No, it doesn't make any sense at all. The way player power is calculated makes it absolutely useless as filter for arena fights. Player power is mostly determined by the champion power of the champs in your account. If you unequip some champs that you don't use actually and that are in your vault, the player power will be reduced, leading to easier arena fights. What has unequipping champs in your vault to do with your strength in arena? Do drivers in the 24h of Le Mans get into a lower racing tier if they unequip tuning stuff from their privat car what is waiting in their garage at home during the race?

Why would it make perfect sense?  Why shouldn't someone in a tier just get ten random opponents from that tier? No matching no power or any 'system'

I'm in G4, my player power is just over 5M - I have a lot in the vault with gear on, if I removed all the gear (if I had the money) I could get it down a lot, as it is I usually get 7 - 10 Arbiter teams every time and I know that's because of their ridiculous system

In Gold they don't use this matchmaking from player power. It affects only Bronze and Silver.

I'm in Gold 4 as well, and it's easy cheesy to stay there. I don't have any ambitions for Platinum, so arena is no problem for me. But it is a problem for developed accounts in Silver 4.

Ladies  &  Gentlemen

I  am  back  here  again  Preaching  the  Arena  Gospel.

I  come  before  you  all  today  to  respond to  Brother  GhostJohn2021.

-  Brother  GhostJohn  is  inexperience  in  Arena.

-  Bother  GhostJohn  worries  about  Player  Levels  in  Arena.

-  Brother  GhostJohn  worries  about  Team  Power  in  Arena.

-  Brother  GhostJohn  suffers  from  Gold  Envy.

These  issues  are  psychological chains  that  GhostJohn  is  putting  on  himself.

He  holding  himself back  from  reaching  his  true  potiental.

I  am  reminded  by  the  Scripture  in  the  Great  Book.

The  Scripture was  written  by  the  Great  Raid  Philosopher Jimbo.

                   "It's  not  the  Size  of  the  Arena  Team  in  the  Fight  that  matters.  What  matters  is  the  Size  of  the  Fight  in  the  Arena  Team."

I  have  seen  Little  David  Topple  Big  Old  Goliath.

I  have  seen  level  50  Player  wipe  the  Floor  with  level  100  Player  with  only  1  hand.

I  have  seen  a  50k  Power  Player  stomp  a  250k  Power  Player  with  out  wearing  shoes.

Once,  you  see  the  truth.

You  can  break  out  of  your  self  made  chains.

There  is  nothing  you  can't  do.

And  the  way  to  win  is  always  the  same

-  Team  work

-  Effort

-  Passion

When  you  have  those  3  things,  Their  is  no  defense  in  the  entire  game  which  can  stop  you.

ROFLOL

informative as always.😀

Silver 2-4 would be good examples.  If you haven't gotten a speed lead who will beat everybody fairly consistently, you start to stagnate.  Your account power keeps getting higher though if you don't throw out every single new character you get if they don't help you in arena.  Since someone without a functioning understanding of PvP is in charge of matchmaking, they tie account power to the matchups you see regardless of your account's PvP capabilities.  It is a horrendous decision.  There was a brief respite from the terrible game design but it appears to be over.  I'm just glad my main account doesn't have to deal with it to much, but I see a bot "not bot" page maybe once a week in Gold 4 and I use almost every free refresh that I get.  The non-speed leads are slowly being filtered out of gold (because most in gold have zero concern about any non-plat non-speed lead team... opposing team power under 300k without a speed lead or Hege?  easy win).  This was the sitution we faced earlier when all of gold was a sea of Arbiters that people were expected to fight past to get Arbiter.  It is just terrible, terrible, terrible design.

Triple the tiers and add them all above Gold 4.  People can compete in a spread out spectrum with your ranking based on your actual results and account progression will not be cripled for newer or casual players.

at the current stage of the game Gold is top tier and platinum is whales and insane lucky people with their builds. don't expect to just hit gold because its a lower tier in other games.

The point is that the game designers expected you to hit gold but the current game managers have allowed endgame accounts to overwhelm gold 4.  That wasn't the design intended by those who initially designed the progress missions and the great hall.  The current game managers are failing the game designers by not updating the system by adding more tiers.  They could fix this by making all the rewards from arena matches be the same in all tiers and changing the progress missions to Bronze 4.  Or they could triple the tiers above the current Gold 4 tier.  Either way it would stop the bottleneck at the point that the original game designers assumed everyone WOULD be able to progress to.

I dont understand the idea that pvp should be 'fair' at all.

Weak pvp teams should be in the lower tiers, stronger pvp teams should be in the higher tiers.

Matchmaking by anything other than wins / losses makes a mockery of the whole idea of a tier system.

You end up with ridiculous situations where people try to game it by eating champs, and where high player power accounts (because they have lots of champs) in bronze or silver find themselves matched with siphi/double rotos type teams.

If people feel that there should be more tiers, i agree

If people think there should be other ways to improve great hall i also agree

But the idea that we should fiddle matchmaking by anything other than wins/losses is totally flawed.

now why would they do this? the game is supposed to be challenging not holding your hand every step of the way. be creative make PVP Teams 

Just anecdotal, but last two weeks it seems the 'easy' or 'bot' pages have been about 1 in 6 or 1 in 10, but the last few days they've been almost every other page.  (G4)

I'm not sure how you know what the designers expected?  Not sure how you know what the 'design' 'intended?'  Please be more explicit!  Oh, and for god's sake don't use the word 'obvious.'

If you don't get good arena champions (pure luck) or good speed gear (also luck), your account power will get stronger as you get better gear for your dungeon champions and for your faction war champions.  Your account power will get stronger as you get more champs.  So unless you only focus on the arena and feed every single other champ you get and don't gear anyone for faction wars, your account power  will raise at a similar rate to the small upgrades you make on your arena team.  Due to the absolutely horrendous decision to tie matchmaking to account power instead of adding more tiers above Gold 4 and tying matchmaking to actual arena resulsts, you will get a little bit stronger in the arena but won't make any headway if you have been improving the rest of your account.  It is why it is easy to shoot up to silver 2, 3, 4 early game and then tread water endlessly.

Absolutely not true.  My main account (f2p started in late January) had exactly the same trajectory you mentioned.  I have no issues staying in gold 4 on that account because a lot of people in gold are foolish enough to have non-spead lead teams which you can nuke into the ground unless it is truly a plat-level team and even sometimes then.  I posted this because I started a second team during Chofly's doom tower challenge and the problem that we faced is back.

Have you ever read the progress missions?  We can start at the beginning, progress missions are designed to help a player progress in a game (any game, Plarium didn't design the concept).  So the idea is that a progress mission should lead you through the game at the rate that the designers intended.  This is true in every single game which has progress missions which is why I said it was obvious.  If you've never played another game that had progress missions though, perhaps it was less obvious to you and I apologize for assuming you had more experience with this sort of thing.

Please post some screenshots of silver tier refreshes.