In b4 the weekly siege quest 

I guess I will do this if I happen to be on at a time that live arena is going on. 

Increased time availability by 50%. You should be able to find a 20 minute window

Significant buff in rewards 

Participation should skyrocket 

One win really wont take that long, so i am not sure why people on other boards are going crazy

Having said that, if participation in live arena is so poor, a better move would have been to try and make it fun. 

Yes some on here love the mode, but its a self selecting sample of players and plarium wouldnt have added the quest and buffed rewards if participation was good.

Why is the 60 second "opponent not found" still a thing after 3 losses in gold, and why is people dragging on the fight 60s+60s+30s+15s+15s+15s.......still a thing?

Why are those 2 still a fking thing?

The only way I found to not get mad every day after this shit is to start a search for an opponent and then leave (come back when it's over): good luck to all !

People always say "make it fun", they don't really want this (99%).  They want easier free rewards.

The live arena rewards are significantly buffed. Who cares why lol.  People will play more now, ill get more rewards for doing same as I was. That's a WIN.

only downside is afk going to skyrocket... so they need to get on a fix for that.  

Other than the great hall the rewards are not really good except for the extra energy. 

I played last night and 7 out 10 players let the clock run out for every pic, and even after hitting zero there is about another 10 seconds. I pick the same champs to make a match last pretty much 10 seconds win or lose. It took me 47 minutes to do 10 games. This is stupid.

personally i have zero interest in this mode and have done it sparingly for marius missions and some great hall. Trying to have competitive pvp like this in this kind of a game is just silly.

Personally 

Easier? No. Faster? Yes.

Hi, the thing to remember is a lot of people stopped playing live due to the fact everyone and their dog takes ages to choose their team. The way forward would be preset teams like in arena and tag. Playing something that is like running through treacle is not fun. This to my mind is why it never caught on. Making it a daily task to try to increase uptake is really just a band aid.

Faster would be good yes.  Picks should be half as much time as they are now.

Nope, it is just a badly designed mode for people already frustrated with how long the game takes to play

I did eventually do some live a while back to get some ignore defence on hydra, but dropped all the way back to silver from inactivity in the recent months.

Due to the quest i did 6 fights today, gawd it is boring

Four of the fights, despite me being in silver were against stacked accounts, thanks to plariums hilarious 'matchmaking by player power'.

Two of the fights were completely AFK making it a mind numbingly slow experience.

Rewards or no, its tedious for me, and i suspect for many others.

They want it live, but should probably just let people pick preset selected teams and run it auto

That would probably increase participation and people could just hit auto and get on with other stuff.

Those manualling will ofc do better 

@Trevor Wilson 

Preset teams that are run on auto is completely counter to the idea of a Live Arena.

They should continue to improve Live Arena by: (1) making the drafting period quicker, (2) addressing AFK through auto-forfeits, (3) investing in more/better servers to support the resource drain.  

Perfectly fine to add rewards to entice play, and even to require it for dailies, but IMO, it should just be play one Live Arena fight, not win one.  

As predicted, I've just wasted half an hour losing three matches. If I lose the next one I'm just going to give up the idea of getting dailies complete each day.

EDIT - okay, so the last match went 20 minutes and timed out. If we're matched with people at our level, this is going to happen a lot. A tie should go to both players, not neither. I've already wasted too much time on this new rule.  

Good to know. I should really read the patch notes. 

Dude just drop and start another match if it is one that is dragging. 

the people complaining about the time suck are also the ones 

1) going afk

2) intentionally stalling during drafting and/or play

3) Pick 0 or 1 dps

there are definitely improvements that can be made to Live Arena from a time perspective but I've either not had the same experience or am less bothered relative to what I hear/see on here and in Discord. 

As for the DPS/roster issues, I do think people make a lot of mistakes in pick decisions and gameplay - including not understanding how champions like Ankora, Mikage, etc. work and trying to CC the wrong champions. Saw that happen a surprising amount of times leading up to 3k points in LA. 

Sometimes you will run into buzzsaws where the opposing roster is just too strong, you get unlucky in pick phase, etc. but I do think there's too much in the way of ignoring incremental advantages folks can get through decision making - including builds and blessings. 

nope dont do any of that. Ive said it here and in threads in the past, I pick the same champions, in the same order. It takes me a entire 5-8 seconds for all picks+ban+leader pick. My team is not a stall team it wins or loses in under 10 seconds.