I was in Gold 4 for awhile, but the game fortunes turned against me, I was destined to follow all the tiers down to bronze, it was looking like, because of the tier reset which robbed all your points artificially, as if you lost 100 battles instantly. So I decided I could not fight that so I gave up that account and started over.
So I am in Bronze 1/2, with relatively meager resources and champs to use, still FTP. But with an arena team power of about 25k, I have been winning tourneys. I won first place in Champion Chase, and now I am in second place in Classic Arena Takedown, with 8 hrs to go. But I am having fun again, not whining about no legos, etc and what everybody else has. I do not need to "advance", don't sweat the small stuff.
I still get lousy shard pulls like before. I will keep my champ list down to about 25 or so, so I can do some arena, campaign, cb, potions, dungeons, factions, a little bit of all but nothing fantastic. I just watch for what I can summon but not real tense about it.
I have one 5 star champ Athel, working on L50 for her. All basic champs, a few epics like shaman and coming soon will be Jizoh, which I am not fond of. Got my spirithost, warmaiden, warpriest, armiger, shieldguard, but no apothecary yet. Whatever, I am still winning tourneys.
Yeah there are lots of monsters out there that I will not mess with but yet if you be patient, the easier targets will drift down the stream within your grasp.
Just learning to cope until heaven's gates open lol.