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

Fthewigg

God bless the “ignore” feature. Just added another irritant to the list, which will make these posts so much easier and more enjoyable to read. I highly recommend you all do the same.

Smellytele

I haven't seen anything official about the champ requirements to keep an infinite streak in the new arena. Can we please have that info ahead of time? It would be very helpful and MUCH appreciated.

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Kingsquest

Kabam Miike wrote: »
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If you think this Arena will be too difficult, you might just not be ready for it. This is why we have multiple Arenas that offer Champions of all different Rarities. You can snag a 3-Star Featured, 4-Star Basic, or 4-Star Featured Hero from other Arenas, and build your roster until you can compete in the 5-Star Featured Hero Arena.

???
Say this after giving the character properly.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5 stars shard only provides redundancy

SHANU_19

Will the bracket system still apply to the 5* featured arena? And if yes. What will be begginer and intermediate cutoff for the arena? And will the rewards be changed? Like in intermediate, featured 4* is 1-200 and not 1-800.

GroundedWisdom

SHANU_19 wrote: »

Will the bracket system still apply to the 5* featured arena? And if yes. What will be begginer and intermediate cutoff for the arena? And will the rewards be changed? Like in intermediate, featured 4* is 1-200 and not 1-800.

No Brackets for the 5 * Featured Arena.

TheSickmaster

I haven’t seen anywhere that says how much gold per entry this arena will cost.

TheSickmaster

I’m guessing that is a little tidbit they have strategically decided not to mention because it will piss us all off.

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Greywarden

If the people that hired mercs and bots to do their arena grinding were banned or excluded from this arena it wouldn't be the worst. But throw in the fact that people are cheating with no consequences and it makes this arena very lackluster.

Fthewigg

@SHANU_19 there will be no bracket system
@TheSickmaster I believe I saw 500 gold per match
@Greywarden I could not possibly agree more. I almost always place in top 60 of all 4 star feature arenas, but since I won’t pay to refresh, hire mercs, or use bots, I know I have absolutely no chance at top 150. I’m convinced this violation of TOS will be overlooked
@Kabam Miike I would really appreciate if you addressed my previous question

Spurgeon14

I'm not really happy about the milestones in this arena, but the fact that there will be 150 people at the top who get a featured 5* doesn't really affect me. That's such a small percentage of the player base and the people who go for it probably already get all the newest champs anyways. I'm just going to use my 5*s to get the million points required for rank rewards and leave it at that. The guys at the top can have fun fighting for a top 150 spot. 😉

P.S. Its really going to suck for rank 151. Glad I'm not putting in the time to get that close and not get the featured champ.

BitterSteel

Spurgeo14 wrote: »

I'm not really happy about the milestones in this arena, but the fact that there will be 150 people at the top who get a featured 5* doesn't really affect me. That's such a small percentage of the player base and the people who go for it probably already get all the newest champs anyways. I'm just going to use my 5*s to get the million points required for rank rewards and leave it at that. The guys at the top can have fun fighting for a top 150 spot. 😉

P.S. Its really going to suck for rank 151. Glad I'm not putting in the time to get that close and not get the featured champ.

Even worse, you get such a measly amount of 5* shards as a consolation

MattScott

The only difference i can see. Which players are not accounting for is SA score with the milestones. Since they are full PHC’s they will contribute a lot more points than the shards from any other arenas.

DarkestDestroyer

Get ready for the most ridiculous arena score you have ever seen.

Wish I was rich and couple P money away

Stara99

@Kabam Miike you didn’t answer last time I’ll try again. Since you can’t do 4&5* featured and possible rank could you bring this suggestion to the “team”. Grinding and getting 28,29,30 million+ and not ranking top 150 can and will be crushing just for some shards that probably 12 million would get. Maybe make too 10% or even 5% get the 4* featured champ along with the shards. Not the greatest compromise but would lessen that hurt feeling for not getting the 5* featured champ. @Kabam Miike

DNA3000

Stara99 wrote: »

@Kabam Miike you didn’t answer last time I’ll try again. Since you can’t do 4&5* featured and possible rank could you bring this suggestion to the “team”. Grinding and getting 28,29,30 million+ and not ranking top 150 can and will be crushing just for some shards that probably 12 million would get. Maybe make too 10% or even 5% get the 4* featured champ along with the shards. Not the greatest compromise but would lessen that hurt feeling for not getting the 5* featured champ. @Kabam Miike

The same thing was pointed out for the 4* featured and even 4* basic arenas. It makes a presumption: that the devs *want* to remove the pain of missing the top bracket. But that pain is what drives people to compete as hard as possible for the very top rewards. It is almost certainly not an accident it is there. It is deliberately there. So what's the good reason for removing it? It can't just be that its painful to miss. The devs might actually deliberately want it to be painful to miss. That's why fourth place doesn't just have a smaller medal in the Olympics. I'm pretty sure the pain of coming in fourth in the Olympics is several orders of magnitude higher than missing the 5* featured champ is going to be.

