How to “do” arena?

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• allinashes Member Posts: 851 ★★★

  April 12

  On first day of arenas I run the 6* basic arena, I run lowest 6* to match 5. Match 6-14 I run all my 7*. Match 15-33ish I run my 6/5* to final milestone. Takes about an hour and I usually do it on my lunch break.
  
  If I'm grinding seriously, I will then try to squeeze in first 5 matches of Trials. Later that day I'll run bottom 6* again to match 5 in the 6* featured.
  
  The following morning before gym, I'll try and run all my 7* in 6* featured which gives about 2.7m points. Then I'll try and run them again later in the day when they refresh. Then again the next morning and afternoon. This gets me close to final milestone, and I'll do 1-2 matches with 6* to finish. Soon I'll have enough 7* to use them alone.
  
  During the afternoon or sometimes evening, I'll run Trials where I can, usually going for 1.5-3.2m points. I have taken the time and resources to rank up a few more 4* teams and currently have 18 (54 champs at R5.)
  
  I don't consistently do the whole routine, and a light grind like right now, when I'm using my free time for 8.4, might mean just running the 6* basic which is shortest to all milestones... Just 30 something rounds.
  
  Doing this I currently have 27k units and 7m BCs after getting all unit deals during Cyber sales. It's possible with random Kabam events, EQ and solo event units, along with a full grind to pull over 6k units per month.
  
  I do run recoils 100% of the time and have only recently taken them off for few paths in 8,4. Thank you free respec! Hopefully, switching load outs is fixed now.
  
  Good luck in your grind!

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• A_Fungi Member Posts: 999 ★★★★

  April 12

  Your formula largely depends on your roster
  
  Here is what I do:
  
  Feature Arena (I only run 7s, I have 48 7s)
  Fights 1-7: Filter 7s, sort lowest rating on top
  Fight 7 on: Filter 7s. sort by availability
  
  Basic arena: (I only run 6s) I usually only do 15 fights at a time
  Fights 1-7: Filter 6 r3s, sort lowest rating on top
  Fights 7 on: All 6s sorted by availability
  
  4 star arena: I only run my max 4s, 15 teams
  
  Special arenas: just run your 5s, you get 30 units in 4-7 rounds.

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• Wolf911 Member Posts: 549 ★★★

  April 12 edited April 12

  Here's what I do ( I don't grind much )
  
  6* featured arena:
  
  start with lowest 6* r1 level 1 and finish 5 matches ( get 3x multiplier )
  
  then start from top of my 7*s I get only bot teams till I finish my 7*s ( gets me above 4.5 million points )
  
  6* basic arena:
  
  same start as above with the ones available
  
  as i have exhausted 7*s I just start at top of my 6*s and stop when I get above 1.5 million points
  
  3 rounds in 3 days gets me all milestones
  
  Edit: forgot to mention I have 36 7*s if you have less then use 6*s ( I sort by tier )

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• GrO_ot78 Member Posts: 688 ★★★

  April 12 edited April 12

  I do 21 + 7,5 mill every round, gets me the 6-10% rewards, but sometimes the 1-5% rewards..if its like last round, when morales was the champ to get.
  
  And then i’ll do 450k in the 4* arena, for some easy units.
  
  I get 1500-2000 units per week, with normal battle chips pulls.
  
  
  
  
  I got 21 x 7*s and 66 x 6*R3+.

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• King_L0kiB34r Member Posts: 216 ★

  April 12

  This is great info! Thanks all

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• DNA3000 Member, Guardian Guardian › Posts: 19,811 Guardian

  April 12

  DawsMan said:

  Hello guys,
  
  Recently I’ve decided to play arena for units to save up for Necro exploration.
  
  For the 4-7 star one with stars^ pts^ im able to get 12mill with two runs of my roster. Feel pretty good.
  
  For the 4-7 star arena with all stars have same points I only use five stars and r2 six stars (saving 6+7s for other arena). Only able to get 2.5 mill cuz I don’t have many maxed 5s and also they’re always paired against 7stars. Idk how I should be making teams for matchmaking.(for all arenas I build up to 15 streak with low champs then use my best ones top down.

  If you are still building your roster and have limited numbers of champs and ranked up champs, I would recommend focusing on one of the featured or basic arenas, get all the milestones, then shift to the other one. It sounds like you have enough champs to reach the top milestone in both, but you're having problems building streak in the basic arena because you're reserving champs for the featured. You have three days: get the featured done, then switch to the basic. I would recommend a strategy like on day one go for the featured using whatever strategy you're currently using, and just run low champs in the basic arena up until about streak count #7. Then park there until you finish the featured arena so you can then use your highest/strongest champs in the basic arena. That way you can essentially use the same strategy you're currently using in the featured arena, and you should be able to maintain your streak in the same way.

  DawsMan said:

  For 1-4 star I can only get to 1M pts but these milestones have all the juicy units. I did the math and I could spend 7 mill gold taking 17 of my r3 and r4 4stars to max cuz en I have 11 maxed. Not sure if that’s smart tho…
  
  Basically I want tips for arena as I’m starting to try it seriously. Do you guys also put pt multipliers on every team as well when using ur best few teams?
  
  Tldr: how to match make in 4-7 star low point arena, and should I upgrade a bunch of four stars for summoner trials. Would rlly appreciate any insights.

