Lxzy said:
I just asked for a follow up about this.
Personally though I don't find anything broken with the matchups or anything, it maybe just a case of everyone getting stronger everyday so people who can't keep up maybe get pushed down.
Hopefully I can get back to you later with something you'd like to hear but in the meantime maybe I can help you with your arena team?
There is no "may" about it. People cannot progress in the system currently because there are end-game powered teams filling up the lowest arena brackets. It's getting worse every day. It doesn't feel like there is much payoff for improving your arena team, because every improvement is met with even more powerful teams.
That is broken in actuality, if not design.
Thanks for offering advice on my team, but I've picked up on the main strategies (to my disgust it's speed!speed!speed!). The issue isn't my team composition or strategy. The issue is that the gear/power gap is MASSIVE for what a F2P/low spender can reasonably go up against. I win the majority of fights against players around my power level, and the ones that I lose don't bother me. It's just that in Bronze IV/Silver I there aren't many match's available against teams that aren't months older or whale spenders.
Understandably, someone a couple of months in shouldn't be flexing in Gold IV, but we are talking bronze and low silver - the very areas that the early missions and challenges suggest a player should be competing in at that stage of the game.
Now the argument has been made that it's best to just ignore the mission and focus on the account as a whole - but between daily quests, and more importantly the GH bonuses, participating in the arena is an integral part of the game.
For a great many players, especially the newer ones (that have a lot of spending potential vs the long term/p2p that already have everything), the arena is nothing but frustration and hopelessness. It's actually DETERRING me from making any purchases while it's in it's current state.
I'm not trying to argue with anyone. My biggest concern is that arena just isn't fair, dynamic or fun. This game is really enjoyable aside from that. It would be a shame to drive off players for something that should be relatively easy to change.