My Observation After Breaking the Silver 1 progress mission
First of all, this is my team
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Now, my observation:
I unexpectedly have grown some admiration to how good the gameplay Raid have, it's not perfect but as far as hero collection freemium mobile game goes, it's surprisingly quite complex.
The thing that I found on why it frustrated so much people is that it's hard to brute force your way into the arena. You can have an all legendaries team (which would actually HELP ALOT) but if you don't set them up so their skills compliment each other people with only rares and epics could beat them! In some cases even one-shotting them.
Second thing I observed is that people still undervalue the importance of having a fully upgraded equipments and the stats they carry
The battle system is actually very good and quite intricate, specially if you consider how many champions this game have. I know about the speed meta, something I try to reject, you can see it clearly through my team set up, but to my surprise, a lot of people I fought seemed to be having the same mind set as I do, winning by chipping away enemy's health!
Survive the nuke, and then take them down one by one, in some cases I even see multiple revive champions.
Now having said that, Arena progress mission is still a huge problem! It's a clear huge spike of difficulty so early in the game.
Personally, I say just PUT THEM ALL AT THE VERY END OF THE PROGRESS MISSIONS, I honestly think that is the fastest way to alleviate some of the players frustration while you work on what can be done to the whole arena as a whole.
I can see what you guys at Plarium is trying to do for Arena, but you got to make some clear classification on matchmaking because as it is, the matchmaking is definitely a mess:
1. The power level is USELESS, you can't gauge anything with it, please REWORK on the formula on this so people can get a better estimation on who they can have a shot at fighting
2. You need to protect new players, specially those in Bronze, don't let people with full legendaries, all upgraded and fully booked and fully mastered to fight those who are just coming to the game with their newly acquired heroes.
So that's my observation
Feel free to add your opinion