Thoughts about the Arena Changes [Merged Threads]
Floschka
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First of all i am really happy that kabam is finally changing the arena system. But i have some concerns that are getting bigger every time i think about those changes.
In the current game i run the 3* Arena with 3*, the 4* Basic with 4*, the 4* featured with 5* and the 5* featured with 6*. With this strategy i can run them all at the "same time" without paying too much attention at th refreshing time.
With the new changes there are only two arenas left, both of them require 4,5 and 6* to get points. Maybe i should wait until we see the milestones, but it honestly sounds like i have to decide which arena i want to run to get the rewards. I do a run in arena A and dont have any Champs left in Arena B. So my biggest concern is the following: Will the payoff from Arena be lower than before? I read that they will rise the total Unit output to 540 instead of 535, but will i be able to hit every milestone?
It would be really nice to hear something about that, because i dont want to loose half of the units i would earn.
Sorry in advance for any spelling errors, english is not my first language, but yhe german forums are kind of dead lol.
In the current game i run the 3* Arena with 3*, the 4* Basic with 4*, the 4* featured with 5* and the 5* featured with 6*. With this strategy i can run them all at the "same time" without paying too much attention at th refreshing time.
With the new changes there are only two arenas left, both of them require 4,5 and 6* to get points. Maybe i should wait until we see the milestones, but it honestly sounds like i have to decide which arena i want to run to get the rewards. I do a run in arena A and dont have any Champs left in Arena B. So my biggest concern is the following: Will the payoff from Arena be lower than before? I read that they will rise the total Unit output to 540 instead of 535, but will i be able to hit every milestone?
It would be really nice to hear something about that, because i dont want to loose half of the units i would earn.
Sorry in advance for any spelling errors, english is not my first language, but yhe german forums are kind of dead lol.
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All the lower ones are being combined into a 1/2/3/4 arena:
Kabam should have invested in anti-merc/bot tools before making these Arena changes.
With the update i think i will/have to because of the struggle between the two 6* ones.
Prime example - in current 5* featured arena, 1-5% rank nets you 5,000 5* shards and 300 6* shards
67-10% rank gives 2,000 5* and 200 6* shards
Will the 2 new 4/5/6 star arenas match these levels? Surpass them? Do both arenas need to be done to match existing rank rewards? If so, then this is actually a major step backwards as getting the current 5,000 5* / 300 6* shards requires only 1 arena and 1 set of champs.
If rewards stay the same but are spread between the 2 new 4/5/6 arenas, this potentially doubles the amount of grinding for same rank rewards.
Hopefully this isn't the case but reinforces why we can't make judgment call until we see the new 4/5/6 arena rank rewards structure
On top of that, there's the basic arena. Right now 300 people get the featured 5* every cycle. In the new arenas 1000 people will be getting either the 5* or the 6* featured or basic. Do you think there's 700 people sitting on the sidelines now capable of grinding for a 6* champion but just not bothering to even attempt to get the 5* now? That seems unlikely to me.
If you had any shot at all at getting the 5* featured now, you'll still have a shot at getting either the 5* or 6* featured or the 5* or 6* basic. There's so many more opportunities across both arenas, and no huge reservoir of players capable of competing for those spots. My guess is this will bring *some* players out of the woodwork, but probably not 700 more on top of the 300 that have already been grinding away.
What will be really interesting to see is how the jockeying between arenas goes. If you think you won't make top 100 in the featured, do you shift to go for the 6* basic? How does that shifting affect the 5* featured scores? Does that make the 5* featured a little easier to get? What will the cut off be for the 5* basic?
Arena match making can easily mess up if you exceed a certain streak. Using 2 r3 5* and 1 r4 in the current system matches me against maxed out 5*. Imagine how it will be for people who mistakenly use 5* with 3*
Will the AI change dynamically depending on the rarity you're using? I most certainly don't want current 3* arena passive, "walking" AI while fighting 6* and newbies would not want a super aggressive AI while using 3*
I hope this gets fixed but this is Kabam...