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Jul 23, 2020, 19:1907/23/20
12/22/19
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What has happened to arena?!

Is it me or has arena got ridiculous? There was an update that mentioned a change to how matchmaking happened and ever since then I win one in 10 battles. Ive gone from gold 4 to gold 1. 


Every single team I match with has at least one legendary void champ which seems unlikely unless everyone in the game spends a lot of money.


Is anyone else having these troubles
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Jul 23, 2020, 20:3207/23/20
05/03/20
1858
Everyone is having the same problem.  If all the experienced gamers are falling from gold and silver into bronze who are the teams still left in gold and silver? 
Jul 24, 2020, 06:4507/24/20
05/26/20
127

Arena is by far THE NUMBER ONE complaint from the players.So far they have given lip service to doing something about it, but here we are with whatever tweaks they have in mind being pushed to next patch.

It was supposed to be this recent patch.....


Jul 24, 2020, 07:0407/24/20
06/22/19
800
During weekends a lot of players will be pushing to higher ranks again. You need to improve your artifacts or at least have better artifacts than others that are pushing to higher ranks again. 

difonzopeter said:


Is it me or has arena got ridiculous? There was an update that mentioned a change to how matchmaking happened and ever since then I win one in 10 battles. Ive gone from gold 4 to gold 1. 


Every single team I match with has at least one legendary void champ which seems unlikely unless everyone in the game spends a lot of money.


Is anyone else having these troubles

Jul 24, 2020, 19:0207/24/20
10/26/19
39
Exact same situation here. I was good in G4 with 3k+ points for a while but after this update I started seeing teams with 170k+ power with the most annoying setups, like dbl turn fillers + skullcrown, or valkyri with turn filler and another skullcrown, or arbiter + skullcrusher + 2 other legos. Those were the teams I found OCCASIONALY when I was in G4. Now those teams streach from G4 all the way to G1(didn't drop to silver yet so idk what's it like there) and they are so common to the point I have to refresh about 2 times(in G1) to find 1 fight that isn't going to be an obvious defeat. This uptade was even worse than CS:GO's update with ranks several years back. 
Jul 25, 2020, 02:3107/25/20
Jul 25, 2020, 02:31(edited)
03/04/19
7
I think most people are experiencing this. I was in the top of gold 4 myself and am running into the same ridiculous builds now in gold 2. I made a post about this but I'm 100% convinced plarium added bots to the hopper after that last update and a lot of these teams aren't real players. Theyre plarium accounts put there to stretch the length of the game and push people to spend money. 
Jul 25, 2020, 03:0107/25/20
07/05/19
747
Personally, I don't think it's bots, I think they secretary just put a number cap on how much people can get in the tiers, forcing a lot of high powered teams to spill over to lower tiers.
Jul 25, 2020, 05:2607/25/20
07/05/19
747

Another thing, why I don't think it's Bots but right now I have a hunch thay it's stat boosting on the defender team.

My team power is around 99k, and I found this opponent with apothecary and Warmaiden and 2 other epics I can't bother to remember, their team power is around 45k

They wiped me out, okay, team power is useless anyway so I moved on fighting others, but then after a couple of battles I accidentally battled that 45k team again, thinking "oooh man I'm getting wiped out again" but to my surprise, this time I was the one easily wiping them out without any problem.


So weird...
Jul 25, 2020, 06:2907/25/20
06/22/19
800

Since the subject is about "What has happen to arena" and some of you are talking about conspiracies in the game :D, I thought I will share to you this screenshot I took last June 21, in my location this is the day before arena reset where most likely a lot of players will start pushing to higher tier and hoping  to get to platinum the next day.

Well this level 40 guy SeaSmoke with the team on his defense which I don't know what he want to achieve in this comp, had 4047 points :D close in reaching platinum 

Sure I don't know what he is using on his offense, but can you even have good artifacts that can push you to gold 4 at level 40? I am really trying hard in arena and I only have 3904 points :D 

His defense is not even a TRAP defense that can give him wins, I just straight out nuke this team and win in few seconds.

