5-Star Featured Arena Discussion Thread

Summoners!

The influence of the Grandmaster continues to twist and grow the Battlerealm, producing new and exciting features. It’s time to introduce, the 5-Star Featured Hero Arena!

Starting with the next round of Arenas on February 15th, there will be a new 5-Star Featured Hero Arena! This Arena will allow you to take newly acquired 6-Star Champions alongside your 4 and 5-Star Champions and fight for 6-Star Shards and a 5-Star Featured Hero!

This Arena will allow you to use your 4-Star, 5-Star, and 6-Star Champions to compete to be one of 150 Summoners that will take home the 5-Star Featured Champion.

Let’s Breakdown the Basics

The 5-Star Featured Hero Arena will run on the same schedule as our other Featured Hero Arenas, and will be available to all Summoners at Level 40, or over! There are no Beginner or Intermediate Brackets for this Arena.

This will be your first chance to use 6-Star Champions in Arenas, so here’s what you need to know:

- 6-Star Champions have a cooldown of 12 hours, or 20 units to refresh
- A Base 6-Star Champion will award around 3x the points of a Base 5-Star Champion

The cost to look for a match in this new Arena will be 500 Gold per matchup.

Let’s Talk Milestones

A new Arena, a new set of Milestone rewards for you to collect!

Rank Rewards!

You can earn Rank Rewards after hitting the 1 million point milestone, and earn yourself some 5-Star and 6-Star Shards!

The Top Summoner for Each Arena will also take home the Arena Champion Title, which is also still available in the 4-Star Featured Hero Arena. The Title is the exact same as the one in the 4-Star Featured Hero Arena, and will stack with those. As a reminder, these are the Titles you can earn for Placing 1st in the Arena:

WARBOUND: Earned by placing 1st in a 4-Star or 5 Star Featured Hero Arena once.
DESTROYER: Earned by placing 1st in a 4-Star or 5 Star Featured Hero Arena 3 times.
LIVING WEAPON: Earned by placing 1st in a 4-Star or 5 Star Featured Hero Arena 5 times.
SUPER SOLDIER: Earned by placing 1st in a 4-Star or 5 Star Featured Hero Arena 10 times.
GOD OF WAR : Earned by placing 1st in a 4-Star or 5 Star Featured Hero Arena 25 times.
WORLD BREAKER: Earned by placing 1st in a 4-Star or 5 Star Featured Hero Arena 50 times.

Ready your roster Summoners, this all kicks off February 15th with the addition of Killmonger!

Comments

DiablosUltimate

Premium Hero Crystals for a milestones, what a joke! Should have been something more desirable like 4star shards or some rank up materials, nobody who can participate in this arena cares about premium crystals.

Pry22

@Kabam Miike what is the minimum score need to rank in arena? This was never mentioned.

TBJ1118

Pry22 wrote: »

@Kabam Miike what is the minimum score need to rank in arena? This was never mentioned.

It’s written, 1M

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Nomankhan

War eanargy

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xhhxhhhjjjjujjj

The rewards are horrible

StarKillerVII

I was competing in the Four Star featured arena a while ago when I decided to check the blogs due to the tiresome grind. Read this announcement to my surprise. Was excited at first, until I saw the horrible milestones and the even worse rank rewards. I will not be competing until they update the rewards. The top rank is ridiculous, what the hell is it? The top 800 get the 5* feature?? Are you kidding me? What they should do is make it the top 10%, and the milestones are ridiculous. What they should be giving is freaking tier 4 class catalyst crystals then I'll look into it. Wish kabbam would listen to reason, before dropping this bs on us.

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RetroRocks

As an anti-milked-non-whale I think the arena is good.
I've always been keen on as many concurrent arenas as possible to spread out the whales.
Yes , I'll never have any hope ever to get a featured 5*, no matter how much I spend, but tbh, who cares I've got my amazing 5* Iron Patriot dupe (starts crying), but it does get the big whales out of the featured and basic 4* arena so we might be able to pick up some good crumbs!

