Arena

GJS_2023_

I played the arena since a long time, played a ridicules amount off hours and reached 132 mill points. I get a 5* Kindred for my effort. I cant stop wondering how ppl can reach those incredible amount off points in a honest way? if i should put in more hrs, i would have to set my clock in the morning and stay up late for 3 days? That’s not healthy. I think there still must be bots being played. One thing is for sure, i will never ever play the featured arena again.

DNA3000

A single round of 7* champs gets me about 300k points. If I really wanted a champ, refreshing 7* champs alone I could get to 150 million in 500 rounds, and 200 million in 670 rounds, both doable in moderate amounts of time. 500 rounds across three days is about 167 rounds per day which is ~5 hours a day.

It is way more time (and units) than I want to spend to acquire a champ, but it is doable with normal human effort in theory. For reference, the largest amount of points I've ever scored in the featured arena without spending units was about 111.7m in the Adam Warlock arena, and that wasn't maximum possible effort.

The top ranks in the featured arena are a competition. When you enter a competition, there's no such thing as "good enough to win." You have to understand your competition, and how hard they intend to push, before you decide whether you should jump in. Cutoff scores (which are available here and there in the community) have been hovering around 130m since the arena purge, but that doesn't mean 130m is safe. Rather the opposite, if cutoff scores have been landing around 130m, any tiny increases in interest for a champ will propel those scores many millions higher. It could be bots, but it could also just be increased interest in the champ over Silk and Lady Deathstrike, or the fact that there's less going on now and more time to spare on an arena grind.

If I was aiming for Kindred, I would have aimed for 150-160, and even that would have been *barely* good enough, which is another way of saying even I was underestimating interest. Because if you happen to guess correctly, in retrospect that was actually too low to have been safe.

laserjohn26

GJS_2023_ said:

I played the arena since a long time, played a ridicules amount off hours and reached 132 mill points. I get a 5* Kindred for my effort. I cant stop wondering how ppl can reach those incredible amount off points in a honest way? if i should put in more hrs, i would have to set my clock in the morning and stay up late for 3 days? That’s not healthy. I think there still must be bots being played. One thing is for sure, i will never ever play the featured arena again.

Setting an alarm is exactly what you need to do. You don't even need to touch your 5* to easily get a featured champ with the new system. I have 237 6*, and only 130 at r3 or higher, I barely spend but do on the express arena. Takes a little over 2 hours to go through my 6*. So from the time I'm done with a round there is roughly 4 hours and 45 minutes until they start refreshing. 4.5 hours is plenty of time to sleep and you can get naps in as well. You can get 11 rounds of 6* in. Depending on your roster size, whales like kt, Vega, and maex get about 20 mill per round. That's 220 million not counting 7*. If you have a small roster and can only get 15 mil per round that's still 165 mil, more than enough to get any feature since the ban wave. And that's never touching 5*.