Best Of

Couple of thoughts on this general topic.

I feel like an absolute idiot for “playing” this mode. I don’t know a damn thing about whatever game archetype this is based upon, but if this is moronic. However. I’ll do it for the rewards. Kabam, please put an asterisk to signify that this was done under duress when you count me in the “completed the content” column.

Also, there’s nothing more priceless than longtime self-declared arena junkies complaining that this mode is mindless or that it takes too much time. Great stuff.

I figured the arena folks like me would be bashed incorrectly- arena efficiency requires having at least a respectable roster…. Developed high end champs and 4 stars. You do that by completing content and managing your resources. Whether you think the grind is boring or not doesn’t change the fact that what you do in the game makes your arena time less… and I can choose to knock it out in the window of my choosing. I am not bound to do the same thing everyday or else.

This mode? Nothing relates to anything to your roster… you are time bound and entry bound. And you aren’t even playing the game. You can’t auto fight arena. In this instance, low eq auto fight is a better comparison. Arena grinding isn’t.

Time is also a big factor. It s not a mode where you have a screen open and it autoplays whatever while you work or watching a movie, you have to choose stuff between fights, arrange masteries etc. It s a full 10-15 min per stage, and you need to do this 3 times/day for almost a month.
Rewards are just "ok" for the time. And we re not talking about those who re willing to spend instead of waiting.

Once you have one character almost maxed you don't have to select anything between fights because there are multiple masteries that mitigate damage and increase damage to a point those boosts between fights or whatever don't really matter. It's like autoplaying EQ but easier, definitely boring and repetitive but you won't be doing it every single day three times a day for a whole month, just until you max one character.

And how many entries you need to get one character maxed? Because there s only 10 mastery points each stage.

You don't have to max them (and I don't know if you can). Here is my mastery set up that I spent $5 on a long with entry tickets. I bought the 250 bundle for cores, and the rest went to tickets. I was going to do screenshots but it would have been twelve pics (4x3), so sorry that it's a video. IW was invested first (way overkill), then torch (also overkill) and Mr F ( a slightly less overkill). Haven't tried with Thing yet.

https://youtu.be/eBfnFBCqnpM?si=-yeZ23Q45_zMsEce

Without spending I'm not sure either but I spent 5 too and I already maxed Thing. I think I spent like 300 on mastery cores and the other 200 on entries.

If I did it over again, I would do this:
Pick one champ to "rank up" minimally, basically enough to survive through the content.
Then only use that champ for all the runs, and dump everything else into entry tokens.
And forget about the 7* crystal objectives; just use the one champ to clear the units/titan objectives.

Free key that gives a useless item is useless.

Unless Kabam is giving at least 2 more free keys, this is a massive L.

Dang poker game mode got people hooked and addicted... 2 more keys might still get you trash, and then you are going to say it should have been 5 free keys total.

What trash??? 1 sig stone is better than 1/3 of a crystal I can’t complete without spending

1 paragon is worth more than 1/3 of a crystal I can’t complete without spending.

Any usable item no matter how small is worth more than 1/3 of a crystal I can’t complete without spending.

In fact, the in game mail states the key itself has more value unspent!!!! Unused keys convert to 1500 normal 7 star shards… that I can actually use!

Had I known I could trade the key in for actual value instead of RNG garbage, I'd have gone that route.