Arena Needs Some Work

Ok this is going to be a rant - so if you don't want to read a rant.... exit now.

I'm tired of the SAME OLD STUFF in arena. It is absolutely boring as hell. You reach a certain "point" in each Arena - whether it is the 1-2 Star, 2-3 Star, 3-4 Star, 4-5 Star or 4-6 Star - where you have beat basically everything that they can throw at you and then it goes to the "Cable, Gwenpool, Medusa" auto-fill fights. Is this all your team can come up with? Unreal. Can't you mix it up a little bit with at LEAST putting in some heroes that are interesting? - or just make it a random hero for Kang or Thanos Teams???

Also - what is the deal with fighting the SAME SUMMONER over and over and over and over again? I get to a win streak of 7-8 in the 4-5 Star Arena. - and then that is when it goes from 6-8K heroes you are fighting to INSTANTLY 14-15K heroes. - basically where Kabam is going to do anything they possibly can do to prohibit you from advancing with your streak. WHY IS THAT?

Then there is the REVERSE of the above - you get to a win streak of 4 to 5 in the 2-3 Star Arena - and then instead of fighting summoners, it makes you fight Kang and Thanos Teams again. - obviously because my Maxed out 3 Stars wipe the floor with any Summoner I fight. - but that isn't the POINT. There is NO CONSISTENCY in this at all. It really sucked and makes the Arena GRIND 50000000% worse because it is so DAMN BORING.

And the other thing I have noticed. Let's say I have a 4-Star Rank 4 Hero fighting the SAME in an Arena. I hit the hero 20 times... and bring the hero down about 30-40% health. Great. I slip up a little... and get hit with a 5 hit combo,... and immediately I am down to 35-40% health. Where I am going with this is that there seems to be an artificial PLUS DEFENSE added to heroes you are fighting in Arena. I've been playing this game for 3 years now,.... and I know what my heroes usually hit for in questing, etc. SOMETHING STINKS. - and don't give me that garbage answer. I can sense when something is wrong with the heroes I am fighting - I am sure you can all relate to this if you have played this game long enough. - and ARENA is being manipulated by Kabam. Believe THAT.

Oh and lastly............. if a fight is not winnable, then WHY EVEN FIGHT? What I mean by this is, as an example, I go into a fight in the 4-6 Star Arena - and accidentally start it with 4 star heroes - thinking I was in the 4-5 Star Arena. Whoops. So I have like maxed 4 star heroes,... but then I am going up against 6 STARS - RANK 5. - all of them 15-17K. Awesome. But this isn't even that BAD PART. The BAD PART is that even if I play perfectly.... the UI doesn't throw a Special Attack. I taunt. I taunt more. I taunt a lot. It is about 1.5 MINUTES. Back and forth... back and forth..... nothing. Eventually I get fed-up and try and burn the hero down.... until the inevitable SP3 RED BAR OF DEATH. WHAMMO! Dead. Never hit me once. Just used an SP3 and I am dead. THIS IS TOTAL GARBAGE.

Ok rant over.

Comment if you see/feel the same way.

Thanks.

Comments

dot_ditto

I've put forwards an idea in the past ... it's very simple ..

first, let's pin point the "problems" with the existing arena:

1) monotonous ... same old, same old, lather, rinse, repeat .. you just toss your biggest champs in, your smash things up, "wheeee" .. fun.
Perhaps this seems too obvious of a question, but what do you do about the players that actually like grinding arena as a past time? .

You obviously didn't read everything I said .. I understand, it's along post, a lot of information ..

let me highlight the point that allows those who like to grind, to keep retrying to improve their score ...

Sure, you can try again .. but it doesn't add your points .. it simply takes the highest run you managed to make.

Solution is there ... if you like to grind .. you keep re-trying and play as much as YOU like ... to get the best score possible for YOU.

This mode actually helps target MORE player base than the current one ... if you actually read everything, and understand what it is I'm trying to get at ..

But it's fine . I realize this is a HUGE paradigm shift, and well .. people don't like change ... "EWWW" ... so yeah, I understand your reaction .. and I understand, there's no way Kabam will change this ... they make too much on arena as is ..

Myradral

One thing I noticed in the 5 star featured arena today is that the Kang and Thanos teams have rank 5 6 stars whose PI looks normal but they have A LOT of health. My ghost was critting for 2700 on mediums and that only took off 5% of a 6 star rank 5 kingpin meaning he had just about 54000 health. I feel that's unfair since players can themselves only possess rank 2 6 stars. This means that maxed out Summoner fights are actually easier than the Kang/Thanos fights which is kind of redundant.

Waiting for someone to come on here and scream..... "DUDE you are WRONG!! It is working completely FINE. Learn how to play DUDE!!" @DNA3000

Anyway.... yes... you are correct. Under the cover there is some BS going on.

djr17

One thing I noticed in the 5 star featured arena today is that the Kang and Thanos teams have rank 5 6 stars whose PI looks normal but they have A LOT of health. My ghost was critting for 2700 on mediums and that only took off 5% of a 6 star rank 5 kingpin meaning he had just about 54000 health. I feel that's unfair since players can themselves only possess rank 2 6 stars. This means that maxed out Summoner fights are actually easier than the Kang/Thanos fights which is kind of redundant.

They're straight forward fights. Yes, they're a high health pool, but to get them you're using r3-r5 5 or r1-2 6, with masteries. Not exactly a hard fight. Long, yes, but not hard.

DNA3000

One thing I noticed in the 5 star featured arena today is that the Kang and Thanos teams have rank 5 6 stars whose PI looks normal but they have A LOT of health. My ghost was critting for 2700 on mediums and that only took off 5% of a 6 star rank 5 kingpin meaning he had just about 54000 health. I feel that's unfair since players can themselves only possess rank 2 6 stars. This means that maxed out Summoner fights are actually easier than the Kang/Thanos fights which is kind of redundant.
Waiting for someone to come on here and scream..... "DUDE you are WRONG!! It is working completely FINE. Learn how to play DUDE!!" @DNA3000

When people report actual problems that aren't nonsensical gibberish, I generally give it the attention it deserves. I'm pretty sure I've spent more time investigating in-game issues than you have, which makes this particular comment seem a bit childish. In fact it sounds like someone who thinks they know me based on something someone told them rather than direct experience, which seems to parallel your game knowledge.

Myradral

@DNA3000 Hey listen man, you are the one who came on here and attacked me first. You basically said I didn't know what I was talking about and derided my comments and experience in Arena by saying "You don't know what you are talking about" and "Clearly you don't know what you are doing".

My comments were not "nonsensical gibberish". They were articulated very well, describing the BORING AND REPETITIVE aspects of ARENA.

Sounds like you are just a D-Bag with an axe to grind on anyone that doesn't agree with you.

So go away already. I don't like you.