NastyEfnNate

The other arenas have at least milestones worth going for. To have a 12 mil milestone and to get that trash for all the effort is ridiculous. Everyone wanted a 5* arena but u don’t give anyone a reason but the top 150 to even do this arena. Everyone’s time would be better used doing the 4* feature and basic arenas for the milestones. It adds up to more rewards for the time

Loremaster101

I hope you are giving more POINTS per Arena win, those milestones are more than DOUBLE the 4* Featured, that's a LOT OF TIME to be spending in Arena. I know 6* will help compensate, but 12mil before you hit Milestones?????

Do you guys really want to be the game that people have to CHOOSE, over Work or School??? As it is, I sneak some playtime during lunch, but at those numbers I think your really hitting a dangerous area...

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thetaman23

I really hope Kabam takes this moment to wave the ban wand. I'm sure there will be people trying for 5* featured champs, by any means necessary.

Zuko_ILC

Maybe remove all milestones and just make it a top 150 arena.

hurricant

PHC hahahahhahaha

hahahahaha in the 5 star arena hahahaha

hurricant

So, you killed the feature crystal which people used to get the 5* feature champ, and instead are allowing 150 people out of the million or so you say play this game to get the feature. If that's not a huge f u to the playerbase, I don't know what is

EBG78

GroundedWisdom wrote: »

What do you suggest that wouldn't throw the other Arenas aside? 3* Shards? 4*? 5*? GMC Shards? The Milestones are consistent across all Arenas for a reason. They're scaled more the higher you go, but the Milestones are not a focus of the Arena. It's open to anyone Level 40 and over.

If the milestones rewards scaled the same way the 3* to 4* scaled the rewards would be more like 23-30 units, 2,250-3000 BC’s, 4,500-5,280 gold, and 2,600-3,240 PHC shards for the higher milestones. If you think of the PHC milestones as a chance, albeit a very small one, at getting a 4*, then PHC’s as rewards in a 4* arena make sense. In a 5* arena, there should be some small milestone reward that offers a chance at getting the same * champ that the arena is for. Even if the upper milestones were 25 5* shards, at least that would be something.

FPC3

Miike - what's the plan for when the Featured champ is one that hasn't been made available as a 5*? Will the 5* Featured Arena change to a different champ, or does that mean we'll NEVER see one of those champs as a Featured Arena champ ever again, even in the 4* Arena?

That list would be the following:
Black Bolt, Gamora, Ms. Marvel, Thor, Vision (both, either), War Machine, Deadpool X-Force, Magneto Marvel Now, Wolverine, Black Widow, Daredevil Classic, Abomination, Cap WW2, Electro, Joe Fixit, Doc Strange, Scarlet Witch

GroundedWisdom

EBG78 wrote: »

GroundedWisdom wrote: »

What do you suggest that wouldn't throw the other Arenas aside? 3* Shards? 4*? 5*? GMC Shards? The Milestones are consistent across all Arenas for a reason. They're scaled more the higher you go, but the Milestones are not a focus of the Arena. It's open to anyone Level 40 and over.

If the milestones rewards scaled the same way the 3* to 4* scaled the rewards would be more like 23-30 units, 2,250-3000 BC’s, 4,500-5,280 gold, and 2,600-3,240 PHC shards for the higher milestones. If you think of the PHC milestones as a chance, albeit a very small one, at getting a 4*, then PHC’s as rewards in a 4* arena make sense. In a 5* arena, there should be some small milestone reward that offers a chance at getting the same * champ that the arena is for. Even if the upper milestones were 25 5* shards, at least that would be something.

What I meant by that is they scale in PHC amount based on the Arena. It's still the same Crystal/Shards throughout. Think about it. If this Arena gave 3/4/5/GMC Shards, people wouldn't bother much with the others. The focus of the Arena is not the Milestones. Never has been. It's the Rewards. We don't rely on the Cryatals from Milestones. Units, perhaps.

