Question about summoner trials for those getting all milestones in all 3 arenas

IcePick

I’ve always farmed units from arena. But since the new arenas came on the scene I struggle to get more than 2m in the summoner trials.

Right now I have enough 5 and 6 stars to do 4 runs through the featured with only 6 stars and 4 runs through the basic with only 5 star champs and get all the milestones. But the four star arena takes a LOT of passes

Currently I have 15 four stars at rank 5, 12 at rank 4, 48 at rank 3, 72 at rank 2 and 54 at rank 1.

If I ended up ranking up 30 four stars at rank 5 I’d still have to do about 10 passes to hit 4m but would have the fewest total passes.

For those who hit this milestone along with the other 2 - what is your setup?

DNA3000

IcePick said:

For those who hit this milestone along with the other 2 - what is your setup?

Probably not the question you were really asking, but: Suicides.

Suicides are not for everyone, and switching in and out of them can get expensive, but suicides are the number one way to boost scoring in the arena. I was reluctant to go suicides for a very long time, but once I really experimented with them and saw the raw scoring boost associated with them I went permanently full suicides. It makes my war defenders into cream puffs and it can sometimes cause problems in some higher tier content (Void is not my friend as a defender) but in exchange my arena scoring is as much as 40% faster compared to no suicides.

If you're committing to arena grinding as a primary way of earning resources in the game, I would strongly consider them.

Separate from that, you want to have as many 5/50s as possible to grind out the Trials arena. I have 45 5/50s which is plenty. Also if you are no longer really using 4* champs for content, pour your 4* sig stones into those 5/50s to maximize your points per round. Your points are based in part on the PI of your champs.

Shadowstrike

Yeah if you want to use suicides, you're going to need to only rank up champions that have that utility to help counter the damage you're taking. From then on, once you hit your streak, just use high level four stars and clear the milestones.

Camby01

Suicides give more points, faster fights. As one of the other responders said, suicides at a certain level of aw defense, is an easy void fight. Personally I don't do much arena, I set my masteries for most annoying as defenders.

Feeney234

Sounds like Kabam should start throwing in some rank 5 4* gems as rewards every now and then! It literally costs them nothing and can bring joy back to ranking up 4 stars to use them in arena.

Right now though, they simply arent worth the resources unfortunately.

solopolo

Feeney234 said:

Sounds like Kabam should start throwing in some rank 5 4* gems as rewards every now and then! It literally costs them nothing and can bring joy back to ranking up 4 stars to use them in arena.

Right now though, they simply arent worth the resources unfortunately.

Maxing a 4* costs almost nothing these days though. Assuming you're at the level where you can grind the higher arenas, that is.

AverageDesi

DNA3000 said:

IcePick said:

For those who hit this milestone along with the other 2 - what is your setup?

Probably not the question you were really asking, but: Suicides.

Suicides are not for everyone, and switching in and out of them can get expensive, but suicides are the number one way to boost scoring in the arena. I was reluctant to go suicides for a very long time, but once I really experimented with them and saw the raw scoring boost associated with them I went permanently full suicides. It makes my war defenders into cream puffs and it can sometimes cause problems in some higher tier content (Void is not my friend as a defender) but in exchange my arena scoring is as much as 40% faster compared to no suicides.

If you're committing to arena grinding as a primary way of earning resources in the game, I would strongly consider them.

Separate from that, you want to have as many 5/50s as possible to grind out the Trials arena. I have 45 5/50s which is plenty. Also if you are no longer really using 4* champs for content, pour your 4* sig stones into those 5/50s to maximize your points per round. Your points are based in part on the PI of your champs.

@DNA3000 how many rounds does it take for you to reach 4.4 m in summoner trials and how many days?

DNA3000

AverageDesi said:

DNA3000 said:

IcePick said:

For those who hit this milestone along with the other 2 - what is your setup?

Probably not the question you were really asking, but: Suicides.

Suicides are not for everyone, and switching in and out of them can get expensive, but suicides are the number one way to boost scoring in the arena. I was reluctant to go suicides for a very long time, but once I really experimented with them and saw the raw scoring boost associated with them I went permanently full suicides. It makes my war defenders into cream puffs and it can sometimes cause problems in some higher tier content (Void is not my friend as a defender) but in exchange my arena scoring is as much as 40% faster compared to no suicides.

If you're committing to arena grinding as a primary way of earning resources in the game, I would strongly consider them.

Separate from that, you want to have as many 5/50s as possible to grind out the Trials arena. I have 45 5/50s which is plenty. Also if you are no longer really using 4* champs for content, pour your 4* sig stones into those 5/50s to maximize your points per round. Your points are based in part on the PI of your champs.

@DNA3000 how many rounds does it take for you to reach 4.4 m in summoner trials and how many days?

It depends, typically around 120 rounds. The more I try to do it all in concentrated runs, the more rounds it takes because the deeper into my roster I go, the fewer points per round I score. If I stick to only my 5/50s and spread the effort out across all three days, it takes closer to 115 rounds.

Depending on how relaxed I’m grinding, I usually average between 2 and 2.5 minutes per round. Across 120 rounds that’s about 4-5 hours of time total across three days.

Occasionally I will pop open solo crystals and use the arena boosts, when I do that I can lower the rounds to below 110 but that’s not consistent.

AverageDesi

DNA3000 said:

AverageDesi said:

DNA3000 said:

IcePick said:

For those who hit this milestone along with the other 2 - what is your setup?

Probably not the question you were really asking, but: Suicides.

Suicides are not for everyone, and switching in and out of them can get expensive, but suicides are the number one way to boost scoring in the arena. I was reluctant to go suicides for a very long time, but once I really experimented with them and saw the raw scoring boost associated with them I went permanently full suicides. It makes my war defenders into cream puffs and it can sometimes cause problems in some higher tier content (Void is not my friend as a defender) but in exchange my arena scoring is as much as 40% faster compared to no suicides.

If you're committing to arena grinding as a primary way of earning resources in the game, I would strongly consider them.

Separate from that, you want to have as many 5/50s as possible to grind out the Trials arena. I have 45 5/50s which is plenty. Also if you are no longer really using 4* champs for content, pour your 4* sig stones into those 5/50s to maximize your points per round. Your points are based in part on the PI of your champs.

@DNA3000 how many rounds does it take for you to reach 4.4 m in summoner trials and how many days?

It depends, typically around 120 rounds. The more I try to do it all in concentrated runs, the more rounds it takes because the deeper into my roster I go, the fewer points per round I score. If I stick to only my 5/50s and spread the effort out across all three days, it takes closer to 115 rounds.

Depending on how relaxed I’m grinding, I usually average between 2 and 2.5 minutes per round. Across 120 rounds that’s about 4-5 hours of time total across three days.

Occasionally I will pop open solo crystals and use the arena boosts, when I do that I can lower the rounds to below 110 but that’s not consistent.

I see. I did it for the first time this week and I can score 1.5 m per day using only maxed 4* and it took 110 ish or somewhat that range to get all milestones. I do run suicides but the grind still seems way too much whereas both the other arenas can be done easily in one day