First ever arena grind aka full time job

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rockykoston

11 mil is not a grind tbh

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.

ShadowKing01

11 mil is not a grind tbh

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.

I have only been playing about a year now, most of roster still needs to be leveled and it was my first time doing a featured, I have grinded arena but only the event related ones. IMO just feels way to much like a job. So glad i tried it and realized right now its just not my cup of tea.

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rockykoston

11 mil is not a grind tbh

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.
I have only been playing about a year now, most of roster still needs to be leveled and it was my first time doing a featured, I have grinded arena but only the event related ones. IMO just feels way to much like a job. So glad i tried it and realized right now its just not my cup of tea.

Arena is a grind , sure, that's why a lot of players don't do it.

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.

11 mil is not a grind tbh

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.
I have only been playing about a year now, most of roster still needs to be leveled and it was my first time doing a featured, I have grinded arena but only the event related ones. IMO just feels way to much like a job. So glad i tried it and realized right now its just not my cup of tea.

The more Champs you get and the higher you Rank them, the more Points you will earn. The Arena is connected to your overall progress of your Roster. Keep working on it and it will get easier.

Although Grinding overall is time-consuming. That's part of competing for a Champ.

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J0eySn0w

Arena is just suicides imo. If you're a retired worker with no family or social responsibilities, then by all means do it. It's one of if not the crueliest mode of this game for me. I think a lot of people do it for the units when they're not gunning for the champs. So if you think about it, you're putting in time for a game currency with sounds like work to me. So either you pay with money or you work for it in the game. Is the system fair? I don't wanna think about it nor go into it, all I know is I ain't doing it not worth it imo I got better things to do with that time.

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I don't run Suicides personally. Never have. I don't much care for swapping Masteries all the time.

TrashyPanda

Grinding even the 5* is unrealistic for almost everybody. 5*s aren't really worth refreshing for, and most don't have the roster to grind that many points without refreshing.

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.

Paulr2011

This just comes down to a question of what is my time worth to me. And I can most definitely say that my time, personally, is worth A LOT more than grinding an arena for days for the chance of picking up ANY champion. I can’t even remember the last time I did arena. I like this game, besides all the bugs and such, but it’s already way too grindy, especially these last couple months. I’ve got a job, family, and life that all come first.

yuw

I'm only doing 1 million for 45 units now, and 3 million on 6 star feature arena for another 45, and 600k on the 4 star arena for 78 units while hero use/arena win solo objective is on. Also doing rankup arena for units only, seems like the most efficient way to grind for me

You will not win a champ in arena unless you are brand new or have a giant paid for roster.

Just play arena for milestones.

Before these insane cavalier crystals, you used to be able to grind for champs in arena.

Now? Good luck.

The hardcore players/spenders will play 5* arena just for the extra sig because they can easily.

Bugmat78

Yeah I have a decent roster (100+ 6* ,14 at r3) but the last time I did a real grind was 200+ rounds of arena for a 4* basic about 2+ years ago. I can get the 12m milestone in the featured by going through my 6* roster twice over the 3 days but I don't have the time needed to be pushing to 30-60m for a 5* much less 100+ for a 6*. I don't even have the time to get milestones in the 6* basic if I do the featured.

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.

BeastDad

What a waste of time

Not sure if it’s a great solution, but if you have the champ duped, you can’t get him again through arena.

2StarKing

Arena is the fastest method FTP method to grow your roster. 11 million over three days indicates to me your roster is small. Grind arena for shards. Rank up champs to ease your grind. Casually do what you can.

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.

TheLegend27

Arena was great for building up my roster when I was below uncollected. Grinding arena for the best 4* champs (for both offense and defense...so way back when I still participated in war) was actually a massive boost to my roster and allowed me to progress much faster.

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.

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DawsMan

I hit 11 mill during summer break without a grind. I just hopped on for a while every little bit. took 2 days. Definetly a commitment but hardly a grind.

BigBlueOx

I talked to a player that posted 150+ million in Arena for a champ he wanted, he estimates it was 64 hours of play time during the time the arena is up. That leaves 8 hours across 3 days aka 72 hours for nutrition, hygiene, sleep and responsibilities... it’s a set up that is clearly broken as there is no way anyone with any semblance of a life will ever have a shot at that, you literally have sacrifice health and wellbeing to accomplish it.

Arena is a nice mindless way to get resources for sure, but that’s not worth it

Reference

Arena is definitely not a fun part of the game. It’s just like queueing 3 days for a concert ticket (or whatever you want). During these 3 days, you can only roughly guess where’s your rank in selecting seat but at the same time you are competing with group of “gangs” who was hired by other customer to queue, plus some people who place a robot here to queue.

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.

Some people are Grinders, and some people aren't. I always suggest people do SOME Arena. Not everyone is a go-hard.

I hit 11 mill during summer break without a grind. I just hopped on for a while every little bit. took 2 days. Definetly a commitment but hardly a grind.

This is the problem. OP can’t keep up with you. He’s grinding but has no chance while you’re just doing a few fights and kill his score.