Sith_Lord

There are a lot of people in here commenting about this arena that -

A - Have no 5 stars in their profile
B - Have only 1 R4 5*
C - Have minimal arena PVP fights won, & or, minimally low PVP win streaks
D - Do not spend to win in arena

This arena will be for those who have multiple maxed 4 stars. An extensive 5* roster. Multiple R4 5* champs. A R5 5* champ. And 6 stars. No point in even participating in this arena, unless you're going for the featured, as the milestones are ****, & even in doing so as in going for the featured; you will still spend on units to refresh with the most sickest roster.

GroundedWisdom

So you think there's no point to the Arena unless you can Rank? Interesting strategy for progression. Lol

Hulksmasshh

Sith_Lord wrote: »

There are a lot of people in here commenting about this arena that -

A - Have no 5 stars in their profile
B - Have only 1 R4 5*
C - Have minimal arena PVP fights won, & or, minimally low PVP win streaks
D - Do not spend to win in arena

This arena will be for those who have multiple maxed 4 stars. An extensive 5* roster. Multiple R4 5* champs. A R5 5* champ. And 6 stars. No point in even participating in this arena, unless you're going for the featured, as the milestones are ****, & even in doing so as in going for the featured; you will still spend on units to refresh with the most sickest roster.

2000 5* shards and 200 6* shards are not ****. I'm sorry they are not giving fully-formed 5* basic crystals as milestones but these rank rewards for 1-10%, 11-30% are the best we've seen for an arena ever. What will the cutoff be for top 1-10%? Who knows, but it's better than everything we have now.

GroundedWisdom

Hulksmasshh wrote: »

Sith_Lord wrote: »

There are a lot of people in here commenting about this arena that -

A - Have no 5 stars in their profile
B - Have only 1 R4 5*
C - Have minimal arena PVP fights won, & or, minimally low PVP win streaks
D - Do not spend to win in arena

This arena will be for those who have multiple maxed 4 stars. An extensive 5* roster. Multiple R4 5* champs. A R5 5* champ. And 6 stars. No point in even participating in this arena, unless you're going for the featured, as the milestones are ****, & even in doing so as in going for the featured; you will still spend on units to refresh with the most sickest roster.

2000 5* shards and 200 6* shards are not ****. I'm sorry they are not giving fully-formed 5* basic crystals as milestones but these rank rewards for 1-10%, 11-30% are the best we've seen for an arena ever. What will the cutoff be for top 1-10%? Who knows, but it's better than everything we have now.

Especially when you do the math. Multiply that by the number of Arenas a month, it adds up over time. It all goes into progression overall.

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GroundedWisdom

BuzzLightyear wrote: »

Hulksmasshh wrote: »

Sith_Lord wrote: »

There are a lot of people in here commenting about this arena that -

A - Have no 5 stars in their profile
B - Have only 1 R4 5*
C - Have minimal arena PVP fights won, & or, minimally low PVP win streaks
D - Do not spend to win in arena

This arena will be for those who have multiple maxed 4 stars. An extensive 5* roster. Multiple R4 5* champs. A R5 5* champ. And 6 stars. No point in even participating in this arena, unless you're going for the featured, as the milestones are ****, & even in doing so as in going for the featured; you will still spend on units to refresh with the most sickest roster.

2000 5* shards and 200 6* shards are not ****. I'm sorry they are not giving fully-formed 5* basic crystals as milestones but these rank rewards for 1-10%, 11-30% are the best we've seen for an arena ever. What will the cutoff be for top 1-10%? Who knows, but it's better than everything we have now.

Mate, 2000 5* shards are not anything to top players. The 6* shards will be as they build up, but everything else aside from the featured champ is peanuts compared to top players.

No one is at a point in the game where they're above 5* Shards.

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Fthewigg

Folks, since this is geared towards the big money spending minority, they won’t change a bleeping thing. They created this arena for the same reason they updated aw: to create a new revenue stream and to keep the big boys from getting bored.

@Kabam Miike I ask you one question: since update 12.0 was touted as a necessity to maintain balance, how does the utilization of Kabam resources to create an arena targeting the top x% demonstrate balance?

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