Have you tried him recently at all?  Im wondering if hes solid again with Poly being less prevalent.  Of course Karnage is just better for locking people out.

Really kills him he won't fear or block actives when he needs to.

Absolutely.  If you manual the fights, he is an arena machine: Speed Aura, Open with the A3 AoE that is a decent Nuke with AoE Dec TM just for giggles, next turn A2 Singe Target with AoE Freeze on Kill.

Of course, in the Stoneskin Meta, his value is virtually wiped out.....        

This would be my first pick - and the easiest. Just make that skill more friendly for Chimera, would shoot his value up quite a bit.

I am of the opinion that any of the quest chain or long term earnable champs should be buff candidates if they fall off, or don't have a home anywhere in the game.

Just doesn't cut the mustard outside of Siege for me. I also lack a good soul, so that matters. 

Found jingle very useful in cursed city

For sure.  I kept my stronger build from back in the day for damage and replaced the weaker gear with a stun set.  There is an iteration of Hard S6 that has both Jingle & Stag.  I have two of each built.  It is one of the easiest S6 iterations for me.  

You should be able to get to gold with freebie champs. Pretty sure can come up with 12, shit my top 4 nukers are wukong, karnage, marius, embrys... throw in armanz, Fabian, udk, arbiter, tormin, Lydia, mithrala, mikage, ...

Gear > Champs 

Stoneskin does that to a lot of champs unfortunately.  Im discovering how good he is in FW and Sintranos now.

Samsies.  Basically MVP in every stage he shows up in.

Gear > champs.  But less so than it used to be unfortunately.  Mythicals and relics and blessings can easily turn the tides these days.

Yeah im hamstrung on that for quite a few champs too.  Really hate how its almost pointless to build a PvP champ if you dont have a high blessing for them.  The stat loss is just too much.

Power creep pays the bills and keeps the lights on. You *cannot* make a profit without constantly adding new meta stuff to p2w for.

Absolutely.  Which is fine too.  Wish the rate stuff was creeping wasn't so astronomical currently though.

I consider blessing and relic part of the gearing... so

Gear gt champs still :)

Obviously the top 0.1% with +4 mythicals is a realm i don't compete in.  But in the land of mortals it's;

1. Free champs

2. Good gear

3. A somewhat intelligent focus on pvp

I mean I still face level 100s with 2 or 3 brimstone champs fairly often...I'm probably a 10/10 using free champs 7 or 8 /10 gearing and a 5 at best on my approach to pvp. 9 or 10 in theory, cutting in half due to my actual implementation...

That gives me a 60% LA 

Could put #3 at #1 and then have the same message for the next 9 spots too.  There's a large populous that aren't particularly PvP inclined.

Where do we go to inquire about advanced quests? One of them says to "Complete 1 Live Arena Battle" but it doesn't give the reward even though I've completed 2. And it doesn't say specifically that I have to win it like before.

Would need to see a screenshot - and preferably a video - of this not completing.

Mine doesn't say "complete," it says "win"

Maybe it's a level thing?

I am unsure of what's causing the difference, just trying to keep an eye out for whatever random bugs pop up due to the new update 🕵