**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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I am just not facing anyone with a similar pi, it’s always almost double.
Done with arena until it’s fixed, well done again Kabam, rigorous testing before launch as always.
If you pulled thronebreakers into those arenas and others could earn new 5*s... yeah, that’s an improvement. Then again, those would need meaningful milestone rewards not just rank ones.
A 3* for this level of effort...
@Kabam Miike we get this wasn't the intention, but shouldnt stuff like this come out while testing it? This is so typical,trying to improve something and making it worse.
Also, where's the feature to cache the star rarity selection, so after each match I dont have to select 6* again?
You should NOT be punished for using maxed out 4 Stars in the 5 Star Featured Arena > 20 Wins
You should NOT be punished for using Rank 3 5 Stars in the 5 Star Featured Arena > 20 Wins
You should NOT be punished for using Rank 4 5 Stars in the 5 Star Featured Arena AT ALL
And if you can't handle 6 Star Rank 3's with 5/65 5 Stars, get good.
4 Stars are a critical part of an Arena grind, but if you use a full team of 4 Stars maxed out, you will run into 5 Stars maxed out. And I think over a certain number of wins, this should be manageable IF 5/50.
Remember, you get almost half the points running 4 stars, compared to 5 stars, and you can use them 3x as often, rewarding people that spend hours in the arena.
I was DM'd by Kabam Miike and I responded to a few things, after this post, I will stop replying and message back personally. My ideas are not to get the community in an uproar, but I think more of the tuning needs to be in the 5 Star Arena, 4 Star Featured is not as punishing.
Here is my proposal.
If you are using a team over 20,000, you shouldn't be matched any higher than your opponent. This is genuinely Rank 4 Level 55, or even Rank 3 Level 45 with Suicides. Because 2x that is basically 6 Star Rank 3, or 5 Star Rank 65. In the old 5 Star Featured Arena, if you ran a 15,000 PI team, against Rank 3 Level 45, a Rank 2 Level 35, or a Rank 1 Level 25, you were safe.
In this new Arena setup, you are PUNISHED for using Rank 4's, Rank 5's, and 6 Stars at all.
In order for me to win matches, or have a chance, instead of running my Rank 5 Level 50 4 Stars, which would prompt me to fight Rank 5 Level 65, 5 Stars, I use a Rank 5, with 2 Rank 3's, the OLD way of running the 4 Star Featured, and while I would fight opponents around 20,000, it's far better than fighting 40,000 PI opponents.
Now for the Rank 4's in the 4 Star Featured, you probably just use Rank 5's, but in the 5 Star Arena, you'd fight Rank 3 6 Stars, which is annoying and unneccessary.
I don't think the problem is the middle of the game, the problem is the people with developed rosters getting 6 Star Rank 3's. Do you really find THIS scenario of Arena to be fun?
Get to 5 Wins using 4 Stars
Run all of your 5 Stars to 15 Wins
Lose on purpose with 4 Stars
Get to 5 Wins using 4 Stars
Run another 30 5 Stars to 15 Wins
Lose on purpose with 4 Stars
Get to 5 Wins using 4 Stars
Run another batch of 5 Stars to 15 Wins
Lose on purpose with 4 Stars
Repeat up to 4 more times.
So essentially to avoid this, you have to do an EXTRA 5 matches every 30-45 minutes.
(The last part was left out)
As I have said, outside of using maxed out 4 stars, and 5 stars above Rank 3 in the 4 star featured arena, seems ok. Have not tested lower ranks at high wins but this is manageable.
As screenshots have proved, this is far more punishing in the 5 Star Featured Arena. Logic still shows sandbagging is your best friend, however, would that actually work with 5/65 5 stars, and 1/25 6 stars?
I’ve faced this exact team in arena 13 times already. I’ve gone through 25 matches. You adjusted the AI sure, but now I’m getting stuck constantly playing the same team, and it’s really just not been fun. I liked arena and the simplicity of it, but now it’s ridiculously repetitive.