I’ve played Raid for a over a year, and the recent changes to the arena have had a huge impact. I have two accounts, my main and FTP. Both were in gold 4. My main has been in gold 4 for over 10 months, and my FTP was always barely in it for the last 4 months.
After the changes, my FTP was attacked down to gold 2 in one day. I could barely manage that, but now it’s gone down to gold 1 and even had a few days in silver, and those teams were all legendary teams.
I was able to scrape by at gold 4 with my main, but it’s always been hard to keep my head above water. At every reload it’s all speed leads nukers with the an average power of 180k. Per reload, there might be 2 teams I can beat. Used to, I could definitely win 4 and maybe another 3.
With loses being quiet punitive, even having a win lose ratio of 7-4 means your breaking even. That added the the fact that I’m getting attacked and bested more often.
This week was the first time that I fell to gold 3 in 8 months and it’s actually harder there cause no one is setting there defense to 4 lv1s. (Before the changes I almost always ran 4lv 1s to keep me from rising too high... not anymore)
The main issue is that the guild hall can only be upgraded through pvp but it is vital to your ability to do PVE too. Making it much harder to develop that makes it much harder to progress in the game. I’ve given up hope of getting enough medals to 10rank a skill for my FTP.
I don’t want ‘easy wins’ but the guild hall is truly a ‘grind’ that’s critical to the overall experience of the game. If there were a way to get medals from PVE, I’d have no issues with the current setting of the arena, but the only reason for me to play in the arena is the medal grind.
The idea of a checkpoint is good, that way you can attack more freely.
Since speed is such a huge meta of the area, it should have a higher effect on team power.
Gold 4 is dominated by teams made out of just a handful of champions. If you don’t have the luck to pull them...
Honestly, I would like wins from classic arena to go towards the bazar. I’d rather have a PVE arena for medals. That way you could spend your tokens on what you want, items or medals. If there was a PVE arena, it would be bot teams which would let plays use a wider variety of teams. It could be set up pretty easily.
Bronze uses mainly rare champ teams.
Silver uses rare to epic champ teams.
Gold used epic to legendary teams.
That way even casual players can develop there Hall, competitive player can get more items.
Of course, now everyone has to use more resources for less gain which is in the financial interests of the company...