to beat the harder arena. A big company like Plarium will only make changes when its to their financial advantage. This is what we have for now.