Deadly2016

i do feel the top rank with 150 is a little small, but that may change over time, even if its way less then the old (pre 12.0) arena.
but in my opinion the next rank down is worse.
in the featured 4* if you miss the full 4* champ you get 40% of a 'basic' 4* crystal as the reward while in the 5* arena you only get 20%.
what i want to say is, the scaling is off. yes 2k shards is still a good prize, but combining the small feature rank of only 150 with the very big dropoff to 1/5 of a basic we will see the gap between big spenders and the normal player not spending 4+ odins a week for arena alone grow allot faster than today.
putting gmc in the milestones could help there. and i know the arena isnt only for us uncollected, but when kabam started the gmc they did send everyone a gmc if im not mistaken, so there is a precedent of gmc given to players not yet finished with 5.2.
i assume well see a basic 5* arena when killmonger is coming back as a basic and that will help to catch up to the top a little. but i fear the gap might be to big by then.

LilJoh

Please consider integrating t1a and T4B Into milestones
With 12 million as the last milestone it’s gonna be really hard to get T4B and t1a along side this arena. On top of that we’re going to need a significantly larger amount of these resources given the amount of 5* shards we’ll potentially be reaping from this arena. Thank you for your consideration.

Riegel

Need to at least boost the unit rewards from milestones. Having at least some decent unit gain from the milestones might attract more people from the 4* basic and featured arenas. The way it is now I don't think many will migrate as the grind will be insanely high.

DNA3000

Riegel wrote: »

Need to at least boost the unit rewards from milestones. Having at least some decent unit gain from the milestones might attract more people from the 4* basic and featured arenas. The way it is now I don't think many will migrate as the grind will be insanely high.

By definition if not many players "migrate" to the 5* featured arena, the grind won't be insanely high to get very good rank rewards.

This falls into the category of "no one goes there any more because it is too crowded."

Drakkon245

how can i get 5 star hero crystal shards

LeNoirFaineant

@DNA3000 Yogi Berra! Love him.

gasmaskdude

What you people whining about dont understand is Kabam doesnt want the average person to grind in this arena, they want aquatic mammals.

CFree

gasmaskdude wrote: »

What you people whining about dont understand is Kabam doesnt want the average person to grind in this arena, they want aquatic mammals.

They want dolphins?

Zuko_ILC

GroundedWisdom wrote: »

My_Superior wrote: »

@GroundedWisdom I’d like to read other people’s opinions. I’ve read yours over a dozen times.

I'm sorry. I was unaware that you're in control of who participates. If not, please feel free to go to my Profile and click Ignore on the drop down. I'll most likely continue to participate in the Thread, so that may be the best option for you.

Why do you come on the forums just to argue with people? People are allowed to have different opinions. All I see in most threads are you going back and forth with someone changing the topic that is posted which is against forum rules. Why dont you just let people have their opinion and allow this forum to be their voice like it's supposed to. It get old seeing you in every thread arguing with people, this isn't the place for that. Maybe pm them.

DNA3000

gasmaskdude wrote: »

What you people whining about dont understand is Kabam doesnt want the average person to grind in this arena, they want aquatic mammals.

GroundedWisdom

Zuko_ILC wrote: »

GroundedWisdom wrote: »

My_Superior wrote: »

@GroundedWisdom I’d like to read other people’s opinions. I’ve read yours over a dozen times.

I'm sorry. I was unaware that you're in control of who participates. If not, please feel free to go to my Profile and click Ignore on the drop down. I'll most likely continue to participate in the Thread, so that may be the best option for you.

Why do you come on the forums just to argue with people? People are allowed to have different opinions. All I see in most threads are you going back and forth with someone changing the topic that is posted which is against forum rules. Why dont you just let people have their opinion and allow this forum to be their voice like it's supposed to. It get old seeing you in every thread arguing with people, this isn't the place for that. Maybe pm them.

Having an opinion is fine with me. I will not allow someone to dictate whether I participate or not.
By the way, you're keeping it off-topic now.

Fthewigg

@Zuko_ILC I highly, highly, HIGHLY recommend you follow the advice you were given. It will greatly improve your forum experience. It’s super simple and utterly worth it. When a bleep falls in the forest and no one hears it, no one gives a bleep...

Zuko_ILC

Fthewigg wrote: »

@Zuko_ILC I highly, highly, HIGHLY recommend you follow the advice you were given. It will greatly improve your forum experience. It’s super simple and utterly worth it. When a bleep falls in the forest and no one hears it, no one gives a bleep...

I'm not sure what you mean.