So, if this guy is just trying to finish his Arbiter mission, he is doing a good job in reaching gold 4 :D

If I have to guess on how this guy reach gold 4 on the day before arena reset is probably through boosting. Someone probably boost him so hard that he is close in reaching platinum :D
Jul 25, 2020, 14:0807/25/20
09/11/19
139
JoinME said:

During weekends a lot of players will be pushing to higher ranks again. You need to improve your artifacts or at least have better artifacts than others that are pushing to higher ranks again. 

More easily said than done, since of course we use the best artifacts we have. The problem is by not changing anything within a few weeks time I've gone from G3 to S3. So something is not going right
Jul 27, 2020, 01:0507/27/20
05/26/20
127

It's all kinds of screwed up. I started playing right after the patch people are saying broke arena.

If I didn't read up on these forums I probably would have quit by now, but seeing as so many other people are beyond frustrated with arena and Plarium says they are going to do something about it I'm hanging in there for the moment.

If they delay arena changes again (was supposed to be in the recent patch) I don't know that I'll stick around. 

Arena should be fun and engaging. It isn't. Nothing fun about being stuck and having nothing but stacked teams with the best PvP champs come up refresh after refresh.

I don't mind losing in a fair fight, but fair fights are few and far between. Way too many accounts sitting in Bronze and Silver that have NO business being there!


Jul 27, 2020, 01:5507/27/20
07/05/19
747
Well the good news is they seemed to have a plan on how to fix arena...
Jul 27, 2020, 03:4007/27/20
Jul 27, 2020, 05:56(edited)
12/07/19
30

Why was the change made?

What did it fix?



Also, my Apothecary has a speed of 278, which was previously enough to allow me to win a majority of my offensive battles, while I was in Gold IV (4).

Now, I am in Gold II (2), and the reverse is true, the majority of teams I challenge are going first, even when I use a 23% aura boost, and they are under a defensive aura boost. 

Was there some massive speed artifact sell that I missed?

Jul 27, 2020, 05:5407/27/20
06/30/20
206

NickFrost said:


Why was the change made?

What did it fix?


Also, my Apothecary has a speed of 278, which was previously enough to allow me to win a majority of my offensive battles, while I was in Gold IV (4).

Now, I am in Gold 2, and the reverse is true, where the majority of teams I challenge are starting off first, even when I use a 23% aura boost, and they are under a defensive aura boost. 

Was there some massive speed artifact sell that I missed?


Arena defense team got buffed against players. If you fight yourself in Arena, yourself always go 1st and always beat you.


I did a test with all opponents in my arena list, I do auto all and 100% lose. It is because Plarium set arena list is strong and they got buffed, all of them are stronger than my team. 

Jul 27, 2020, 06:0207/27/20
Jul 27, 2020, 06:04(edited)
12/07/19
30

Ident20 said:


NickFrost said:


Why was the change made?

What did it fix?


Also, my Apothecary has a speed of 278, which was previously enough to allow me to win a majority of my offensive battles, while I was in Gold IV (4).

Now, I am in Gold 2, and the reverse is true, where the majority of teams I challenge are starting off first, even when I use a 23% aura boost, and they are under a defensive aura boost. 

Was there some massive speed artifact sell that I missed?


Arena defense team got buffed against players. If you fight yourself in Arena, yourself always go 1st and always beat you.


I did a test with all opponents in my arena list, I do auto all and 100% lose. It is because Plarium set arena list is strong and they got buffed, all of them are stronger than my team. 

Oh, thanks IDENT20, that explains a lot. 


That saves me time and money I would have just wasted in a pointless effort to get my primary arena team to a speed of over 300.


Jul 29, 2020, 09:2007/29/20
02/14/19
40

i have one toone with speed over 350.(include lead boost) it not help still losing... not starting, mostyl all oponet teamhave turn before me.. 



Jul 30, 2020, 12:5807/30/20
Jul 30, 2020, 13:04(edited)
01/28/20
65

indeed you can feel that it become harder to compete in the arena. I think they introduced limits of players in tears and this is what we get. Another slap from Plarium. Let's wait for champ rebalance and the way Plarium implementing things feels like it will be massive fuck up for all champs and it will be the last nail in the coffin.



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09/14/20
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Sep 3, 2024, 11:1909/03/24
Sep 3, 2024, 11:19(edited)
06/24/19
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