I mean, I guess you should be asking yourself that same question? You beat the first two teams, which means you have a team on-par or better. Sounds to me like you're in the correct place? 

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Won a few offense and defense matches and back into gold. Again why would the bottom of gold tier now look like this as well? 

I think this is a fair representation of the "goal posts being moved too far"

This is not crying because my team of poorly geared level 50 Faction War champs is hurting my arena progress.

This is simply the game not being designed to account for tenure inflation increasing the requirements to advance.

Changes in matchmaking like they suggest are coming do nothing to address the problem, lol.  If only XX% of people can be in G4....

I used to expend a lot of effort staying in gold and stayed up for a month - picking my fights, but decided it was too much effort this reset and let the game pick my natural level.

Since then i have dropped several hundred points in defence in a few days and my logs are exactly the same as the origonal posters- and as i fall through the silver tiers there is no sign it is going to change.

If anything the matchmaking seems to be giving me harder opponents than when in gold. And no i dont have a team of level 50's etc i have a properly designed team

Luckily i am more curious to see how far i drop than anything now lol, but given i have a lot of player power i suspect it will stay the same (lyssandra/arbiter leads etc) all the way into bronze, we will see.

Simply you are punished by progressing and arena resets. I reached half of S4 on level 52, now i'm on level 54 and now have hard time trying to stay in middle of S2. When was on level 52-53 was able to sit in middle of S3.

Once on lvl52 and 53 had no isses with S2 to reach S3, but now is it very hard to get though.

Meantime my speed lead improved base speed and my nukers improved att and c_dmg

In last 12 attacks i won 10 of 12, in last 12 defence i won also 10 of 12, but it didnt move me a bit and overall still dropping.

Saddly my player power rised from 445 to 475 as i pulled couple of champs that i want, and dont want to tune it down anymore.

Timelaps between my lvl 52 and 54 is 3 weeks

Besides all above all is 'git gut' and works as intended

If you won 10 of 12 on offense and defense I don't see how you haven't moved up at all?

I wish to know, i was looking closely as im try to finsih S3 mission, went to 1570 ish this moring and for whole day floating around 1500

Had typo in defence ratio was 7 of 12, have one victory without any points

Wait  you're  already  in  G4  no?    Just  being  curious  is  how  your  progression  is  hurting

Yes, I am G4. I was stating my support for the OP, unlike the majority of arena complaint threads.  

I think my op and this post specificly went way way over your head, its ok it went over others too. Trips is the only person who understood what it is I was showing and nailed it on the head.

Hi, players! Though I don't want to limit your posts Forum, I strongly encourage checking existing threads before creating a new one. Just in case the topic you would like to discuss is already covered somewhere. In this way it would keep the discussion more orginized and focused. Also it makes processing of your feedback more efficient.

Just a quick reminder that some changes for the Arena are already in progress and are anticipated in one of the future patches. Those tweaks should enhance matchmaking mechanism to make progression through Bronze and Silver Leagues a bit easier

Most people care about gold, not bronze, not silver. Good fix those as well as new and lower progressed players should get fair fights, but everyone needs gold medals to increase their great hall which increases your overall account progress.

How hard is it to make 4 ranks of plat and a new challenger rank above it for the top?