After nearly a week with the new Arena Setting in classic and 3v3 I have to say the "matchmaking" algorythm is …. crap.
I'm at 110k power and Need to refresh at least 10 times a day to get my 5 battles a day for the daily Mission done, as I nearly only get Teams served which have 150k+ power.
Before there were some 100k power Teams in upper Gold 3 and lower Gold 4 …. and they couldn't all have been inactive or they would have gone a lot earlier.
In Addition the "1-champ-defence-teams" are nearly completely gone. I guess a lot of them were from Players you now removed as "inactive" even though they do farm their Points (else they'd also be gone from Gold 3/4 super fast) and those popped up a lot the last few weeks and I know of many who still do this but in a massive amount of refreshs (what feels like a Trillion) I saw Maybe two of those Teams where before I'd find at least 2 per day.
So besides the "easy to beat" Teams which dissapeared the difficulty of normal Teams you see (at least I find) in classic and 3v3 Arena jumped MASSIVELY (classic - 90-130k Teams nearly completely gone when I refresh, only 150k+ for instance).
Not fun.
I mean, Arena was never fun for me, but it's a forced upon-us mechanism (you Need GH Bonus for PVE Progression. You Need your tier-Bonus for PVE Progression. You can't just take a week off, as then you'd find yourself in lower silver or even bronze and have to work days or even weeks to get back to where you were …..) but this kills the last bit of "ok, I'll just get over with it" positive mood I still had for it and just makes it a pain in the ass and underlines why Arena will be the reason I'll stop playing this game. Just way too frustrating for the limited amount of reward you get.
I mean, the only reward is tier-Bonus + GH. The gear? fuck that. Even on Gold 4 you get only crap. Why not at least 6-star or stuff WITHOUT FLAT STATS as main stat in Gold 3 & Gold 4 ? It doesn't have to be the Special O.P. armor from Platin, but at least GIVE THE PLAYERS something they CAN USE in the TIER they are in. Not 4* crap which you can't even use in upper silver anymore…. (not Talking About how bad the rewards are "down there" compared to what you Need either…..)