  If you are trying to max out the arena milestones, then eventually you will have to consider ranking up 4* champs to do it efficiently. To completely max that out I think it takes me something like 125-130 rounds. I'm not sure what my current most efficient path would take (I should measure it again) because how long it takes and how many rounds it takes is based on not just your roster, but how you use it.
  
  You get points based on how strong your team is and how strong your opponent team is in the arena. It is complicated, but higher PI helps, so ranking up helps. If you use a team with, say, 25k PI you will score more points than if you use a team with 18k PI. But few players have nothing but max rank 4* champs, so when you do the arena if you start with your highest PI champs and work your way down, you will score fewer and fewer points as you go deeper and deeper into your roster.
  
  4* champs recharge fairly quickly - they become available again after two hours. So you actually score more points per round if you can do a few rounds, take a break, come back in two hours, and use those two PI champs again. Of course, if you only use your top three champs and wait for them to recharge, you will never get enough points, so it is a balancing act between using a lot of champs in a burst to get as much points as possible, and spreading out the effort over several days to maximize your points. Theoretically speaking, you could play arena 24 or more separate times over three days with time enough to recharge your 4* champs, which means if you do, say, five rounds at a time 24 times in a week, you would only need fifteen max rank 4* champs to get all the milestones in the Trials arena. Of course, no one is that crazy, but some more reasonable balance is a good idea.
  
  Boosts also help, if you have them. I tend not to use them, mostly because I have a large enough roster to make them somewhat unnecessary. But if you have them and are trying to get as many milestones as possible, it is worth using them. I would use them only on my strongest champs though, if this is going to be a sustained effort.
  
  One more thing: recoil masteries are great for the arena in general. Arena fights don't tend to last long, and if you consistently maintain a good arena streak without running into extremely tough teams, the recoil masteries can speed you up by anywhere from 15% to 35% or more. However, you have to decide if recoil masteries are something you can live with everywhere else, or if you are willing to spend the units to keep switching into and out of them. The way I think I am going to try to handle that is to run recoils by default, and only switch out of them when I absolutely have to for certain content, then switch back, to minimize mastery switching costs. For me specifically, the increased amount of units I will get from arena should more than pay for the mastery switching. But that's presuming I actually grind arena substantially to keep unit earning reasonably high.
  

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• DamageFaction Member Posts: 94 ★

  April 12

  I’m pretty much retired from arenas now, but before there were 5*s i regularly used to grind the 4* featured arenas but the days of putting up 10m scores with my 3*s are well and truly behind me. The real trick to earning points is you want to avoid the Thanos/Kang teams with your higher value champs as battling other players will net you more points. I’m pretty much the same as the OP in the 6* featured arena I use 6* r1 for the first 13 matches, this will get me to about 1.5m points. Then I’ll play from the top down starting with my 6* r5’s, then 6* r4, 7* and then my 6* r3’s to finish. By the time I’ve played them all I’ve hit about 54 matches and reached the 12m milestone and then I’ll repeat the same strategy for the basic 6* the day after. I don’t really bother much with the 4* these days I’ve got 102 maxed 4*s which at the last count was about 1m points.

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• DawsMan Member Posts: 2,169 ★★★★★

  April 13

  allinashes said:

  On first day of arenas I run the 6* basic arena, I run lowest 6* to match 5. Match 6-14 I run all my 7*. Match 15-33ish I run my 6/5* to final milestone. Takes about an hour and I usually do it on my lunch break.
  
  If I'm grinding seriously, I will then try to squeeze in first 5 matches of Trials. Later that day I'll run bottom 6* again to match 5 in the 6* featured.
  
  The following morning before gym, I'll try and run all my 7* in 6* featured which gives about 2.7m points. Then I'll try and run them again later in the day when they refresh. Then again the next morning and afternoon. This gets me close to final milestone, and I'll do 1-2 matches with 6* to finish. Soon I'll have enough 7* to use them alone.
  
  During the afternoon or sometimes evening, I'll run Trials where I can, usually going for 1.5-3.2m points. I have taken the time and resources to rank up a few more 4* teams and currently have 18 (54 champs at R5.)
  
  I don't consistently do the whole routine, and a light grind like right now, when I'm using my free time for 8.4, might mean just running the 6* basic which is shortest to all milestones... Just 30 something rounds.
  
  Doing this I currently have 27k units and 7m BCs after getting all unit deals during Cyber sales. It's possible with random Kabam events, EQ and solo event units, along with a full grind to pull over 6k units per month.
  
  I do run recoils 100% of the time and have only recently taken them off for few paths in 8,4. Thank you free respec! Hopefully, switching load outs is fixed now.
  
  Good luck in your grind!

  Thanks for the breakdown and encouragement! Good stuff to know. I think I will try and schedule some arena time…
  

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• DawsMan Member Posts: 2,169 ★★★★★

  April 13

  @DNA3000 Thanks for your insight. ( and thank you to everyone else, I enjoyed reading through these). Since the trials milestones are important to me, I am going to rank up 4 stars - but maybe a team or two every level up. No need to go 17 at once. As for the basic and featured I think you’re right I should focus on one at a time. Like @allinashes helped me see, I may have more success scheduling arena times. Around my schedule, champ cooldown, and to fit in arena over three days. I feel much better equipped and hopefully will have a fat stack of units for Necro and July fourth when it rolls around.

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