Reduce 4★ Arena Milestones (Keep Rewards the Same)

The 4★ Arena currently has far more milestones than any other arena, making it extremely time-consuming compared to the 6★ and Featured 6★ arenas. The total rewards it offers—units, battle chips, and gold—are fine and don’t need to change. The problem is the number of milestones, which turns the arena into a grind rather than an enjoyable activity.

A simple solution would be to compress the milestones while keeping the same total rewards. This could mean fewer milestones with slightly larger rewards, similar to the structure of other arenas.

This change would keep the 4★ Arena rewarding, reduce repetitive grinding, and make it a much more enjoyable experience for players. It’s a straightforward quality-of-life improvement that respects players’ time without affecting rewards.

Comments

FrozenLogan

You can’t really compare it that way, since the units in the milestones are 2x what’s in other arenas (270 vs 135). Effort needed to reach them all is appropriate when you consider it’s twice the rewards

Chuck_Finley

They touch arena for any reason and we are beyond screwed. It will never be better than it is right now

SirGamesBond

*My Usual comment*

Ragnarok13

arena change would probably be the last straw for me

BadAsh22

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2943531#Comment_2943531

"Don't you DARE make me do my job or I'll make you regret it!"

DNA3000

Short answer: it is supposed to be a grind.

Longer answer:

The arena contains essentially unlimited units, the premium currency of the game. Not only does it contain a huge amount of such units compared to most such games, the effort required to get them is already much lower than it was ever intended to be. For veteran players who have put in the roster effort, less than two hours a day six days a week gets all the milestones from all three arenas.

The arenas were tuned at a time before high rank 7* champs, before ascension, before most players had the developed rosters they do now. Originally, there were four arenas not three. Kabam condensed them into the three arenas that exist now, several years ago. At that time the intent was to simply the arenas without too bit of an impact on the players who were grinding those arenas for units. A couple of players including myself worked behind the scenes to make sure the updated arenas could, to the best extent possible match the units per hour of effort that the original four arenas presented, and we mostly succeeded. However, the game has moved on from that time, and the two arenas that allow 6 and 7 star champs in them now can be run in practically the blink of an eye. They are several times faster than originally intended. And Ascension has accelerated even the Trials arena to speeds probably twice as fast as originally intended.

The current arenas present, in terms of milestones and units from arena crystals combined, something on the order of 90,000 units per year for maybe a couple hours a day (this includes the units from the catalyst arenas but those are relatively small numbers). There are very few mobile games that allow players to grind out 3000 USD of premium currency per year at all, and I'm pretty sure there aren't any that will let any player do so for free for just a couple hours a day.

If ever the devs touch the arenas, it will almost certainly be to rebalance the effort required to get those units upward to the levels they were originally balanced for back in 2021 or so.

Nobody has had more conversations with the developers about the arenas than I have, going back years. Trust me when I say: stop asking the devs to retune the arenas. If they do, I'm blaming you and everyone else that has asked for the past five years.

Or if you don't believe me, somewhere around the forums is I believe a quote from Kabam Crashed echoing similar sentiments. Crashed was the game economy lead, and now he's the overall live game lead. The player who has worked on the arenas the most and has literally written the book on how to grind it is saying things are way faster than they were ever intended to be, and the Live Game Lead developer is saying it is probably too fast in general.

Take the hint

#ProjectBanquet100k

Sunstar19

Not again. Leave arenas alone.

4 stars arenas is actually quite rewarding and enjoyable if you use maxed and ascended 4 stars