Ident20 said:
LOL, ha ha ha, you make me laugh, funny.
I was in Gold IV for 2 or 3 months, thanks to Plarium late update, I spent most time in bronze to silver 1, 2 and jump directly to gold 4, at first I thought omg, I did not upgrade bronze, silver tier, I have to go back to do that.
Nope, I don't have to, medal is actually one kind of currency, bronze is 1 coin, silver is 2 coins, gold is 4 coins, if you have all bronze, silver, gold medals, the upgrade will add them all in cost, if enough you could spend all for 1 upgrade. That means when I stand in Gold IV, it would take me 1 month to make 1 tier 10, in bronze or silver seem endless.
My [good question] is still a mystery, there are strong & active players in low tiers (those who could push other strong players down). why ?
That 1 month time period is assuming you can win all your battles in gold. So do you have 100% win rate in gold? Or silver?
As I said, the advice about farming medals at lower tier is ridiculous and doesn't add up, but considering the difficulty the arena is right now, it is appealing to farm medals at lower tier.
Consider the "get one level 4 Great Hall upgrade" progress mission which would require 400 silver medals, many youtubers are saying that if people don't have the appropriate level 1-3 GH upgrade they should get the medals from bronze and not to spend the silver medals on bronze tier upgrade, because how much harder it is to get silver medals for newer players. For me being able to maintain silver, going down is not appealing time wise, but the math actually adds up if you consider the difficulty in higher tiers
And for people who can't count themselves and rely on influencers for in game decision, the advice is to go down and farm down, and there are a lot of these people
My win rate offensively is 70% ish in silver 1, meaning as you point out, I can get 2 currency per offensive win which means I can get 14 currency per 10 coins I use. I can actually go down to bronze 3 where I can have 100% win and get 2 currency per offensive win, from which I can get 20 currency per 10 coins I spend, and this is not considering that lower tier medals cannot be used at higher tier upgrades, in which making 1 silver medal a bit higher in value than 2 bronze medal, same goes to gold medals. And considering the difficulty to get higher tier medals you actually spend more effort and don't get the same value if you use higher tier medals to upgrade lower tier GH.
This is the same reason why I choose to stay in bronze 4 in 3v3 arena, where I can maintain 100% win rate and actually get more gold bars compared to if I choose to tier up