Yeah if you hate yourself enough its entirely possible to grind to 1320 just fighting bots.  Would be very expensive gem wise Id imagine though. 

Lvl 65 player here, i keep on getting matched will lvl 100's like 10 straight matches, seems the programers assigned to match making isnt doing their job for proper balancing or the admin tolerates their poor performaces...no wonder players quit ..

During seasons, which started less than 24 hours ago, matches are based SOLEY on your current seasons score.

Which means someone who just barely reached the level to participate might face thier first 10 matches against the top ten highest scorers of the previous season

My position on Live Seasons has been the same since day 1: they found a way to take the least liked part of the game and make it worse

Hoping their improved matchmaking eases the pain a bit when it launches.  I am dubious at best though. 

They just made losses -2 instead of -3, should make season much easier.  The matchmaking is simple and live arena is arguably the only "fair" matchmaking in entire game 😆 

Live is only thing I do daily lol. And I still don't have anyone equipped in mercurial.  Soon.  Soon...

The reason it is most hated is because it has desirable rewards that require effort. I'll die on that hill. With the new scoring I'm guessing sub 50% win rate makes 1320 relatively easy. 

Would like to see more involved matchmaking than X Points = X Points fight though.

People gonna bitch regardless, if prizes are equivalent (every one gets same rewards for 1320) then 1 group matched on current points is the best solution. I was under 55% last month 😆 and made it with at most 1 refill buy a day. Maybe 10 x 10 gems.  If that's not fair... idk...

"I despise live arena but want the rewards so it should be way easier " is the premise I disagree with. 

Its the simplest solution, dont know that its the best.  Also its very hard to distinguish the actual rate at which people are getting extreme matchups.  Theyll only ever tell you about the brutal losses, not the cupcake wins. 

The cupcake wins aren't much better. I'm still just thinking "well that was a waste of time going through the champion selection for 5 seconds of "competition""

The area bonuses are such a boost that you can't really ignore Live Arena. I literally only do 5 wins a day, and it almost always takes near an hour to do it, even when quitting out of a lot of matchups that's just wasting everyone's time.

The game mode is so poorly designed that the top PVP players are colluding to avoid playing the game mode. I don't know what can be more damning to the failure of Live Arena than that.

Not so much colluding to avoid playing but maximizing rewards while minimizing effort.  Splitting hairs though.  LA is definitely in need of serious overhaul and hopefully some of the announced changes help.

The time suck has gotten worse. That i agree with. The antics of top 200 players doesn't impact me.  

1. Expedite draft time

2. Force on auto if 1 missed turn

3. Mercurial (stuck with this problem unfortunately)

If they force it to be actual LIVE (engaged live) arena and not afk arena that would be nice. 

Harsher punishments for AFKers would be my #1 fix.  

How about any punishments at all.  

True.

I hate LA.  Couldn't give a rip about the rewards.  One battle a day is all I stomach, so Quintus will have to wait.

But my evade/merc team is doing great in this mode, too. 😁. I can honestly probably go for five wins a day now, but utterly despise it.  So, nah.

It's literally only designed the way it is to try to push shard sales and increase everyone's time in game. I think a solid 0.03% of the playerbase actually likes the game mode.

0.03% might be high

It absolutely blows my mind that even the krakens, dudes who drop throusands of $$$ a week on this game, dudes who constantly buy more LA tokens and keep battling 12+ hours a day (or in crypto's case, have thier staff do it for them), even *they* say they don't *like* it. They're just obsessively competitive to the point where a small portion of the money they spend on the game would be much much better spent on therapy

Worst part of this game is LA yet should be one of the funnest parts of the game but its completely ruined. Not only because of cheaters but the match up system is a complete joke. It's either a team that seems fake super easy to beat so people can get their advanced quest done or a team that is super OP. There is no balance. Like hey new guy here fight this whale who's been playing for 5 years. Good luck. And as others here have pointed out those people wasting others time letting the timer run its full course for every possible second should automatically lose the match. Is a lame way people try to get ahead hoping the opponent will just quit instead of waiting 15minutes for one simple match. 

Sorry, but we are the sacrifices for the only players in the game that Plarium cares about. Spend a few more grand and they may care.

Remove it completely. Every time i quit the game is due to me forcing myself to do live arena. The time it takes and the fact that you alway face teams with insane legends. I play this for idle, live arena kills all the fun in it.  Waiting several minutes for a game to start then just to end up facing endgame andy whiping you and made you waste all that time waiting for game to start.