First ever arena grind aka full time job
ShadowKing01
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So I did an attempt on my first featured arena (Odin) made it to 11 mil and took 3 days to get there and I will never do it again, this felt way too much like a job, I wish they were just milestones for the champions instead of a shot in the dark. I know if you are an arena junkie, 11 mil is probably easier for most of you. But i think i will just stick to the milestones and leave it at that. only came away with 3000 5* shards and 500 6* shards. I usually only stick to story progression since in only uncollected. But really want a odin for my roster. So I wanted to attempt it.
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That's about 110 rounds in that arena, and if an avg round is 3 minutes, then it comes to 5.5 hours across 3 days.
Either your roster is a bit thin or you have never grinded arena.
They usually just do the minimum milestones for the Battlechips because it's a good source of units and gold.
You should try doing incursions, I find it fun and can target certain crystals to pull the champs I want.
Even if they do, there's the matter of freetime. Most have obligations; work, family, health -- you have to sacrifice a lot for just the 5* basic.
The 6* cutoffs... I can't see as anything other than unhealthy, even with a massive roster and lots of refreshing. I just hope nobody dies grinding arena, as that level of grind is reminiscent of some binge-gaming incidents in South Korea.
I just grind what I can. Pick up some milestones, and a few extra shards from rank rewards. Pretty sure unit income is below minimum wage, but I find arena cathartic so it works out okay.
Just play arena for milestones.
Now? Good luck.
The hardcore players/spenders will play 5* arena just for the extra sig because they can easily.
I'll take my chances with the crystals as i collect the shards in other game modes and settle for 6-10% rank or whatever. I too have a family, job and other things in life! It's nice we at least get the 4* now from milestones at least.
Find something to occupy your mind while you grind. There are youtubers that stream while they grind. I usually watch movies or listen to music. Focusing on something other the the game makes arena more bearable for me.
This was back when the 4* featured arena went for like 5.5 mil points for a hyped champ like Blade (closer to his release date). Those arenas were definitely worth doing for my roster at that time. It was still plenty grindy back then but it was doable for anyone that had a decent-sized roster and put in sufficient but not a ridiculous amount of time.
Nowadays, my roster only cares about 6* champs. No way in Hell would I waste the time to put up over 100-150 million points for a 6* champ. That's a ridiculous amount of time that I can't and won't put into a game. I don't think your average Joe could realistically grind arena today to get a 6* champ. The way I look at it, don't fool yourself into thinking you can get the 6* champ prize if you aren't prepared to play an unhealthy amount of time over 72 hours and neglect just about everything else.
Arena is a nice mindless way to get resources for sure, but that’s not worth it
Everyone have a life, plus hobbies, job and family. Thus I won’t said this as everyone is equal in this respect.
Chicago school talks about transaction cost economics, and the transaction cost for arena is your time/mind/eyes health/monetary items (money and units) and your best alternative forgone. For this type of thing you better understand your target before getting in. Marvel Trucos / RichTheMan …. Etc. provides statistics and/or predictions on 5*/6* cutoffs.
Other than those no.1 title, 5*/6* champs and 5*/6* shards rewards, actually arena is also a place for causal accumulation of units / meeting 6-hour & 3-day objectives / arena crystal. I think these are better targets for those non-hardcore grinders or newbie. And I found arena helps me a lot when I was level 40s few years ago.
I have 70 6*, 160 5*, 190+ 4* at r3 above. Play over 200+ streaks regularly before but now only do so periodically. Given that my highest basic / featured results (without using unit) under the new system are 23m and 40m only. Not yet pushing to limit but that’s the highest transaction cost I’m willing to bear now.