I have apothecary at 242 speed (before aura) and use battlesage for 19% boost

Apoth casts boost speed and is intended to go first.

Battlesage is 220 speed, and is supposed to  cast attack up

Then i have either warmaiden for defence down or my first nuker (tuhak, 4.1k attack, 90% crit rate, 160% crit damage in savage gear) at 217 and 215 speed

And finally i have zavia - 205 speed 4.3k attack, 101% crit rate, 180% crit damage.

Not end game but not a newbie set up surely?...but i cant stay in silver reliably, i am in and out. When i do get to go first i dont have the firepower to finish them...

A month or so ago i was in gold and staying in gold easily, what has changed?

I think it is matched on  player power, mine is fairly high and 1/3 of the time i face opponents with arbiter... i think if i deleted half my faction wars players i would do much better which is a bit silly.

After being in gold arena 4 for months and never being able to move up within a couple days I am all the way down to silver level. Cant seem to win a fight anymore. Also can't get deceint gear. Cost a fortune to level up the mediocrea gear that I have. I have been playing over 200 days and feel I have gone as far as I can go without spending money. I'm not doing that anymore. Invested a fortune in shards and got nothing but garbage. In the past 42 legandary shards I've used got only one legandary and it was warmother. Straight garbage. Out of close to 200 anchient and void shards I got only 5 champions that ranked 5 on Hellshades and I already had 2 of those. I think it's time to find a new game.

Just completed Arena event on alt account, Yoshi is mine!

I don't know what you have done with my players, but now I can no longer win in Classic arena against people that are 1/2 my power or take out the Clan boss (Normal) with two keys anymore. Is this what I can expect from now on? If so please let me know so that I can find another game to play!

good luck everyone to get the 5fragments of the classic arena event 280pts to do with a shitty arena 

When you go down in tiers due to all of these unreasonable losses, you lose your bonus percentages to attack, def and hp which affect you team power

I've read a few comments here but none answer the obvious question ... what did they do to classic and tag arena after their last update because I was comfortably sitting in tier 4 for a long time and now I cant win a battle to save my life ... I mean, I have teams with a 50k team strength smashing my 150k team as if they were noobs. Something has gone horribly wrong and now I cant even complete daily task eg. collect 30 materials, because I can't even win a battle to get the bits.

I'm also noticing that my Team Powe has dropped for the same exact team. Is that supposed to happen? In the past week, I've gone from 133k to 131k to 129k.

Ill  say  it  is  Ive  gone  from  Gold  level  3-4  down  to  silver  level  2  right  now  and  cant  win  a  battle  if  I  tried.  So  something  has  drastically  changed  in  the  last  little  while?

The other point is, even if you got to S1/S2 you will be dragged down, becouse of Defence arena.

There is possibility slowly grind to sustain in S1/S2 as long as no one tackle your defece or even go beyond. But slow grind time is way longer that time when you loose your defence arena battles.

Also wining points are less than losing

I can spend whole day to cearfully pick my oponents and get aruond 21 winning points (win 10 battles if lucky), but in meantime will loose 3-4 arena defence and go down by 33 - 44 points. this also not count battles which i pick worngly and loose

I'm having the same issue. I was in Gold IV for months, and over the past week I'm getting destroyed by teams I used to have no problem beating and I'm down to Gold II and still falling. I don't know what's changed, but it's not my team so it has to be something else.

Yes it is a mess.. I'm consistently getting 2/3-hit by teams with 80k 'power' and I'm 146k.. really sick and tired of this speedy 'debuff defense and AoE' meta, it's abdolute garbage and needs a heavy nerf to rebalance the arena. My champions wipe the floor with these teams after surviving the initial wave of BS.

What happened to the Arena? After
the Patch i cant win a match. Before the patch i was Gold 4 with a
avarage points of 3600. Now i can not enter even Gold IV?

Why did you guys fuck up 2 things when you fix 1 thing? 

YEP!! AGAIN BROKEN ARENA. From 4gold to 3gold and now to 2 gold in less than one weak,something wrong,my team it's the same from months ago ,i whazz always in 4 gold.